A.R. Rahman

A R Rahman use this combination of microphones very often in his concerts.

In this video, at 8:25 AR Rahman can be seen in front of his Yamaha P-22 Upright Piano.

At 2:08, it can be clearly seen that the Concert Grand Piano A.R. is using at the Nobel Peace Prize concert is a Yamaha Disklavier E3.

A.R. Rahman can be seen playing a Steinway & Sons Model D grand piano at 1:36 in this show produced by MTV.

tim meeks marcodi musical products gifted Harpejji K24 to a.r rahman in sep 24 2010 rahman uses in oscars tonight It becomes quickly apparent to Tim that AR is a natural on this instrument. Knowing that he wanted his instrument as soon as possible, the item used can seen in 1:30 into this video

A.R. can first be seen at :11s playing this Fingerboard. A.R. responds to a question from Variety about what instruments he plays in this article, to which he replies "Piano. I had never actually owned a piano until a few years back, just keyboards, until finally Yamaha gifted me a piano. Then I got a Steinway and a Bosendorfer. It’s such an addiction, to sit and play just to play. I also have the Continuum Fingerboard, which is such a fascinating instrument. Sometimes I’ll start playing it and not realize until it’s three hours later."

In this photo, AR Rahman can be seen using a Korg Triton Workstation.

AR Rahmans rehears with his gears, a snap from his concert tours

Aao Balma - A.R Rahman, Padmabhushan Ustad Ghulam Mustafa Khan - Coke Studio @ MTV Season 3 At 3:14 of the video

Regularly used by A R Rahman for his live shows.

Using the Raven MTi @ 00:21 in the music video.

He used Yamaha DX7 during his days as a paid Keyboard player with that time Music Directors

A.R. Rahman mentions about his discovery with his first MIDI computer Yamaha CX5M in 3:05 section of this video . This is the first MIDI based keyboard used by A.R. Rahman. It came in 1984. His friend gifted him in the same year. After experimenting with synthesizers and working as a Keyboard player for music directors for many years, he discovered Yamaha CX5M MIDI computer. He experiments many sounds with this MIDI computer.

A.R.Rahman used Korg M1 synthesizer during his early movies.

Nenjukulla block buster melody song from movie kadal

In this Instagram picture of a live concert in Dubai, A R Rahman is seen with a Roland JD-Xi.

A R Rahman seen with a Roland AX-Synth in this live show in Chennai

Used for the TED Event

Used for various Live events

In this article from Spectrasonic's official site. A.R. says “There is a lot of Omnisphere in this score. I recorded many textures from Omnisphere and bounced them as audio, then mixed them with live strings and played with processing the result. We especially used the granular synthesis capabilities of Omnisphere, which was tweaked and overlaid with of a lot guitars, especially in the ‘Touch of the Sun’ and ‘RIP’ cues; Danny loved the sound.”

Mr. Rahman is also an avid Stylus RMX user, “Stylus RMX is very impressive …it helps me to sketch a song in seconds and it sounds great. Most of my own library of grooves that I have made are in Stylus RMX now. I start composing a song by listening to these and getting ideas. Then I build up a rhythm part. When I have that groove, I bring in live players to record along with RMX. Then some of the live player tracks I process to blend more with the Stylus RMX sounds. Some of the live players are mixed just as they are. This is how I produced songs for the movie Slumdog Millionaire.”

Did you use Melodyne on these projects? In which songs, in which particular moment? Sure, used it mostly on vocal tracks of Rang de Basanti, in aim of creating fresh harmonies, reducing quivers, pitch correction etc.

How did Melodyne change the way you work with audio files? Well, we have been using Melodyne for most of the vocal corrections, but I also like fooling around with it, making harmonies and things like that. I think Melodyne is an ideal and very transparent solution for this. We also tried to make percussion sound bigger with it, using transpose and stacking functions.

A.R. Rahman's Mixing Console during 90's . He used it extensively during the 90's . Here you can see Fostex 16 track recorder and Korg Keyboard used by A.R. Rahman

A.R. Rahman uses Roland DM-80 to temporarily record the music and playback it to see whether it sounds good or not.

“I’m using the Vista X as a full-fledged post-production console,” he said. “Geoff Foster from Air Studios is here mixing over 600 tracks of ProTools on it right now.”

In this Instagram picture. A.R Rahman is using the NI Komplete Kontrol Keyboard.

AR Rahman tweets, "My Roli Seaboard has landed !".