Armin Van Buuren's Keyboards and Synthesizers

Armin Van Buuren has the Clavia Nord Lead 3 in his studio setup, and uses it as his primary MIDI controller keyboard. The Nord Lead 3 can be seen in many of his videos.

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"with a virus A, jx8p, jv2080 and S3000. long story short, some tunes just 'happen' the best ones usually in two or three hours"

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In a Facebook post about his Prophet 12, Armin Van Buuren says, "One of the best synths i've ever heard and now my new studio toy."

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DJ Ron: I've got one more techy question for you, it's simple, what's your favorite keyboard to use? Armin van Buuren: I'm a big fan of the Access Virus.

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DJ Ron: I've got one more techy question for you, it's simple, what's your favorite keyboard to use? Armin van Buuren: I'm a big fan of the Access Virus."

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Armin Van Buuren is shown in his studio with the Clavia Nord Lead 2 Synthesizer, as seen in his Instagram post captioned "Almost there... #studioupgrade."

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In this photo, there is jv-2080 in his studio.

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He says, " "I was a little bit in doubt about whether I should give you pictures of my new studio, because people will think 'He's got a V?Synth! He's got... He's got... I need to buy that!' No, you don't need to buy it. "

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He says, "Trance used to be very much about the sound of Roland's JP8080 — the very clean Super Saw, a little detune, a little delay, that was it. "

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In this photo on his desk there is ms-20.

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In this user-uploaded photo, Armin Van Buuren's studio setup includes the Novation SuperNova synthesizer.

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In this page he says, "Twenty years ago your Juno 106 had just 32 presets, so you had to be much more creative with what you had."

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Armin has collected many synthesizers over the years, and amongst them is the Minimoog Voyager. In an interview for Music Radar, Armin Van Buuren said about the Minimoog Voyager, “Still a classic, especially when you overdrive the input or output with a special cable and get feedback - the filter goes nuts!”

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He says, "The FS1R is great for strings, and I love that Roland 2080; a lot of producers have that still.”

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in this livestream https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=weW3LDQogh0 i found this equipment.

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In this video at 4:14, he said, " I still have most of old equipment yeah. (omission) Later I bought the VIRUS C, the VIRUS TI but I used the virus a lot because it just had a different sound and I didn't use JP-8000 (I have the JP8080) but I was always a virus fan in those days."

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This is a community-built gear list for Armin Van Buuren.

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