Daft Punk's Drum Machines

At 7:26, in this performance video by Daft Punk, one can see the TR-909.

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In this 2001 interview with Daft Punk about Discovery, their main synths are listed. The 808 and its cousin the 909 are both mentioned.

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Daft Punk has a LinnDrum in this image of one of their performances from the 90s.

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Used on Discovery, as stated in this May 1, 2001 Remix interview.

You've also broken away from the standard house music instrumentation. For example, you used Oberheim and Linn drum machines on several songs instead of the usual 808 and 909.

Bangalter: We used an Oberheim DMX and a Linn drum a lot. There is a Sequential Circuits Drum Tracks on “Short Circuit.” It's not like we're going against what other people are doing. We're just opening up the music to new ideas. The instrument itself is not as important as the way we use it. Instruments come with certain instructions in the manual, and many people can't look beyond those rules. People ask us why we like to use vocoders or electric keyboards from the '60s, but to us instruments are just tools. The idea is more important than the instrument. One of the cool things about the house music spirit is that it inspired musicians to use instruments for things they weren't designed to do.

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Per this March 2001 interview with Keyboards Magazine (FR), Daft Punk employed a Linn 9000 during the recording of Discovery.

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A Casio RZ-1 can be seen in the corner of the picture, as well as heard in the track Burnin' off of their album Homework

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Used on "Short Circuit", as stated in this May 1, 2001 Remix interview.

You've also broken away from the standard house music instrumentation. For example, you used Oberheim and Linn drum machines on several songs instead of the usual 808 and 909.

Bangalter: We used an Oberheim DMX and a Linn drum a lot. There is a Sequential Circuits Drum Tracks on “Short Circuit.” It's not like we're going against what other people are doing. We're just opening up the music to new ideas. The instrument itself is not as important as the way we use it. Instruments come with certain instructions in the manual, and many people can't look beyond those rules. People ask us why we like to use vocoders or electric keyboards from the '60s, but to us instruments are just tools. The idea is more important than the instrument. One of the cool things about the house music spirit is that it inspired musicians to use instruments for things they weren't designed to do.

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Daft Punk utilized the Roland TR-707 Rhythm Composer in the recording of their album Homework, as detailed in an Enmore Audio article listing their gear, notably on the track High Fidelity (Claps, Snare, Hats & Crashes) and Harder Better Faster Stronger (Claps)

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