Darude

Darude reveals that at least parts of his hit "Sandstorm" were written in FastTracker 2, a then-popular "tracker" software for MS-DOS.

Darude lists the Korg MS2000R as one of his favorite hardware synths in this article.

According to the official gear list on Darude's Website (Click on the studio tab), it says he owns a Rode M3.

Darude describes to have used this for his hit "Sandstorm"

According to the official gear list on Darude's Website (Click on the studio tab), it says he owns a pair of V-Moda Crossfade M-100 Headphones.

Darude mentions using several software synths in this interview, including Lennar Digital Sylenth1 Software Synthesizer.

In this article from MusicRadar, Darude mentions that he has CDJ-1000 MK2s in his studio in Finland.

Darude lists the Roland JP-8080 as one of the synths on his rack in this article.

Darude mentions that he keeps his CDJ-2000s in his US studio in this interview.

Darude mentions the EKS Otus Dual Deck Controller/Sound Card as being one of his only hardware items in his US studio in this interview.

Darude describes to have used this for his hit "Sandstorm"

Darude has used Cubase in the past, at the very least for his famous track "Sandstorm"

in this picture you can see Ableton Live 9 running on his monitor. how you know it's Ableton? because it's obviously Ableton in the background and because he commented that it's Ableton. how do you know it's 9? because you can see the names of the folders if you look closely to the left while in 1-8 the folders didn't show the names but only the icons.

When asked, "What VST plugins do you use for production now?" Darude includes Disco DSP Discovery Pro in his list. His full response:

(Some) in alphabetical order from my AU folder: Discovery Pro FM8 Kick 2 Korg Legacy instruments LFO Tool Massive Melodyne Nexus Sausage Fattener Serum Spire Sylenth SynthMaster Transient Master UltraChannel Valhalla Vintage Verb Logic's own ES2, ES1, EXS24, Drummer, Channel EQ, Compressor, Stereo Delay, Tape Delay, Waves C6, Center, Vitamin, RenComp, RVerb, L2, CLA Vocals, H-Delay, Kramer Tape, Paz Analyzer, S1, CableGuys VolumeShaper, to name A FEW... ;)

This video of his home studio shows the white 8351s.

According to the official gear list on Darude's Website (Click on the studio tab), it says he owns a license for effectrix.

According to the official gear list on Darude's Website (Click on the studio tab), it says he owns a license for Propellerhead Reason.

According to the official gear list on Darude's Website (Click on the studio tab), it says he owns the Yamaha RS7000.

According to the official gear list on Darude's Website (Click on the studio tab), it says he owns a Korg Triton Rack.

According to the official gear list on Darude's Website (Click on the studio tab), it says he owns a Korg Zero 8.

In this screenshot from the short documentary The Story of Sandstorm by Darude, Logic can be seen running on his computer. The video can be found here (seen around 1:23 into the video).

This Synth can be seen at 2:07 in this YouTube video.

At around 2:30 Daurde says

We were using an Atari ST with Cubase on a black and white screen and 16 MIDI tracks (...)

In this video Darude sampling Roland JV-1080

In this video at 32:20 we can see Ableton Push 2

In this article from Music Radar, Darude talks about his studio set up saying "For monitoring there I have a Genelec 5.1 system consisting of 1031As, 1029As and 7070A sub. There's also a now-aging Pioneer DJ setup with DJM-600 mixer and a pair of CDJ-1000mk2's there. And an awesome chair and a very comfy "thinker's" couch!"

Darude mentions using specific Sennheiser headphones for production in this interview.

In this article, Darude talks about his Access Virus C Synthesizer, stating, "And then there's the almighty Virus... I've probably touched like 20% of its potential, it's got sounds for pretty much everything and the tweakability is endless. I use mostly software these days, but if I had to pick one virtual analog synth to work with, it'd have to be Virus."

Darude mentions gear he is using in this interview, and states, "I just got the Waves C6 multi-compressor and already love it because of the possibility to selectively duck only certain frequency ranges triggered by an external signal, like bass with the kick drum, or a synth with a vocal, for example."

Darude mentions using Omnisphere by Spectrasonics in this interivew.