Flying Lotus

Flying Lotus is shown with the Boss SP-303 Dr. Sample in an Instagram post captioned, "Damn. It's a shame you're dead! Rip dirtbox (Testament, Between Friends etc)," referencing its use in his projects like "Testament" and "Between Friends."

A big component of Flying Lotus' live setup is this Akai MPD32 controller. It can be seen in almost every photo and video of him playing live.

Before I got the XL-Desk, my biggest issue was always how to make my music more dynamic, with even more space in the sound and defined bass—how to widen the 3D field. That’s something I’ve been battling. I’ve wanted the analogue warmth for so long, and I’ve always wanted the analog depth. I wanted to see how far I could take it. When I hear my music through the XL-Desk, it has a natural sound to it, it sounds real. Once you actually hear your music through the console, you get addicted to it. There’s so much more room now. It makes me feel the openness. I can do some really cool stuff that I never did before. I can run these analogue 500-format modules and I’ve been able to get really creative with patching in a way that I never thought I would. I’m able to route things in a really interesting way. The sound is different, man. There’s a lot more space and you get a lot more headroom as well. Using it has also been helpful in ways that I didn’t expect. Having balanced subwoofer control is really good and the iJack has been great, too. It is a lot of little things like those that have been awesome about the desk. Things happen a lot faster when everything is in the desk. I would toil on the computer forever, but when it’s actually on faders, everything just makes sense a lot quicker. And there’s a more hands-on feel to it—it’s a beautiful thing."

FlyLo tweets "Starting my first day on 'logic pro' today as soon as the new mac pro arrives. Next chapter.", leading us to believe he uses a Mac Pro to produce on, even though it seems his stint with Logic Pro was short-lived.

Flying Lotus' live show is centered around a MacBook Pro running Ableton Live and a MIDI controller. The MacBook Pro can also be seen in his studio.

FlyLo posted this Vine of him using the Push as a surface to play other sound toys on. Nevertheless, he has this to say in an interview with Electronic Musician Magazine on his recording of "You're Dead":

"And one of the reasons I like Ableton’s Push controller is it has a real inviting Star Trek vibe to it, so anybody who knows a little bit about production feels comfortable quickly and can get on it in conjunction with whatever I’m doing.”

Here's another picture of FlyLo's studio with an Ableton Push on his desk.

For a while the M-Audio Trigger Finger was a part of Flying Lotus' live setup, but after 2008 the Akai MPD32 seems to be his controller of choice.

uses in this post from August 20, 2019

One can see two photos of the Space Echo RE-201 in this collage of Flying Lotus's home studio.

Possibly a part of Flying Lotus' live setup at one point, he tweets "ever use a monome? Yes. Had one."

In a photo titled "Percussion_with_Ableton_Live" on Wikimedia, Flying Lotus is seen using the M-Audio Fast Track Ultra USB 2.0 Audio Interface.

3:15 into his interview with Dubspot, Flying Lotus can be seen using an Akai APC40 and looking determinedly at his screen. It appears to be a modified version of this photo: http://www.flickr.com/photos/bnut1/3625585665/

It is seen next to his laptop in this photo from a 2008 New Yorker article.

It is seen next to his laptop in this photo from a 2008 New Yorker article.

the Apogee Ensemble is listed on this page

the Akai MPK49 is listed on this page