Laurent Garnier

Although he uses software synths, Laurent Garnier favours the hardware variety, particularly where lots of knobs and sliders are available. Vintage keyboards in his The Kub studio include Roland Juno 106 and Jupiter 8 and Korg MS20 analogues, plus the under-rated Yamaha DX100 FM synth (bottom right), while Garnier also uses the Kurzweil K2000 workstation (top right).

Laurent Garnier uses the Dave Smith Instruments Mopho Desktop, as shown in a photo on his official Facebook page.

Although he uses software synths, Laurent Garnier favours the hardware variety, particularly where lots of knobs and sliders are available. Vintage keyboards in his The Kub studio include Roland Juno 106 and Jupiter 8 and Korg MS20 analogues, plus the under-rated Yamaha DX100 FM synth (bottom right), while Garnier also uses the Kurzweil K2000 workstation (top right).

Although he uses software synths, Laurent Garnier favours the hardware variety, particularly where lots of knobs and sliders are available. Vintage keyboards in his The Kub studio include Roland Juno 106 and Jupiter 8 and Korg MS20 analogues, plus the under-rated Yamaha DX100 FM synth (bottom right), while Garnier also uses the Kurzweil K2000 workstation (top right).

"I'm more a hardware guy. I've got two Nords that I use a lot — the Lead Version 2 and the small one, the Nord Modular, with all the editing stuff inside the computer. I like the texture of the Nord Lead. I'm not too much into the Modular because I'm not a software person really. I like tweaking knobs and having a straight effect. I really enjoy being able to touch the equipment and see what I'm doing, I relate much more to that. What I like about the Nord Lead is it's got tons of buttons and you don't have to go into pages and pages to actually have something happening."

"I'm more a hardware guy. I've got two Nords that I use a lot — the Lead Version 2 and the small one, the Nord Modular, with all the editing stuff inside the computer. I like the texture of the Nord Lead. I'm not too much into the Modular because I'm not a software person really. I like tweaking knobs and having a straight effect. I really enjoy being able to touch the equipment and see what I'm doing, I relate much more to that. What I like about the Nord Lead is it's got tons of buttons and you don't have to go into pages and pages to actually have something happening."

"I know a lot of people dislike the JD800, but I've been using it for more than 10 years and there's a hell of a lot of it on the new album. The new stuff in my studio is all the software."

Safety belt for my Korg !

Although he uses software synths, Laurent Garnier favours the hardware variety, particularly where lots of knobs and sliders are available. Vintage keyboards in his The Kub studio include Roland Juno 106 and Jupiter 8 and Korg MS20 analogues, plus the under-rated Yamaha DX100 FM synth (bottom right), while Garnier also uses the Kurzweil K2000 workstation (top right).

Although he uses software synths, Laurent Garnier favours the hardware variety, particularly where lots of knobs and sliders are available. Vintage keyboards in his The Kub studio include Roland Juno 106 and Jupiter 8 and Korg MS20 analogues, plus the under-rated Yamaha DX100 FM synth (bottom right), while Garnier also uses the Kurzweil K2000 workstation (top right).

One of Garnier's Mackie HR824 monitors perches atop a rack containing his Novation Drumstation and Studio Electronics SE1 synth modules.