Massimiliano Pagliara

"This mixer here, this Boss KM60, looks pretty cool and very vintage. Was it something you looked for specifically?

No, actually I stumbled upon this kind of accidentally. I was looking for a new mixer, a vintage mixer from the late 1970s, that I could use for my drum machines to give an extra texture to the sound, and then yeah, you know… eBay! [Laughs]"

"So this is a Boss DR550 MK2? It looks quite digital.

Yes. It's the smaller version of the 660, which, you know, is the more famous Dance Mania kind of drum machine."

"And obviously the SH-101 and the Juno 106 are really my classics, whereas something like the Roland JX-3P, for example—it's a really funny story because I bought it three times [laughs]. "

"And then I've got into the Korg Electribe. The first Electribe I had—not this one, this is a sampler actually—was the ER-1 mkII, but I've never really liked it for its internal sounds, so I only ever used it as a sequencer."

"And then yeah, slowly I got the 606, and the 707, and more and more. This is one of the latest. "

"Roland was the only one who made programmers for the synthesizers, so you could still have the possibility to tweak sounds on the go—whereas with Korg, for example, like this one, the Korg 8000, the rack version of the DW8000, you really have to press buttons, and the programming or editing of sounds is definitely not as fun. "

"I did open them, a few of them—like this SH-101, for example, when I got it, which is the very first synth that I bought."

"specially this Juno 106, which is absolutely one of my favourite synths, but it gave me a lot of problems with the voices, the chorus and the battery."

" I like to play it, you know, live, or sometimes I can also MIDI-fy it with a Kenton [MIDI Thru 5] box."

"And that mixer over there is actually just for my [TR]-808, so all the individual drum sounds of the 808 have their own outs in that mixer."

"In fact, this was the one I had before. The sequencer for this thing here, which is the Novation DrumStation, is the rack version of the 808 and 909, but together, basically."

"And then yeah, slowly I got the 606, and the 707, and more and more. This is one of the latest."

In an interview with Resident Advisor, Massimiliano Pagliara discusses his use of the Oberheim DMX drum machine, highlighting its classic status and the benefits of its MIDI capabilities.

"But also it has this thing here, which is "through," "sync" or "aux"––so this thing here gets the MIDI clock from my computer, say Ableton Live, which is the only software I use as a sequencer, and goes into "sync," and I can send the sync signal to all of these machines."

"I can use up to five machines, basically. So like the DMX, the 606 and the 303 are all connected to that. "

"And then I was like, "OK, I don't need it" and I sold it, and instead got this thing here, which is like a rack version, the Yamaha TX81Z."

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In the Resident Advisor feature "Machine Love: Massimiliano Pagliara" by Jordan Rothlein, a photo shows Massimiliano Pagliara with a Sequential Circuits Prophet-5 synthesizer.

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4th picure, under the Mackie monitors.

In the Resident Advisor feature "Machine Love: Massimiliano Pagliara" by Jordan Rothlein, the sixth picture shows a Moog Moogerfooger MF-103 12-Stage Phaser on the table, suggesting its use in Pagliara's setup.

In the Resident Advisor feature "Machine Love: Massimiliano Pagliara," a photo shows Massimiliano Pagliara's Moog Minitaur on his desk, highlighting its role in his setup.

0:07 seconds, in his studio.