Panda Bear

“I do love the Octatrack. I’m not a big fan of using a laptop on stage myself. I’m not opposed to it, I just never felt like I could figure out a way of doing it where I felt like I was still performing or that there was a flexibility to it. I know Daniel from Oneohtrix and, talking to him, he’s found a way to achieve that, but I haven’t really sorted it yet.

So, the Octatracks are essentially my way of having Ableton in a box if you deal with it a specific way. I’m basically taking stems of the studio recording over seven of the tracks, using the eighth as a master channel. Typically I’ll take drums, bass, weird percussion stuff, weird sound stuff and maybe a main melodic component so I know everything’s set up with that template.

There are two Octatracks, both of which contain the exact same information on the card and I kind of mix from one song to the next. Some nights I do it better than others but it’s essentially DJing the stems of the record," says Panda Bear, in this article.

"I got this [Korg M3-M] workstation, it's usually part of a synthesizer, but I got the version that's just a module-- just a white box, basically. I found out that you could run a line input into the thing and affect that within the box. So, pretty early on in the process, I had this idea of just sticking a guitar into that; that was essentially going to be my setup."

On the last page of the article, an OP-1 can be spotted in front of Noah's laptop

In this tease for the A Day With the Homies EP, you can see the Digitakt interface with the song title being writen into the pattern.

"Maybe 90% of the bass sounds on the album are from [the Moog Voyager]. They’re brilliant synths and more convenient than the old ones with their MIDI capabilities," says Panda Bear, in this article.

Avey Tare is playing a Juno 60 in Animal Collective's My Girls music video.

According to the liner notes of his first, self-titled album, Panda Bear is credited with playing the Roland TB-303.

According to the liner notes of his first, self-titled album, Panda Bear is credited with playing the Korg 01/W FD.

The credits to his album "Reset" credit panda bear with playing the microfreak on the album

Panda Bear is confirmed to have used the Korg Poly-800 during the recording sessions for "Merriweather Post Pavilion." This is evidenced by a photograph from Sound on Sound, where the synthesizer is visible in the upper right corner, positioned atop a Wurlitzer Piano.