Stargate

In this video, you can see a white strat at 0:20

In an interview with SoundOnSound from 2010, Stargate says: "I think we were one of the first to move to Pro Tools for writing. We'd been using Cubase for 10 years, until we moved to Pro Tools 10 years ago."

Mentioned by A Head Full of Dreams co-producer Rik Simpson as having been used on Coldplay’s “Hymn for the Weekend” in this Sound on Sound interview.

“Another song that came together in an interesting way was ‘Hymn For The Weekend’. The song had been around in a basic form since the beginning of the sessions, and it was quite hard to get the tone of it right. We ended up recording many different versions, and bars or parts of earlier versions found their way in the final version. The song ended up as a hybrid of styles, with strong hip–hop/R&B elements. If you listen to the drums in the verses in particular, they are very swung and sample–based. The main beat is a combination of live drums and programming. I think Stargate used samples in Structure in Pro Tools.

Given that A Head Full of Dreams came out before the release of Structure 2, one can assume that Stargate used the original version.

In this video, you can see a Minimoog Voyager in the background behind Stargate

A pair of Fantoms: the team's Roland Fantom G6 (top) and X6 keyboards. Photo: Lucas Thorpe

Stargate's work is almost entirely 'in the box', but they keep a few rackmounting synths and samplers around. From top: Furman power conditioner, Digidesign 96I/O interface, Roland JV1010 synth, Yamaha Motif Rack synth, Emu Proteus 2000 synth, Yamaha Motif Rack XS, Digidesign MIDI interface, Apple G5 Power Mac and Akai S3000XL sampler. Photo: Lucas Thorpe

Stargate's work is almost entirely 'in the box', but they keep a few rackmounting synths and samplers around. From top: Furman power conditioner, Digidesign 96I/O interface, Roland JV1010 synth, Yamaha Motif Rack synth, Emu Proteus 2000 synth, Yamaha Motif Rack XS, Digidesign MIDI interface, Apple G5 Power Mac and Akai S3000XL sampler. Photo: Lucas Thorpe

Stargate's work is almost entirely 'in the box', but they keep a few rackmounting synths and samplers around. From top: Furman power conditioner, Digidesign 96I/O interface, Roland JV1010 synth, Yamaha Motif Rack synth, Emu Proteus 2000 synth, Yamaha Motif Rack XS, Digidesign MIDI interface, Apple G5 Power Mac and Akai S3000XL sampler. Photo: Lucas Thorpe

Stargate's work is almost entirely 'in the box', but they keep a few rackmounting synths and samplers around. From top: Furman power conditioner, Digidesign 96I/O interface, Roland JV1010 synth, Yamaha Motif Rack synth, Emu Proteus 2000 synth, Yamaha Motif Rack XS, Digidesign MIDI interface, Apple G5 Power Mac and Akai S3000XL sampler. Photo: Lucas Thorpe

Stargate's work is almost entirely 'in the box', but they keep a few rackmounting synths and samplers around. From top: Furman power conditioner, Digidesign 96I/O interface, Roland JV1010 synth, Yamaha Motif Rack synth, Emu Proteus 2000 synth, Yamaha Motif Rack XS, Digidesign MIDI interface, Apple G5 Power Mac and Akai S3000XL sampler. Photo: Lucas Thorpe

In this video, you can see an OB-6 on the synth rack at 0:13

One of the pair's favourite microphones is the Blue Bottle. Photo: Lucas Thorpe

A pair of Fantoms: the team's Roland Fantom G6 (top) and X6 keyboards. Photo: Lucas Thorpe

Stargate's work is almost entirely 'in the box', but they keep a few rackmounting synths and samplers around. From top: Furman power conditioner, Digidesign 96I/O interface, Roland JV1010 synth, Yamaha Motif Rack synth, Emu Proteus 2000 synth, Yamaha Motif Rack XS, Digidesign MIDI interface, Apple G5 Power Mac and Akai S3000XL sampler. Photo: Lucas Thorpe

In this video, you can see a Microkorg at 0:19 in Stargate's studio

"Stargate's work is almost entirely 'in the box', but they keep a few rackmounting synths and samplers around. From top: Furman power conditioner, Digidesign 96I/O interface, Roland JV1010 synth, Yamaha Motif Rack synth, Emu Proteus 2000 synth, Yamaha Motif Rack XS, Digidesign MIDI interface, Apple G5 Power Mac and Akai S3000XL sampler." This quote is from an article written by Paul Tingen about "The Stargate" porduction duo.

In this YouTube video from Native Instruments, Producer Mikkel from Stargate can be seen with NI Komplete Kontrol S61 Midi controller.

In this video, Stargate uses Absynth 5 for the song Dancing with a stranger by Sam Smith and normani

I love this synth

I need to get it one day