Top 5Has said they use
Ableton
Live“I use Ableton in both instances, when I play live and when I make beats.”
Said in The FADER: TOKiMONSTA interview on beat construction, September 2017
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11 items · Last checked What DAW does TOKiMONSTA use?
TOKiMONSTA has said she makes beats and plays live in Ableton Live both for making beats and for playing live, with Native Instruments Massive and Absynth among her soft synths. She has said she records Moog Little Phatty and Sub Phatty and Korg microKORG basslines, and called the Roland SP-404 a classic piece of kit.
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Top 5Has said they use
Native Instruments
Massive“As far as a lot of VSTs I like to use, Massive is a big one.”
Said in Red Bull Music Academy: TOKiMONSTA lecture, Tokyo 2014, October 2014
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Top 5Has said they use
Native Instruments
Absynth“Absynth has a great mutate button that will just mutate the sound until it turns into some weird, crazy thing.”
Said in Red Bull Music Academy: TOKiMONSTA lecture, Tokyo 2014, October 2014
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Top 5Seen using
Moog
Sub PhattySeen in Hypebeast: Music Essentials, TOKiMONSTA, November 2013
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Top 5Has said they use
Moog
Little Phatty“sometimes I’ll choose to use analog synths like a Moog or something like that, like Little Phatty or Sub Phatty.”
Said in Red Bull Music Academy: TOKiMONSTA lecture, Tokyo 2014, October 2014
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Studio
Has said they use
Ableton
Live“I use Ableton in both instances, when I play live and when I make beats.”
Said in The FADER: TOKiMONSTA interview on beat construction, September 2017
Seen using
Moog
Sub PhattySeen in Hypebeast: Music Essentials, TOKiMONSTA, November 2013
Has said they use
Moog
Little Phatty“sometimes I’ll choose to use analog synths like a Moog or something like that, like Little Phatty or Sub Phatty.”
Said in Red Bull Music Academy: TOKiMONSTA lecture, Tokyo 2014, October 2014
Has said they use
Korg
microKORG“I think I used the microKORG on that and then from there, I recorded the microKORG into Ableton.”
Said in Red Bull Music Academy: TOKiMONSTA lecture, Tokyo 2014, October 2014
Has said they use
Roland
SP-404“The Roland SP-404 is definitely a classic “GOATed piece of kit”.”
Said in Attack Magazine: Pro Insights From TOKiMONSTA, Zimmer90, Franc Moody & Vintage Culture, February 2026
Plugins
Has said they use
Native Instruments
Massive“As far as a lot of VSTs I like to use, Massive is a big one.”
Said in Red Bull Music Academy: TOKiMONSTA lecture, Tokyo 2014, October 2014
Has said they use
Native Instruments
Absynth“Absynth has a great mutate button that will just mutate the sound until it turns into some weird, crazy thing.”
Said in Red Bull Music Academy: TOKiMONSTA lecture, Tokyo 2014, October 2014
Music essentials
Seen using
Seen using
Nintendo
Super Nintendo
Seen using
Nintendo
Super NintendoSeen in Hypebeast: Music Essentials, TOKiMONSTA, November 2013
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Records that shaped me
Southside Movement
Moving South (Southside Movement)Seen in Hypebeast: Music Essentials, TOKiMONSTA, November 2013
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What DAW does TOKiMONSTA use?
Ableton Live. She has said she works in Ableton both when she plays live and when she makes beats, using Arrangement View at home.
What plugins does TOKiMONSTA use?
In her Red Bull Music Academy lecture she said Native Instruments Massive is a big one among her VSTs, and that a pad on an early track was a default sound from Absynth.
What synth does TOKiMONSTA use?
For basslines she has said she sometimes turns to Moog analog synths like the Little Phatty or Sub Phatty, and that she recorded a Korg microKORG into Ableton. A Moog Sub Phatty also appeared in her Hypebeast Music Essentials shoot.
What sampler does TOKiMONSTA use?
She has called the Roland SP-404 her all-time favourite bit of kit, saying it changed the way she thought about making beats in her early days.
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TOKiMONSTA is Los Angeles producer and DJ Jennifer Lee, a classically trained pianist who released on Brainfeeder and runs the Young Art label. This guide covers the DAW, soft synths, analog synths and sampler she has talked about, plus the items from her Music Essentials shoot.
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