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Ableton
LiveSaid in "A motley crew of hardware": Talking Tech with Tornado Wallace, March 2017
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Tornado Wallace has said they use Ableton Live with an RME Fireface UFX interface in a shared Berlin studio, alongside a Kurzweil K2000R, an Oberheim Matrix-1000, a Roland TR-808 and a Roland Space Echo, with a Prophet-5 still kept in Melbourne.
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RME
Fireface UFX“Everything is wired up to the patch bay which I can then send through mixer channels and then into the RME UFX Fireface”
Said in "A motley crew of hardware": Talking Tech with Tornado Wallace, March 2017
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Kurzweil
K2000R“the Kurzweil K2000R for it's digital pads/leads”
Said in "A motley crew of hardware": Talking Tech with Tornado Wallace, March 2017
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Oberheim
Matrix-1000“Maybe the Matrix 1000 or the 808. They've been with me the longest and I've used them the most”
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What studio gear Tornado Wallace uses: a sourced gear guide
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Studio
Has said they use
Ableton
LiveSaid in "A motley crew of hardware": Talking Tech with Tornado Wallace, March 2017
Has said they use
RME
Fireface UFX“Everything is wired up to the patch bay which I can then send through mixer channels and then into the RME UFX Fireface”
Said in "A motley crew of hardware": Talking Tech with Tornado Wallace, March 2017
MOTU
MIDI interface
Has said they use
MOTU
MIDI interface“All midi-synths are running through a MOTU midi-interface”
Said in "A motley crew of hardware": Talking Tech with Tornado Wallace, March 2017
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Innerclock Systems
Sync-Gen
Has said they use
Innerclock Systems
Sync-Gen“I use the Sync-Gen to sync the drum boxes with the Ableton clock.”
Said in "A motley crew of hardware": Talking Tech with Tornado Wallace, March 2017
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Has said they use
Kurzweil
K2000R“the Kurzweil K2000R for it's digital pads/leads”
Said in "A motley crew of hardware": Talking Tech with Tornado Wallace, March 2017
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Has said they use
Oberheim
Matrix-1000“Maybe the Matrix 1000 or the 808. They've been with me the longest and I've used them the most”
Said in "A motley crew of hardware": Talking Tech with Tornado Wallace, March 2017
Has said they use
Has said they use
Roland
Space Echo“So it'll be nice to incorporate the Filterbank, Space Echo and DPX into the workflow more easily.”
Said in "A motley crew of hardware": Talking Tech with Tornado Wallace, March 2017
Melbourne studio
Has said they use
Sequential
Prophet-5“If money were no object I'd probably just get some things I still have in Australia sent over like my Prophet 5 or my Arp Odyssey.”
Said in "A motley crew of hardware": Talking Tech with Tornado Wallace, March 2017
Records that shaped me
Has said they love
MPS Records
Smoke - Shelda“this is a selection of music from records I've come by in the past six months that have had more of a "home-listening" appeal”
Said in Podcast 636: Tornado Wallace, March 2020
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Has said they love
MPS Records
Bora Rokovic - Lyrics Without LyricsSaid in Podcast 636: Tornado Wallace, March 2020
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Has said they love
MPS Records
Association P.C. - Mirrored DimensionsSaid in Podcast 636: Tornado Wallace, March 2020
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What DAW does Tornado Wallace use?
Tornado Wallace has said they use Ableton Live, with the drum machines synced to the Ableton clock through an Innerclock Systems Sync-Gen.
What audio interface does Tornado Wallace use?
Tornado Wallace has said they use an RME Fireface UFX, with everything wired through a patch bay and mixer into split channels in Ableton.
What synth does Tornado Wallace use?
Tornado Wallace has said they use a Kurzweil K2000R for digital pads and leads and an Oberheim Matrix-1000, and keeps a Sequential Prophet-5 in Melbourne.
What drum machine does Tornado Wallace use?
Tornado Wallace has said they use a Roland TR-808, one of the two pieces of gear they have had the longest.
What records does Tornado Wallace play?
For a 2020 XLR8R home-listening mix, Tornado Wallace has said they love records such as Smoke's Shelda, Bora Rokovic's Lyrics Without Lyrics and Association P.C.'s Mirrored Dimensions, all on MPS Records.
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Tornado Wallace
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Tornado Wallace is Lewie Day, a Melbourne-born, Berlin-based producer and DJ known for balearic house, leftfield pop and ambient records on Running Back, ESP Institute and Music From Memory. This guide covers the hardware from his Berlin studio interview and records he picked for a home-listening mix.
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