Depeche Mode’s Live Setup Revealed
Andy Fletcher Keyboards
PE: “This is Fletch’s rig. He does a lot of the baselines off the Virus Polar here. And then there are two Edirol PCR-800 controllers, each of which triggers one the Receptors. There are two Receptors per player, and each is doing the same thing. They’re pretty standard Edirol controllers but they’re very good. He generally plays on this one and the other is the backup. If there are any problems he can just play the other one and the backup Receptor.”
Peter Gordino Keyboards
PE: “This is Pete’s rig. He gets the big, weighted piano keyboard, a Roland RD-700. With Pete only one Receptor is live and if that goes down I can switch to his B Receptor. And then he’s got another Virus, he does a lot of stuff on that, It’s a TI2. Wonderful machines.”
Martin Gore Keyboards, Guitars
PE: “This is Martin’s rig. He’s not actually using this Virus. He’s just using it as a controller. It was actually used in one of the songs on this tour, but we dropped that song from the set.
“Again, two keyboards: the Virus TI2 and an Edirol PCR-800 controller. The top one is the main Receptor and the other is a backup Receptor.”
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