What does Deadmau5 use to make beats?
Deadmau5 doesn't let the instrument define the mau5. It's the other way around, as you'll see in this exerpt from Electronic Musician.
Q: What is your main DAW?
DM: It’s the same old usual hodgepodge of everything, because so many things are good at so many things but suck at everything else.Q: Which ones do you use?
DM: [Steinberg] Cubase, a bit of that. A bit of [Ableton] Live. Some [Image Line] FL Studio, even.Q: So you’re on a PC?
DM: And Mac. Like I said, it’s just different platforms, different systems; different software does different things.
What about live performances? Here's what Deadmau5 revealed to Resident Advisor.
Q: Tell me about your live performance. You use something called the Monome, right?
DM: Yeah. For lack of a better explanation, it's a modern art installation piece gone functional. When you get it, it comes in a box with a power supply and a USB cable. No manual, no logo stamped on it. It's a piece of wood with some buttons. I think the reason the guy who made it does that is because you're forced to be innovative with it. You have to make your own software for it.
The one that I have is a 16x16 grid where each button will light up, and that's it. But with that, you can build your own sequencer and have each button doing a different thing. So Steve [Duda, my partner in BSOD] built this monster of an application called MOLAR, which is an extended version of MLR. Steve really has a thing for complicated machinery, so he set it up so that we can load in wav data and slice that up. It basically allows you to sequence a feed, MIDI triggers or wav data playback to a channel. You can permutate it in so many different ways that you can really jam on it.
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Deadmau5
Deadmau5 Software
Ableton Live
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