Gary Numan Live Show Keyboard Rig Rundown 

Great to hear them giving you the praise you deserve Matt

Matt’s version of “Stories” is epic.

Glad you enjoyed the video. I’m afraid I can sell the sounds. The essentially belong to Gary.

Glad you enjoyed this. I might do another one once I’m geared up and ready for the Intruder tour.

Would be great to see. I was going to try to get to the new tour, but I’m doubting this now as my health is not great. I really hope that Gary releases a video of the tour like he has many others - it may be my only opportunity to see this one. I personally love the ‘behind the scenes’ stuff you guys do, as it helps some of us feel closer to the music.

@@Fruitbat-tb3lg We're doing a gig that will be broadcast on the 17th June. You can buy tickets (to watch it at home) here www.ents24.com/online-events/online-streaming-events/gary-numan-intruder-online-concert/6253262 It will be the set that we would have been doing live on tour now to publicise the album with track from the new album.

What a good idea. Thanks for letting me know😎

It’s finished! I’m just waiting to hear how long it will take for the CDs to be pressed. You can actually buy it now littlefingers.tmstor.es/

@@littlefinger3019 Oh, I pre-ordered it way back, as soon as I heard you were doing it.... before the world went crazy. I'm glad you overcame your system crash.

You can programme it to stop at the end of a song or to continue to the next song when you set up the Set. It’s great!

Nothing really. The Cymatics that we use now are much more reliable and versatile though.

Hi Jon, I was using a 2016 2.9GHz Quad Core i7 with 16GB of RAM but it was starting to misbehave on stage (lagging and glitching - there was a lot of 3rd-party pug-ins on there) so I've just upgraded to an M1 Max with 64gb of RAM

Hi, Thanks for getting in touch. It is a worry that Cymatics have gone out of production (and a shock) but for the time being, because they're so good, we're sticking with them. I guess I'm hoping that somebody starts making them again or we will be looking for a replacement at some point. I use a Radial DI that switches between the two Cymatics if the first one stops. This has never happened though!

@@swayallstars Thanks so much for getting back to me. I really appreciate you taking the time out to reply. Just watched your conversation with Vaughn George. Thanks also for your generosity of spirit sharing so much with us all.

Hi David, We're still using the Cymatic at the moment and I think quite a few other acts are as well. It is a worry though now that they no longer exist. I haven't looked at any alternatives yet - I'm hoping somebody will start making them again!

@@littlefinger3019 Hi David, that’s great news, and fingers crossed production will get rolling again. In fact I’m waiting for a cymatics power conditioner to arrive here myself. Chose it over a Furman unit. Thanks again for getting back in touch!

Things have crashed on stage. When we were using a laptop with Logic or Live we had a couple of really bad crashes mid gig. Luckily we had a back-up laptop but the show was halted for a while which was awful. We switched to Cymatics a couple of years ago and we've only ever had one problem and that was probably piloy error rather thank technology. They're great!

Hi David, nothing's really changed since this video. I have a brand new more powerful MacBook Pro and a couple of new VST synths but essentially the set-up is the same. It's still the best option for me!

It has very occasionally crashed or misbehaved, usually in rehearsal but maybe once on a gig. You have to be careful with it.

@@littlefinger3019 Crashed at Worthing assembly halls I think

@@Louishyde Yes. 10 minutes or so that I will never forget!! 😳

Hi Rich, Glad you enjoyed the video. I really must do another one. We sampled the old sounds when Gary was selling all his old gear when he moved to America. It seemed like the right thing to do (to have those actual authentic sounds from Numan's personal keyboards). With a bit of tinkering I got them sounding and reacting great. Then a very talented programmer called Matt Jessup gave us a library of Pleasure Principle patches that he'd made for the Access Virus. With those and a few other VSTs I tend to mix them all together to create sounds big enough to work with the current arrangements of the songs. It will interesting to see how we end up doing the upcoming PP tour - wish me luck!

Haha!! Great question! I use two Samson LTS50 www.samsontech.com/samson/products/accessories/computer-stands/lts50/ They're great. I can't recommend them highly enough!

Thanks Matt

That's actually a really cool idea. The Numan rig is actually back in bits (some in the lock-up and some here) again now but when I get it all back together for whatever shows we have next I'll try and do this. Thanks for suggesting it. Just briefly now though, Ade sent me a folder of the patches that they used on the album and I work it out from there. That's the basic principle but there was a lot of of to-ing and fro-ing and there's a lot of patch editing and modifying ahead once we get gigging.

Hi Frank, there are quite a few. Off the top of my head - Digital Native, Pulse Pad, Metal/Hammer/Pulse Bass? (I can’t remember), Staccato Heaven (although I can’t imagine why we saved it and what we might use it on). A few patches names have been changed over the years to the name of the song (and edited by various people) so I don’t know what they originally were (AFE, Down In The Park, ME, etc.). I tend to use them WITH other things from elsewhere to make up the sound that I want.

@@littlefinger3019 thanks for taking the time to reply. I'm looking forward to the album!

Because the keyboards that I use on the shows (which are controller keyboards) are in the lock-up with the rest of the touring equipment. The keyboards here in this video are just what I had in my house at the time.

It all depends what type of music you're creating. I do gigs with just a piano, I do gigs with just keyboards, but for a state of the art Electronica gig I use all the technology I can to recreate the original recording (without just playing the original recording). Laptops are just another instrument that I use to help me. I like to play as much as is humanly possible "manually" but laptops are a great "help". Unfortunately too many people use them instead of actual musical playing ability and I would hate to be confused with them.

​@@littlefinger3019 Sorry being so negative about that. I absolutely can understand, that those laptops are just making the life of a musician a little easier. But on the other hand, if you think it full through, you would no longer need real keyboards and real synthesizers. You would only need MIDI keyboards and those laptops in the end. Because everything is emulated or sampled by software. Additionally it is very stupid, that most of the musicians rely on one brand and of OS for those laptops and software. If you are doing that, you are bound to it, what ever comes. I know a lot of people complaining about Apple because of its constantly OS updates and release, which directly causing the need to update this and that software application too. Otherwise it will not working because of some kind of incompatibility which Apples creates on purpose. So a big time people spending on just mainaining Apple OS and software. And that not every 3 years (which would be ok) but much more frequent. Apple could shut down whole music business, just because all rely on them. The most answer of musicians is, that the other musician uses this, so I do. Another answer is, that there is more software on Apple OS available. That might be true, but only because they are only looking there. There is also a lot availble for Windows, and more would be continously developed if more demand would be there.

@@valerianteritron4424 I 100% agree with everything that you've said.