So glad Peter has an opportunity to speak on behalf of the band! Depeche Mode is the Best Band ever n Marting Gores lyrics are Genius! Dave's baritone voice is one of a kind Thank You

That piano version he plays of Home is phenomenal

As a musician I appreciate when artists give a behind the scene look and talk gear. Thank you Peter, great stuff!

Peter Gordeno is somewhat part of DM for years and years, even writes songs with them... It always was and is Dave and Martin but Peter is somewhat part of it in the background... Sad when he was talking and showing Fletch's keyboard and dancing platform, now as he's gone... Alan and Fletch will always be missed...

Hearing him play “Home” gave me chills. Beautiful song.

True fans know that Alan did this same thing in the Best Concert Video EVER...101 The best band ever, and there will be no other!

30 years I ago I bought my first synth keyboard, inspired by DM, a Roland Juno-106. I still have it. I also have a Roland TD-K electronic drum set...so fun to play. I'm no musician, but I'm my own Rockstar with Roland.

Roland RDs are my favorites. I started with the XP80 then to the A-90s to the RD-700 to the 2000. Love em...👍💕

I had to make sure that DM did not steal my Virus Ti when I saw it on their stage. Listen to Peter play, shows everyone this is not your I, IV, V pop music band. Unbelievable musical arrangements through the years in obscure key arrangements with unique harmonies. Their progression from their early synth pop days is fascinating to see. I believe Alan Wilder was a major part of that. RIP Fletch. You were the glue that held Depeche Mode together.

Peter and Dan, thank you for this informative video and your input with Depeche live.

magical show and tour, fantastic memories, Im sad seeing AF in this video watching it now +5 years later. can't wait for the new tour announcement

Very cool interview!

So beautiful and I'm so glad that you are in the band. You add a lot!❣

Excellent tour of DM rig and love the insight into what they use for concerts. I am a big Roland synth fan and enjoy creating my own new wave beats at home on the wonderful Roland boutique synths.

Oh God! I miss Alan so much!

I love behind the scenes insights and having been at the Prague show particularly like this one!

A truly beautiful, rich piano sound

The best"synth"band ever. The best synthesizers! Depeche Mode forever ❤

Roland moments are so marvellous

Wonderful video! 😉😊😎 Thank you very much! Best regards from London!

Amazing piano sound, just beautiful. Words from a piano and keyboard player.

the home part I use now since 3 years as ringtone on my phone, love it so much! it would be great to have a official version.

Great interview! Fabulous band ever!!!

Depeche mode great band, love their music. 👍🏼👍🏼👍🏼👏👏🙏🏻

Nice to hear other keyboardists play and talk about their instruments.

When Peter plays his style is classic, for example, the tour of universe made at Barcelona nine years ago, tracks like home or dressed in black got a classic touch, Alan, a shy but smart guy keeps the electronic style through his soul, thus, two different essences, but nice!

I CAN'T WAIT FOR THE HOLLYWOOD BOWL!! And I can't wait for those quiet songs with Martin and Peter.

Thanks for this, interesting stuff. Love it!

Privilege to see them perform their spirit tour in Dublin - amazing experience

Beautifull video 👍

Amazing stage piano

Do the people on here crying about them using MIDI controllers not understand that they use whatever analog vintage gear they want in the studio and sample it for live use? Before this, they were doing the same exact approach with Emulator/EMax boards, and that includes the oh-so-precious Alan Wilder era.. Take any vintage synth you like on tour and see how long it lasts. See how hard it is to get a replacement when the one you brought out inevitably fails.

That instrumental version of “Home” was amazing! Wish I could find that somewhere or the sheet music!

I just bought my first keyboard BK-3. I'm excited to get the best of it!

BEAUTIFUL

The piano version of Home that the guy play is amazingly beautiful..

2:48 😢😢😢me produce nostalgia y se me eriza la piel

I know this is a Roland Channel, for Roland keyboards - Was super impressed btw! But was I the only one who freaked out and went all fanboy when I saw that Access Virus TI2? Damn its pretty!

My favorite Band & Synthesizer company in one video! A+++ DM & ROLAND - THE BEST IN THE WORLD!!!

This is where Andrew Fletcher 'STANDS'

I had figured this was going to be a throwaway piece and/or RK promo and I didn't watch it at first. But it's a very informative piece on the current state of Depeche Mode, actually.

Interesting Peter, you mentioned the Outro in Cover Me, its truly great! Another Outro I always loved is the Outro of Clean from Violator, maybe you could pick that up and stretch it to a Massive Arena set!

great tour one of the best

Fais moi ça comme cadeau ! C'est trop magnifique

And also, more of your musician job, thank you a lot!

Amazing!!

Nice upload!!!

I see some "real musicians" complaining about the fact they are using midi controllers instead of analog gear in this new era. 1. You would not want to lug around analog gear constantly from gig to gig. It has been done but why do that when midi controllers can do all of that and more? It is heavy and lots of parts to look after and banging it around, which can happen, can be bad for old gear. New gear is in general not built as well, but due to increased portability it is less likely to be damaged and since most of it is digital, it tends to always offer perfect performance unless damaged badly. You want reliability, instead of the niche of having real analog synths, especially being a world class band. 2. Analog equipment needs constant maintenance, especially vintage gear which may be hard to find parts for in a bind. 3. You do not want your equipment malfunctioning in front of your paying fans, which analog has and can do. 4. You can argue that you can never replicate the warmth of true analog gear, which may be correct in a sense. But with signal processors and the ability to add the warmth through analog and tube audio gear which is modern, this is more of a non issue and I bet their modern sound would be cleaner (does not mean you will prefer it though) compared to old concerts. 5. They still sell plenty of tickets nowadays, if they sounded worse than they used to that fan base would dwindle yet people keep coming to hear them. This should be your clue that they are just modernized yet viable still and I am sure they still sound amazing live. Edit: Just saw some footage from 2017, yep, they still sound very similar to the old days! As expected, a bit cleaner but the synth sounds sound the same as they always have, analog and awesome sounding. Non-issue! They still have the classic Depeche Mode sound.

Wonderfull!!!

Alan 😇 es imprescindible para Depeche 👑 Mode ♥️♥️♥️♥️

Spectacular ❤ Depeche Mode

the day a drummer appeared was the day it all changed and as mentioned here alot Alan was rhe man

🎹Very interesting,Thanks 🌹

great player he is

There are Access Virus and Moog in his keyboard set😍 btw I love Roland boutique series😍

This is awesome! Would love to her his piano versions of DM songs. Would be cool an interpretation, something like fresh Aire versions.

Peter is a gentleman !!!

Roland/BOSS for Life.

Alan the Best forever!!!

im a huge Roland user hats off for making amazing controllers for vst/plugins, but i miss the days DM used real Synths live

Amazing!

Diggin that Voyager XL and Virus TI2. Is the action any lighter on the RD2000 than the older RD700's? We have a RD-700gx and our actual Steinway M has a lighter action than it .. I ended up with tendonitus from trying to play Chopin Etudes on our RD-700gx .. the keys on it are also physically wider than the Steinway making it hard to hit large stretches cleanly. Perhaps this newer RD2000 might be the answer?

interesting, thanks!

Die Piano Version von Home hört sich ja absolut stark an!! Das wäre doch mal was, die langsamen Hits als Piano-CD!

Most of the stuff is going in the background they are just using the midi controllers but it makes sense they can`t bring every analog synth on stage with them city to city .

The Best tour

I think Martin Gore is one of the most underrated songwriters of all time.

Alan 😇 Please 🙏 come back 🙏 🙌 with Depeche 👑 Mode 🙌♥️♥️♥️♥️

0:12. What's that spherical thing over his shoulder? Left shoulder

Cmon , we know, Andy stands, and play "claps"

A fantastic video with great insight, which was ruined by my inability to fixate on anything other then the nose-hair, in Peter's left nostril.

Love Depeche Mode, Roland since we have your attention here please update the integra app it no longer works with IOS 11....it never made it past V 1.0 .....I have emailed and tried facebook but can't get a response. thank you.

it is so easy today, i remember the days of the Emulator I and II, Jupiter 8 and DX7 1984.

I bet one culd make some great rave/acid underground track with those synths :)

cool shirt dude

I liked your little video. A little.

I heard the concert and They should have left the original synth sounds alone. Those analog sounds are what made them. I could not bring myself to go in Michigan after hearing the concert. Why mess with perfection.

#1 Fan. Edit: can you come over and play live for me.

Maaaar tin😊😃

Coucou ! J'adore Depeche Mode depuis 1985 (année de sortie de "shake the desease" : chanson présentée en France notamment par Michel Leeb dans son émission télévisée "un certain Leeb Show"")================ Aujjourd'hui, en 2018, je découvre avec plaisir, grâce à cette émission avec Peter Gordeno, et grâce à KZfaq, que le groupe Depeche Mode utilise le tout dernier ROLAND : le Roland R2 2000. Cela m'amuse, car c'est un clavier que je me suis offert pour mon Noël 2017, après avoir passé une année à économiser de l'argent. Certains membres de ma famille, qui n'y connaissent rien en musique m'ont même déconseillé d'acheter ce synthé, comme si je fais un achat "compulsif" ! Certes, le ROLAND est cher... plus cher que le dernier Yamaha, par exemple, mais alors : quelle qualité de son ! Ce Noël, j'avais envie de me faire plaisir, et je me suis adressé à un bon magasin de musique. J'ai dit exactement ce que je voulais : à la fois un très bon son de piano, et, d'autre part, des bons sons "synthé" (genre : Jean-Michel Jarre, par exemple). Malgré le prix, je ne regrette pas mon achat car la qualité du piano (et le réalisme) est vraiment surprenante ! C'est pour cette raison que cela me fait plaisir de voir que l'un des musiciens de mon groupe préféré utilise cet instrument. Peut-être que l'on me dira que c'est une question de goût, ou encore : de sensation. Mais j'ai pu comparer le ROLAND RD2000, utilisé par DEPECHE MODE avec d'autres claviers, d'autres marques : franchement, je n'avais jamais entendu un son aussi bon, aussi pur... et si en plus, vous avez un bon ampli avec effet stéréo : alors là, c'est presque un vrai piano ! Du coup, cela permet de mieux mettre en valeur la douce voix de Martin Gore, quand il décide de chanter, sur scène, à la place de Dave Gahan. Ecoutez bien Peter Gordeno, sur scène, qui accompagne Martin Gore : on a vraiment l'impression d'entendre un vrai piano. Merci Depeche Mode : vous avez fait un bon choix ! Et merci au dernier ROLAND ! AMITIES à tous les amateurs de musiques, de chansons, et de Depeche Mode. Quel ennui, quel vide, quelle tristesse, si tout cela n'existait pas ! François-O. T.

Always enjoyed this Japanese band.

can you imagine this man in Joker make up? i can))

What are the controllers controlling? Can we know that or is it top secret stuff? I still have my Roland RD-200. It has semi-weighted touch. There's nothing like that today AFAIK. The midi out on it quit a while back but I paid to get it fixed rather than by a new keyboard.

LINDO solo de Home

Virtual Era... When you've worked quite a lot with VST's, you know how far electronic music has gone... BUT, that's why I also try to play with real vintage synthesizers : it's all about sounds and feeling... :-) Anyway: I do like DM's work. Definitely my favorite group and electro sound... And, regarding to the amount of typical sounds they created, we have to admit virtual instruments are, by far, the best way to manage their concerts... Isn't it ? :-)

Very well educated also great keyboardist knows what he’s doing and he knows what he’s talking about, Great addition to the original Depeche Mode!

he is a great musician, great also with bass. good person for depeche mode

Do you buy new keys for each location? Virtually looks like new

They are totally on vst. Thats awesome. Wonder what plugins theyr using!

I remember the days when DM didn't need cheerleaders for the audience, but that was back when Dave mostly sang his own live vocals, instead of expecting the audience to do it all for him. Oh, and Alan Wilder hadn't left yet. You couldn't pay me to attend a DM show now.

Freeky, a Roland PCR-800 MIDI only keyboard right in front of him! I have one sitting right behind me. Never would expect them to not be using some high end gear... but no matter...

What did he play from the beginning? Or it’s freestyle

DM has more voices keyboard, please tell us more from another roland voices keyboard like JP, can be on JP 08 Boutique, good idea, not ? Great Job.

I know this is rolands channel, would of been nice to hear the whole rigs though.

WoW

I rather like the songs from the 80's and 90's. That's because i love synthesizersounds. DM's sound and style changed a lot over the last 20 years. Songs are often dark and synths are on the background or disapeared. In the 80's and 90's their music was more cheerful. So for fans of that era is a bit pitty they didn't continue with that style.

i think, he should be made the new 4th member of the group. he deserves that. but i wonder maybe he doesn't wnt to. but it would be a good thing i think. actually i'm not too interested in those controllers, but what really churns out the sounds and how they are programmed.

Peter Gordeno is a brilliant keyboardist.

AM

I wonder what kinda computers and software they are using with the midi controllers? Are they using Roland Cloud VSTs? What if the computer crashes during a show?