39 thoughts on “Orbital Live Performance Of ‘Chime’”

1. Ok, I’ll bite, what -is- the iPad app they’re using? And how am I going to fund a DSI Tempest?

   1. Couple of instances of Griid

2. Looks like the FL studio

3. Too me it looked like 3 of them were running griid, 1 was running lemur, and the other one I cant quite tell, looks like omni TR.

   1. Too, I meant To. 😛

4. Are headlamps in full studio lighting as cool as sunglasses at night? ..or just as silly..?

   i read somewhere that Orbital are named after the M25 London Orbital Motorway.

   1. Headlight glasses are just their thing, they have been doing it for a long time.

      1. Hey at least the cables are actually plugged IN this time (*ahem top of the pops ahem*)! good to see the old nutters back at it!

5. “Chime”

   1. Yep.

6. Chime not Chimes

   Signed,
   Old fart

7. Catching them at Moogfest late October. Gonna be amazing!

   1. Ill be there too! Got a ticket

      1. Me three! Driving in from Atlanta specifically for the Orbital show. Last one I got to attend was 2001. Really looking forward to this.

8. Banco de Gaia uses the headlights too, but he actually uses them in the dark 🙂

9. this song is now older than most of my friends. i feel very old.
   still, fun little song.

10. i’d rather see this on a 909, juno and s900 or whatever they were using….seeing it on 4 ipads and a ton of unnecessary gear..i dont know, makes them seem like beginners even though they certainly arent?

    1. nevermind just noticed there IS a 909……..ipads throwing me off

       1. The iPads and Ableton Live replace their MMT8s.

11. Underwhelming “performance”.
    “We all press play” comes to mind.

    1. press play would be fine if it were on some old gear with limited functionality in a dark venue. this performance is literally and figuratively “lights on”

12. The word “performance” obviously has changed meaning recently.

13. dumbest thing ever…

    and i love this song

14. i think 4 ipads are a little too much…

    1. I count 5 iPads 🙂

15. and for what ? triggering a couple clips ? mhe

16. I’ve always been a fan of their albums but watching them cue up loops on an iPad does very little for me.

17. Zzzzz, this wasn’t a performance! I could play the same track on ONE electribe ESX-1. Too many iPads…don’t believer the hype, YOU DON’T NEED THEM!!

18. It weakens your performance a bit when you actually turn your back on your tools and let them chug on behind you. Its too easy. Orbital is among the best of the bunch. I’d sure like to hear something bigger and more “risky” from them at this point. If you go too minimal, you run the risk of becoming ephemeral.

19. Easy to count all the failed wannabe artists crying in the comments section…

    1. Agree with Duder. When all the crybabies achieve what Orbital has achieved…

    2. That is narrow minded. Just because they’re Orbital that does not make the performance better per se. On the contrary, being Orbital we just expected more than this.
       I blame this on the title. “Orbital Radio Broadcast Performance” would be a better one.

       But it seems that for some people, criticizing or expecting more is only allowed to “verified” artists.
       There’s lots of much better performances that have been posted on Synthtopia by artists that have have achieved much less than Orbital…

    3. hahah ….ok orbital had his time.. …past time …now bye bye 🙂

20. I’m a long time fan of Orbital. The old performances were epic, and the new ones are still pretty damn impressive (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z8QcwjdrTM8). But in the video above? Meh. It was for a live web stream and FM broadcast. No, it wasn’t very dramatic. But it does show how they run their live setup nowadays, and that is pretty interesting (to me, at least).

    The part I find disconcerting is the gear setup they’re using for the “US tour.” There’s not much to it, so I’m not sure what kind of show I’ll be getting at Moogfest later this month :-/

21. pretty cool, fun that they are reconstructing the old songs with new equipment that way, yeah it could be done with less equipment but whatever, great song from the originators no matter what they use to play it

22. I think orbital was NEVER playing actual keyboards and was ALWAYS changing clips and turning knobs during the performance, so what’s the difference?

    1. so they were fakes from the start …bwaaaa
       😉 joking

23. Underwhelming at best.

24. Can anyone make out what synth/drum machine/controller what Phil Hartnoll is using.