What was inside the Daft Punk Alive 2007 Pyramid?

A look into Daft Punk's Pyramid used for their Alive 2007 show, talking a look at their live setup, including their gear, visuals, the Pyramid itself, and what ran the whole thing.

PROOF THEY DON'T USE JAZZMUTANT LEMURS:
As identified by @zzyzx13 and @slinkytrips, these are the units the monitors displaying Ableton are connected to:

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Deadmau5's OSC Software based off the Lemurs:

Tracks used in this video:
Daft Punk - Robot Rock / Oh Yeah:
Daft Punk - Steam Machine x Around The World x Harder, Better, Faster, Stronger (LeBlanc Remake)
Daft Punk - Too Long / Steam Machine:

0:00 Intro
0:42 A comment on the upscaled recordings
1:18 A look into behind the scenes
1:35 Controlling Ableton Live with the Behringer BCR2000s
2:00 The Minimoog Voyagers
2:34 Don't they use Jazzmutant Lemurs?
3:47 2008 Grammys with Kanye West
4:24 Deadmau5's software based on the Lemurs
4:43 Visuals
5:18 The Pyramid itself + early design concepts
6:17 Outro

[slinkytrips]

The pieces in the rack referred to in this video as the computers are "Gefen CAT5-1000 KVM Extenders" no doubt this is what Thomas is referring to as the points for remote access to the "super computers" backstage. In the shots with ableton on the screens both look identical so I would guess they are using 2 identical systems with one run as the backup. I can't seem to find the monitors so I can't be sure they are just standard VGA sceens or if they are also touch screens.

[jaredbohannon]

I worked for Daft Punk/ Daft Arts in summer of 2007 helping gear up for North American tour. Their hq was in Los Angeles and I was hired by way of good reference who was a rigger on the tour. He also knew I was a huge Daft Punk fan. I basically worked as a runner for the tour managers / Guy & Thomas. A lot of my day trips while working with them included picking up and taking gear synths, controllers, etc to repair shops. Picking up sample pieces from Dior (If memory serves me- that’s who made their black leather tour costumes) and driving multiple trips getting their stage helmets and costumes electronics repaired. My first trip driving the gear, I just remember being in traffic on the 405 blasting Rollin & Scratchin and looking in the back seat with Guy and Thomas’ helmets and suits just sitting there. Was a surreal moment. One day I also helped move in some lightning and rigging to the sound stage they were working in. There, I assisted with building the stage setup. Stood in the pyramid. After it was complete I hung back with the lighting crew and they were going through the entire set from playback working on lighting cues, etc. Was the pinnacle of my life at that point. Was a 22 year old young man at the time!

[dafunken]

Saw them in Amsterdam in 2007. The only downside of the show was that it was so mindblowingly incredible that I didn’t feel like seeing any other live act for at least a year.

The encore alone was the best thing I’d ever experienced in live music (still is), and the entire show as an audiovisual whole was simply unparalleled and genuinely unforgettable.

[SpiritNode]

My first ever "BIG" concert / live show. It was 18+ and I had just turned 18 a few months prior. Lucky! Saw them in Brisbane, Australia. It was Summer '07-- hot, humid, and an absolute sweatbox. People who missed out on tickets had arrived early looking to score, asking those in the queue if they wanted $500+ for their ticket. They struggled. By then, videos had surfaced online from other shows earlier in the tour, and everyone knew how valuable a ticket to see Daft Punk live was. Priceless! I stayed up to midnight to buy tickets and they sold out in 5 minutes! Second-to-last show of their tour and they absolutely smashed it. Both audio and visuals were flawless. I couldn't believe that after a significant world tour they still had the energy to bang out this show. It was total euphoria from start to finish. Lots of tears in the crowd after. Everyone was on a perfect high, pure exhilaration and joy, and much hope for the future. Nothing else like it before or since, and it cannot be overstated how much this tour shaped live electronic music. All the big audio-visual electronic live shows you see today are rooted in what Daft Punk gave the world on the Alive 2007 tour. Once-in-a-lifetime experience.

[themattylee]

Drove from Utah to LA to catch this show with my friend. Still the best show of my life, all these years later.

[Zero_Gravitas]

The lemur was special at the time because almost every other touch screen tech was single-touch only, they would wig out if you used two fingers and trigger a spot in between and generally just act like a computer mouse. The lemur was one of the few devices that had multi-touch capabilities, that and the Microsoft Surface, which at the time was a table with a projection screen in it that used an IR camera to see where your fingers were touching.

[wingoshack]

A buddy dragged me reluctantly to the 2007 show at the Forum in Los Angeles, and it ended up being one of the greatest experiences of my life. Aside from the amazing sound and mindblowing visuals, the energy of the crowd was incredible. It was the greatest non-stop dance party of all time and everyone around me was absolutely having the time of their lives. Just pure joy.

[michaelmerideth]

Saw that tour at Red Rocks amphitheater in Colorado. Absolutely epic, I will never forget it. Amazing that all that gear produced such a seamless show.

[michaelmoneytv]

I literally snuck into this show 🤣in 2007 at Sam Boyd in Las Vegas I hoped the backstage fence with 1 other friend and we literally got to meet daft punk for 2 seconds as they went on stage they were high fiving people as they walked up the stage ramp it was a surreal moment and then I went with the press people in front area where all photographers guys were taking photos and got to watch the show from there I have some videos and photos of it taken on my old school blackberry phone haha I didn't know was even going to be so epic at the time my little 16 year old brain was totally blown away!

[cedricjoshuapayne]

I was at Coachella which was the first show with the pyramid. It was the best live show I've ever seen. They had professional camera guys filming the entire show. I wonder if the entire footage will ever be released. Alive 2007 album is different than what was played a slight bit. The first thing they played was the melody from Close Encounters Of The Third Kind. Kind of like the aliens were here and going to communicate with us humans.

[martylaw]

I saw Alive in 2007 in Sydney....by far the best show I have ever been to. Best music, sound, programming, lighting....was just impeccable

[wapbamboogie]

I was at the show that’s in the video, 02 Wireless in London. I couldn’t believe they’d go so “all in” for a festival performance, it felt like a Daft Punk show with a long list of support acts. An incredible experience.

[Pikminiman]

Thanks for the breakdown. I attended their performance at Vegoose Festival in Las Vegas, Nevada. I'll never forget how trippy it was to see the Robots become luminescent outlines for the encore.

[kramitman]

I saw the first pyramid show at Coachella. Everyone that was there to see It that first night, knew electronic shows will forever be changed. I've seen many concerts in my 52 years, that one will always be remembered as one of those that made a significant change on how shows, moving forward, are to me made. Truly and epic night.

[isaac.anthony]

I saw them at Even Further 1996 in Wisconsin. Way before they started wearing the helmets, Thomas and Guy headlined a 2000 person festival and were by far the best act for the whole weekend, everyone was blown away by how good they were, even when they "just started" Also, they were using a 909, a pair of 303's an Akai Sampler, not sure which model, Mackie mixer and a bunch of efx pedals. Was amazing!

[ArkticUK]

I was there at the 2007 show in Hyde Park London. Absolutely the best musical experience of my life - I've never felt such a sense of the entire crowd being "as one" and totally on the same wavelength. The best vibe and feeling I've ever had at any festival or rave. My mate and I had been absolutely rinsing the bootleg recording of their coachella set from the year before, but the new moments and tricks they added to the 2007 tour, especially the Human After All / Together encore absolutely blew us away. Great to see some more detail on the inside of the pyramid!

[Vitamindevo]

I saw the Alive tour stop in 2007 at Coney Island, Brooklyn NYC. It was insane! It blew my mind on all levels and my mind was swimming with ideas. It was the first time I saw an artist totally rip apart all of their songs and basically do every single track as a match up of their tracks into a totally live and wild remix show. So amazing!

[karlbyrne]

I saw them at Oxegen in Ireland in 2007. I didn't know them very well at the time. I knew a few of their music videos from MTV.
By the end of the set I was hooked on them. Couldn't get enough. It was a life changing gig. It's still up there with some of the best that I've seen

[TonyTigger-br]

I was there in 2007 and it was the best time of my life! Not just for that concert, but 2007 was a great year and there's a reason why people remember 2007 as a great year.

[Duckhole]

I was there in 2007, it was absolutely euphoric.