Gear List & Influences


HARDWARE:

iMac 27” 3.8Ghz 8-Core i7 (running macOS Tahoe), iPad Pro 11", Airturn BT-105 ‘hands free’ sheet music reading system, MOTU 828x interface (with BOSS FS-5L pedal for punching in and out when recording), Samson S-Patch Plus Balanced Patchbay, Korg Kronos 2 88-key Workstation, Korg multi/poly Analogue Modelling Synth (with Editor/Librarian), Komplete Kontrol S49 Mk2, Akai EWI 5000, Black Fender CD-60SCE Dreadnought Electro Acoustic guitar with Xvive U2 Wireless Digital Transmitter/Receiver System, Numark NV DJ Controller, Roland R-26 Portable Recorder with Rycote windjammer, Zoom Q4n Video Recorder, Push 2 controller, Access Virus TI Snow, Moog MOTHER-32 and Theremini, ROCKTRON BANSHEE 2 Talkbox, Art PDB (DI Box), Line 6 MIDI Mobilizer, iRing, Focusrite Scarlett 6i6, Røde NT1A condenser microphone, AKG D68S budget dynamic microphone, ‘Studiospares’ boundary mic, Shure SM57 for recording samples into the Kronos, a selection of ‘novelty’ instruments (including Stagg melodica, Jew’s harp, musical boxes, Didgeridoo, Galotta 26/48 accordion, Kazoo, Kalimba, Tibetan bowl, castanets, harmonica in C, Irish penny whistle and Yamaha soprano/descant recorder), Roland BA-330 Portable PA Speaker with ST-A95 Speaker Stand, Sennheiser HD 25 LIGHT cans, Yamaha HS50M monitors (pair) and Logitech speakers for alternative sound playback checking. I also have a heavy duty flight case for the KORG Kronos 2, a Dell second monitor and a SABRENT powered USB hub. Most of this fits on a Quiklok Z555 desk with rackmount for my interface, Samson Patchbay and an Adam Hall LED rack light - otherwise, items are in storage (some in TROJAN PRO GIG BAGS from Studiospares…).

SOFTWARE:

Logic Pro, Ableton Live Suite, LUNA, Pro Tools Intro, Sibelius, Serato DJ Pro, forScore (all latest versions where possible). 

Plug-in FX (& midi effects)

accusonus (ERA 4 Voice Leveler), Acon Digital (Multiply 2), AIR Music Technology (AIR Tape Double Track, Jura Chorus, Multiband Filterbank), Arturia (Chorus JUN-6, Delay TAPE-201, Efx REFRACT, Filter MINI, Filter MS-20, Rev PLATE-140, Tape MELLO-FI), Audiority (Deleight, Distortion 1), Audiomodern (Freezr), AudioThing (Filterjam, Valve Exciter, Valve Filter VF-1), Baby Audio (Comeback Kid, Humanoid, IHNY-2, Magic Dice, Magic Switch, Pitch Drift, Super VHS, Transit 2, Warp), Black Rooster Audio (Magnetite), BLEASS (Vox), Blue Cat Audio (Chorus 4, Flanger 3, FreqAnalyst 2, Gain 3, Phaser 3, Triple EQ 4), Cableguys (HalfTime, PanCake 2, ShaperBox 3), Caelum Audio (Flux Mini 2), Camel Audio (CamelCrusher, CamelSpace), D16 Group Audio Software (Frontier, Sigmund, Syntorus), Dear Reality (Exoverb MICRO), Devious Machines (Infiltrator 2), Diginoiz (Distiller), Eventide (2016 Stereo Room, Blackhole, UltraChannel), Excite Audio (Lifeline Console, LL Comp Module/EQ Module/Mod Module/Pre Module/Wear Module, Motion Harmonic), Exponential Audio (Stratus), FabFilter (FabFilter Pro-Q 4), Flux (BitterSweet, MiRA-SampleGrabber, StereoTool), Focusrite (Balancer, FAST - Balancer, Compressor, Equaliser, Limiter, Reveal, Verb, Midnight Compressor, Midnight EQ, Red 2 EQ, Red 3 Compressor, Scarlett Compressor, Scarlett Equaliser, Scarlett Gate, Scarlett Reverb), Fuse Audio Labs (VPRE-72 Vintage Tube Preamp, VREV-666 Spring Reverb, RS-W2935C Neo Classic Baxandall EQ), FXpansion (DCAM Free Comp, Spitter), Glitchmachines (Fracture), Harrison Audio (Harrison 32Classic Channel Strip, Harrison FasTrack, Harrison Mastering EQ, Harrison Lookahead Compressor), Heavyocity (MicroFX Refiner), Impulse Record (Convology XT), iZotope (Insight 2, iZotope DDLY Dynamic Delay, iZotope Trash 2, Neutron 5 Elements, Ozone 11 Equalizer, Ozone 12 Elements, Ozone Imager 2, Relay, Stutter Edit 2, Vinyl, Vocal Doubler), Klanghelm (DC1A2, IVGI), Klevgrand (Degrader, FreeAMP, Richter, Svep), Mastering the Mix (REF SEND, REFERENCE 3), MeldaProduction (MReverbMB, MSpectralDelay, MTurboDelay, MFreeFXBundle), Minimal Audio (Formant), Moog (Animoog Z Effect, MF-102S RingMod, MF-103S Phaser, MF-108S ClusterFlux, Model 15 AudioBridge Insert + Trunk), Native Instruments (Absynth 6 MFX, Driver, Guitar Rig 7 FX + MFX, Phasis, Raum, Reaktor 6 MFX + MIDIFX, Replika, Solid Bus Comp, Supercharger), Newfangled Audio (Newfangled EQuivocate), NUGEN Audio (NG-EL Monofilter, NG-EL Stereoizer), Ohm Force (Frohmage, Fromager, Hematohm, Mobilohm, OhmBoyz, Ohmicide, Ohmygod, Predatohm, QuadFrohmage), Plug-in Alliance (cleansweep V2, enhancer, solo, elysia niveau filter, SPL Free Ranger), PositiveGrid (BIAS AMP 2, BIAS FX), Plugin Boutique (DriveMod), Puremagnetik (Fathoms, Gales, Hewn, Klamur, MimikOD, Pastfabric, Permute, Quazotron, Replicas, Sage, Tensol), Reason Studios (Reason Rack Plug-in Effect), Rhodes (V-Pan, V-Rack), Rob Papen (RP-AMod), Safari Audio (Gorilla Drive, Time Machine), Scaler Music (Scaler 3, Scaler Detector), Sinevibes (Atom, Zap), Sixth Sample (Deelay), Softube (Modular FX, Saturator Knob), sonnible (learn - Comp, EQ, Limit, Reverb, Unmask, pufferfish), Sonnox (ListenHub, Soften, Inflator), Sound Radix (Muteomatic, SurferEQ Boogie), SoundGhost (Texturize), Soundspot (Nebula), Soundtoys (Little - AlterBoy, Plate, PhaseMistress, SpaceBlender, Tremolator), SSL (G3 MultiBusComp,  Channel Strip 2, FlexVerb, Vocalstrip 2, X-Comp v6, X-Saturator v6, X-Orcism 2), Stagecraft Software (AutoFilter, BitCrusher, Delay, FlowFilter, LaunchCraft, RingMod, XFade), Synchro Arts (RePitch Elements), TAL-Togu Audio Line (TAL Chorus LX Plug-in), Tdrl (TDR Feedback Compressor II, TDRFeedbackCompressorIIMono), Tokyo Dawn Labs (TDR Kotelnikov), Tritik (Krush, Tymee), UJAM (MICRO, NEO, RETRO, DELAY), UnitedPlugins (Transmutator, VoxDucker), Universal Audio (1176 FET Compressor, 610-A Preamp and EQ,  610-B Preamp and EQ, Brigade Chorus, Century Tube Channel Strip, Galaxy Tape Echo, LA-2A Tube Compressor, LA-3A Compressor, Lexicon 224 Digital Reverb, Pure Plate Reverb, Showtime 64 Tube Amp, Studio D Chorus, Vibe Analog Machines Essen,  Waterfall Rotary Speaker), UVI (Tape Suite - Delay, Flanger, Chorus, Colour), Venomode (DeeQ, Maximal 2, Pivot), Vladislav Goncharov (Limiter No6), Voxengo (SPAN), VSL (Synchron Stage Reverb SO), Waldorf (D-Pole), W.A. Production (Ignition), Wave Alchemy (Magic7), Wave Arts (Panorama 7), Woodstock Audio (Waveform Compressor), Xfer Records (SerumFX), zerodebug (audiomux effect), Zynaptiq (ORANGE VOCODER NANO).

PLUG-IN INSTRUMENTS

accusonus (Regroover Essential), AIR Music Technology (DrumSynth, Hybrid 3, Jura, OPx-4), Akai Professional (MPC Beats), Applied Acoustics Systems (AAS Player, Lounge Lizard Session 4, Strum Session 2, Ultra Analog Session 2),  Audiomodern (Loopmix), AudioSpillage (MiniSpillage), AudioThing (SR-88), AURA Plug-ins (3rd Party ‘Access Virus Editor’ for TI SNOW), Baby Audio (Surrealistic MG-1 Plus Synthesizer), BEATSURFING (RANDOM), BFD Drums (BFD Player), Brain Contorl (tunefish4), D16 Group Audio Software (Nithonat), EastWest Sounds (Symphonic Orchestra Platinum), Excite Audio (Bloom - Bass Groove, Drum Machine, Evolve Alloy), Full Bucket Music (Deputy, FB-3100, FB-3200, FB-3300, Kern, Nabla, Stigma), FutureAudioWorkshop (SubLab), GForce (Axxess, Bass Station, Prophet-5, TVS Pro), Green Oak Software (Crystal), Klevgrand (Baervaag, SantaJussi, SyndtSphere), Korg (multi/poly Native), LennarDigital (Sylenth1), Lethal Audio (Lethal), LinPlug (FreeAlpha), Martinic (Combo Model F), MOK (Miniraze), Moog (Animoog Z, Mariana, Model 15, Model D), Native Instruments (Absynth 6, Komplete Kontrol, Kontakt 8, Massive, Massive X, Reaktor 6), Ohm Force (Symptohm, SymptohmPE), Plogue Art et Technologie (sforzando), Plugin Alliance (DS Thorn, Knif Audio Knifonium), Puremagnetik (Verv), Reason Studios (Reason Rack), Reveal Sound (Spire), Rob Papen (Attention, BlueIII, Go2-X, Prisma), Roland Cloud (D-50), Scaler Music (Scaler 3), Serato (Serato Sample), Softube (Modular), Sound Quest (Korg Kronos v3.1 ‘Editor’), Soundslates Ltd. (Capsule), Steinberg (Backbone, HALion Sonic - LoFi Piano, X-STREAM), Surge Synth Team (Surge XT), Thenatan (Tawus), u-he (Diva, Podolski, TripleCheese), UJAM (CARBON, ROYAL2, ROWDY2, EDEN, VICE, ONE, USYNTH - STRANGER & 2080, IRON2, SPARKLE2), Universal Audio (PolyMAX Synth), UVI (UVIWorkstation - SYNTH ANTHOLOGY 5), Waldorf (PPG Wave 2.V), Wave Alchemy (Triaz), Xfer Records (Serum), XLN Audio (Addictive Keys), zerodebug (audiomux generator), zplane (vielklang2).

PLUG-IN COLLECTIONS 

Arturia V Collection 5, IK Multimedia (TONEX CS, T-RackS 6, Syntronik 2 CS, SampleTank 4 CS, MODO DRUM CS, MODO BASS CS, MixBox CS, Custom Shop, AmpliTube CS), Korg Collection 6, KV331 Audio Everything Bundle, Logic/Apple Built-in Plug-ins, MiRA SampleGrabber + MiRA Audio Analysis Tools, Mixed In Key (Audio + MIDI for remote collaboration), Waves Creative Access (Ultimate Subscription).

 
As you can see, I have a lot of plug-ins, some of which use AI technology, and I mainly make music ‘in the box’!

I also love listening to and have the following as some of my influences: Dance/Progressive Trance/Electronica, 'Classical Music' (anything from Monteverdi to John Williams) and Rock/Alternative music.