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 This page details all the music instruments and technical equipment I use and have used to produce my music.

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Sampling
Akai S5000 with onboard EFX and USB
Synthesizers and Keyboards
Access Virus TI synthesizer
Roland XV 5080
Korg Z1 Multioscillator synthesizer
Roland JV1080 synth module
Korg 01/W Workstation
Novation bass station - rack
Roland Juno 106
Moog Prodigy
Computer Equipment
Rack PC / Steinberg Cubase SX
Atari 1040STe
M-audio Delta 66
Opcode Midi translator PC
Drum Machines
Yamaha RY30
Alesis SR-16B
Sound Gear
Blue Sky Prodesk monitors
Behringer 2804A console
Behringer MDX2200 compressor
Digitech Studio V2 Quad
Alesis Midiverb IV
Sony JB 920 minidisk recorder
Home-built monitors

Old Stuff
Home-built Free Rez
Casio VZ10-M

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All my music is produced in my home studio which has evolved over the past 20 years from a Technics electric piano and a Casio CZ101, then a Yamaha PSS790 portable keyboard (first item I bought myself) to the equipment above. 

The Mixer Central to operations is a Behringer 28 channel rack mount console which I am very happy with due to its flexibility and low noise. This replaced a home-built 14 channel mixing console which used to add its own sound to many of my tracks! 

The latest addition is a Juno 106. My first bit of analogue kit with midi, its already inspired a couple of tracks. The XV 5080 is bedding in well, finally taking over from the old 1080. I still heavily use the Access Virus TI (Total integration) synth. This beast is totally full of really lovely usable sounds. There are knobs and controls everywhere and a nicely pulsating set of LEDs on the front :) The TI means it can integrate with the DAW on USB, looking like a VSTi in Cubase or whatever. Very powerful.

The Korg Z1
I love my Z1 she produces such lovely sounds which are rich and powerful and can be varied in so many ways in real time. I tend to use her mainy for leads and basses and almost always record the parts to audio on VST for playback allowing me to use the full FX designated with the presets. This would not be necessary with Trinity. I also use the Z1 as a controller keyboard. 

The Korg 01/W The Korg 01/W was the first 'professional' piece of eqipment I used and though it was very infuential in my early music, is these days hardly used. 

The Roland XV5080 The JV1080 was used mostly as a 'bread and butter' machine with the Techno and house cards being essential additions. Now she is all but retired and replaced with the XV5080. I have expanded mine with the techno collection, the hip hop collection the house collection and the world SRX board giving a massive and widely varying library of dance related sounds. Lovely :) 

The Novation Bass Station Bought at the same time as the JV1080 is now rarely used. The Bass station marked a turning point for my music. For years I had struggled trying to produce analogue sounds using digital synths, including the Casio CZ101, VZ10M and I even built my own analogue filter and suddenly I could control all the sound parameters by MIDI! The Novation has added it's characteristic sound to many of my songs - no surprise there. Now however, the resonant filter on the Juno is proving too hard to resist LOL :D

The Moog Prodigy What can I say. I love the Moog. I love the Moog. no really, I don't need councelling. Who doesn't love a Moog. Since I first heard that Bass I was hooked. The only issue is the lack of external controllers. I'm considering a midi retrofit for her... :)


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