Photo by Zakriya Bashir-Hill
To purchase my preset packs for SURGE, VITAL, MONOLIT, ALPHA, and SYNTH ONE, or to download my apps, Practice Pal and TOSCEWI, or my Max for Live devices, please click here.
I love synthesizers! My fascination with digital wind instruments goes back over a decade. Recently, I’ve been particularly interested in integrating these instruments with software like Ableton, MainStage, and Max/MSP. Not one to be limited by hardware, I’m perhaps best known for my janky, (yet effective) modifications to the EWI 5000, to which I added an LPD8 and a Wii Remote to facilitate greater expressive control over my sounds and FX in a live setting. These days, I mostly play the NuRAD, a beautiful MIDI controller created by Berglund Instruments, although I’m also a fan of the EWI 4000s and the Robkoo Clarii PRO C20.
Gear:
Hardware:
Berglund Instruments NuRAD
Robkoo Clarii PRO C20
Akai EWI 5000
Akai EWI 4000s
Yamaha WX5
Software:
Ableton Live 12
Max/MSP
MainStage 3
Sounds:
Too many to list! Click here for a comprehensive list of my favourite softsynths for digital wind instruments.
Check out my YouTube channel for some videos of my playing.
Photo by Alastair Pollock