My process for making music is pretty hands-on

Ever since I started making music in the mid 80s, real tangible hardware synthesizers, effects and other such things have been a very important and vital part of it. In the beginning it was completely out of necessity. As I moved on from making music on my Commodore 64 and Amiga computers, software synths wasn’t a thing yet. If you wanted to get serious, you had to buy the real stuff.
Me being in my early 20s and without a job meant I couldn’t afford the things that my synth heroes back then would use. My first piece of hardware was a simple FM synthesizer from Yamaha called FB-01. I made some songs on it but soon came to the conclusion that I wanted something more, preferably something that had drum sounds as well. That turned out the be the Roland D-110. This very 80s sounding module became the major instrument on my first album 64, which I relased myself on CD in 1996.
My studio has grown in size since then and a lot of gear has come and gone over the years. The D-110 was soon upgraded to a Kurzweil K2000. It had a much more powerful sound engine which opened up a whole new world and made my music sound more pro. My second album Karooshi Porn, released in 1999 was mainly created on the Kurzweil, with some help from a Roland System-100, SH-09 and a TR-606 drum machine.
Today I have a pretty large palette of tools to choose from. One of the most recent things added to the studio is a small Eurorack modular system. I used it extensively on my latest album Focus. I really like its limitations. For me limitation equals creativity. The hours disappear fast when you work on it and it has been a source of many ‘happy accidents’. Really inspiring stuff.
Below you find a more or less complete list of all the tools I use to make music these days.
Synths & Drum Machines
Access Virus b
Elektron Sidstation
HYVE Synthesizer
Korg Volca Sample
Korg Wavedrum Mini
Roland SH-09
Roland System 100 Model 101, 102, 104
Teenage Engineering PO-33 KO
TTSH v3 (Arp 2600 Clone)
Waldorf Blofeld

Eurorack
4MS Rotating Clock Divider
Bastl Cinnamon
Bastl Propust
Bastl Skis
Doepfer A138 Mixer
Doepfer A160 Clock Divider
Doepfer A151 Sequential Switch
Doepfer 2 x 180-2 Multiple
Dreadbox Lil Erebus
Erica Synths Pico Drums
Erica Synths Pico Mod
Hexinverter Make Noise Function
Manhattan Analog 2 x CP3
Music Thing Modular Chord Organ
Music Thing Modular Turing Machine
Mutable Instruments Braids
Mutable Instruments CVpal
Pittsburgh Synthesizer Box
Rebel Technology Στοιχεῖα
Sonic Potions Penrose Quantiser
Thonk AT-AT-AT
Tiptop Audio Hats909




Software
Ableton Live 10
Sound Forge 12.6
Expose
Effect plugins
Arturia Rev Plate-140
Celemony Melodyne 4
Eventide Blackhole 3
Eventide Crystals
FabFilter Pro Q2
Izotope Nectar 3 Elements
Izotope Neutron Elements
IZotope Ozone 9
IZotope Ozone Imager
Izotope Vocal Doubler
NoiseAsh Audio Vocal Finalizer
Polyverse Manipulator
Pulsar Smasher
SLOR – Shed Loads of Resonators
Sonivox Vocalizer Pro
Soundspot Halcyon
Soundspot Ravage Lite
Valhalla Delay
Valhall Supermassive
Valhalla Shimmer
Valhalla SpaceModulator
Valhalla VintageVerb
Waves Infected Mushroom Pusher
Waves OneKnob Phatter
Wavesfactory Trackspacer 2.5
Youlean Loudness Meter 2
Zynaptic Intensity
Softsynth plugins
Cherry Audio DCO-106
Cherry Audio Surrealistic MG-1 Plus
Cloudrum APC
IK Multimedia Syntronik
Izotope Iris 2
Klevgrand Jussi
Klevgrand Skaka
Native Instruments Analog Dreams
Newfangled Audio Pendulate
Output Arcade
Output Rev
Spitfire Audio BBC Symphony Orchestra
Spitfire LABS
Spitfire Audio Originals – Felt Piano
Effects
Dual EQP (2 channel Pultec EQ Clone)
Prime 4000E Mixbus Compressor (SSL 4000e Clone)

Other Hardware
Adam A7X studio monitors
AKAI LPK25 keyboard
Arturia Beatstep Pro
Behringer MiniMON
BeyerDynamic DT 770 Pro Headphones
Doepfer Pocket Control
iRig Keys Pro
Game Boy DMG-01 Modded
Gear4Music Heavy Duty Studio Arm Mic Stand
Kenton Pro 2 Dual Channel MIDI to CV Converter
Novation Launchpad
Røde NT 2 Microphone
Speak & Math (Circuit Bended)
SubPac S1
SubZero XLR to USB Signal Converter / Preamp
SubZero Portable Vocal Booth Isolation Ball
Thomann TK-10R Kalimba
Traktor Audio 10 External Sound Card
Yamaha UX 256








Synths & Drum Machines
Access Virus b
Elektron Sidstation
HYVE Synthesizer
Korg Volca Sample
Korg Wavedrum Mini
Roland SH-09
Roland System 100 Model 101, 102, 104
Teenage Engineering PO-33 KO
TTSH v3 (Arp 2600 Clone)
Waldorf Blofeld
Eurorack
4MS Rotating Clock Divider
Bastl Cinnamon
Bastl Propust
Bastl Skis
Doepfer A138 Mixer
Doepfer A160 Clock Divider
Doepfer A151 Sequential Switch
Doepfer 2 x 180-2 Multiple
Dreadbox Lil Erebus
Erica Synths Pico Drums
Erica Synths Pico Mod
Hexinverter Make Noise Function
Manhattan Analog 2 x CP3
Music Thing Modular Chord Organ
Music Thing Modular Turing Machine
Mutable Instruments Braids
Mutable Instruments CVpal
Pittsburgh Synthesizer Box
Rebel Technology Στοιχεῖα
Sonic Potions Penrose Quantiser
Thonk AT-AT-AT
Tiptop Audio Hats909
Software
Ableton Live 10
Sound Forge 12.6
Expose
Effect plugins
Arturia Rev Plate-140
Celemony Melodyne 4
Eventide Blackhole 3
Eventide Crystals
FabFilter Pro Q2
Izotope Nectar 3 Elements
Izotope Neutron Elements
IZotope Ozone 9
IZotope Ozone Imager
Izotope Vocal Doubler
NoiseAsh Audio Vocal Finalizer
Polyverse Manipulator
Pulsar Smasher
SLOR – Shed Loads of Resonators
Sonivox Vocalizer Pro
Soundspot Halcyon
Soundspot Ravage Lite
Valhalla Delay
Valhall Supermassive
Valhalla Shimmer
Valhalla SpaceModulator
Valhalla VintageVerb
Waves Infected Mushroom Pusher
Waves OneKnob Phatter
Wavesfactory Trackspacer 2.5
Youlean Loudness Meter 2
Zynaptic Intensity
Softsynth plugins
Cherry Audio DCO-106
Cherry Audio Surrealistic MG-1 Plus
Cloudrum APC
IK Multimedia Syntronik
Izotope Iris 2
Klevgrand Jussi
Klevgrand Skaka
Native Instruments Analog Dreams
Newfangled Audio Pendulate
Output Arcade
Output Rev
Spitfire Audio BBC Symphony Orchestra
Spitfire LABS
Spitfire Audio Originals – Felt Piano
Effects
Dual EQP (2 channel Pultec EQ Clone)
Prime 4000E Mixbus Compressor (SSL 4000e Clone)
Other Hardware
Adam A7X studio monitors
AKAI LPK25 keyboard
Arturia Beatstep Pro
Behringer MiniMON
BeyerDynamic DT 770 Pro Headphones
Doepfer Pocket Control
iRig Keys Pro
Game Boy DMG-01 Modded
Gear4Music Heavy Duty Studio Arm Mic Stand
Kenton Pro 2 Dual Channel MIDI to CV Converter
Novation Launchpad
Røde NT 2 Microphone
Speak & Math (Circuit Bended)
SubPac S1
SubZero XLR to USB Signal Converter / Preamp
SubZero Portable Vocal Booth Isolation Ball
Thomann TK-10R Kalimba
Traktor Audio 10 External Sound Card
Yamaha UX 256