Chris RandallInterview
Musician, co-founder of Audio Damage
Adapted from Chris Randall's interview on Uses This, published 3 July 2020. The kit is drawn from their answers and each reason is an excerpt, lightly edited. Shared under CC BY-SA 4.0. Read the full interview ↗
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The other main electronic instrument I use is the Akai Force.
My main MIDI controller is a full-sized LinnStrument.
The other Dante I/O I always have hooked up is a Yamaha Tio1608-D.
I use the big iPad Pro for ambient music experiments (mostly for my Instagram feed), in addition to it being my main development unit.
For audio I/O on the iPad, I use a SoundDevices MixPre-10M, but I am very unhappy with this.
Coding & Development
On the Mac, I use Xcode, of course.
Design
Media
As far as plugins go, I have hundreds (thousands?) from years of NFR trades, but I usually only have installed Audio Damage (for obvious reasons), Valhalla DSP, Unfiltered Audio, Newfangled Audio, and SoundToys.
Other
My hobbies include mild adventure travel (the preferred nomenclature these days is "overlanding"), extreme desert botany, hating on macOS Catalina, and making contemporary abstract art (both electronically and "analog" with paint and whatnot.)
I do our Linux builds on a dedicated Dell laptop running Ubuntu 18.