Chat with a Sound Designer for Roli Seaboard Rise 2 / Equator 2

Last weekend after my gig in Rotterdam I went over to London to chat with Marcus Levy-Chance, one of the sound designers who worked on the Equator 2 preset bank. Marcus makes music under the name "Synthetic Epiphany", and you can check it out on Spotify 👉 https://tinyurl.com/4bb4zu9e

00:00 Intro
01:33 How did you get into designing sounds for Roli?
02:08 Do you ever hear people making music with sounds that you’ve created?
02:33 Sometimes people use the sounds in ways you didn’t expect
03:51 Sound Designing for MPE MIDI is more complicated
07:00 Creating sounds that will be used by lots of people
08:14 Upsides and downsides of really complicated patches
10:30 How complicated synth sounds come through in a band setting
13:13 How does Sam go about crafting sounds to use live?
15:14 How does Sam go about crafting sounds in the context of Lauryn Hill’s band?
16:33 How much is Lauryn Hill involved in the creative process of the band?
17:18 Marcus’s choir patch demo
22:22 Marcus’s work on the Granular Foley sound pack for Equator 2
24:00 Marcus recorded sounds around his house to make this crazy patch
27:56 Is having a lack of limitations overwhelming?


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