Patch days

33:26“Learning your equipment is important. I like to thoroughly learn every aspect of one thing, rather than having loads of gear and relying on presets. I have ‘learning days’, where I dive in with a particular piece of kit or software – I’ll create some patches with, say, the Pro-2, because I spent a lot of money on it, and I wanna get the most out of it, and learn how it works! So I’ll go in and create a bunch of patches, then resample them.”

Paul goes on to explain his methods. “I get great results by smashing things together and combining sounds! The Pro 2 and [Soundtower Pro 2 PlugSE] plugin have a cool feature where you can take the oscillator settings from one preset, and the envelope settings from another, and mould them together to create totally new sounds.”