GEAR


Superluminal Pachyderm uses the following gear:

Software

LMMS digital audio workstation (studio album 9, 2019-)
Making Waves Digital Sound Sequencer (studio albums 1-8, 1999-2017)
GoldWave sound editor
Audacity sound editor
Native Instruments Guitar Rig 5
MinimogueVA software synth
GForce Virtual String Machine software synth
Various VST plugins
Cakewalk Guitar Tracks (obsolete; no longer use but was used on earlier albums)
Cakewalk Home Studio (haven't used since Sea of Peas)
VAZ Modular (rarely used)
Miriam Vocaloid (haven't used since Sea of Peas)

Hardware

ASUS CG5270 PC with an Intel Core 2 Quad CPU processor and 8 GB RAM running Windows 64-bit Vista Home Premium
         ---see, any standard PC these days can handle music composition activities
Earlier albums used PCs ranging from 80486 to AMD Athlon processors

Instruments and other gear

EMG Select electric guitar
Yamaha PortaSound PSS-450 keyboard
Audio-Technica ATR 20 cardioid microphone (used on albums from 2005-2016)
Samson Meteor Mic (used on albums from 2018 to present)
Occasional household items like paper towel cardboard tubes and soda cans

Samples

Superluminal Pachyderm uses royalty-free samples from Computer MusicFuture Music, and Music Tech magazines.
Additional samples of vintage synthesizers and keyboards are from Hollow Sun.