Aphex Twin

In the comments, Aphex Twin wrote about Drukqs: "mostly written in Playerpro for the mac, my fave tracker, wish it would be brought back, had some amazing features and i helped code a bunch of top dsp fx for it"

This is also shown in a Vimeo video, where it is one of the DAWs that plays a beatless version of Vordhosbn from Drukqs: https://vimeo.com/223378825

Aphex Twin is listed on U&I Software's site as a user of MetaSynth. "Richard James' use of MetaSynth on his classic Window Licker helped put MetaSynth on the map."

Aphex Twin Tweets about the MTS-ESP Suite he developed in collaboration with ODDSOUND:

Dynamic microtuning system for DAWs.

On Richard David James's SoundCloud account named "user18081971", he mentions the use of NI's Traktor on the comments: "also loads of you interested in the setup..running a few progs, Traktor/msp and eurorack modular..dont often use Traktor but its ok but pisses me off it doesn’t do multiple bpms per track, come on NI get with the ‘programme’ will put a modular grid config up to shut you all up :)"

On this page, it is possible to see some of Richard David James's comments on his own SoundCloud account. On one of them, he says: "listening to this reminds me I should release all the patches I made in Supercollider to make a lot of the sounds in this, It was Supercollider 1 though, old school."

Aphex Twin is listed as an artist who uses Tone2 ElectraX on the official website.

On Richard David James's SoundCloud account named "user18081971", he mentions the use of MSP on the comments: "also loads of you interested in the setup..running a few progs, Traktor/msp and eurorack modular..dont often use Traktor but its ok but pisses me off it doesn’t do multiple bpms per track, come on NI get with the ‘programme’ will put a modular grid config up to shut you all up :)"

In this Youtube video by Ben Jordan, posted May 26, 2024, Ben shares that Composers Desktop Project was used in the creation of Bucephalus Bouncing Ball 8:16.

I assumed this was speculation, until Ben clarifies at 17:57 the info in this video was based on direct conversation with Richard James.

It is very plausible that someone of Ben's stature and career-depth would have access to Richard like this. Additionally, lying about such things would be career su1c1de, while the upside is minimal -- so it just wouldn't make any sense for someone in this position to fabricate. Ben is just as trustworthy in 2024, if not more so, than the traditional media outlets that get the automatic green light here on Equipboard all day long.

Per a quote from developer Then Try This' own site, Richard James (aka Aphex Twin) commissioned the creation of this software for his own ends, then opted to let the rest of the world have a try:

"This idea came about a long time ago, not sure exactly when, 2002 ish but when mp3's started to become a thing, when for the first time there were a ton of them sitting on my hard drive and the brilliant Shazam had recently launched. Started thinking hmm all this music sitting there, maybe it can be used for something else other than just playing or dj'ing [hi Atomixmp3 & rudimentary max/msp patches] I had originally contacted the founders of Shazam to discuss further creative uses of their genius idea but they were busy making an automatic dj program, I still think Shazam could be re-purposed for something incredible but in the meantime we have Samplebrain. What if you could reconstruct source audio from a selection of other mp3's/audio on your computer? What if you could build a 303 riff from only a cappella's or bubbling mud sounds? What if you could sing a silly tune and rebuild it from classical music files? You can do this with Samplebrain. We soon realised after Dave had started to get things going that with a few cheaty sliders you could actually re-make anything from just one source file, so the options are all there to play with. Since funding this project I seemed to have found very little time to explore it properly and the time has now come to let you lot have a fiddle with it too." -Richard James.

In this Youtube video by Ben Jordan, posted May 26, 2004, Ben shares that Richard James (aka Aphex Twin) has used Praat: doing phonetics by computer (yes that really seems to be the application's full name) in the past 18:44. No specific song, album or era is mentioned, but praat has been around since at least 1995.

I assumed this was speculation, until Ben clarifies at 17:57 the info in this video was based on direct conversation with Richard James.

It is very plausible that someone of Ben's stature and career-depth would have access to Richard like this. Additionally, lying about such things would be career su1c1de, while the upside is minimal -- so it just wouldn't make any sense for someone in this position to fabricate. Ben is just as trustworthy in 2024, if not more so, than the traditional media outlets that get the automatic green light here on Equipboard all day long.