Neil Arthur

“In around 1983 or 84 when I bought a BBC B computer and a sequencer called a UMI, developed in part by Lynton Naiff, who I’d first met when he scored the orchestral parts for the song Waves that was on our first album.”

The SR-88 is pictured and discussed in this interview with Neil.

The TR808 is pictured and discussed in this interview and kit list with Neil.

The Korg NanoKey2 is pictured and discussed in this interview with Neil.

Novation Launchpad S is pictured and discussed in this interview with Neil.

Neil says in this interview that both he and Stephen Luscombe programmed the Linndrum for the album "Happy Families."

“As a limited-ability musician, it’s enabled me to get ideas down relatively quickly. That said, they’ve driven me mad over the three or four decades I’ve tried to use them. They are always right. Initially with the UMI, it was all step-time inputting.

"Eventually I moved on to an Atari with the E-magic Notator. Then the early Logic programs on PC, integrating it with the Soundscape digital recorder, which was fab for film work. Then later and up until now I’ve used a Mac with Logic Pro and Ableton.”

"Back to the studio, a glorified word for my space. I use third-party plugins, Gforce’s Oddity 2 being my favourite. I have a few external synths, an MPC, a Joe Meek Q3 that I put my vocals through, a few mics - oh and a load of backup hard drives.”