Paul 'Wix' Wickens

"I also have a Korg Kronos at the back as a spare, in case my rig goes down. I’ve been through the show song by song and I’ve got something from the internal Kronos sounds that I can substitute. I can’t recreate my rig exactly because it took 28 years to develop!"

I had an Akai weighted motherboard on the bottom, and then a Roland A-50 I think, which was a non-weighted controller. I had two controllers that didn’t make a noise going into a Roland U-110 module. I also had a Roland S-770 sampler because I liked the sonics of it, as well as a few other modules.

Wickens at the the Fred Walecki Benefit Concert on August 8, 2000.

In this live performance video, at 50:52, Paul can be seen playing an Allodi Accordion.

"I have an old Yamaha Motif 7. I do use a couple sounds out of that still, but mainly that’s a controller."

"And I’ve got a Kurzweil PC2 that I use sounds out of and as a controller as well."

Wickens at the the Fred Walecki Benefit Concert on August 8, 2000.

"I’ve also got a little Novation that I do some of the analog sounds on, as well as an old [E-Mu] Proteus Ultra. The thing about that is that has another sonic signature. You’re mixing strings out of that with your samples, and the samples I’m using are not streaming. They’re out of the S5000, so I use them as a base and I add to them with other cards. And for me, it’s the combination rather than one thing trying to do it that makes the difference. In the studio, if you’re trying to recreate an orchestra, it’s fine. But we’re making big pictures. Some of the finesse that you would put in the studio you’re not going to hear. People want to hear the signature sound playing a signature part."