Rob Swire

All the vintage synths in the Pendulum studio are still in showroom condition, notably this Sequential Prophet 10.

We do a lot of vocoding and talk box. We do it with a physical talk box, with a DX100 sound piped through. It's more difficult than I bargained for, because you have this fucking tube in your mouth and you're trying to say esses and tees and shit. It's like having one of those things that the dentist chucks in your mouth to suck up the spit, except that it's not sucking up the spit!

For pads we usually use the Andromeda or try to layer something with the Prophet. With the Prophet there's a sort of Blade Runner-esque thing you can't really get from anything else. I use a lot of weird little freeware shit. [Krakli Software's] Cygnus is the best thing ever for spacey pads. It's like Absynth but just made for those sort of sounds in the background. If something that looks good comes out I just buy it.

"The thing Judas is most scared of: the "violin" patch on my shitty old Casio PT-10 http://yfrog.com/kk43wgj "

Can be made out on the keyboard stand in the back of the room.

mentioned in this interview: https://www.soundonsound.com/people/pendulum Rob compares it with the software OScar

Can clearly be seen on the keyboard stand in the back of the room, also can be seen in his studio before Immersion was released: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=65RKR7Jtk8M

Rob Swire can be seen using a Sequential Circuits Prophet 600 Synthesizer in the provided image. Although it's partially obscured below the keyboard stand, discussions with synth enthusiasts on Reddit have confirmed its identification.