Expert: Richard D. James - 6/30/2006

Question
What specific instruments does RDJ use in the recent AFX releases?

Answer
Hi,

This is quite a common question to which the answer is not so complete.  It's pretty much impossible to make a full catalogue as he has used a great multitude of hardware and techniques over the years.  These include a large number of well known and not so well known machines aswell as programming his own software to process and create sounds.  However it seems that Wikipedia have made some attempt to discuss a handful of these:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aphex_Twin

...and relating specifically to more recent works:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Analord

Hope that helps a little.