Chat with a Sound Designer for Roli Seaboard Rise 2 / Equator 2

Last weekend after my gig in Rotterdam I went over to London to chat with Marcus Levy-Chance, one of the sound designers who worked on the Equator 2 preset bank. Marcus makes music under the name "Synthetic Epiphany", and you can check it out on Spotify 👉 https://tinyurl.com/4bb4zu9e 00:00 Intro 01:33 How did you get into designing sounds for Roli? 02:08 Do you ever hear people making music with sounds that you’ve created? 02:33 Sometimes people use the sounds in ways you didn’t expect 03:51 Sound Designing for MPE MIDI is more complicated 07:00 Creating sounds that will be used by lots of people 08:14 Upsides and downsides of really complicated patches 10:30 How complicated synth sounds come through in a band setting 13:13 How does Sam go about crafting sounds to use live? 15:14 How does Sam go about crafting sounds in the context of Lauryn Hill’s band? 16:33 How much is Lauryn Hill involved in the creative process of the band? 17:18 Marcus’s choir patch demo 22:22 Marcus’s work on the Granular Foley sound pack for Equator 2 24:00 Marcus recorded sounds around his house to make this crazy patch 27:56 Is having a lack of limitations overwhelming? If you appreciate my work, please feel free to ▶️ subscribe! 📸 INSTA:   / samgutmankeys   💰 PATREON: https://tinyurl.com/w2sabya2 🎼 TAKE MY COURSES/TAKE LESSONS: modernmusiclearning.com #synth #synthesizer #sounddesign #seaboard