I've used sequencers for playback for Snow Patrol and the Verve - we were using Logic - and they ran fine. The last time they toured they were using Logic and the EXS sampler but they had a few glitches with it. 'After we managed to convince the guys not to take all the old keyboards out we spoke to a few people about Muse Receptors and they told us that they were rock solid. So, we're using those new samples and some plug-ins for our sounds too. So Kerry went back to the original two-inch tapes again and redid all the samples for this tour. 'In the past that meant they relied a lot on samplers: Emulators and the old Emax sampler, but all the samples were too grainy to use again and needed updating. So they wanted the old sound but - of course - wanted it to be rock-solid… But obviously there's loads of problems with the gear: oscillators going out of tune, things breaking down and they've been plagued with trouble in the past with technology going down. For the new record they took those keyboards into the studio and obviously wanted to recreate those sounds. Increasingly over the past few years he's been working on a huge collection.

This was because the record was all recorded with it. PE: 'The original plan for this tour was to take out all Martin 's old analogue synth gear. How long did you spend trying different options, trying to come up with the final set up? Paul Eastman at the helm of The Mode's Radar setup.

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