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12 mentions in 7 episodes.

A. G. Cook

1:34:59 · DX7 V · named · high confidence
“It's the Arturia DX7 plugin they do, and I'm layering it with Razor, which is a Reaktor plugin.”
The Arturia DX7 emulation layered with Razor forms Lucifer's main chord/bass stem, printed from the 2019 session.
1:41:33 · Vocoder V · named · high confidence
“Except this time it's on an Arturia sort of vocoder, the Vocoder V, which you can also just use as a synth.”
An Arturia Vocoder V preset carries the counter-melody in Lucifer's outro as a deliberately messy contrast.
1:47:48 · DX7 V · named · high confidence
“You've got this old Arturia DX7 from the first demo with the Razor bass from the first demo.”
Walking through Lucifer's stems, the Arturia DX7 and Razor are named as the bottom layers of the second chorus.

Barry Cant Swim

24:59 · Mini V · named · medium confidence
“It's like a Reese bass or something... it's just a preset on this Mini V, it's just called the bass you'll use”
The sustained Reese-style bass layer in Still Riding is a preset on Arturia's Mini V with automated cutoff and sidechaining (transcribed as 'Mini 5').
1:51:41 · BeatStep Pro · named · high confidence
“The Arturia Beatstep Pro... plug it in, open an Ableton drum rack, press the drum button and you immediately have a drum machine with a sequencer”
O'Flynn recommends the BeatStep Pro to new producers, and used it to teach five-year-olds beat sequencing with Ableton drum racks.
1:54:15 · Prophet V · named · high confidence
“I've got hardware synths, I've got a Prophet, but I've got the Arturia Prophet, the VST version. I use that”
Despite owning hardware, he defaults to Arturia's software Prophet for synth parts to stay in the flow.

Bonobo

14:45 · Oberheim Xpander emulation plugin · named · medium confidence
“That was actually an Arturia version of an OB... there's an OB Xpander and then there's an OB-8.”
The main synth stab in Xpander was played on a software Oberheim emulation he attributes to Arturia.

Djo

34:39 · Arturia East Piano patch · named · high confidence
“There's this, uh, patch on Arturia called the East Piano… this thing was all over the last one.”
An Arturia 'East Piano' patch carried over from Decide and reappears on The Crux as a deliberate cohesion device.

Four Tet

23:14 · DrumBrute · named · high confidence
“it's like a TR-8, Roland TR-8, and a DrumBrute, like 2 drum machines sort of hooked together”
Arturia DrumBrute was recorded alongside the TR-8 to make the sampled beat used in Daydream Repeat; he keeps such recordings as loops on his laptop.
1:19:05 · DrumBrute · named · medium confidence
“I found this beat that I'd made, I think on the DrumBrute, on this little drum machine. And I put that in”
A previously recorded DrumBrute pattern (sped up from 128 BPM) provides the main groove and fills of Looking at Your Pager.

Holly Humberstone

1:01:52 · DX7 V · named · medium confidence
“That's accompanied by two other on the Arturia DX7... I labeled one of them DX7 Stupid. It's a sort of documentary marimba sound.”
Arturia's DX7 emulation provides the marimba-ish and savage lead patches layered in 'Cruel World'.

RDS

7:22 · Mini V · named · high confidence
“It was like having a simple bass, like on a Mini V or something, on a session, a looped beat or a hi-hat”
Tyrone used Arturia's Mini V as the simple bass sound he jammed vocal ideas over when writing alone.