When we think of Aphex Twin tinkering away in his studio, the image that comes to mind is a man surrounded by a towering array of synths, sequencers, samplers and drum machines. But Richard D. James isn't just a hardware obsessive – he's also known to have used some wild, obscure and seriously powerful software.
One such piece of software is Composers' Desktop Project, a vast collection of free and open-source audio processing tools that's been in development since 1986 and is rumoured to have been used on Aphex Twin's 2001 album Drukqs.
