When I decided to switch from bass guitar to percussion in 1996, one of the main reasons was my fascination with timbre. The same fascination had led me to experiment with synthesizers in the mid-1980s as a supplement to my bass guitar. My first synth in those days was the duophonic analogue Octave Cat. In 1988 I bought a Sequential Circuits Pro One, a monophonic analogue synth. The Pro One had the big advantage over the Cat of staying in tune!