I’ve got everything going through a patch bay, into a couple of mixers that go into my interface. If I want to rearrange hardware effects (I was a guitarist primarily for many years and have a stack of pedals), I’ve got the most useful ones in the patch bay, so there is minimal plugging and unplugging at the beginning of a session.

I use a load of different compositional methodologies, but these days, I mostly start with a single idea like an arpeggio, or chord progression, some serial process, or even just a snippet of lyrics that I then build around by adding percussion, harmony, form, etc. etc. I’m a big fan of twentieth century serial, conceptual, minimal, and electronic music like that of Arnold Schoenberg, John Cage, Steve Reich, and Karlheinz Stockhausen, so I definitely tend towards the outre, though I don’t turn my nose up at a good banger and a lot of my older output was just me trying to make weird and badass sounding electronic music.