Many thanks for the replies.

To start with, I do not have a separate mixing board, but my groovebox is effectively acting as one and I am already seeing how central the mixer side is for this kind of music.

At the moment I am mostly controlling perceived distance with low-pass filtering, reverb amount and loudness rather than with panorama.

On the MC-707 I have eight tracks available. At the moment I am using two for drums and percussion and six for instruments. I am not using samples yet, though I will probably start doing so for special effects but I will need my own samples.

For external processing, I dedicate the MC707 internal shared reverb and use that path as the send to the H90, which gives me wet control. I can run that external path in stereo or split it into two mono channels. Given that most of my sounds are not pan-dependent, the dual mono option seems quite reasonable but I have yet to try that out.

Until now I had mostly been using the two H90 effects in series, but I am now trying parallel as well as it is more versatile I think.

There is also another option on the groovebox via the so-called assignable out. I can send one stereo pair or two mono signals that way, but it comes out fully wet, so nothing remains dry and I also lose a track for the return. That seems possible, though perhaps less practical unless I have another hw effect, which I don’t know what would be because of the versatility of h90.

Given these routing limits, I would be very interested in views on what is likely to be the best approach here:

– Split the H90 into two mono or dual paths and treat them as two contrasting spaces

vs

– Use the groovebox outputs in stereo, the more costly method with 100 percent wet Assignable Out, being left with only seven tracks on the groovebox.

Separately, I would love to see an option in a future update to store routing per preset or per Program.

Regarding Steve Roach performance, my impression is that the drums are almost unprocessed and sit more or less as two dry monos left and right, with the centre and depth being filled by the more and less atmospheric material.

The Tape Op interview was excellent by the way. I have been looking for such a zine for quite a while.

And Tony, thank you for the preset list. I still need to have a try once I reconnect the laptop. Never experimented with swirls so that my maybe highly valuable inspiration .