“But Cloud Time is mainly made with a Vongon Replay synth”
What DAW does Emily A. Sprague use?
Emily A. Sprague uses a Eurorack modular system built around the Make Noise Morphagene, Mutable Instruments Rings and a Squarp Hermod+ sequencer, plus a Vongon Replay synth with a Polyphrase delay, a Teenage Engineering OP-1 and OP-XY, a monome norns and a TP-7 field recorder.
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Studio
“But Cloud Time is mainly made with a Vongon Replay synth”
“It was going through the Vongon Polyphrase delay, which can have long delay times up to 22 seconds.”
“I had a second synthesizer, the OP-1, going into a 5 track asynchronous looper”
“i'm playing the opxy and op1 on the table out of frame.”
“Any time I'm anywhere with an acoustic piano, I bring out my Norns by Monome”
“Yeah, I have a [Fender] Rhodes here in my little studio.”
“I recorded some Buchla Music Easel on a friend's folk record”
“I got a Casio SK-1 keyboard and would add drone layers to my simple guitar songs.”
Recording
“That's why I love this little TP-7, because it has no screen.”
“You can connect the little Teenage Engineering TX-6 mixer to the TP-7”
“I've been recording onto a TASCAM, a Portastudio, which is what I recorded Water Memory with.”
“Very slight EQ then compression was added in Logic.”
Modular
“The Make Noise Morphagene is a module that I use in almost everything I make.”
“The sequencer that I use for this record that's coming out next year is Hermod+.”
“two rings voices sequenced by hermod+”
“I love all the [now discontinued] Mutable Instruments modules, like Rings and Clouds.”
“that main synth sound was Mutable Instruments Tides, version one”
“I am experimenting with downsizing to 6U thanks to monome and my newly acquired ER301.”
“Updated my SMR firmware today and remembered how great the module is for nice tonal drones.”
“A patch demonstrating the Harmonic Oscillator's amazing capabilities as a drone source.”
Effects
Records that shaped me
“the albums that inspired me most would be”
“I remember the moment I first heard "Gymnopédie No. 1," and it really did change my life.”
“I'm a huge fan of Out of the Blue, the "Blue" Gene Tyranny album.”
“An album by one of my favorite contemporary composers that he made on his phone while walking around Tokyo”
About Emily A. Sprague's gear.
What synth does Emily A. Sprague use?
She told Tape Op that her album Cloud Time was mainly made on a Vongon Replay. Her 2026 videos show a Eurorack system with Mutable Instruments Rings and Elements, a System80 810 voice and a Make Noise Morphagene, plus an OP-1 and OP-XY.
What sequencer does Emily A. Sprague use?
The Squarp Hermod+. She told Tape Op in 2025 it was the sequencer for her next record, and her 2026 patch notes show it sequencing Rings and a System80 810. Earlier patches used a monome grid and arc with Ansible, and a Make Noise Rene.
What DAW does Emily A. Sprague use?
She mostly avoids the computer and records live. Her 2017 patch notes mention adding EQ and compression in Logic, and she has said her first recordings were made in GarageBand.
What audio interface does Emily A. Sprague use?
For Cloud Time she recorded straight into a Teenage Engineering TP-7 field recorder fed by a TX-6 mixer. A 2017 patch shows her mixing through a Keith McMillen K-Mix into her recording interface.
What effects does Emily A. Sprague use?
Her 2026 patch notes list Chase Bliss Big Time and CXM 1978 on mixer sends, a Make Noise Mimeophon and a 4ms Dual Looping Delay. On Cloud Time she ran the Replay through a Vongon Polyphrase delay.
What records influenced Emily A. Sprague?
In a 2025 Flow State interview she named Eno's Music for Airports, Haruomi Hosono's Watering a Flower, Laurie Spiegel's The Expanding Universe, Hiroshi Yoshimura's Music for Nine Postcards and Satie's Gymnopedie No. 1.
Emily A. Sprague is a New York songwriter and synthesist who leads the band Florist and makes ambient modular records for RVNG Intl. This guide covers the modules, synths, recorders and effects she has named in interviews and in the patch notes of her own videos, plus records that inspired her.
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