Uploaded July 2022 | Updated September 2026, 11 minutes ago

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I am Peter Grenader - the designer, curator and sometimes sound designer for Danny Carey's Toolbox, the modular system used live with Tool (Chocolate Chip Trip).

I recently did a huge overhaul and expansion of that system and this video details that journey.

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Here's a list of modules in the Toolbox, by manufacturer:

1010 Music: Micro Bit Box

2 HP: Grain, Pluck, Rnd, EG, ADSR, Seq, Delay, Verb, LFO, Play (x3)

Doepfer: A-148 Sample & Hold, A-180 Passive Mult

Intelligel: Mini Fold

Jones: O'Tool 2

Make Noise: Echophon

Malekko Heavy Machinery: Varigate 8, Unity Mixer (x2)

Plan B/EAR: Model 15 VCO , Model 10 EG (x3), Model 13 Timbral Gate, Model 25 Multi-Tasking Audio Processor, Model 26 Multi-tasking Control Processor, Model 24 Heisenberg Generator, Model 21C Mini Milton, Model 7 Panner, Model 38 Leveler, Model 41 Steiner EVI FIlter, Model 13 Mini Low Pass Gate, EAR Output (custom), EAR Model 9 MK II Mixer (custom), EAR Leveler (custom).

Subconscious Communication (Plan B) : Model 15 VCO (x2), Model 37 LFO/VCO

Qu-Bit: Nebulae II

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For a recent interview detailing this system and my involvement with Tool, check out Kris West's Spiral Out podcast:

spiraloutpod.podbean.com/e/peter-grenader-tool-box-mod-synth

For an article on how this synth came into being check out The Fortheye:

fourtheye.net/2013/11/peter-grenader-on-dannys-toolbox-synth

Darwin Gross' Art + Music + Technology Podcast talking about synth manufacturing and composing:

artmusictech.libsyn.com/podcast-208-peter-grenader

EAR/Plan B Synthesizer official website:

ear-synth.com

Peter Grenader's POV website:

pov-music.com

zZyzx Society:

zzyzxsociety.com