If you had given Aphex Twin 1 instrument

OP-1 would be sure as hell interesting 

But in terms of signature output but he could probably make a 10/10 album only using a MC-202 

A Krupp Bagger 288

surrounded by a few million acoustic guitars, violins, pianos, drums etc

plus whatever you guys have been suggesting so far

I want to change my choice to Bagpipes. Robotic bagpipes.

The tracker he used on drukqs and 1 sample.

Good ol'piano or Reaktor  

A vuvuzela that randomly generates daily Aphex threads via algorithms

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4DRFJnZjpMM

Snare rush

Something that translates his imagination into audio so we can hear his TRUE POTENTIAL

a kantele

  On 9/27/2016 at 11:04 AM, phudoshin said:

houstontracker?

I think you can give fax any random instrument and he'll make gold 

Just look at CCAI, made with pots and pans made it sound like the soundtrack to Curb Ur Enthusiasm, thats genius cause i like that type of jewish music, its fun happy and positive 

  On 9/26/2016 at 1:49 AM, FrankTCaroll said:

a mellotron with only one working key and ill fitted tapes 

i like this

  On 9/25/2016 at 11:06 PM, psn said:

A kick ass violin.

best answer

if I was to give him one grooming accessory it'd be a snare brush

A sampler, to bypass only having one instrument

a rhodes piano

lol

a double bean stew and a microphone

my penis

  On 2/12/2018 at 10:47 PM, MIXL2 said:

my penis

no mine

a gun

  On 2/12/2018 at 11:27 PM, Kidrodi said:

 

  On 2/12/2018 at 10:47 PM, MIXL2 said:

my penis

no mine

Modular Kazoo 

Hammered Dulcimer

lol imagine giving richard just one oscillator. he'd get so fed up that he would just start clapping an instrumental fredulogon going "whomp whoOumm"

edit: i know it's fredugolon but fredulogon is better, deal with it