In 1995, after Marcus Hobbs purchased Symbolic Sound's Kyma/Capybara sound processor, the company put him in touch with two other local Californian artists who recently purchased Capybaras: film composer Stephen James Taylor and musicologist [a=Erv Wilson]. Marcus first met Wilson at Stephen's studio. Erv shared some of his microtonal drawings and explained the idea behind "recurrence relation" scales — essentially, generalized Fibonacci sequences that are "seeded" with the musically-aesthetic harmonics individually chosen by a musician. Hobbs was able to code recurrence relations on the Capybara, subsequently "digitizing" numerous other Wilson designs.

In 1998, he released a debut album under the Marcus Satellite alias, [r=22802711]. Sequenced on Steinberg Cubase, the CD featured software instruments tuned to different Wilson's scales on each track. In 2002, he recorded a second album, Way Beyond, Way Above, which only came out five years later under the name D/Dx: Masha D'elphenden & Marcus Satellite. In 2006, Marcus released a collection of nine microtonal singles, painstakingly programmed in Native Instruments Reaktor and rendered real-time on Power Mac G5. He also released [r=4307085] in 2007 alongside a similar collection with electronica renditions of The Beatles classic hits.

In 2014, Marcus Hobbs published his iOS app Wilsonic, which allows exploring and interactively "seeding" numerous Erv Wilson's designs and scales with customizable parameters. He co-founded AudioKit, an open-source audio synthesis/processing platform for iOS and macOS, which released two apps in 2018: a free Synth One and paid sample-based synth Digital D1. They both contain an original TuneUp feature for tuning synthesizers to the same microtonal scale and instantly switching between tunings. The curated list of presets include tunings by [a=Erv Wilson], Kraig Grady, [url=https://www.discogs.com/artist/1250319]Stephen Taylor[/url], Jose Garcia and [a=Gary David].

In October 2020, Marcus Satellite released his latest ambient album, Heavenly Bodies, made entirely with Synth One and the tunings of Erv Wilson.