Dev Hynes Quotes

At the beginning of this album I discovered the computer and had great fun playing with the thing. And I realized that, not being a good keyboard player, I could write things in very small sections, give them a certain feel and mess about with bends on the keyboard.

I like tinkering with the tribe beat boxes and love using Reason as a beefed up beat box.

Writing in the electronic world, you imagine a sound, and then you have to go and find it. It's not like imagining a flute and then making that sound materialize. That's easy!

I was given this music programme called Cubase, one of the first multi-layering programmes, when I was seven, and I graduated to Logica at 11, and that became my primary instrument.

Sometimes you cannot produce a specific sound you want with, say, a guitar or piano, and you simply need to use electronic elements.

I just love crafting and shaping sounds. Actually, many of the sounds that I work with start off as organic instruments - guitar, piano, clarinet, etc. But I do love the rigidity of electronic drums.

If you're working on a computer and you're editing bass, it looks like a warm curvy, sort of feminine object.

There's a confusion sometimes with the laptop being the current tools and where electronic music initially comes from.

For my second record I had gotten ProTools (program) and started to familiar myself with hard disc recording.

At some stage in the process, most mainstream pop records are being manipulated and possibly completely rebuilt on a computer, with a visual program.

The thing that's good about music-making software like the DAW-kinda systems is that they're all generally the same; the kind of interface is normally laid out in a similar way. Depending on the program, the sounds might be quite different, but they tend to all have a drum machine or synthesizer or a sampler.

A lot of the early Washed Out material was done on a couple of synthesizers that did most of the work, but that's the great thing about synths - you can recreate sounds or make an entire record with just one piece of gear.

What it is now is basically I'll sit on my computer; I basically kind of play the computer as an instrument, I guess you could say. I guess I play the Mac.

I write and do all my arrangements on my Mac. And um, I use Logic Pro, which is a great software program.

Our daily life is filled with electronic pianos, ring tones, the disembodied voice giving you your bank balance over the telephone. Even silence can be electronic, courtesy of sound-canceling headphones.

I had this fascination with four-track recorders when I was in high school.

I agree with the rest of the band, that a truly synthesized sound isn't really what I would want to go for.

Daft Punk would not exist if there was no technology.

It is at least 10 times more difficult to get a good synthesiser sound than on an acoustic instrument.

Today, computers help us making the music. It's really a tool.

There's a lot of stuff you've gotta know about Auto-Tune before you can start using it, because it's the hot thing to do.

Most of today's music is done electronically.

I downloaded ProTools - legally, of course... and I wanted to impress girls by making remixes of songs.

I had gotten one of the first Korg synthesizers with 300 presets.

I think I was first to do live performances on a modern electronic sound synthesizer.