Washed Out Quotes

I don't do that much sampling. I create all my own sounds.

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.

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'm pretty much fully digital. I've basically spent a few painstaking days putting sounds into my laptop, just banking them, because I love playing, and I love visually seeing it on my screen and being able to change the sounds more, with different plug-ins. I've created my own synth sounds.

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.

I never really work on just one CD - I'm recording, recording.

You don't have to be a good musician if you've got certain computer skills.

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.

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

I could wake up six in the morning, go downstairs and record. I learned how to use ProTools and everything. Whenever I felt it, I could record.

I love being in the studio.

I was very much fascinated with the technology we had that we could edit in the computer our compositions, but all the sounds that were available on the market were crap.

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

Midi is my hobby.

I have an Otari with a Korg T2 Midi synthesizer, a drum machine and a few effects units.

My first bit of gear was a Roland JV-1010 sound module. I used to hammer the hell out of that.

There is nothing wrong in electronic music or synthesised music.

Blue Monday's distinctive intro was written on an Oberheim DMX drum machine.

I got FL studios; I looked up how to make beats and how to record myself, and then I just started making music from there.

If you hear a New Order track that's mostly electronic, it's generally come about through one person sitting at a computer and programming it.

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

I love the idea of Pro Tools, but it doesn't seem as attractive to me in terms of the music-making side. It's great for recording, but with Logic you get the best of both worlds, the ability to do great tracking and producing something that sounds great as well.

My best capacity is to edit. If anything, I am a specialist at editing: my usual approach is to record a song very long. In the beginning just jam, jam on and on. Then break the song and play with it.

The summer after high school, I got a TASCAM because I had been writing a lot and thought it would be cool if I recorded stuff not just on my phone.