MIDI Controller Quotes

I'm always interested in mixing technology and music. You know, maybe I'll have a MIDI bass pickup at some point, I don't really think that's the direction I would want to go.

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

You are talking to a man who can only play a plastic keyboard. Give me anything weighted and I've had it. I haven't got the strength in my fingers to push them down. So I don't get a lot of expression on the keyboard.

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

Actually, because of new technologies, my full studio is on my laptop. And I have a little keyboard in my bag. I can make everything I do come from my laptop. Even when I go to a big studio, all I do is to plug in my laptops. That's they way I do it.

It's been very hard for the guitar as a serious synthesizer to compete with keyboards.

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

I play keyboards and Pro Tools, if you want to look at it as an instrument.

It's great if you can afford to carry a string section on the road with you, but most people are used to the idea of just a keyboard player creating those string sounds.

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

Production-wise, I've always stuck with Ableton Live and there's really no reason to switch to something else at this point.

A young musician needs a powerful laptop and a good analogue synthesiser.

If you're a guitarist, you should not be intimidated by using your instrument as a synthesizer, but you shouldn't feel that you have to own one, either.