Music Software Quotes

You can't really imagine music without technology.

I'm one of the people who was a pioneer in encouraging musicians, early in the game, to get interested in technology, and now all the musicians are getting into it.

If I wake up in the middle of the night and have an idea, I want to go to my computer and be able to do it. So I hired someone at Guitar Center to come over to my house and teach me Logic music program, and I learned it over a couple months.

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

When I was, like, 16 or 17, I was just finding out about this YouTube thing. Then I saved a bit and asked my parents for some help to get the recording software and equipment.

I think I was told numerous times in the industry that nobody wants to watch a guy on a keyboard.

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.

Maybe one day there will finally be an education for electronic music.

When I was in middle school, that's when I first started making beats. I was maybe 14, 16, something like that.

I'm actually pretty good with computers. I use computers when I'm working on making and producing music, so I do know a thing or two!

I can do some vocals in England; I can come across to LA You can do various versions - replace this, replace that. You can use software that almost makes the record for you.

People would be surprised at how much of an electronic dude I am, and I like new wave, post-punk and proto-punk stuff.

I was nine, and I was shopping in a supermarket with my dad. There was this cereal, and it had a special promotion with a CD inside the box that had a really simple music-making program on it. I got it, and that opened my mind to being able to make music on a computer and seeing all the different layers.

Everyone's on their phones, and everyone makes things with the aid of some electronic tool. Electronic music is no different.

Suprisingly, one of the most complex pieces of code is the code to determine where a note is in the staff. Finale stores notes as relative scale positions in the current key.

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

Right at the start, when I was about 13 or 14, I only had an Amiga 500 Plus running a bit of tracker software called OctaMED. My brother was big into his computers, and when he moved up to a proper PC, I took charge of the Amiga.

At the age of 15, I bought a USB microphone on a trip to the United States with my family, and that was my first recording studio.

What Skrillex does with Ableton it's like being a little god. It's not just pushing loops - that's easy - but to do the effects he's a genius.

Musicians have always adopted Macs.

I would get out of school and go straight to my computer to create beats.

I started getting into Internet technologies and computers. I wasn't especially interested in being a musician, but I wound up finding my way back to being interested in music through computers.

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 doubt I'll ever pay someone to do a remix again, because there's some amazing stuff just coming out of bedrooms.

You can sit down with Reason or Ableton and literally in a couple of hours make a very good-sounding record. But then a lot of people become contented with that, rather than pushing themselves to making something that sounds great.