Henry Mancini 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.

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

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

I don't have a formal home recording studio, but I can record tracks on my computer upstairs in my office.

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.

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

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

I do have a little setup at home. I use Pro Tools and a Neumann mic. Neumann's are my favorite.

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

'No Bones' has some reverb that I kick around.

MIDI made a natural transition to the PC. The MIDI messages that make up a musical composition can be saved as MIDI files, which are collections of MIDI messages with timing information.

I now have a home recording studio, which I can operate entirely on my own, as well as a portable version of the same which allows me to record anywhere I like and simply swap out the hard drives for use in the home studio.

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.

Yes, sampling has changed not just my way of playing and composing.

The most I ever spent on technology is building a studio - I built one at home in Los Angeles. I can't tell you how much exactly, but the whole process is very expensive.

Nowadays you can record on your laptop with Pro Tools, which I do quite often.

I have a pro tools rig that I carry in my backpack.

I record all the time.

In the studio, my brother and I have always used a lot of Marshall amps. We like to keep it pretty basic. We just use a couple of cabinets each - sometimes just one, if we think that's enough. We mainly go for 100-watt and 50-watt heads.

I've got a studio at home, and I'm always recording.

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.

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.

I bought an audio technician mic and Pro Tools SE, the demo version and was recording in the basement.

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