Syd Quotes

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.

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!

You should approach a sequencer like you would a Dobro guitar.

Yes, we record practically everything on Pro Tools.

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

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

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.

I had been using a 4-track and a digital 8-track in the '90s, and it was this huge complicated thing. But GarageBand is right there.

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

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

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

Pro Tools was invented to quicken the recording process.

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

I play the keyboard, piano - I like making beats.

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

I love 808s - not only the Auto-Tune but just, in general, the embrace of a kind of digital style of working.

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 use Pro Tools version 9 LE at home and I take that on the road with me.

I love Logic Audio and have been using it for years. All my track outputs used to come up on my old board in the same order as in the old Mac G4 - 1 through 32, came up as 1 through 32, for instance.

I demo all of my songs on Garage Band, where I pretty much play everything - not very well, but I manage to hammer out a drum beat and a bass idea.

Well, I've been recording myself on a computer since I was about 13 or 14. So it's completely entwined with my creative process. Essentially, it allows you to make music that's better and smarter than you are, by using your ears to lead the way.

Some people record onto tape, and then they pay for the tape, and download those onto a hard drive. Initially in a Pro Tools program. Other people go straight into digital, and use no tape at all.

Tom would bring in songs, Mike would engineer, and we recorded about 30 songs.

When I was 12, I went to boarding school, where I discovered the computer, which meant I no longer had to write something down and get someone to play it, I could just type it into the computer and hear it back.