Jacob Collier Quotes

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

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

What it is now is basically, I'll sit on my computer; I basically kind of play the computer as an instrument, I guess you could say. I guess I play the Mac. And how it works is, say - I have a program called 'Ableton Live.' And, you know, you'll open it up, and it's just blank. There's nothing there. And then you start.

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.

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

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'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 use Logic or Reason and a midi keyboard for beats. If it's gonna have all live instruments in it, I'll probably use Pro Tools and have the band lay stuff down.

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.

The advent of electronically synthesized sound after World War II has unquestionably had enormous influence on music in general.

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

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

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!

Music is composed on computers and other electronic equipment; producers don't want to spend money on orchestra.

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

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 was a sound engineer. That was my day job when I started writing.

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

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.

I downloaded ProTools - legally, of course... and I wanted to impress girls by making remixes of songs.

The thing is, there are so many different ways to make music these days with virtual instruments, software applications, physical instruments, and computer programs.

Midi is my hobby.

When I wasn't working, I was learning how to use production software on YouTube and making music.

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.

What it is now is basically I'll sit on my computer; I basically kind of play the computer as an instrument, I guess you could say. I guess I play the Mac.