St. Vincent Quotes

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

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

Technology means the kind of music you can make on your own if you've got an imagination is amazing. It's crazy that I can sit with a Mac and a keyboard and a mic and create a symphony.

I've always been good about interfacing with machines. But that never seemed like a gateway to being able to make music. I never made the connection that music could be made with machines - that was what drum and bass was for me.

Technology has allowed people to make records really cheap. You can make a record on a laptop.

What turns me on about the digital age, what excited me personally, is that you have closed the gap between dreaming and doing. You see, it used to be that if you wanted to make a record of a song, you needed a studio and a producer. Now, you need a laptop.

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

I'm a huge fan of home recording. I think it levels the playing field. You don't need $100,000 to record a studio CD.

When I started working on my own music, I didn't have the chance to record in a big music studio, so I had to record everything myself.

All my vocals were recorded at home, which was great for me. You can actually have a studio in a computer program called ProTools. I did half the record with ProTools.

Now, you can just get a laptop, get some software, put a microphone on it and make a record. You have to know how to do it. It does help if you've had 35 or 40 years of experience in the studio. But, it still levels the playing field so artists can record their own stuff.

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

It doesn't matter if you record with a microphone on a laptop or at a friend's house. Now it's more of a danger of things sounding too high-fi than sounding too low-fi.

When I first started recording music, we would record in the closet with socks on the mic.

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.

Analog, electronic, whatever it happens to be, I simply love and adore literally every aspect of making music.

Somehow, magically, I've become an electronic musician, and I have a recording studio that looks like the bridge of the Enterprise.

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

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 had this fascination with four-track recorders when I was in high school.

Pro Tools was invented to quicken the recording process.

My studio is a laptop. Everybody I work with is the same. We make computer music, we're the laptop generation.

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 still think that I'm playing instruments, not just pushing buttons and there it goes. It's interactive and alive with the sound and the manipulation and it plays like instruments.

I've been making demos at home for many albums now. So over those years, I've learned how to record music, and I love being at home. I excel when I can make things at home.