Charles Petzold Quotes

I am such a Luddite when it comes to making music. All I can do is write at the piano.

In 2008, I was more just thinking about using the touchscreen for writing the songs. From there I started thinking about how I visualised music.

With '5 Boroughs,' we were each working on beats, sitting in front of our laptops and samplers.

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.

Musicians have always adopted Macs.

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

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

But I find that the keyboard is the complete instrument you know?

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

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 am a composer, horn player, and computer programmer.

If it's fast, no I don't have enough piano technique. In that case, it's probably been done on some kind of synthesizer or sequencer. Then the score can then be printed out and so forth.

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.

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

I have a recording that I did of instrumental songs.

I'm sure I'll go back again and record in the digital process.

Many composers use software to write music - programs like Finale or Sibelius. There are also recording programs. I should say I'm still very old-fashioned, I still use pencil and paper. But almost every composer I know does it the 'new way.'

Ideally, the music composed these days should sound much better because of the technology, right? But that's not the fact. The sounds that you hear out of technological recording are programmed sounds coming out of a computer.

When I was nine, ten, I was super young, but I installed a program on my computer so I could start producing music. I just started messing around. Then, after a couple of years, I got better. I actually learned some tricks, so I knew what I was doing instead of just messing.

When I got to the NBA, I got a Macbook, and the first thing I did was buy Logic.

Music has become something different from the past, when it was one hundred per cent live. Throughout the twentieth century, it was recorded, and the medium adjusted.

I remember discovering that I loved recording - that breakthrough when I was in high school getting to record for the first time.

I write my own music. By myself, on a computer, I program guitar and piano.

I write on the acoustic guitar, I write some on the piano, but I've been messing around with these guitar pedals and drum machines, educating myself in that world.

I studied arranging and orchestration a number of years ago, so I have a home studio and arrange about three-fourths of my songs on the computer. Since writing orchestration is tedious, I often put an arrangement on the keyboard and let someone better-qualified finish it.