Sufjan Stevens Quotes

When you use some of the more modern recording devices and Pro Tools, when you get into the technology, you are aching to get into some territory.

Pro Tools was invented to quicken the recording process.

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

Now with Pro Tools, you can play with layers and 100s and 100s of tracks. When we used to do it back in the day, you had one shot, or you would have to wipe it and carry on over that track.

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

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.

With technology now, you can go in and sing a song, and for $100,000, you will sound flawless.

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.

I think that technology has both introduced new sounds but also allowed an increasingly painterly approach to recording music as you can now paint over what you've done and more and more refine an existing performance.

I have Pro Tools on my computer, and I make CDs all the time.

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

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.

Yes, we record practically everything on Pro Tools.

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

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

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

Pro Tools rules. You get the opportunity to try more things because you don't waste so much time trying to get the perfect take.

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 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 like to work with a combination of analog and Pro Tools. I love the sound of analog tape, but there's so many things you can do with Pro Tools that would be incredibly difficult and very time-consuming with analog.

Back then, Pro Tools only had four or eight tracks, so we couldn't actually hear all the tracks. We could only hear eight at a time, so if a song had 25 or 30 tracks, we wouldn't be able to hear it until we went into the studio an put it all on tape. The process was a little bit backwards.

There's a lot of stuff you've gotta know about Auto-Tune before you can start using it, because it's the hot thing to do.

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

I thought it was magic to be able to catch something identically on tape and then be able to play around with it, run it backwards; I thought that was great for years.