Shankar Mahadevan Quotes

All of those 10cc 'Not in Love'-type synthetic choir sounds on 'Replica' are all from the Omnisphere. We used a lot of that.

Most of today's music is done electronically.

People are approaching electronic levels in music; although not all of it happens to tickle my fancy.

A lot of the early Washed Out material was done on a couple of synthesizers that did most of the work, but that's the great thing about synths - you can recreate sounds or make an entire record with just one piece of gear.

In my solo work on my own albums, I have used voice synthesizers and vocoders quite a lot in connection with orchestral instruments.

If you hear a New Order track that's mostly electronic, it's generally come about through one person sitting at a computer and programming it.

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

I agree with the rest of the band, that a truly synthesized sound isn't really what I would want to go for.

It is at least 10 times more difficult to get a good synthesiser sound than on an acoustic instrument.

I've been really excited about some new cutting edge electronic music and technology.

Somebody gave me this drum machine and somebody else asked me to program something for a project. I really liked programming and I was really interested in using the drum machine.

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've always had a deep passion for a lot of early electronic and sampled music.

I had gotten one of the first Korg synthesizers with 300 presets.

I think it was inevitable that I get into synthesizer music. I always wanted to deal with sound more than anything else. I couldn't get the sounds I wanted out of the piano.

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

My first bit of gear was a Roland JV-1010 sound module. I used to hammer the hell out of that.

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

Sometimes you cannot produce a specific sound you want with, say, a guitar or piano, and you simply need to use electronic elements.

It's been very hard for the guitar as a serious synthesizer to compete with keyboards.

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

I don't do that much sampling. I create all my own sounds.

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

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.

Daft Punk would not exist if there was no technology.