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

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

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

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

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.

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

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.

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!

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

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 could wake up six in the morning, go downstairs and record. I learned how to use ProTools and everything. Whenever I felt it, I could record.

Warp was important to Thom about two years ago when he was looking for different sounds.

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 happen to think that computers are the most important thing to happen to musicians since the invention of cat-gut which was a long time ago.

Midi is my hobby.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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

If you're working on a computer and you're editing bass, it looks like a warm curvy, sort of feminine object.

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.

I think the indie-rock world is very creative. They're always looking for something new, and I think of all the instruments we have in the world, the ones that are the most creative and interesting are the electronic ones. There are so many sounds and plug-ins you can use.