British producer Fred Gibson aka Fred once more.. has sung the praises of a laptop-based music-making setup and the “laughably limitless” potentialities it apparently provides.
Talking to Jamie Lidell on a latest episode of Hanging Out With Audiophiles, Fred mentioned his strategy to music manufacturing and charted his musical journey from a 10-year-old with a four-track recorder to his “Logic methods” of immediately.
“After I was 15, I received a laptop computer. So then I may do Logic each minute of day by day,” the beatmaker recalled.
“However what that meant is that by the point I met Brian [Eno]… I’d spent a lot time obsessive about making the laptop computer my predominant instrument, and attempting to get higher at it than I used to be at like marimba or piano, that my promoting level was that I used to be simply in a position to get round it so rapidly, as a result of I had simply been utilizing it each minute of day by day. So I used to be very a lot set in my Logic methods by then, or laptop computer methods.”
Explaining that his teenage proficiency with the laptop computer has carried on into maturity “with out interruption”, Fred went on to reward the “laughability limitless” nature of the system, saying jokingly “should you’re bored of laptop computer, you’re bored of life.”
The producer additionally recounted his eureka second, the place he first realised that Logic may work with MIDI devices: “My guitar instructor had Logic, and on the time, I used to be simply used to the four-track, audio, plug the jack in, hit report. So I might use Logic in the identical means. And I had my thoughts blown by all of the plugins, and the way in which I may see the audio file and transfer issues round and all that.”
“However then I keep in mind the day that my guitar instructor simply typed in ‘new observe’, and hit ‘software program instrument’. I used to be like… There’s an entire different kind of observe? He was like, yeah, that is this factor referred to as MIDI. I believed, are you mad?! Like… now you can change the person notes and all of those sounds?!”
“I do not forget that rather well,” he mentioned. “I keep in mind pondering, ‘I actually missed a trick right here!’”
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