Quotes About Pro Tools

#1. The most popular single in the world was "Livin' la Vida Loca," a song about how Pro Tools made Puerto Ricans gay.

Chuck Klosterman

#2. You can take a bad singer and make them sound decent; you couldn't do that in the past. With things like Pro Tools and all the other things you have available; like auto tune, and pitch correction you can make someone who can't sing into someone who can.

Michael Sweet

#3. I started making remixes for every specific girl I wanted to date. That's how I learned how to use Pro Tools, and then I started making my own music.

Charlie Puth

#4. I'm a producer in the old-school way - not just some slacker working on Pro Tools.

Michael Gira

#5. I'm the type of person that doesn't like to wait for people to do things for me, and I never want to feel stuck. Why sit around and be like, 'I wish my label would book me some studio time,' if I can just buy my own studio equipment and figure out how to run Pro Tools and record it myself?

Tinashe

#6. 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.

Geoff Downes

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

Ronnie Wood

#8. If we really wanted to be cool, and everyone in the world had Pro Tools, we could just put it up on the internet and everyone could make their own record out of it.

Charlie Hunter

#9. Even with Dream Theater, we track in a big studio and everything. But when it comes to doing leads, I don't really require a lot of studio to do that. I need a good sounding room and a Pro Tools rig, and some Neve mic-pres, and I'm good.

John Petrucci

#10. Pro Tools was invented to quicken the recording process.

Alex Ebert

#11. I think Pro Tools is pretty analogous to how people composed music on tape back in the 70s, taking little fragments of things and saying, 'How can we organize these in a sensible way'?

Keith Fullerton Whitman

#12. With modern recording techniques, and living in the Pro Tools era, the process gets really drawn-out, and it can become painstaking.

Beck

#13. 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.

Beck

#14. 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.

Kate Bush

#15. The good thing about Pro Tools is you can actually hear what you're working on, so it doesn't just become this intellectual idea. But Pro Tools can be dangerous, too. It can make things sterile.

Bjork

#16. Mozart didn't have Pro Tools, but he did a pretty good job.

Kate Bush

#17. Pro Tools is an incredible resource. I think it's enabled me to do things that I wouldn't have been able to do without this kind of computer editing.

Sufjan Stevens

#18. Yes, we record practically everything on Pro Tools.

Caroline Corr

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

Zooey Deschanel

#20. Coltrane would do what you'd get a Roland Pro Tools module to do but with a group of jazz musicians.

Colin Greenwood

#21. I am a child of digital generation. I have done most of the records with Rilo Kiley on computers, on Pro Tools or other digital programs.

Jenny Lewis

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

Will.i.am

#23. 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.

Dave Grohl

#24. 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.

Beck

#25. I think it's great that people now have access to Pro Tools and other recording software at home. I've never understood how anyone could be comfortable in a recording studio

Michael Dumontier

#26. When I listen to music these days, and I hear Pro Tools and drums that sound like a machine - it kinda sucks the life out of music.

Dave Grohl

#27. Sometimes I want to have a mental book burning that would scour my mind clean of all the filthy visions literature has conjured there. But how to do without 'The Illiad?' How to do without 'Macbeth?'

Geraldine Brooks

#28. It's time to launch yourself into that bigger life using your full capacities and with the light of our spirit shining brightly.

Lynn A. Robinson

#29. [Boxer is] the ultimate tool for the serious pro' that can't afford the time and patience to mess around with lesser products.

Robert Harris

#30. We can bear up under everything, if we have only the certainty that the monster Hitler with his insatiable bloodletting and plundering will have committed soon his last shameful deed.

Friedrich Kellner

#31. The USA have recently done well in the Olympics and the Youth World Cup. So I think there will be some good young players available in the future, and not too expensive which is important to the club.

Richard Gough

#32. He followed, stamping angrily through the disused lots and inner-city disaster areas of his subconscious.

Terry Pratchett