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100 gecs

3:35 · Logic Pro · named · high confidence
“In Logic, there's this thing called track alternatives. On each project file there's like 100 different alternatives”
Logic Pro is 100 gecs' main DAW; they use its Track Alternatives feature to version songs while swapping files remotely.
22:16 · Logic Pro · named · high confidence
“there's Logic stock drum kits in here. We pretty much were trying to pull whatever we could”
Logic's stock drum kits sit in the same drum stack as Josh Freese's recorded snares and Splice samples.
28:11 · Logic Pro · implied · medium confidence
“a lot of the time making this album was just spent freezing tracks so that they didn't chug our CPU”
Track freezing in Logic was essential because the duo mix 300+ track sessions entirely on laptops.
42:04 · Apple Music · named · medium confidence
“I'll open up my Apple Music”
Laura Les pulls up Apple Music to read out the 20 albums she exclusively listens to.
45:06 · Logic Pro · named · high confidence
“I had a lot of time to just sit on my computer and fucking just mess around on Logic”
Laura Les learned production messing about in Logic during a reception job while at audio school.

A. G. Cook

21:39 · Logic Pro · named · high confidence
“This vocal is stretched with Logic's pretty rough algorithm for stretching audio.”
Logic's audio time-stretch artefacts are used deliberately as a distortion effect on a vocal in Heartache.
48:35 · Logic Pro · named · high confidence
“As I truly got deeply into making music and using Logic, I almost had a hard rule of no instruments allowed.”
Logic was the central tool during the early PC Music era when he banned instruments from the studio.
57:59 · Logic Pro · named · high confidence
“I'm actually barely adding guitar effects in Logic. I'm doing as much as I can with guitar pedals, recording DI, no amp.”
Explains that guitar tone on Britpop is committed with pedals and DI rather than processed with Logic plugins.
1:05:00 · Logic Pro · named · high confidence
“This is me sampling one of my palm-muted notes... that's just me putting it into the Logic sampler.”
A single palm-muted guitar note is loaded into Logic's sampler to play the lo-fi melodic pattern in Serenade.
1:33:11 · Logic Pro · named · high confidence
“I'm not even using a compressor. I mean, I'll use a Logic compressor, but I'll just have a Neve clone preamp and it's pretty dry.”
Vocal chain is deliberately minimal: mic, preamp and only Logic's stock compressor.
2:07:15 · Voice Memos · named · high confidence
“There's that funny quality the iPhone voice notes thing has, where it's compressing and limiting, making things unexpectedly loud.”
iPhone Voice Memos' compression and background-noise artefacts are treated as an instrument in their own right.
2:16:42 · Logic Pro · named · medium confidence
“It's funny to listen to this one, because it's barely using Logic or software, really.”
Contrasts his usual Logic-centred workflow with the hardware-only closing track.

Adam Buxton

8:53 · Logic Pro · named · high confidence
“If I'm doing music for the podcast particularly, I'll do it on Logic. I'll use a MIDI keyboard. I'll use a lot of loops.”
Adam Buxton describes Logic as his everyday writing and demoing environment for podcast jingles and the album demos, using MIDI keyboard, loops and built-in drums.
34:27 · Logic Pro · named · high confidence
“It began as an advertising jingle, and it was lots of VSTs that I was just noodling around with on Logic.”
My Feelings started life as a jingle built entirely from VST instruments and Logic loops in Logic.
58:13 · Logic Pro · named · high confidence
“To remove a lot of the Logic master presets that I like that brightens everything and makes it more stereo sounding and sparkly.”
Joe stripped off Adam's Logic master-bus presets and reverbs to get a drier, more honest sound.
58:39 · Adaptive Limiter · named · high confidence
“Joe would remove everything I had and he would just put a bit of ad limit on. Adaptive limiter. That's what it is.”
Logic's Adaptive Limiter was the single master-bus processor Joe used in place of Adam's chain of presets.
1:05:56 · Logic Pro · named · high confidence
“Often Adam would give me his Logic files for other stuff and you would just — they were always right.”
Adam handed over Logic session files, including his layered harmony parts, for Joe to rationalise.

Air

1:15:26 · Macintosh · named · medium confidence
“I remember JB bought a Mac because we used to work on Atari.”
Moving to the Versailles studio coincided with Air switching from Atari to a Mac.

Arlo Parks

1:17:57 · Logic Pro · named · high confidence
“when I made the Dog Rose demo on my computer, it was all probably stock Logic stuff... whatever happens when you go Logic distortion”
Arlo Parks demoed 'Dog Rose' at home in Logic Pro using stock Logic plugins including its distortion.

Barry Cant Swim

20:04 · Logic Pro · named · high confidence
“I used Logic when I very first started producing... I definitely found when I moved from Logic to Ableton that it was a bit more easy to navigate”
He started out in Logic before switching to Ableton Live, which he found easier to navigate.

Bleachers

1:25:42 · iPhone FaceTime ringtone · named · medium confidence
“I put the iPhone, uh, the FaceTime on We Should Talk”
A FaceTime ring was used as a found-sound element in 'We Should Talk'.

Bonobo

1:10:00 · Logic Pro · named · high confidence
“I was working on Logic then, and I think after North Borders was where I made the switch to Ableton.”
Cirrus and the North Borders album were made in Logic before he moved to Ableton Live.
1:14:42 · Power Mac G4 · named · medium confidence
“I kind of set up a studio, which was really at the time just a Mac. I think it was a G4 then.”
His first New York studio was little more than a G4 Mac, monitors and a Prophet-5.

Bring Me The Horizon

54:41 · Logic Pro · named · high confidence
“I can sit on, you know, like Logic and separate stuff and, and like go on Splice and find some stuff.”
Oli's personal writing/editing setup is Logic, where he separates stems and assembles ideas.
1:37:33 · Mac · named · medium confidence
“Yeah, Apple Mac.”
Oli jokes the Apple Mac is the other indispensable piece of equipment behind the record.

CMAT

30:19 · Voice Memos · implied · medium confidence
“I'll keep a note of the structure through the Notes app in my phone… it's voice notes and it's writing.”
Kira's whole writing process runs through iPhone voice notes and the Notes app rather than a studio.
30:28 · iPhone · named · high confidence
“My phone is my instrument. The more I think about it, I'm like, thank God for iPhones.”
Kira calls her iPhone her instrument for capturing songs, having never had a studio until recently.

Charli XCX

2:48 · Voice Memos · implied · medium confidence
“I was asking Finn to send me tracks, and actually I was voice noting you a lot of ideas on my phone”
Charli describes starting the album by recording melody ideas as phone voice notes and texting them back and forth, rather than her usual booth process.
17:12 · Logic Pro · named · high confidence
“I think this is when we were working in Logic with you, Alex. This is kind of everything in Logic.”
Club Classics was written and produced entirely in Logic, and George opens the old Logic project live on the show.
18:00 · Logic Pro · named · high confidence
“we're keeping the clicks in of the kind of strange Logic looping. It's not on the grid”
The vocal chop in the second chorus comes from Logic's loop function, with the clicks and off-grid artifacts deliberately kept.
36:14 · Logic Pro · named · high confidence
“Again, that echo is like technically crap. Yeah, it's the Logic built-in one. It just sounds really little.”
The echo on the Club Classics outro bass is Logic's stock delay, chosen because its small, mono-ish sound adds imperfection.
46:04 · Logic Pro · named · high confidence
“Logic is very speedy, and -9 is really dangerous... I just did -9 pretty much as a joke, played it back”
The whole vibe of 'Card Declined' came from slowing the jam down by -9 semitones in Logic as a joke.
1:06:51 · Logic Pro · named · high confidence
“I sped it up by one semitone, which is a very Logic thing. It's VariSpeed, so it's like using a tape deck.”
AG Cook used Logic's VariSpeed to pitch and speed the 360 instrumental up a semitone to 127 BPM as the basis of 365.
1:12:04 · Logic Pro · named · high confidence
“Like I said, I'm normally like automating it all in Logic and really figuring it out. And this is just me messing with dials”
AG contrasts his usual in-the-box Logic automation with the hands-on synth take he recorded and chopped for 365.
1:16:06 · Logic Pro · named · high confidence
“when we were sitting down to mix it, we were trying to stay in the same Logic files so it could have that essence”
They mixed inside the original Logic session files to preserve the demo essence of the tracks.
1:23:15 · Logic Pro · named · high confidence
“this is how we did the chop. We just used the really basic sort of Logic loop function here”
The 'rock music' vocal stutter and guitar loops come from Logic's basic loop function, clicks and off-grid timing left in.
1:23:43 · Logic Pro · named · medium confidence
“Even with 360, I remember we put it through a synth, even though it was in my very Logic MIDI.”
AG describes running Logic MIDI parts through hardware to find one chaotic out-of-the-box element in every Brat track.

Danny L Harle

10:40 · Voice Memos · named · medium confidence
“I had this voice note on my phone of my daughter Nico singing... looking at the waveform of her voice on the voice notes”
The central 'la' vocal hook of the track came from a phone voice note recording of his daughter.
15:56 · Logic Pro · named · high confidence
“So here we have the Logic file for La”
Opens the session for 'La' in Logic Pro, his main DAW for the album.
49:30 · Logic Pro · named · high confidence
“One of the good things about Logic, I would say, is that it's quite chaotic... it produces unexpected results”
Praises Logic's unpredictability as a creative tool when making reverb throws and ear candy.
49:39 · Flex Pitch · named · medium confidence
“especially with the Flexy tools that sometimes make things play at different pitches or stretches things unnecessarily”
Logic's Flex tools' glitches accidentally create pitched reverb throws he keeps as ear candy.

Declan Mckenna

33:17 · Logic Pro · named · high confidence
“this is just some kind of sample synth that I had on. I would have been using Logic at the time.”
The early Breath of Light demo ('Christ Is Risen') was made at home in Logic.
34:42 · Voice Memos · named · medium confidence
“I have like a voice memo here as well of me coming up with the... this is from March 2020”
Declan plays a phone voice memo from March 2020 capturing the 'Breath of Light' melody recorded out and about.
1:17:53 · Logic Pro · named · high confidence
“I don't think this is a real organ. I think this is like a weird sample synth... I just think it's a Logic Pro thing.”
The organ-like sound in Mezzanine's mid-section is a stock Logic Pro sampled instrument, heavily messed with.
1:25:37 · Logic Pro · named · high confidence
“I think I was just using the Logic Pro auto wah pedal... I have a pedal that does it, but the one that comes with Logic is pretty cool.”
Logic Pro's stock Auto Wah plugin is used on guitar strums throughout the album.

Djo

7:51 · Voice Memos · implied · medium confidence
“Yeah, just a voice memo… Oh, here we go, iPhone demo.”
Joe's initial song ideas for 'Delete Ya' were captured as iPhone voice memos while travelling, and those files were played back in the session.

Four Tet

1:35:15 · iPhone · named · high confidence
“you recorded your daughter skating on the ice with your iPhone... My song Lush is recorded on the phone, the hang drum that's on it”
Phone recordings are a core part of his sampling practice - the ice-skating sound in Skater and the hang drum on Lush were both captured on his iPhone.

Fred

35:31 · iPhone · named · high confidence
“Yeah, I'll just record them into my iPhone.”
Fred records his own real-world percussion hits (wood, glass) straight into his iPhone before sculpting them into drum sounds.
40:28 · Logic Pro · named · high confidence
“If it's a simple pattern, I'll just use Logic Tremolo. Sometimes I'll use this Logic thing, which is another kind of chopping thing”
Fred shows how he gates and chops sampled parts using Logic's Tremolo and a step-sequencer style Logic plugin, including odd 7- and 15-step patterns.
1:07:07 · Logic Pro · named · high confidence
“So yeah, these are all— plugins-wise, I generally just use Logic plugins and a few other things, but not many.”
Fred states that 'Feisty' is almost entirely built with Logic's stock plugins.
1:07:19 · Retro Synth · named · high confidence
“This little thing I wanted to add on the hook, that's the Logic RetroSynth.”
A hook sweetener part in 'Feisty' was played on Logic's Retro Synth.
1:13:39 · SpringVerb · named · high confidence
“Every track on this song has Logic SpringVerb on it.”
Fred notices that every channel in the 'Feisty' session is running Logic's SpringVerb, the glue on the jam-based track.
1:28:04 · Logic Pro · named · high confidence
“I've just dragged up a Logic piano and just played... it's mainly about choice of harmony. Just put it into a verb”
To make the harmonic drones that frame the Shady Nasty vocal in 'Hardstyle 2', Fred plays a Logic piano instrument into a big Logic reverb.
1:35:03 · ES2 · named · high confidence
“That's Logic ES2.”
The randomised droplet pluck motif that runs through 'Hardstyle 2' was programmed on Logic's ES2 synth.
1:52:26 · Logic Pro · named · high confidence
“It's just Logic synth going into Logic plugins... It's plugins I've had since I was 13 and I first got Logic.”
Fred reveals the much-asked-about lead sound on 'Scared' is entirely stock Logic: Retro Synth into reverb, flanger and phase distortion.
1:53:01 · ChromaVerb · named · medium confidence
“That could be a ChromaVerb. It's just giving it a sense of space.”
A Logic ChromaVerb with automated decay sits in the signal chain of the 'Scared' lead sound before the distortion stages.

HAIM

2:28 · GarageBand · named · high confidence
“I like to write a lot on my GarageBand on my phone... I plucked out those chords on GarageBand on the smart piano”
Danielle wrote the chords and chorus melody of Relationships on iPhone GarageBand's smart piano while taking off on a plane in 2017.
31:13 · GarageBand · named · high confidence
“when I got GarageBand as a teen, being able to stack vocals and doing random harmonies, learning how to do that in GarageBand was really important”
Danielle credits learning vocal stacking and harmony in GarageBand as a teenager for her intuitive harmony approach.
1:07:22 · GarageBand · named · high confidence
“it starts with me on my GarageBand... I mocked up this really fast drum pattern and this digital guitar sound”
Now It's Time began as a GarageBand phone demo with a fast programmed drum pattern and a MIDI guitar sound.
1:28:11 · GarageBand · named · high confidence
“it began, again, me on GarageBand... you can pluck out notes on the guitar on GarageBand, and I wrote that little lick”
Everybody's Trying to Figure Me Out started as a GarageBand demo with a plucked MIDI guitar lick and gibberish vocals.

Hayley Williams

42:25 · Logic Pro · named · high confidence
“I just used — Logic has a stem splitter thing, so I downloaded the track and ripped the drums.”
Logic Pro's stem separation was used to extract the Phoenix drum loop that became the basis of Love Me Different.
43:34 · Retro Synth · named · high confidence
“Sometimes I get really into the Logic Retro Synth. I think it's slept on a little bit. It's just like their stock thing.”
Logic's stock Retro Synth is praised as an underrated layering synth for the arpeggio in Love Me Different.
1:52:13 · Flex Pitch · named · medium confidence
“In Logic they have this thing, Flex Mode, it just makes it easier to move pitch and time around. It just glitched.”
A glitch while using Logic's Flex pitch/time editing to change key created the signature warped vocal effect on Glum.
1:58:16 · Logic Pro · named · high confidence
“So I'm gonna go for Logic soon.”
Hayley plans to learn Logic Pro next, taught by Daniel James.

IDLES

40:33 · iPhone · named · high confidence
“I'm gonna record it on my iPhone. So I recorded it on my iPhone, and you can hear me breathing”
The core piano demo for A Gospel was captured on an iPhone at Christmas, complete with breathing and a child's bicycle bell, and used on the record.

Jacob Collier

24:53 · Logic Pro · named · high confidence
“it's just one massive Logic session filled with audience choirs from shows, and I've colour-coded all the right bits”
All the audience-choir recordings from a year of touring were compiled, colour-coded and bounced in one huge Logic Pro session.
57:51 · Logic Pro · named · high confidence
“So that's from, I think it's just the Logic electric piano sound.”
The sped-up 'purr' layer in Cinnamon Crush is built from Logic Pro's stock electric piano, bounced in place with a speed ramp.
1:03:05 · Logic Pro · implied · medium confidence
“I wrote all these orchestral parts... on MIDI typing on this exact computer... with Command K, and I typed all the stuff in”
Orchestral parts for Cinnamon Crush were written overnight using step/MIDI typing in his DAW (Logic Pro) before being transcribed for the Hilversum session.

Jamie xx

20:54 · Logic Pro · named · high confidence
“And then I had this, this just Logic bass plugin, like one of the most basic things”
The sub line holding the 160bpm feel in 'Breather' is a basic stock Logic bass instrument.
51:14 · Logic Pro · named · high confidence
“I used this time stretch thing on Logic, which is so simple... it will detect tempo and then you can stretch things out just by pulling these guys”
He demonstrates Logic's tempo-detection and time-stretching as his current approach to warping samples, after years of refusing to degrade vinyl rips.
52:19 · Logic Pro · named · high confidence
“it's literally just a Logic Bass, again a very basic plugin... I used the basic drum sampler on Logic as well, but you add glide”
Daffodil's stark beat uses Logic's oldest stock bass and drum sampler, with glide added so every drum hit bends slightly.
1:02:42 · Logic Pro · named · high confidence
“the bass goes from that kind of crappy Logic plugin to another crappy Logic plugin that sounds like a double bass thing”
Daffodil's mid-section bass switch and the Dr Dre-style piano both come from basic Logic stock instruments, the piano shaped with an envelope to sound unrealistic.
1:15:38 · Logic Pro · named · high confidence
“The phasers, again, just a basic Logic one, and I just make sure it's super slow with not much resonance”
The French-house phasing on the Cerrone horn hook in 'Life' is Logic's stock phaser, sidechained to the kick.
1:16:53 · Logic Pro · named · high confidence
“I turned the resonance up super high, to the max, on this Logic synth, and created the bass line by changing the cutoff of the filter”
The wide laser bass in 'Life' was made by automating filter cutoff on a maxed-resonance Logic synth rather than playing notes.
1:37:46 · GarageBand · named · high confidence
“that's kind of, you know, I learned on Logic, or actually on GarageBand when I was really small”
Jamie started out in GarageBand before moving to Logic, which he still uses with stock plugins.
1:37:56 · ES2 · named · high confidence
“The ES-2 synth, I think, is probably the best one... really good for making chords you wouldn't make by playing a keyboard”
Asked for favourite Logic stock instruments, he demonstrates ES2's three oscillators for generating unexpected chords from single-note MIDI.
1:40:29 · Logic Pro · named · high confidence
“looking at Logic is like I'm not looking at anything, it's almost meditative, like an extended part of my brain”
Asked what he couldn't work without, Jamie names his laptop and Logic, saying his fluency with its shortcuts makes it feel screen-free.

Jeff Goldblum

1:06:19 · Logic Pro · named · high confidence
“Pro Tools is my main platform, although I use Logic.”
Scott Gilman notes he also works in Logic Pro alongside Pro Tools.

Joy Anon

11:55 · iPhone · named · high confidence
“this was then recorded in my house on the piano, and basically everything you hear is recorded off iPhone mics”
The acoustic 'source' version of Nobody Ever was captured entirely on iPhone mics, including piano, vocals and table drums.
30:00 · iPhone · named · high confidence
“the table drums on an iPhone just smack... the compressor on the iPhone is phenomenal”
They praise the iPhone's built-in compression as a creative recording tool, especially for table-top percussion.
42:37 · Logic Pro · named · high confidence
“I ended up in session player, which is normally used for making sort of Logic drums... it's called acoustic drummer pop rock”
The bass line on Like You Used To was created by accident using Logic's Session Player drummer preset 'acoustic drummer pop rock'.
56:13 · Step FX · named · medium confidence
“yeah, just a Step FX Logic preset thing”
A stock Logic Step FX preset provides a rhythmic effect in the club edit.
1:29:41 · Logic Pro · named · medium confidence
“we can all make a thing sound kind of good quite quickly on Logic or whatever, but nothing kind of felt as alive as that”
Logic is contrasted with the RC-505 as the quick but less 'alive' way of making music.

Kasabian

1:27:08 · Voice Memos · named · medium confidence
“It's not necessarily the phone, it's the voice memo. Voice memo is like everything because most of these riffs start as voice memos.”
Asked what he couldn't live without, Serge names the phone voice memo app as the vessel for nearly every riff and lyric idea.

Laufey

13:10 · Voice Memos · named · high confidence
“I honestly have sometimes written it down in the past, but voice memos, like when I'm on a plane and I have a melody idea”
Laufey explains that song ideas (melody and lyrics together) are captured on her phone's Voice Memos app rather than notated.
47:24 · Voice Memos · named · medium confidence
“I've done clean versions on a voice memo before. Like, I've been in a different country and needed to turn a word into something else”
Laufey says she has recorded usable clean vocal fixes on phone Voice Memos while travelling, arguing the phone can sound great.

Lizzy McAlpine

35:04 · Voice Memos · named · high confidence
“I made a voice memo, as I always do for my songs.”
Lizzy McAlpine writes into iPhone Voice Memos; the raw voice memo of Pushing It Down and Praying became the final vocal and guitar track.
36:30 · iPhone · named · high confidence
“The iPhone microphone is so, so good... people ask what kind of mic is that? It's a voice memo. iPhone, baby.”
The entire lead vocal and acoustic guitar of the released single were captured on an iPhone in Lizzy's bedroom.
1:37:05 · Logic Pro · named · high confidence
“I would record a video, I would arrange it in a different way, and then I would put it into Logic and record harmonies over the video”
Lizzy built her early cover videos by arranging and stacking harmonies in Logic before posting to Instagram.

Lorde

1:18:58 · Logic Pro · named · medium confidence
“I caught that on the, just in Logic, and just chopped it up, the recording of just the drums playing”
Room-mic drum bleed captured via the SM7 was chopped in Logic to open Shapeshifter.

Maribou State

14:05 · Voice Memos · implied · medium confidence
“the name came from a voice note... when you record something on your iPhone it sometimes gives you a random name as to where you are”
iPhone voice-note location naming accidentally gave the track Black Oak its title.
48:54 · Logic Pro · named · high confidence
“that's when I started getting into working on Logic, I think at the time, and then experimenting with sounds”
Chris started producing in Logic when he and Liam began working together at university.

Myles Smith

39:45 · iPhone · named · medium confidence
“On a track called Solo that we did, it was like on an iPhone in the closet”
Vocals for the track Solo were captured on an iPhone in a closet to keep texture and scratch.

Olly Alexander

38:38 · Logic Pro · named · high confidence
“Shows what one of my Logic files looks like... you can do this cool Logic thing where it's just like export, bang, 112 tracks as audio files”
Harle produces the whole album in Logic Pro and demonstrates his labelled stem-export workflow for sending 112 tracks to a mix engineer.
1:33:57 · Logic Pro · named · high confidence
“All of us in the PC Music world always use the Logic VariSpeed function where you slow down the whole project by a few semitones”
Detailed walkthrough of the Logic VariSpeed technique for creating sped-up vocals, with advice to use semitones rather than percentages.
1:40:52 · Logic Pro · named · medium confidence
“I barely can use Logic. I mean, I can do enough to make my own very clunky, bad demos”
Olly Alexander describes using Logic minimally for rough demos, treating his limited skills as a creative limitation.

Pomplamoose

20:22 · Voice Memos · named · medium confidence
“it prompts me to go back into my voice memos and to sort of explore what was happening at the time”
Natalie uses phone voice memos to capture writing sessions and revisits them when documenting the process.

RDS

7:00 · Voice Memos · implied · medium confidence
“there's a recording that I sent to James, it's like an iPhone recording of me improvising the vocal melody”
Tyrone captured the original 'Pressure' vocal melody as a phone voice recording at home, which was later played back in the session.

Rex

12:35 · Voice Memos · named · medium confidence
“Do you have the voice memo? Yeah, yeah, I will do. I actually do.”
The original Guitar Song demo, Alex mumbling a melody over chords, was captured as a phone voice memo and played back in the episode.
51:37 · Logic Pro · named · high confidence
“I just put this Sufjan Stevens song into just Logic's sampler... I don't think I even put it to tempo”
Jim built the 2008 sample loop by loading a record into Logic's sampler and hitting keys.

Royal Blood

24:04 · iPhone · named · medium confidence
“Are you recording those sessions where you're jamming things out? Just on like an iPhone.”
Band arrangement/jam sessions and the piano demo for 'There Goes My Cool' were captured on an iPhone as reference recordings.

Rudimental

21:49 · Logic Pro · named · high confidence
“so we got it into Logic, and then we used the iZotope Rebalance”
Logic is the DAW the 'Thank You' session was built in, with the sample imported and gridded there.

Snarky Puppy

6:16 · GarageBand · named · high confidence
“We started making audio demos, mostly in GarageBand or Logic, and then we would email the demo to everybody in the band.”
League says Snarky Puppy's deliberately rough learning demos are made in GarageBand or Logic and emailed to the whole band.
6:16 · Logic Pro · named · high confidence
“We started making audio demos, mostly in GarageBand or Logic.”
Logic named as one of the two DAWs used for Snarky Puppy's band demos.
16:06 · Logic Pro · named · high confidence
“I use Logic, MIDI controller straight in. I don't spend a lot of time on it.”
Describes his minimal demo rig: Logic with a MIDI controller plugged straight in, no time spent on sounds.

St. Vincent

1:30 · Mac · named · medium confidence
“I got the whatever souped-up Mac and Pro Tools and stuff”
Her studio DAW rig at Compound Fracture is a high-spec Mac running Pro Tools.

The Favours

12:15 · Logic Pro · named · high confidence
“The sessions that I have open are the Logic sessions that I recorded everything into, and then these sessions were used to mix also.”
Logic Pro was used both to record the whole album and to mix it, with the mixer working in the same sessions.
27:17 · Logic Pro · named · high confidence
“Literally stock Logic Springbox plugin, stock Logic EQ, just cutting some of the highs out.”
The old-school springy tambourine sound came from Logic Pro's stock spring reverb and channel EQ.

Tomora

12:59 · Logic Pro · named · high confidence
“and then generally move everything to Logic to arrange”
Logic Pro is used as the arrangement and mix-prep environment after Ableton sketching.
24:50 · Logic Pro · named · high confidence
“They're probably in the Logic session, because Steve is allergic to Ableton”
Drum treatment sessions with engineer Steve Dub happen in Logic rather than Ableton.

d4vd

2:39 · iPhone · named · high confidence
“I looked up how to make music on iPhone the next day. This app comes up and then I start using my little sister's closet as the studio.”
The iPhone is his sole recording device, used with a closet as the vocal booth.
2:50 · Apple EarPods · named · high confidence
“I was just making everything on the phone with the Apple earbuds, no professional mic, no nothing.”
All of his early tracks, including the viral hits, were sung into the Apple wired earbuds' inline mic.
28:37 · Apple EarPods · named · high confidence
“It's the Apple earbuds, the built-in earbuds... if I'm using the Apple earbuds, it's like a very specific kind of song, maybe some bedroom pop.”
He chooses the earbud mic deliberately for bedroom-pop textures, treating the mic as part of the songwriting.
50:17 · iPhone · implied · medium confidence
“I basically just took the phone mic and started banging on the walls for the drums.”
The iPhone's built-in mic doubled as a drum mic when he needed percussion for a recent song.