Bjork's "it's In Our Hands", Some questions about software used Options

[chasblackman]

Hi all.

Can anyone tell me the type of software most likely used on Bjork's "It's in Our Hands" song? I'm curious to know what software she's been using since Vespertine for beats.

I'm getting into this just recently and can't decide which programs to start with. I have an MPC 2000XL but am looking to get more computer-based.

So, what does Bjork (and crew) use to make beats and tracks?

Thanks so much to anyone who replies. I'm having a hard time looking this stuff up online.

Cheers,
Chas Blackman

[coldharbour]

Yeah.  I talked to Martin Schmidt from Matmos and he said the software they use is MOTU DP and Sound Edit 16. 

I'm not trying to really emulate their sound, per se, I''m just interested in how it was structured. 

Can someone explain to me a bit of what Logic can do?  I'm a little confused. 

And "It's in our hands" was released after Vespertine.  I'm not interested in how they got the samples they did -- that should be different for everyone and I don't aim to copy that -- I just want to know what program was used.

So, were the Vespertine beats done with DP or Logic, or both... I need help.

Thanks much!

"It's in our hands" was produced by Björk and Drew Daniel of Matmos (again). I think it's safe to assume that Bjork wasn't very involved in the technical side, so probably it was done in the Matmos way using DP and SoundEdit 16.

Vespertine was done on Logic and ProTools, like I wrote earlier. Matmos didn't produce Vespertine album, they did beats programming - so an educated guess would be they had their laptop with SoundEdit 16 and DP + the samplers in the studio, created the sounds in the style familiar to them, and the final sequencing combining their stuff and the rest of the material was done on Logic.

Another educated guess would be that the multitrack recordings of individual songs created in Logic were then transferred as audio files into ProTools where the final mixdown took place.

Logic can do whatever a fully professional audio sequencer is supposed to do. You can do all the midi programming in it, you can do all acoustic instruments recordings in it, you can use software instruments - you can do the whole track with it, including the mixdown. Logic is a complete professional studio in one package.

However, in the more demanding productions (like a Bjork album I'm sure) it's quite common to do the final mixdown using a different system - like for instance ProTools or a high-end analogue desk.

Hope this helps a bit.