Nine Inch Nails – Hesitation Marks (Deluxe Version)

“An installation of the Soundtoys bundle is the first, mandatory step I take on all the platforms I use. Composing in Maschine or Live, performing live with Mainstage, or recording with Pro Tools… for every stage I rely on the incredibly useful, musical and inspiring tools Soundtoys provides. FilterFreak, EchoBoy and Decapitator are all over Hesitation Marks and used live throughout the TENSION 2013 tour.” - via soundtoys.com

At 4:50, Trent Reznor says "On the new record Hesitation Marks, about, if not every song ...almost every song was me with headphones on working in Maschine as a compositional environment. And I just found that to be fun. And I like the limitation of everything that's in there, and I like the fact that it can be easily automated with fingers and knobs and that you don't have to spend time assigning stuff, and I like the fact that it felt pattern based, and my Maschine consists of whatever soundbanks they have along with SoundToys native bundle and a couple softsynths outside of the Native Instruments thing. But just that was a kind of template to work from that ... I didn't feel exhausted when the record was finished and I could have kept going and probably will do the next thing I do in the same capacity, cause it just felt right. And the combination of Maschine as a kind of compositional tool on top of the effects I added ...became something I didn't ...I didn't miss being in the full studio. And sometimes having a limited work environment makes me work in a way that pushes me to something I wouldn't do if I'm sitting in the studio and I can reach for my favorite things".