Above & Beyond

While Logic is their main DAW for producing tracks from scratch, Above & Beyond use Ableton Live to put together and mix the radio show, and sometimes to separately work on some rhythms and grooves.

Above & Beyond's Tony McGuinness says "...I've been using it for eighteen years in one form or another, the guys are much the same I think, so I guess because we're used to it, but it does allow you to do so much. There are lots of annoying recent bugs, especially automation chase issues and rogue cache pops and stuff like that, but it is so incredibly powerful and, with the key commands and multi window thing, really fast."

He goes on to say the group uses Logic's ES1 synth and ESX24 sampler heavily in their productions. About the ESX24 he says "...we all know it so well you can get up and running so quickly. A lot of our pianos are just the Garageband Piano sound running in an EXS24." And of the ES1, "The ES1 is just fabulous, it’s in almost all of our productions somewhere."