Colin Newman

Colin Newman, known for his work with bands such as Wire, Githead, and others, utilizes an Apple Mac Pro (2006-2012) as part of his setup at Swim Studio. This is evidenced by a user-uploaded photo on Imgur.

Colin Newman of Colin Newman & Corrado Izzo, Wire, Githead, and Spigel*Newman*Colin*Malka, lists the Sony DPS R7 on his website for Swim Studio.

According to Colin Newman's of Colin Newman & Corrado Izzo, Wire, Githead, and Spigel*Newman*Colin*Malka, gear list at Swim Studio, he has a Yamaha 01V96 V2.

Newman's website lists the 002 as the interface he's currently using in his ~SWIM studio.

"Basically my current main "instrument" is a Macintosh G4. The absolute most recent thing Malka & I did was an a/v thing where the soundtrack was sourced only from audio recorded via the camera. There was of course heavy manipulation, looping etc. - I'm really waiting on a plug & play, cheap DV authoring solution - The highest end current generation G4s have a start on this, but we need greater capacity & not having to buy a new Mac to have it!!"

"...My main working partner on Commercial Suicide was John Bonnar, a composer who knew nothing about pop music or multitracking before this. He was writing arrangements for instruments he'd never worked with before - he'd only worked with dots on lines - so it was pure excitement for him. But when we got to actually making the record, we realised we didn't know how to do it. With pop music you do the drums or a click-track first, and if you're not using drums you do the bass, so we started with the bass. We used four DXs, a Mirage and a Roland, MIDI'd together to make the fattest noise I could imagine."

"I got my Digi 001 and I tried Pro Tools and I thought, 'This is amazing software' and the sound of everything was just so much better. I immediately lost interest in MIDI. MIDI seemed to me like poking at sound down a long wire."