Howard Jones

"Ableton Live runs the drums and the bass and other elements that we can’t reproduce. There are three of us with keyboards, and we take care of all of those parts – and they’ve been meticulously sampled up, or it will be three or four software instruments running together to create a sound. I’ve got the main stage rig and we are adding Omnisphere 2. It will have hardware connections to it where you can work the hardware, which works the software emulations, and it’s absolutely brilliant. There is no latency and it’s a very exciting development that we haven’t been able to do before."

"I use the standard plug-ins in Logic and because I know I am going to be working with Robbie, I’ll just stick an iZotope Ozone plug-in over the top to make it sound nice and beefy while I’m working on the track. I know it’s one level of the development and as soon as I go to Bristol to work with Robbie, I know we’re going to develop the sounds and we’re going to take it to another level."