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Jon Hopkins' favourite music software

By Computer Music
published 22 November 2013

The electronica maestro takes us on a trip down memory lane...

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Sound Forge 4

Sound Forge 4

“This lets you open files directly off the hard drive, so you can edit and process them independently of your sequencer. I often have tens of different sounds open at once, all with separate undo chains and innumerable edits. I use it to make my most complex sounds and all of my beats.”

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Gadget Labs WaveWARM

Gadget Labs WaveWARM

“One of the reasons I use such an old version of Sound Forge is for some of the plugins that won’t load in newer versions. WaveWARM’s meant to be a valve emulator or something, but if you push the settings to extremes, it does the most mental stuff. Waveforms come out looking like stalagmites - which is obviously a good thing!”

[Editor's note: WaveWARM is so old that we couldn't even find a picture of it, hence the shot of Jon's studio above!]

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Parallels Desktop

Parallels Desktop

“Parallels enables me to have my 2001 Windows XP PC exactly as it was (before it caught fire), open in a window on my Mac. So, I can have the best of all the old software with the best of the new. I love sampling from my older stuff to build textures.”

Find out more about Parallels Desktop

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Apple Logic Pro

Apple Logic Pro

“Logic is my main sequencer. Its overall sound is amazing, and the automation is intuitive and instant. Automation is central to everything I do - I use layer upon layer of it going on for each sound to keep everything sounding alive and organic.”

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Audio Ease Altiverb

Audio Ease Altiverb

“This can be great when used in weird ways - on the entire master of the track Form By Firelight, I mixed in an emulation of a Chorus Echo, set pretty dry but with its input quite driven.”

Read Audio Ease Altiverb 7 review

Jon's album Immunity is out now.

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