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By Computer Music ( Computer Music ) published 26 April 2013

The UK house icon on his favourite tools

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Celemony Melodyne

Celemony Melodyne

“Melodyne is a fantastic piece of software. The whole idea still baffles us [Sasha’s studio team of Grayson Shipley, Dave Gardner and Josh Grant] slightly, though. I use it for a wide variety of things, from changing the pitch of a sample to extracting MIDI from remix stems.”

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