Amon Tobin on Producing and Composing in Cubase | Steinberg Spotlights

In this Steinberg Spotlight, Brazilian electronic artist and music producer Amon Tobin discusses the role that Cubase plays in his music production and his experiments with synthesis. Having produced several albums of sampling and recontextualizing sounds, Amon moved into recording sound, experimenting with field recording and synthesizing those recordings. He is now focused more on familiar sounds like the Mellotron, simple waveforms and imperfections in sound. Cubase is a DAW that plays a big role in Amon’s sound designs because he needs something that is transparent, quickly getting his expression out to see if ideas work. Then he has the option of using the levels of depth in Cubase or using its advanced MIDI features to explore them. Amon‘s new label Nomark is the home to recordings under his own name, aliases Figueroa, Stone Giants, and Paperboy, and associated projects like Only Child Tyrant and Two Fingers.

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[alichamas]

He is the G.O.A.T digital artist. He a musicians musician. Amon leads, and it's hard for others to follow, rather we just observe in absolute wonder. Thank you for all the amazing music over the years Amon, here's to many more.

[paulus_germanus]

Amon is is amazing. Amazing interview.

[themonth]

First heard and fell in love with the work of Amon in the videogame "Splinter Cell CT". I guess thank you Cubase as well.

[blmzndr]

Such a pleasure watching Amon talking about his craft.

[The_Isaiahnator]

Brilliant man. He deserves all the success he receives. Thanks for the interview.

[innapinch]

What he was talking about at the end, that's something I've had to learn to do too. It's easy for me to have a specific idea for a layered progression, or a way a polymeter is going to lock, and frustrate myself so much trying to flesh it out that I walk away from the project. Letting go and letting the miscalculations lead me somewhere unforseen (and often better) has been a great exercise in humility. It felt really validating hearing someone I respect as much as him talking about the same struggle and process.

[LouisLinggandtheBombs]

Great, velvety voice! He could do spoken word records too!

[kakabestplayer]

I have never been so frightened to play a videogame just because of the music, and still to this day being 24 i find it hard to play it again, the soundtrack of Chaos Theory is truly something else.

[shthouserat]

I was on the fence about which DAW to go to leaving Cakewalk. This video, the one with Infected Mushroom and the one with Hanz Zimmer really made Cubase the obvious choice. Glad I did. after the initial few days of hating everything that's different about it, we've gelled and it's really opening a lot of doors creatively. Haven't been this productive in years

[skyry]

Cos I didn't see a link listed for his label's site in the description: Nomarkrecords.com

[marcsolax]

cubase is my favorite daw, but i really wish it could handle max for live devices ;_; anyway great to see a non-"based" artist spotlight ^^

[aayushambastha]

When you love music more than yourself

[szabolcsvasarhelyi]

This guy is the Vivaldi of our modern age

[thehitter]

Sorry to blast my experience publicly but when I emailed I got no response and when I did a chat on the website hey literally just advised me to resell my license lol I don’t want to resell I want to be able to access all of my old sessions dating back to 3.

[PRSOne]

Sounds like he would love Ableton Live. No offense to Cubase, but it's much more of a traditional DAW.

[johnsausage]

those interviews could be really helpful to existing users and also potential new users of Cubase... if they weren’t so boring. why aren’t you showing how they actually work with cubase (or let them show their most used features)? Even a nice scenery can’t make up for the content..

[amayjahmusic]

Why is he talking all creepy. Is he drunk?