Philip Houska Adele, the world-famous and highly successful British singer and songwriter, especially with her second studio album 21 it won the favor of most critics and found a wide base of loyal fans. It is therefore not surprising that her next album was highly anticipated among listeners and at least as successful as the previous album. Album 25, which debuted on November 20, 2015, occupied the first places in the world music charts, and singles like "Hello" and "Water Under the Bridge" broke the charts.
The success of this album depended not only on the singing of this singer, but also on the skills of the world-renowned producer Greg Kurstin. Interestingly, Kurstin is apparently quite close to Apple. This man, who has on his account, among other things, the successes of the singers Katy Perry and Sia, as well as the band Forster the People and the singer performing under the name Beck, mainly used his MacBook Pro, the already mentioned Logic Pro X and Quartet USB from Apogee for his collaboration with Adele .
"Obviously I love using a professional mic preamp along with dynamic processing, but for recording and production I prefer the travel Logic gear," said Kurstin, who has had hits like "Hello," "Water Under the Bridge" and "A Million Years Ago" with Adele. recorded in London. "I know my mobile kit is working, so I use it to avoid any technical problems as much as possible," he added.
While Adele was writing her lyrics, Kurstin was working on Logic Pro X, admitting that the musical tool allowed him to use effects that he would otherwise have to seek out "outside the studio".
BRIT Awards winner Adele admitted that as soon as Kurstin arrived in London, she was full of inspiration and the ideas started to flow. Both agreed that this collaboration worked without the slightest difficulty.
The full story of Adele's collaboration with producer Kurstin is available to read on Apple's official website. Although the company rarely talks about its Logic tool, which has strayed far from professional Mac applications, it is constantly involved in the music industry. This is proven by the presentation of a new part of the music portfolio called Music Memos, and updates to applications such as GarageBand or Logic Remote, which newly came with support for iPhone and iPad.
That's exactly what the "Ghost Producers" are. The people who really stand behind those hits. I am of the opinion that collaboration is not a bad thing, but there are performers and musicians who are not able to write a text or create a musical background. How much is their song then? As a result, their song is finally celebrated, but the fact that the text and actually the entire melody and actually the entire song was created by someone else and that person sang it is no longer resolved. I really don't like that.
It just needs to be moved forward a few decades. The competition is getting bigger and the individual has much less chance to succeed. Therefore, teams are created to cover all important areas of the "product".
Yes, you spelled it right. Adele is a product, just like the rest of these big music stars. From my point of view, it deserves a minimum of recognition. I understand that writing the lyrics and coming up with a line with the producer to fit can be challenging, but creating from the peak, from the first note, to the final form is something else entirely. I'm not sure if Adele and her ilk would even be able to put together something of quality. But every fan will say "yeah, Adele, she's great!". Kinda sad :)
So somehow it seems to me that singers have long been away from interpreting the works of other authors with their abilities. Actors to play a role directed by someone else with a script written by someone else. Musicians in an orchestra to play from scores written by someone else.
So why blame them now?
Someone uses an Apple product to produce an album and there is an article. Hundreds of musicians have other products under Windows and don't solve it. Not to mention that someone would write articles about it. Ridiculous.
May I ask how, specifically, Logic X deviated significantly from professional Mac applications? Maybe I just misunderstood the sentence, but I don't get it completely. (I'm a Logic X user)