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Kipper, who has worked with artists as diverse as Stevie Wonder, Gary Numan, Catherine Zeta-Jones and jazz trumpeter Chris Botti, has been using Macs for the past nine years, having moved onto them from an old Atari computer. “It was the next logical step as Notator developed into Logic. It was very exciting moving onto Macs — I love the power, speed and, most of all, the reliability. With Macs, everything is very intuitive — you can think that you want to do something, and just do it. The ease of drag and drop allows the speedy auditioning of ideas, which further enhances one’s creativity. With PCs, you’ve got to get into another mindset in order to do the same functions”.  Kipper’s remarkable combination of technical and creative skills — he is also a musician, vocalist, songwriter and composer, and has toured with Sting as part of his band — give him a unique insight into the minds of the artists he works with.
“My role as a producer is to play, arrange and interact on all levels with the artist. I like to think of myself as a kind of midwife to Sting’s ideas. For me, technology is a means to a creative end. When I sit down at my keyboards to jam, write or produce, I want the hardware and software to be transparent, allowing a free flow of musical ideas”.  In addition to three Power Mac G4 desktops and four titanium PowerBook G4s, Kipper and the production team also make constant use of Apple’s iPod MP3 player — not just for transferring and backing up large music files, but also for taking rough mixes from the studio to listen to in different environments.
“The iPods are very valuable to our work process. Everyone on the team has an iPod that we plug in and update each evening with new ideas or mixes. I have the entire album from the first note stored in iTunes and synced to my 20GB iPod — up to 40 versions of each song! It’s amazing, a great tool”. “This album is without doubt totally Mac-powered”. Sacred Love is due to be released in September 2003. A single is due out in July. |
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