He locked himself away in Belgium and coded most of the FL graphics and plugins. Do you know the guy who developed it? Gol is like this evil genius in a good, weird and creative way.

I try to make everyone buy FL Studio, even people who don't make music! I think it's the most fantastic piece of software in the world. These days, you're something of an FL Studio evangelist. 'After that, I threw myself into music and I tried all the different DAWs I could get hold of: Cubase, Reason, FL Studio… I stayed with FL Studio because it had great demos.' The recordings are truly awful, but I like them because they represent my first expressions in the world of electronic music. I had no idea about drum machines or synthesisers, so I made recordings of me hitting my mother's dining table and turned them into drum loops. 'The first step was getting some basic audio editing software. I wanted to know how people made these crazy sounds. I could look at a guitar and drum kit and say, 'OK, that's how you make a song.' But when I heard the vocoders and space noises on Daft Punk, I became curious.

With normal rock and pop music, I could understand how it was made. I wrote a few games, did some programming, but when I first heard Daft Punk something strange happened. How come you weren't vegging out and playing Halo like most kids your age? You've been messing around with DAWs and plugins since you were 11.

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