“Once I got started, it started to flow and then it was a torrent and it felt like I was in 1997. MR: We hear that a Pro Tools beginner's course helped bring it back, so why 'beginner's' after so many years of using it? My favourite apps are Pro Tools, Photoshop and Final Cut Pro: immersive, creative worlds that you make your own. I used multitrack tape [to record] from '83 to '97 then, with the Madonna album, I went over to America and went 'Pro Tools'. There are these fun, crazy sessions where everyone's wild and probably drinking too much and something comes out of it and then there are ones that are a struggle and suddenly there's a breakthrough.