Still loves working with Ableton’s Live as well. “Live 3 is great,” he says. “And it was just phenomenal how easy it was to use with Pro Tools. I did some things on Elton’s new album in Live — the fact that it can shape the sound to the tempo is amazing. In a live situation, the tempo has an ebb and flow to it — it kind of goes up and down. So we can go in and create a tempo map of where every bar and beat is in the song, open up Live, program a few loops and live performances, place the marker where the beat needs to go, and set the tempo.”