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PinkPantheress produced 'Tonight' using only a MacBook keyboard

The BRITs Producer of the Year-winner says she used Logic’s Musical Typing function to create the 2025 hit single

  • Words: Megan Townsend | Photo: Elliot Hensford
  • 19 March 2026
PinkPantheress produced 'Tonight' using only a MacBook keyboard

PinkPantheress has revealed that she produced 'Tonight', the lead single from her 2025 mixtape 'Fancy That', using just her MacBook keyboard.  

In a clip posted on TikTok earlier this month (March 10), the BRIT Awards Producer of the Year-winner shared that she refrained from using a MIDI keyboard or plugins to create the track's piano chords, instead tapping the chords into her laptop using Logic Pro's Musical Typing function.

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“The first thing I start off with is figuring out the chords like this… as you can see, I put them in manually,” she demonstrates in the clip, adding how “MIDI controllers can be expensive" and that "inputting into whatever software you use works just as well".

PinkPantheress used the same method to create 'Tonight''s woozy synths and wobbly bassline riff, explaining in the video that she is "obsessed with UK bassline".

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Demonstrating how she patches together the piano keys, synth and bass, the Mercury Prize nominee admitted: "I'm terrible at drums so I got my co-producer Count Baldor to do the drums, he's amazing." 

PinkPantheress has always been open about her stripped-back approach to production. After being named Billboard's Producer of the Year in 2024, the UK musician wrote via X: "Love u GarageBand." 

Check out the full clip below.

Megan Townsend is Mixmag's Deputy Editor, follow her on X

@pinkpantheress i love to producethank you for being so lovely to meshoutout askel arvid and panic at the disco also #tonight ♬ original sound -
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