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2. February 2010
Roland JD-990 doing the laser harp sound
The Synthex laser harp sound (or Ring mod.) is a difficult sound for many synths to replicate, most fail in the sync part. Even without any kind of ring modulation, the Roland JD-990 does this sound quite well. The JD-990 needs to be set to "Solo" mode (single note only), but how often would you need the laser harp sound to play a chord.
Here is a clip of the JD-990 laser harp patch I made:
JD-990 laser harp
(this patch would not work on a JD-800 due to the lack of oscillator sync)
20. December 2009
Music for xmas dinner at work
I was asked to make some music for a contest at the annual xmas dinner at work, so I threw some tracks quickly together:
Freddy Mercury - Living on My Own
Gary Moore - Still Got the Blues
(don't remeber where I got the MIDI's)
I also played the jaw-harp on top of a karaoke mp3 of Willie Nelson's version of Always On My Mind:
Always On My Mind
8. August 2009
Equinoxe thunder sound effects
While I was searching for Doom sounds I stumbled upon what I believe is the actual thunder sound effects used in the original Equinoxe album by Jean Michel Jarre.
I did a quick test where I mixed the thunder sounds with my Virus KB Equinoxe 5 remake and a shorter version of Equinoxe 8 made with the same sound set.
It ended up like this:
Equinoxe thunder sound effects
1. June 2009
More Doom tracks
Added a couple of Doom tracks in the game music section:
Doom: e2m4 - They're Going to Get You
Doom 2: map10 - The Demon's Dead
29. May 2009
My Equinoxe 5 remake used on a concert?
To my big surprise it seems that my Virus KB remake of Equinoxe 5 was played on a concert held 30. April in Poland.
I was not aware of this in any way other than that I accidentally stumbled upon a YouTube video.
It’s quite obvious if you listen to the end, as no other Equinoxe 5 remake I know of ends this way.
Here is the YouTube video:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N9U8A7NjPsA
The YouTube video is now gone, but I downloaded it and here is the audio part.
14. March 2009
Unreal: Spire Village
I've finally finished and recorded a MIDI I started on way back in 2001; Spire Village. A beautiful track composed by Michiel van den Bos for the game Unreal.
3. February 2009
Duke Nukem 3D: Space Storm
The Duke Nukem 3D track; Space Storm is now up.
12. January 2009
My Doom music on the doomworld forum
Recently I presented my Doom music and high resolution sound pack to the forumers at www.doomworld.com:
The tracks were indeed well received and it inspired me to make another Doom track; The Demons from Adrian's Pen - e2m2
2. January 2009
New website finally up!
Phew, getting rid of the old website was a relief; the code was a horrible mess and a pain to maintain.
The new website looks fresher, is made entirely with css styling and is W3C xhtml and css valid.
At the autumn of 2006 I entered into the realm of machining metal, so basically I swapped synthesizer and drum machine with lathe and milling machine and a lot of my spare time has been put into this.
Still though, I've made some music in between, mostly music from the classic PC games; Doom, Doom 2 and Duke Nukem 3D - which is available in the game music section.