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I just had songs inside of me that I had to get recorded. It never concerned me if they were accepted by people or not but it was and still is great therapy and fun. This all started with a Tascam 4 track in 1998

I played my first pub gig at age 16 back in 1983. My journey in music has taken me through old school tape studios in rock bands, through to producing Hip Hop with Aboriginal youth in outback Australia. i also compose & produce soundtracks & my own ambitious projects. This has really only been possible with digital recording. Finding software that is equal to analog is vitally important. Black Rooster is one of the few companies that satisfy me in this regard.

I am a guitar player by trade. I started music production in 2005 and my first DAW was FL Studio. I have moved to Reaper ever since. I love recording guitar instrumentals and mixing my own music. I prefer to work with Analog modelled gear because Digital is cold and harsh.

I started recording as a way to preserve songs I had written and eventually progressed to releasing material and writing for TV.

I started making music as a teenager, I loved progressive music, Leonard Cohen and Jeff Buckley. I wrote lyrics and made songs from them with an acoustic guitar and vocals only. Later, an audio engineer friend recorded and mixed my first record, back when I was in college. It was completely produced in the box, having only been tracked with outboard gear. That opened my senses to the possibility of having a simple project studio based out of a computer instead of having to go into a studio to record and mix an album. I did an professional audio engineering course and learned what was the essential to set up a studio which would allow me to record full multi-instrument post-rock, shoegaze, indie folk songs. It's been 24 years since it all started, and I released two new records through my netlabel last year.

I started more than 10 years ago, making music using Guitar Pro 5 then I downloaded demos from almost all DAW, and fell in love with Cubase Sx3, and decided to buy it, then I learned from internet and bought some books and videos, later I went to an audio school only to be certificated by Steinberg, they let me do only the exams, I did 5 hours each day to be Able to pass the tests, and I have now 4 certifications from all levels of Cubase. Also have been making remixes for contests, and have won some small recognition thanks to that, now I keep studying because this is a never ending task! Also have a degree on classical guitar. I love plugins that make my DAW sound like an analog console for example NLS from Waves????, or Magnetite from Black Rooster. ❤️????

2003 I discovered psytrance music
2007 I started to think "I must go to dance for the rest of my life.." but how to do it when I'll grow up.. all younger there.. but wait, there are djs older than my grandfather! so.. dj!
1 month later, I love too much this music.. I can't be happy just by playing it, I must create it by myself!
2020, me happy :)

I was always a music lover, but I did not dare to try to create music myself. But around 2014, I installed a mobile version of Maschine (iMaschine) on my phone. Using it was simple and fun. I installed more music production apps and for some time I tried to make music with my phone. Of course, it's problematic to do this using only the phone, but such apps are not intimidating by their complexity and this was very important at the beginning.
At the same time, I needed a lot of money for treatment and I had a very naive and very stupid dream - to create a successful hit and earn money with it. Yes, that sounds awful, and now it's funny to remember that.
When I realized that professional music creation needed more serious software, I switched to a PC and I gradually began to study. And I continue to do so until now. Of course, the dreams of producing a hit did not come true and sometimes I give up because of how much I still have to learn to do, but I am very glad that I got involved in music production. Because now I have a favorite thing, something that is really interesting to me, something that gives strength and motivates. The music production turned out to be a huge universe that you can explore all your life. And thanks to the music, I met a lot of kindred spirits. So it was not only the goal that turned out to be important but also the journey to it.

When I was studying at the conservatory, there was a studio with an atari running Pro24 (Steinberg), a four track tape recorder and a custom built modular synth. And a 808, a yamaha sound module and some other stuff. Strangely, me and one other student were the only ones interested in using the studio.

In early childhood, I became interested in radio electronics, soldered simple devices from radio components. Then he entered a vocational school. There I really liked one girl - and to impress her, I told her that I was writing electronic music ... that was not true. And he promised her to show his tracks. Hoping to get sex in return. So I just had to make two tracks. She didn’t like them, she refused me, but I liked the tracks, and the whole process of creation, so I continued to make music, and I had sex with another who liked what I was doing).