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Martin Walker
June 18, 2004
Michael Bearden
July 25, 2003
Didier Dambrin
April 25, 2003
Athan Billias
October 10, 2002
Joe Bryan
March 15, 2002
Steve Duda
March 3, 2002
Sonikmatter recently caught up with Steve Duda, most widely known for programming / remixing for Nine Inch Nails, Methods of Mayhem, Rob Zombie, and most recently a single remix for the movie Zoolander.
Finding some time between multiple musical projects, Steve enlightens us with his views on the use of the latest hardware and software gadgets, the future of music, the importance of finding the right sounds, and even shares a tip or two on Beatcreator, one of his favorite studio software...
Joerg Huettner
February 30, 2002
Sonikmatter swam the River Rhein and traveled deep behind the walls of the Schloß Ahrenthal to find out more about Waldorf guru and wizard Joerg Huettner, a man of many talents and juggler of many hats. Musician, sound designer, A&R of Waldorf Record's "Zeitlos" compilations and head of Product Support at Waldorf and TSi GmbH, Joerg is a man that some of you may already know from his varied work, and now Sonikmatter can cast more light on this cool and clever gentleman...
Hal Chamberlin
January 30, 2002
A book titled "Musical Applications of Microprocessors" became the companion for many Engineers designing musical instruments in the 20th century in 1980. By 1985, the book was expanded from its original 660 pages to a whooping big 800-odd pages. Till this day, the book (albeit outdated) is still seen as a source of learning for many students in this field. The man who wrote that book is Hal Chamberlin...
Jim Aikin
December 30, 2001
Without a doubt, Jim Aikin has come to be known as the "father of all reviewers". From the mid 1970's till the present day, he has been one of the architects that built up one of the worlds leading keyboard based magazines KEYBOARD.
Senior Editor at KEYBOARD magazine and a well known voice around musicplayer.com.
Sonikmatter had a chance to talk with him and get some fascinating insights into the man whose name is just as synonymous as some of the leading edge equipment he reviews...
Steve Pavao
November 30, 2001
Kurzweil has always been able to release their operating systems over the years with very high quality and unsurpassed commitment to their users. Sonik recently had the chance to talk to Steve Pavao, one of the software engineers for Kurz products who implemented the K2600 Triple Modular Processing feature, and also worked on the software team for the brand spanking new KSP8...
Chris Meyer
October 30, 2001
When you look at the career of Chris Meyer, you can see that he is a man who has forged his way to the top of all the fields he has worked in. From SEQUENTIAL to CYBERMOTION, Chris has carved a unique career in both audio and video (computer titling)...
Bob Yannes
September 3, 2001
This is an interview with the creator of the SID chip, namely Bob Yannes, who after working for Commodore, co-founded the well-known synthesizer company Ensoniq. In the latter part of the interview he gives us a very detailed description of the SID's technology...
Wolfram Franke
August 18, 2001
Waldorf and their legendary range of synthesizers need no introduction. But who are the people who toil away at the Schloss Ahrenthal, surrounded by a large forest, to engineer these desirable and ultra-cool synthesizers? Have you ever wondered why Waldorf filters are superb, or about Wavetable Synthesis or how the classic PPG Wave was transmogrified into a software synthesizer for the delectation of today's generation of musicians? The answers to these and many other questions can now be revealed...
John Lehmkuhl
July 30, 2001
Nick Howes
June 24, 2001
John Bowen
April 30, 2001
Bob Chidlaw
March 13, 2001
Chris Martirano
February 30, 2001
Behind any great company are good people. Products are built and designed which constantly reflect what they put out. Out of the ashes of the original Kurzweil Music Systems that went bankrupt, evolved the career of one of the people that helped forge the new Kurzweil into what it is today. That man is Chris Martirano...
Scott Peer
February 12, 2001
Designing a synthesizer and equipment from the ground up is a specialist's job. Over the years, Scott had his introduction into the late PROPHET line of synthesisers, to the final instruments the late ENSONIQ Corporation put out. Sonikmatter caught up with Scott and got an insight into the man, and some of his thoughts on the music industry today...
Chris Steller
February 1, 2001
Chris Steller is the "Digital Musical Instruments Product Support Co-ordinator" at Yamaha Music Australia. He gets to play with all the latest equipment and "beta" test some stuff that hasn't been released. But deep underneath is a guy who is more "analog" than "digital". Sonikmatter had a chance to slow down this fast ADSR and get him resonating on what he has been up to...
Lyle Mays
January 24, 2001
Composer extraordinaire Lyle Mays answered some questions recently for a 'virtual' interview via the internet. For those of you not familiar with his work, you may know him from the Pat Metheny Group with whom he composes and tours. Besides being a remarkable improvisor (live composer), his work with synthesizers over the years has produced some truly unique textures for the PMG and also for his own albums...
Michael Haydn
January 12, 2001
Kent Clelland
January 11, 2001
Software developer Kent Clelland of Native Instruments has been working on a new plugin called Spektral Delay. A very innovative product, it allows for real-time FFT to divide each channel of a stereo signal in up to 160 separate frequency bands for individual control. These bands can then be selectively raised or lowered in level, and then their delay time and feedback changed as well...
Lee Jackson
May 24, 2000
Computer game music has come a long way in the last 10 years. Going from the bleeps and pops of a computer chip to full blown musical scores. Music has come a long way in the computer industry.
The "elite" few who have the job of scoring computer games these days realise they must help create an atmosphere to supplement the graphics and gameplay...
Sue Metro
May 10, 2000
Daniel Fisher
December 30, 1999
Chuck Surack
December 11, 1999
David Fox
October 24, 1999
Jennifer Hruska
September 1, 1999
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Sound on Sound author and reviewer Martin Walker has had experience is
designing audio gear, offering expert reviews on hundreds of music
technology products, and started his own record company. He offers
Sonikmatter readers his insight into the current state of synthesizers, the
music industry, game sound design, and more.
The Sonik crew has gotten a hold of the talented Michael Bearden. He has worked with a great number of artists including Stevie Wonder, Michael Jackson, Faith Evans, Whitney Houston, J-Lo, Madonna and many others. In the midst of balancing projects, Michael has found some time to talk with us...
What's wrong with your loops ? Do they need a little Rock-Melon, a dash of Passion-Fruit, perhaps a Ba-Na-Na-Na or maybe some Fig-aro, Fig-aro, Fig-aro, Fig-aro, Fig-aro ? Well, once again Sonikmatter's intrepid reporters have braved the electron storm of the Internet to track down Didier Dambrin, designer and programmer of FruityLoops, to discover not only the genesis of this funky program but also the Gorbachev connection...
Over the years we see a lot of great products that come from the many music manufacturers. When you think of companies like KORG and YAMAHA, you know you are talking about companies that create many truly innovative products. From the M1 to the MOTIF, to the foundations of the Korg KARMA, there has been one key element in them all: Athan Billias...
From Ensoniq to KORG to Universal Audio, Hardware Engineer Joe Bryan has become renowned for being a key component in some of the music industry's most legendary products. From his idea of an "analog to digital" input on the Korg Wavestation rack, to his work on the legendary unreleased keyboard seen at NAMM (1993) known as the OASys, Sonikmatter found Joe hard at work producing more "cutting edge" technology...
Over the years, KORG has produced some of the best synthesizers made. In order to show the potential of these devices, great sounds have to be sold with the machine. One of the many people, who program these high quality sounds for KORG, is John "Skippy" Lehmkuhl...
Being successful in the music industry means having a balance of the right people developing the right products. YAMAHA have always been a "progressive" company in their product development and have never been shy on developing new methods for which musicians can express themselves.
Sonikmatter set out to try and track down some "key" personell in the YAMAHA product chain, and ran into one of their "secret weapons". He is Nick Howes from YAMAHA R&D (UK Division)...
After forging an early career and stamping his name forever with the products that Sequential made, John Bowen has become one of the most sought after men in the synthesis business. From software emulations, to new hardware synthesizers, John's talents branch over many generations of synthesizers...
Back in the late 1980's, unbeknownst to its creators, a keyboard dynasty was about to begin. A method of synthesis that still, till this day, is unfathomable in its depth. Featuring a multitude of methods that could process sounds in many unimaginable ways, it is known on Kurzweil machines as VAST...
Michael Haydn of Emagic was kind enough to sit down for a few minutes during a very busy NAMM 2001 convention. The atmosphere around the Emagic booth was one of excitement and industry. But for all the buzz and success happening for Emagic these days, Michael proved to be enthusiastic...
Kurzweil have always been able to release there machines over the years with great pride that there instruments are sound and stable. Behind the scenes, a small team of "bug catchers" make sure that nearly all of them don't reach maturity and drive us all insane. They are the Kurzweil R&D QA testing team...
Those of you who owned K2000s in the early 90's may recall a mind-blowing Kurzweil program called Darkside (filename PINKFLYD.KRZ) that recreates Pink Floyd's entire On The Run synth trip without using sequencing or user samples.
This masterpiece of VAST programming was created by a then unknown synth programmer named Daniel Fisher (aka _FIZBIN_). In the years since he has become well recognized as the VAST Guru and Director of Soundware Engineering...
Early in the 1980's, Chuck Surack started a recording company called "Sweetwater Sound". From a modest start, based in his mobile home in Fort Wayne, Indiana, Chuck built one of the worlds's most successful mail-order music companies in existence....
For many on the K2000 USER GROUP, this man has been the main "artery" of communication to Kurzweil itself. Formulating the very backbone of the company's responses, he is known as the "Official" voice of Kurzweil. He is David Fox...
The early days of the K2000 release was a struggle for many K2 Users. Not only did they have one of the most advanced synthesizers on the planet, nobody was really sure what this synth could really do!
Recently, I had a chance to catch up with Jennifer and ask her a few questions about those early years...