Amiga Music Preservation -

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1-How did your interest for computers start? Which year was that?

When a friend of mine bought his first AMIGA and showed me the first
Soundtracker (yes, that one with Axel F. on it!), I just had to get one
for myself. That was in 1989.

2-What machines did you previously have? What did you do with them?

AMIGA 500 - games, music
AMIGA 1200 - music, graphics
486 DX2 60 - getting used to windows
486 DX4 100 - I found FastTracker and started making music again.
Pentium 133
Pentium 200MMX
Pentium2 350 - No I have MadTracker and love to make cool music!

3-For what specific reason did you end up making music rather than gfx, coding?

Because it's a great feeling to listen to selfmade beats. It's nice to look
at pictures, but music is something more.

4-Which composing programs have you been using? Which one in particular?

SoundTracker (AMIGA)
NoiseTracker (AMIGA)
StarTrekker (AMIGA)
ProTracker (AMIGA)
FastTracker (MS DOS)
Cakewalk Express (WINDOWS)
FastTracker again (MS DOS)
MadTracker (WINDOWS)

5-With which module did you feel you had reached your goal?

With every mod I made - but with every newer track I thought, I am reached
it again, hehe!

6-Is there a tune you would like not to remember? For What reason?

no.

7-In your opinion, what's the value of a music in a demo, game?

Music can set you into different moods. So I think, a scary game (or movie)
isn't scarey without the correct sound/music. It's one of the most important
things in life.

8-At present, are you still composing? For professional or leisure purposes?

Both.

9-What do you think of today's pieces of music such as mpeg,wave,midi,etc...?

I hate MIDI, because it sounds different on different soundcards. I love
MP3, because, now I am able to make really memory-intensive mods (MT2s) and
just convert them to MP3 to make them small enough to spread them around
in the net.

10-Could you tell us some of your all times favourite tunes?

Axel F. (Carsten Obarski's Sound-Tracker Version)
Turrican2-Theme (by Chris Hülsbeck)
Most songs of Jogeir Liljedahl
Overload-Soundtrack (by Mantronix & Tip)

too much to annouce here....

11-Are you planning to make an audio cd with some of your music remastered?

I already did it!

12-What bands are you currently listenning to?

Nothing special. I just listen to the music I like. I don't go to the
CD-shop and buy a CD just because band "x" did it.

13-What does/did the amiga/c64 scene give you?

Long time great fun!

14-Are you still active in the scene these days?

Yes, the MP3-Scene.

15-Anyone to greet? Anything left to say? Feel free...

All the Infect-Members! And all my friends makeing MP3-music!

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