Amiga Music Preservation -

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

A friend of mine had a computer, a MSX espectravideo, and It was amazing for
me. It was in 1984.
Then I started to ask for a computer to my family. In december of 1985 I get
my first computer, an Amstrad CPC6128.
I was 10 years old and this computer was for me like an open door to a new
world.

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

Amstrad CPC6128. I used to play games and a started to learn programing
languages (BASIC and Z80 assembler).
I also built a 8 bit sampler and I started to make my first songs with chip
sounds.
In 1992 I bought my Amiga 2000 and I enjoyed so much with its games. Some
months later I discovered the trackers (Protracker and Octamed).

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

Because I love music and I studied music since I was 5 years old. I love to
play the piano and guitar.
Today I have a Kawai ES-4 digital piano and I used to play some songs I
composed for Amiga 15 years ago (for example, my mod Natasha).

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

I started with Octamed but when I started to play in the demoscene I was
using Protracker.
During some time I was using FastTracker on PC and I have some modules
composed for it.

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

Uhm... Supreme. It was my last Amiga Mod and I'm very proud of it.

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

Yes, of course. There was a Mod I had composed. I loved it and before to
publish it a virus destroys it and I never could recover it.
Even today I can remeber how does it sounds... but I never tried to do it
again. I don't like to remeber this Mod.

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

In my opinion I think is a very important thing. The music in a demo or in a
game is like the soundtrack of a film.
There is very famous films that without his soundtrack probably were not so
much famous.
Today, the music of a game has almost the same level as a Hollywood
production.

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

Yes, I'm still composing for leisure purposes. I like to compose for piano.
I use my keyboard connecting via MIDI to my computer to record MIDI files.

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

It is other formats for other purposes. A module in Amiga represents an
effort to join samples and scores in a very small amount of memory.
Today this is not necessary and we have big amounts of memory an faster
processors.

Midi is a good standard for sequencing, Wave is the sound directly and now
there is some interesting software like Fruit Loops Studio
that combines sequencing concepts with the classical tracker concepts and it
has his own file formats.

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

The music of the demo Arte/Sanity and The world of commodore Amiga/Sanity.

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

I think about it a lot of times... and I would like to do it but until now I
was so lazy...

12-What bands are you currently listenning to?

My favourite bands are U2, Depeche Mode and The Cure. Also I'm listennig
more recent bands like Prodigy, Chemical Brother or Moby.
My favoutite spanish bands are Amaral, Extremoduro and Heroes del Silencio.

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

A lot of hours of fun, to know a lot of interesting people and to live a
very interesting time in the history of computers, before the Internet
revolution.

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

No, I left the scene in 1996.

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

I would like to greet to my group mates of Sepultura, Barman, Derethor and
to Meigamiga.
I think We live in the same city (in A Coruña, Spain) but I've never seen
them again.
And I also want to greet you, Crown, for make this web page.

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