Bob Doyle Platinum Member

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I got serious about really developing my music-writing about midway through college when I purchased a 4-track cassette recorder and a (get this) Yamaha DX-100. I can't believe I actually produced anything with that machine, but I did.

That kept me going until I got a Korg M1 (I don't even remember the year), and that changed everything. Pianos actually sounded almost like pianos! Saxophones sounded pretty darned good, and well...you get the picture.

I started sequencing with an Atari computer runing a program called "Sonus", and then eventually moved to Cubase 1.0, and I've been with Cubase ever since.

The bulk of my music was writing in the very early 90's with the M1, then later the Korg X3, Ensoniq SQ-R, and eventually the Kurzweil K2000 (though not much of that shows up on anything I ever finished.)

Most of the songs on my profile here, however, were all written after April 2008.

As mentioned, life got different and eventually, music got shelved. The only time I'd write and complete anything was as background music for "career-related" projects.

Somewhere in 2007 something started calling to me, and while I still didn't find time to write, I somehow found time to spend money on new sounds, software, and hardware.

In May of 2008 (actually as I type this), I took something of a sabbatical in Austin, Texas to get back into the habit of writing.

I loaded up 2 guitars, a microphone, my Korg X3, a brand new computer loaded with sampler software and Cubase 4 Studio with the intention of experimenting and producing. And thats's what I did.

While in Austin, I replaced the Korg X3 with an M-Audio MIDI controller because I needed weighted keys, as I'd gotten used to that through playing a "real" piano at home.

This brings us to the present where I continue to commit to writing a little every day. Don't know exactly where it's taking me, but it sure feels good to be back in the game.