Tracks
- Seduction
- The Ultimate Perfection
- Raiders
- The Revenge
- Eternity
- Close Encounters
- Atomic Disintegration
- Deception
- Requiem
- Missing You
- Hopelessness
- Lionheart
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Information
I discovered electronic music through a school friend around 1985. I started listening to early Depeche Mode, Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark and The Human League. I knew that they were using synthesizers. When I was about 15, I stumbled upon the picture of an Oberheim OB-Xa analog synth in a magazine and it was amazing. I spent hours looking at the photo and finally decided to ask my parents for a synthesizer. Alas, I was in Mauritius and I had to wait until 1990 before my mum purchased a Kawai K4 digital synthesizer for my brother and I. Using the Music-X and Bars & Pipes Pro sequencers on my trusty Amiga 500, I started composing and recording tracks, the first one being Atomic Disintegration on the day I got the Kawai K4 and the last one being Eternity when I was already at university.
Technical details
Composed and recorded using MicroIllusions/Talin Music-X (Amiga), The Blue Ribbon SoundWorks Bars & Pipes Professional (Amiga) and my Kawai K4 Digital Synthesizer supplying all the sounds (K4INT1 and K4INT2 Kawai Factory Sounds). This was the era before software instruments and effects.
Mixed using a technique which is very ancient: the Kawai K4 was multitimbral (eight instruments and one drum track but with a limited polyphony of 16 notes). The MIDI sequencers sent MIDI on nine distinct channels (at most). Panning and levels were done on the K4 itself by directly changing the settings within the patch. In other words, the MIDI sequences didn’t include any control changes (nor any program changes for the matter). I still remember this era very fondly…
Mastered years later, in 2004, using Waves WLM Plus and iZotope Ozone.
© 1995 by Avinash Meetoo. All Rights Reserved.