My equipment...

...is not the very best, but it's enough for my elementary needs:

• Roland D20 as input-device (in former times also as sound-device)
• Roland Sound-Canvas SC-7 and
• Soundblaster AWE32 with 2MB RAM
• Soundblaster Live! as sound devices
• Digital Orchestrator as sequenzer program.

The beginning

A long time ago I used the good old Commodore C64 for my first steps in creating music. Although I've been teached in torturing pianos for a couple of years, I prefered the computer for composing (caused by my bad virtuosity). Since the sound of the SID is very poor (although I fabricated a stereo-SID with 6 voices following the instructions of the 64'er-magazine) I bought a few years later a 'real' synthesizer - my D20. For a couple of years I used it as input device, sound device and sequencer in one, until I got a new computer with MIDI-interface and a sequencer program (Sequencer Plus Gold). Since then I use the computer for sequencing... Later I bought the AWE32, which provided wonderful sample-abilities, and stopped using the keyboard as sound device, too. A couple of month later I added the SC-7 to my equipment, which replaced the ROM-Samples of the AWE32...

My creations

Mostly I create only short fragments of melodies, like this sample in WAV-format (Mono, 11kHz, 16Bit, nevertheless 1.4MB! Attention: Readers who are using Unix should ensure, that this file will not be sent directly to /dev/audio - otherwise the result will be a real ear-pain!). But from time to time I finish some larger songs, for example the following MIDI-files

• Bluebird (1994, remixed 1996)
• Hey! (1994, remixed 1996)
• Heartbeat (1994, remixed 1996)
• On The Other Side (1994, remixed 1996)
• Overture (1989, remixed 1996)
• Like A Cloud In The Wind (1994, remixed 1997)
• Celebration (1994)
• Daydream (1991)
• Open Your Eyes (1996, Original des Samples)
• GlücksBond (1996, Samples of Peter Bond, Maren Gilzer and Frederik Meisner of the german TV-game-show 'SAT.1 Glücksrad' rearranged and combined with music; it's still my most complex work. I created a 2MB soundbank for the AWE32 and used the ability of realtime filtering of the AWE32. You can download it as a 4716544 Bytes large or 2349056 Bytes 'small' mp3 file

© copyrights for all files presented on this page by Tim Wittrock 1997. You are permitted to copy the unchanged files non-commercially. You are allowed to distribute even modified files only non-commercially and with a reference to the original and it's author. You have to inform me of the modification immediately.
All distributions have to contain the full copyright information.

The MIDI-Songs sounds are best played with the SC-7 (on which they have been created), of course. You can find some of my songs in mp3 format at MP3.com.