Music & MIDI
Music & MIDI
New Age - Ikonomara
Ikonomara was my first New Age-project, which was completed in 2001. I composed and recorded all the tracks using Cubase VST and mastered to CD through the t.c.electronic Finalizer Express. My sound-sources was the Roland XV-5080 (mainly Orchestral I and II) and the Akai S5000 sampler.
Here you can download and listen to all the songs as mp3.
| 1. Colour of the Ocean | (5.8 MB) |
| 2. River to the Sea | (6.4 MB) |
| 3. City under the Water | (5.3 MB) |
| 4. Mountain Silence | (6.0 MB) |
| 5. Forest in the Valley | (7.0 MB) |
| 6. Sunrise by the Sea | (6.4 MB) |
| 7. Into the misty Dawn | (5.9 MB) |
| 8. Above the Forest | (5.1 MB) |
| 9. Echoes of a Distant Dream | (7.4 MB) |
Pop-Rock - Fashion live
In 1988 and 1989 i played bass in Fashion, a pop-rock band that made all its own material. We qualified to be in the finals in the annual band-competition in Aarhus, but were beat by Michael Learns To Rock.
All songs were composed/written by me and Fashion's leadsinger Tine B. who later was leadsinger in Sunset, Catch, and Safri Duo.
Fashion live at Vestergade 58, Aarhus - summer 1988.
From left: Lars, Lene, Morten A, Tine, Morten B, Jakob
MIDI
Practically since its invention in the mid 80'es I have been using MIDI in several of the applications, I have developed. MIDI is a communications protocol (set of rules) which determines transmission format between electronic musical instruments and computers. Although primarily known for its use in sequencers (software for composing, arranging, and producing music), MIDI has proven useful in many other situations too. On this page are a couple of examples of my MIDI software.
MIDIAngelo - graphical MIDI-keymapper
MIDIAngelo is a simple-to-use, graphical MIDI-keymapper, that I developed in 2001. It allows musicians to take full control of all the instruments in a MIDI setup - real-time!
DXEdit
Back in 1987 i developed a visual editor/librarian for the Yamaha DX7 synthesizer - called DXEdit. The DX7 marked the start of an era of digital synthesizers with complex functionality and few buttons - or none at all. In addition to a whole new sound-architecture, this made the DX7 very cumbersome to program - which resulted in the development of a lot of software for assisting in the patch-editing process.
DXEdit showing the envelope curves of each of the 6 FM modualtors of the DX7
The DXEdit software ran on the Atari ST series of computers, which came with a MIDI interface. The project was meant as research in MIDI programming and communication with external hardware - and also to get to know the innards of the magnificent DX7 synth. If you happen to have been the happy owner of the DX7 and sometimes miss its distinct sound, you can buy a software version - called FM7 - of this instrument at Native Instruments, who produces a lot of really great and amazing music software.