| Some random bits of information about me
- Location: Latvia, EU
- Age: 30+
- I
play: piano and all kinds of keyboards, various exotic instruments,
electronic signal sources, trash percussion or anything that makes a
sound when interacted with.
- Education: electronics engineer
- Technical
background and foreground professionaly: Microwave modem DSP R&D
head, developing analog VCO, VCF, VCA and synth modules for
Erica Synths*
- Food preferences: Generally anything that does not run away. Yet it should not be too spicy, smelly or too raw.
- Food dislikes: sushi, blue cheese, chili
- Favourite cuisine: Italian and czech.
- Musicians
and composers I find awesome and inspiring: Yoko Kanno, Michael Kamen,
Zigmārs Liepiņš, Hisaishi Joe, Danny Elfman, Alan Silvestri, Hans
Zimmer, Christopher Young, Henry Mancini, Randy Edelman
- Religion and philosopy: Logic, science, absurdism and the Flying Spaghetti Monster*
- My heroes living: Ikutaru Kakehashi
- Heroes RIP: Tsutomu Katoh, Keith Barr and Oskar Sala
- I believe in: existence of evil overlords, and a happy polygyny
- I don't believe in: existence of quality software
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- I can't stand: the autopan effect, as well as blue and white LEDs on equipment
- I also despise: general purpose computer (pc/apple) based DAW, as well as VST and VSTi
- Synth, fx and tool preferences: Erica Synths*, Roland/Boss, Korg, Eventide, Alesis, Kawai, Novation, Digitech, TC-Helicon, Viscount, Soundcraft, Jinjiang Shengle
- Synth&fx dislike: Access, Nord, Elektron
- First headphones: ТДС-3 (<-- as seen in the picture on left)
- Preferred headphones and studio monitors: AKG K-240 and K-271; Yamaha HS-8
- Favourite acoustic piano: Estonia* for it's soft, mellow and dark timbre and touch.
- Synthesizers I want to get someday: Mixtur Trautonium and a pink otamatone deluxe
- Drink preferences: A variety of strong black tea, rooibos, as well as milk
- First synthesizer: pink Юность-70*, untunable Pille* and then Casio PT-12
- First programmable computing devices: Электроника МК-56* and then ZX Spectrum
- First
PC-compatible computer: Tandy 1000SX with CGA, expanded 384kBytes of
RAM and two awesome 360kb 5.25" drives that each preferred their own
diskettes
- Favourite microphones: Shure KSM-44, AKG C480+CK69 shotgun and AKG C451B/ST
- First microphone: loathsome Октава МД-201, 52, 64, and a builtin one inside Легенда-404*
- Electronic circuit simulation tool of choice: LT-Spice*
- First apple: Apple II plus
- Hard lessons
learnt (the ones I remember well): On some PC-XT/AT ISA slot connectors,
shorting data bus D2 and -12V supply is easy even with a toothpick - instant destruction.
- Most favorite music tracker: Impulse Tracker* by genius
Jeffrey Lim. Absolute favorite since late 90-ties. From time to time
still feel compelled to boot up dos pc for some great fun.
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I
use my own custom software and hardware tools for audio mastering, effects processing, analysis, synthesis and resynthesis. I
am a synth and DSP zealot, and a professional electronics digital radio
communication equipment engineer and software developer. As much as a
spare time will allow me, I will try to share my knowledge in these
fields by writing articles and posting them here on my website. Although
it's a rare occasion, I sometimes do attend events to give live
performance, playing mainly on various midi gear. Back in the days, I played alongside
with a vinyl dj. I always create some new, conceptually tied, special track for every event I attend.
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