Hi!
Guess I have to provide some info about myself, and
why I have this site. I just recently (a year back now(1998)) got hold
of a PC at home, and I started to make a small dream Iīve had come true.
The dream was to have a home studio with a computers hard-drive as a
recording medium. The sound quality is excellent. The possibilities
of editing is infinite! My aim is to simulate the sound of a classic
rock studio. Part
of achieving my sound is that I do almost all the recording in real-time.
For the purpose of being able to catch all my human indifferences, which
makes the music come alive. As of now, I`ve started to produce music.
I want listeners. My music is not mainstream, forget EMI. What I hope
for with this site, is to possibly find people out there with similar
interests and views at things. Itīs
truly great to be able to make strangers listen to my work over the
net. And Itīs not completely out of the question, that I will even find
some soul mates this way. In that case, good, since my particular interest
in music is narrow enough to make it hard finding people to discuss
with in real life. The formats I use for publishing music here is Real
Communications Real Media format, and mp3:s of course. Thereīs four
samples of my own songs in .rm-media ready for download at my
"songs"-page already.
Please
note, that the .rm-files I use is much better sounding than the old
Real Audio file format. Almost approaching mp3:s in listening quality.I
will tell you when the songs I publish have become for deathly real.
Personal info
Name: Per Johansson
Age: 36
Location: Stockholm, Sweden
Icq-number: 17307270
Occupation: Technical manager at a business conference center
History:
High-school electronics engineer, retail of high-end home audio, different
sides of the security business.
Hobbies:
Play guitar, write songs, recording, computing, outdoor activities
and all other "normal" things people do ( travelling, reading etc. )
Music taste:
All
sorts, but preferrably progressive metal symphonic rock/ hardrock bands
70:s/ 80:s styles. Also love Jazz-rock and Jazz-fusion, and the old
classical composers like Beethoven, Brahms etc.. I donīt get too excited
about contemporary Pop, Disco, Techno, Dance-music - but itīs suitable
for shaking a leg at some nightclub, and one canīt help but be proud
over the achievements by those guys in the "Cheiron"-studio here in
my hometown (Britney Spears, Backstreet Boys etc.)
Reading taste:
Itīs mostly been computer litterature lately, but Iīm an old fan
of sci-fi and fantasy: Asimov, Tolkien, Heinlein, Douglas Adams and
so on....Iīll mabe soon be able to apply the unprobability drive on
my song-writing since most of the old sci-fi stuff seems to come true
today....
Last read book: Isaac Asimovīs "Utopia" by some unknown writer, great
stuff about three law complications...(and loads of computer books)
The list below is not completely up to date, in fact; it has changed
a lot, but I havenīt updated it. Nevertheless it gives you some idea
what i have to move around with...
Equipment:
Computer:
Pentium
II 300Mhz, 128Mb RAM, 8+10Gb harddrive, 17 inch EIZO F-56 High Contrast/High
Speed CRT-monitor, Soundblaster Live! PCI multichannel full duplex soundcard,
Creative 3D Blaster Banshee 250MHz 16Mb 2D/3D video card, 1200dpi color
jet printer, 30bit flatbed scanner, V90 v5.54 firmware LT Win-modem
+ Rockwell K56Flex/V90 external modem(for Linux), Mitsumi 24speed CD-player
and HP8100 2/4/24 speed CD-writer/rewriter, Yamaha active AST speakers,
Mitsumi Ergo Classic keyboard and MS IntelliMouse Explorer.
OS:s:
Windows
98 Second Edition under Internet Explorer 5.5 and SuSE Linux 6.2 ( also
default, I have Red Hat 6.1, Caldera 2.2, Slackware 3.6 and BeOS 4.5
as well but time keeps me from fully exploring all these possible OS:s
and I would need a few PC:s more to really exploit them).
Music Stuff:
Roland
PC-200mkII midi keyboard controller, Midiman G-man 32-voice multitimbral
professional sound module, An old Yamaha AWM 28-voice multitimbral midi
keyboard and an Kawai R-50 digital drum machine, Roland GP-8 Guitar
Effects processor and various floor-pedals. I use an Audio Technica
AT-813 condenser microphone for acoustic recordings and monitor through
a pair of Sony MDR CD-770 closed headphones
Guitars:
A
black Fender Stratocaster 1984 U.S.-made, no extras (itīs truly great)
A Ibanez copy of Fender Precision Bass in sunburst laquer, A Ibanez
steel-stringed 6-string with Fender style head and a Fender nylon classical
guitar, there used to be a Washburn Hawk as seen on my guitar-picture
I had elsewhere at this site but Iīve sold it since I rather would like
to own a Gibson Les Paul instead
Software:
My
music software is all under Windows 98SE. I have the JAZZ 32-bit sequencer
for Linux, but I only use Linux for experimenting so far. My main recording
software is Cakewalk Pro Audio 7.02 (recommendable) and Cubase Score
VST 3.5. I use Samplitude, Sound Forge and Cool Edit 2000 for audio
editing. The updated Live! ware 3.0 for my Soundblaster Live! soundcard
also gives some interesting new possibilities
Other software:
Microsoft
Office 2000 Premium. I use Outlook 2000 as mail-program. Most picture
editing is done in Adobe Photo Shop 5.0, Micrografix Picture Publisher
v7.0a or Paint Shop Pro 6.0. Adobe Image Ready v1.0 and Macromedia Fireworks
3.0 is favos for web grafix.
Web
making is for the most part done in Macromedia Dreamweaver 3.0, which
is a wonderful program. But MS Front Page 2000 comes in close
as second choice. Lately Iīve been using SoftQuad:s HoTMetal PRO 4.0
a lot, itīs amazingly powerful for being a rather cheap program to buy.
In
programming; Iīve got the lots, theres not a single easily recognized
programming language that I havenīt got plenty of software and documentation
on.
A
small favorite is Delphi 3.0, for Windows programming. Itīs fast, powerful
and relatively easy to understand. Lately I have been installing the
mains of Microsoft Visual Studio 6.0 on my computer, and right now Iīm
rather concentrated on Visual C++ 6.0, which seems to be a fantasticly
cool tool.
I
do have plenty of litterature - how would I learn to use this damned
software any other way ? OnScreen reading ainīt healthy in the long
run.
And that should be about all for the moment. One can in fact have tremendolously
fun with a computer and the net, but as youīre here, you know all about
it already. To make it even more fun, please drop me a mail, and Iīll
be happy as can be...
