irst of all before I lift off into social media spheres I wanted to mention that of course the most important thing is to be a good composer. What do I mean with being a good composer?
It’s fairly simple: You are skilled, you have experience, you know what you can do (and what you can’t), [...]

“If you know the enemy and know yourself, you need not fear the result of a hundred battles”
You might wonder why you might find such a quote on a composer’s website.
After all, Sun Tzu was a chinese military general, strategist who is traditionally believed to have authored “The Art of War”, an influential ancient Chinese book on military [...]

Let’s be honest … composers are artists, … and artists – mostly – don’t care about efficiency and workflow.
Since we make money with feelings and literally sell our emotions, most of our work is done in our heads before it ends up as a fully produced audio file. Of course, there are many ways to [...]

When you visit a forum, talk to other sound guys or read interviews of famous composers, it is most, if not all the time about musical approaches, gear, instruments, plugins, synths and sample libraries.
Well, of course this is really the most interesting thing since it is about the way one composes and creates music, … [...]

Since I receive a lot of emails from people asking me what the best thing would be to start as a composer, I decided to write a little bit about that topic.
But before I start, I should maybe mention, that you hardly won’t find any phone number, email address nor any other contact info in [...]

Since a lot of applications are still not 64bit compatible and most programs suffer from the “2GB limit”, it is kind of hard to make use of more RAM – especially if you don’t like standalone VSTi’s or complicated routing procedures.
So if you are on a minimum 8GB RAM IntelMAC using OSX Leopard and you [...]

If you are working on Mac OS, using sample libraries and big sequencer templates you may have wondered why some instrument programs have missing samples in the mapping structure?
Well, MAC OS X is only able to handle around 12.000 files.
Normally you will never reach that limit with “usual” applications such as Mail, Photoshop, Word, iCal [...]