Who's behind this?

Andy Warhol said that everyone gets 15 minutes of fame. Here's about a minute's worth.

I've been programming microcomputers for as long as they've been around, and playing rock guitar for a few years longer than that. It seems only natural that one day I woke up and found myself designing music software for

, where I got to do a little of each on a daily basis. I grew up in the smallish resort town of Monterey, California, and lived there until leaving for college, attending UC San Diego before moving to the Silicon Valley to work while finishing my BSCS at Chapman University.

Back then, you didn't need a college degree to work as a software engineer, there weren't enough of us to go around! After years of writing popular applications for companies like IBM, Metaphor and Electronic Arts, I shifted over to audio production and Web design while taking classes at the California Recording Institute. This led to studying with digital audio god (and Stereo Review editor) Ken Pohlmann, at the University Of Miami, where I completed a MS in Music Engineering. Which, if you've gotten this far, means that you probably already know how to read this:

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Along the way, I got married in Japan to my wonderful wife Masumi, and live with our adorable daughter Michelle in California. When not working on the world's most popular Windows music software, I write songs and perform a wide variety of multimedia services for my consulting firm, Rock Island Productions.

Just For The Curious

The earliest version of this site was assembled back in '96 on a handbuilt AMD K6-2 PC clone with 128MB SDRAM, ATI "All In Wonder Pro" video capture card and Digital Research 21" monitor running Windows '98 with a 9GB Seagate Cheetah HD. In those days, the music & sounds were recorded direct to ADAT on a Mackie 24x8 8*Bus mixer, and digitally transferred to PC. Needless to say, things are much better today :D


Key West, '96	On Granger Pond (w/Michelle)	Project Studio Tan	w/Ty Tabor & Michael Wagener	Commodore-Amiga Era, '86

(I remember how the shortest kid in class used to challenge me at every opportunity, hoping to move up a rung.)