COMPOSER & PRODUCER

I come from a family where my grandfather, father, uncles and nephews were making music. Raised with music all around me I started playing my fathers "Melodica Alto" and shortly my first keyboard, the famous "Casio SK1". During my time working as a volunteer at the Astronomical Observatory in Rijswijk I played in the synthesizer band "Floating Spheres". 

I started writing more and more music of my own with the keyboards I bought over the years. All connected to my Atari ST 1024 computer running Cubase by Steinberg. Loads of tapes I recorded with songs and instrumental landscapes. Later I converted some of these tapes into the albums "Collection" and "Dreams".
My music is mostly influenced by the late Vangelis. But most music out there gets my attention. Cubase is still at the heart of my studio.

KSK Productions, The Netz & JK Collective

Together with my friends Jan and Marco Knetsch we bundled our musical differences and creativity to start the music company KSK Productions. With KSK Productions we created a lot of music for very different projects; musical songs and music, children songs, holiday songs, music for documentary and video or music for games. It is really great to hear your music in a performance or a broadcasting of a documentary or soap. In 2020, we currently stopped working with clients. 

Around 2010 I also started as sound engineer at the band The Netz, and later I upgraded to Keyboard player. Jan and Marco are also members of this band. Playing life is not my cup of tea, so I quit the band, but I still had a lot of fun with them.

In 2023 Jan, Marco and I started writing songs for Jan's album Ring Road and together with Arie van de Graaf and Dirk van Biezen we formed the JK Collective. The album Ring Road came together in 18 months.

My music is created in my project studio. A good computer setup with a great DAW and the right acoustics will get me started.

Hardware

• PC: VMusicPro DawDesk. AMD Ryzen 9 3950X 16C/32T, 128GB RAM
• Audio interface: MOTU 828 mkII
• Audio interface: Behringer UMC404HD
• Master keyboard: Native Intruments Komplete Kontrol S88
• Second keyboard: Arturia Keylab Essential 61
• Controls: Sensel Morph, Korg nanoKontrol & Korg nanoKey, Elgato Stream Deck +
• Speakers: Adam A5X (Calibrated by Sonarworks)
• Speakers: Alesis RA-100 amplifier and Monitor one speakers (Calibrated by Sonarworks)
• Sony Closed Loop Dual Capstan 4 track Tape Machine
• Behringer B-2 Pro microphone
• AKG TPS D 3800 microphone
• sE Electronics Reflection Filter

DAW

• Steinberg: Cubase 14 Pro

Software - virtual instruments and effects

• Accusonus
• Arturia
• Kilohearts
• Korg
• Melda Production
• Native Instruments
• Smart Electronicx
• Spectrasonics
• Spitfire Audio
• Steinberg
• WavesFactory
• ...

Software - tools

• Magic Music Visualizer

And many more...