Behind the Scenes · August 09, 2025

This article is about how back in the 1970s/80s synthesizers were breaking into mainstream with all their limitations in RAM and CPU power. Nowadays, physical modeling of both, acoustic instruments and synthesizers, becomes more and more popular and they are being used in my productions quite regularly.

Fantom Keyboards · November 12, 2023

Music production significantly evolved across the past decades. Many dreams of both, musicians and producers became true in the meantime. This blog is about how the technological revolutions affected my style of working across my life time as musician and producer and how I'm producing nowadays.

Fantom Keyboards · February 17, 2021

As opposed to other keyboard models, Rolands newest Fantom- & Fantom-O-series are not designed to play backing tracks directly from a USB-stick or the built-in sequencer. However, the workstations contain a sampler which has quite some capabilities. This article shows how to use the built-in sampler of the Fantom to play backing tracks on stage while playing along LIVE. Both, Fantom- and the new Fantom-0-series are generally supported, since they are data compatible to each other.