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When I was 7 years old, my sister and I were told we had to learn a musical instrument. I chose the guitar and she chose the piano. After a year of music theory, I fell in love with the digital keyboard that my parents had bought for her to practice on. When they gave that piano to my uncle before we moved to the U.S., I cried and made my mom promise to get me lessons.

She stayed true to her word, and while the lessons were fairly short-lived, my love for the piano endured. I played everyday on a new family digital piano until moving out for college, and then still played regularly on a baby grand tucked away in a lounge somewhere on campus. I taught myself songs by Elton John and learned to play some of my favorite trance tracks by ear. I loved that the piano was digital because I could play different instrument sounds and layer them together. I felt the need to play more than one part at once.

When I was 19, I discovered Linux MultiMedia Studio, a simple and free DAW that ran on Windows, and dipped my toes into music production for the first time. I made several songs that I uploaded to YouTube. Unfortunately, that's when life began to distract me from the hobby. For most of my 20s, I did not have a piano to play on; and I would not touch a DAW again until my 30s.

I finally re-explored music production at 31, and haven't let it go since. You can read more about some of that journey in my "On four years of modular dreams" post. It's still just beginning.

My equipment

You can read more about how everything is routed together here.

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