History

How did the electronic music making start

My biggest inspiration to music have came from Jean-Michel Jarre. As a child, I wasn't too interested in music in general. I had electric organ, but wasn't very interested in it since it sounded very thin,was The Three Musketeers in Tampereen työI was amazed the sound of synthesizers. The fatness,really made me feel that this is what I want to do by myself. So so it started. It took some time before I found out what a synthesizer was. A friend of mine purchased several Jarre's CDs and I followed.

Roland D-10 was my first synthesizer. It had LA synthesis. I didn't like it very much because I was unable to do any fat and juicy sounds with it. Then I found Wavestation and Roland D-70. They sounded awesome if compared to anything I had heard before. My friend Erkko purchased the Roland and I purchased the Korg Wavestation. Wavestation was a really nice synth at its time.

I purchased Boss DR-550 drum machine with the WS. Soon after that I sold it and replaced it with Dr-660. It served me well on that time.

Then there was a long break that I didn't do any music. Just occasionally played my synthesizer.

And then finally Fin came into picture. I found him from the Internet and became really interested in making music again. He did amaze me again with his music like Jean-Michel Jarre did somewhat 15 years before that.

I purchased a new sound card to my computer (SB Live) and started doing multitrack recording with the computer. I did some songs with Wavestation and audio multitracking alone. Most TrueDreams CD songs were done like this.

In the end of 2002 I started to extend my studio further. Now there is the Virus, Nord Modular, Small Stone phaser and stuff like that.

In the beginning of year 2003 I released two albums: TrueDreams Collection 2003 Later on spring 2003 I started a online store that sells Karoliina T-shirts etc. The prices are set to nearly minimum and I don't get much profit from most products that are on sale on my web shop. True Dreams and Collection 2003 are no longer available since ampcast has closed down. I am investigating for alternate media delivery methods.

2007 Kate purchased a Mac for us. I used the Garage Band for several ring tones I created for Nokia N800 and N810. 2008 I purchased Logic Studio. More and more I like to use software synthesizers, as they are pretty nice nowadays. And now my expressive freedom also includes full symphony orchestra (high quality samples, dozens of gigabytes) which is very cool, something that was impossible for me few years ago.

I have a big dream of being able to give such big concerts with lasers and fireworks like Jean-Michel Jarre does today. If you want to help me, we can do some license agreement about the use of my music in your product, CD, whatever, please e-mail me if youre interested. Email: . Please note that the above email does not necessarily work at all times. Sometimes our home server may be down or smtp server just not configured properly. We are very busy with life nowadays and maintaining server does not have a top priority always. So you may want to contact me at my gmail address instead which starts with karoliina.t.salminen

BTW, if you are wondering who designed the maemo.org logo, here it comes, I did it :). And please don't ask why the e-letter is bigger than the other letters and why the m is orange :). Short explanation, it looked that way better to my eye, that is artists IMHO and YMMV. Longer explanation goes: the orangish m stands for the tux colour, orange/yellow, this is a Linux platform for a Linux device/Linux devices, so that is why I did choose that colour. The other design factors were: the logo should be very simple and easy to reproduce. Logos that have too many details, stuff and things tend to look amateurish. I am not 'a professional' graphical designer, but an engineer, but I (still) can draw something, perhaps because my father used to paint (despite he wasn't a professional painter/artist, but I have some his paitings on wall - they are kinda ok, not perfect, but good still). My canvas is however a bit different, it is on computer screen and my notation is the event list editor in a sequencer, or sometimes just a audio track full of quantized bits - who needs traditional notation or traditional canvas :).