From homemade sound cards to AI-powered vocals — a lifelong journey through digital music.
I'm Peter, born in Budapest, 1978, and I've been fascinated by electronic music and the endless possibilities of creating sounds for as long as I can remember.
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The Windows 95 era
First steps with MIDI
My musical journey began back in the Windows 95 era, when I discovered the joy of making MIDI music. I could spend half the night playing around with it, only to end up with some terrible rhythmic beeping.
But somehow, even that gave me the wonderful illusion that I had actually created something of my own.
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The tracker days
FastTracker & a homemade COVOX
Then came the legendary FastTracker days!
The only problem was, we couldn't afford a real Sound Blaster sound card. But one day, during a canoe trip, a friend casually mentioned that there was actually a way to build something ourselves, practically for free.
And that's how we ended up putting together our very own homemade, legendary COVOX.
Looking back, I'm not sure everyone would have agreed that the sounds coming out of that thing could actually be called music. But to me, it absolutely was!
I can still see those endlessly scrolling columns of FastTracker 2 right in front of my eyes, even after all these years...
Oh, how I loved it!
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A whole new world
FL Studio & real instruments
As technology evolved, so did my little musical universe. FL Studio opened up a whole new world of possibilities. I could finally record real instruments, including my guitar, although I have to admit that I've always felt more at home behind a synthesizer than a guitar.
And those many VSTI plugins! My god!
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Today
The Age of... well, what should we even call it? AI?
And here we are in the present day, with artificial intelligence suddenly exploding onto the scene, right in our faces.
I can finally ask a friendly AI to sing my melodies, bringing lyrics, voices, and entirely new emotions into my compositions.
For the first time, I can write not only tunes, but also the words that give it another dimension.