Gary E. Peek's music composition and songwriting area

Current and ongoing composition Instrumental, many synthesizer sounds and orchestral instruments. Several musical styles and types, some difficult to put a style name to. Influenced by late 20th century Synth Rock. Electronica in a broad sense. More specifically Jazz/Rock, Jazz/Classical, Jazz/Funk?, Smooth Jazz Instrumental, Ambient, Techno? (maybe). Work started in December 2005. Created by MIDI sequencing using CakeWalk Music Creator Pro (2)and included software synthsizers, and beginning in May 2007, adding Dimension Pro software synthesizer. Available here in MP3 format.

First Generation and Second Generation (Clean rhythm) guitar and vocal oriented, Rock and Jazz/Rock styles. Pre-MIDI, sound generating hardware designed and built from scratch by me and controlled by a custom computer program to accompany my guitar playing and vocals. (You simply must see the pictures.) These songs were recorded on casette tape from 1985 to 1988, 18 songs total, with 9 of the best songs published on CD in late 2005 and available here in MP3 format.

CakeWalk and Dimension Pro files Music Creator Pro (2) project files and Dimension Pro SFZ and program files that I have created after some experimentation and that others might find interesting to use. Simple song examples, etc., for Music Creator Pro (2), SFZ files specific to Dimension Pro. This area was created October 2007 when I found that there is not an area on the Cakewalk web site where files like this can be shared and that an existing "wiki" related to Cakewalk Project 5 and Dimension (Pro) has little in the way of these files. Reference Section Waveforms - Graphic files of waveforms from the EDI/Roland VSC software synthesizer included with Cakewalk Music Creator Pro.

Gary's musical history:

• Started playing guitar at age 10 and was always interested in writing songs. (I remember trying to write one when I was about 5 years old.)
• Started as an electronic hobbyist at age 13. Music circuits were of course a big part of my experimenting later on.
• Started playing bass guitar and forming bands when I was 17. I was never interested in playing cover tunes, therefore many of them were basement bands, however, some of them played out. Did a lot of jam sessions with various people.
• Career in electronics and computers
• Continued playing in a few bands in adulthood. A lot more jamming.
• Got a set of drums in the 80's and got decent at playing them. The multi-instrumentalist part of me created more desire to write and record songs.
• Finally combined music and electronics well enough to record some songs in 1985 when I had the time.
• Started doing computer video editing in 2005 which required that I catch up on computer audio/video stuff I had never learned much about.
• Bought CakeWalk Music Creator and found how easy it was to write songs compared to the old days.