Michael's Music Room

Michael's Music Room

My Original Compositions ~ My Arrangements ~ My Musical Instruments ~ Mozart's Room

My Digital Audio Workstation ~ My Music Software ~ Contacting Me

Some of my Original Compositions These are clips of my work and not the full track.		Return to Menu
Music Track	MP3 File
(Sample from the full track) Hannah the Musical - Just What I Wanted Hannah receives her birthday present of a locket. (Live soloist with General MIDI orchestral accompaniment). Duration: 1 minute 21 seconds.	3.13 Mb
(Sample from the full track) Hannah the Musical - Romance Hannah finds love at first sight. (Live soloist with General MIDI orchestral accompaniment). Duration: 1 minute 16 seconds.	4.03 Mb
(Sample from the full track) Hannah the Musical - My New Dawn Finale - Hannah sings of hope and of her future. (Live soloist with General MIDI orchestral accompaniment). Duration: 1 minute 41 seconds.	4.79 Mb
(Sample from the full track) Organ Celebration for St. Michael's Church Composed for the Centenary Celebration of St. Michael's Church Swansea January 2006. Duration: 1 minute 20 seconds.
(Sample from the full track) Footsteps Through Time Composed for my marriage ceremony and blessing. Duration: 1 minute 22 seconds.
(Full Track) Gifts For The Country King An original Country Christmas song with Music, Lyrics and Orchestration by myself. Sung by Elizabeth Bahr. This original song was first published on the Garritan Christmas CD Volume 7 2010

Some of my Musical Arrangements		Return to Menu
Music Track	MP3 File
(Full track) Handel Organ Concerto in F (The Cuckoo and the Nightingale) 1st Movement. This performance prepared by Michael using the Garritan Personal Orchestra. Duration: 2 minutes 44 seconds.	3.13 Mb
(Full track) Handel Organ Concerto in F (The Cuckoo and the Nightingale) 2nd Movement. This performance prepared by Michael using the Garritan Personal Orchestra. Duration: 3 minutes 31 seconds.	4.03 Mb
(Full track) O Come All Ye Faithful My arrangement includes original dialogue written by myself. This arrangement was published on the Garritan Christmas CD Volume 4 2007	4.79 Mb
(Full Track) Ding Dong Merrily On High My arrangement includes original dialogue written by myself. This arrangement was published on the Garritan Christmas CD Volume 5 2008
(Full Track) Fl��t, mein Heiland, fl��t dein Namen (Echo Aria) from Bach's Christmas Oratorio Organ Continuo realised by myself. This arrangement was published on the Garritan Christmas CD Volume 6 2009
(Full tracks) Selection of Hymns (Organ) Popular during my time as Head Choir Boy during the 1950's. I recorded this using the organ of Garritan Personal Orchestra.	Selection

My Musical Instruments	Return to Menu
Violin handmade in 1979 by a Welsh violin maker.
Knight overstrung upright piano.
Hohner Chromatica Gold 3-Octave Harmonica.
Suzuki Chromatix SCX48 3-Octave Harmonica.
Yamaha PSR 2100 Portatone.
M-Audio Keystation 61es MIDI Keyboard.

My Digital Audio Workstation (DAW) I built my own computer which has the following specifications.		Return to Menu
Music is a major feature of my system and as such I aimed to eliminate as much system noise as possible. I built in liquid cooling for my processor, the Northbridge chip, the graphics card and hard drive. Apart from the PSU (below) my system is fanless and near silent.
Liquid Cooling:	My custom liquid cooling system based on EQ blocks with a Zalman Reserator resevoir.
Power Supply Unit (PSU)	Thermaltake Toughpower Quiet 120 mm horizontal fan, 600 Watts
Main Board:	Gigabyte GA-EP45T-UD3LR
Central Processing Unit (CPU):	Intel Pentium 4 Quad, 3.0 Ghz.
Random Access Memory (RAM):	Crucial 8 Gigabytes.
Hard Drive:	Samsung 1 TB.
Graphics Card	nVidia GT9500
Audio Card / MIDI Interface	M-Audio Audiophile 192
Headphones:	Beyer Dynamic DT150
Headphone Amplifier:	Creek OBH 21 Special Edition
Studio Monitor Speakers:	KRK VXT8

Music and CD Authoring		Return to Menu
Operating System:	Microsoft Windows 7 64 Bit. Ubuntu (Linux Distribution) Latest Version.
Sound Sample Libraries:	Garritan Personal Orchestra (GPO) Garritan Jazz and Big Band (JABB) Garritan Concert and Marching Bands (COMB) Garritan World Instruments (GWI)
Notation Program:	Finale 2011
Sequencer:	Cakewalk Sonar Producer X1
Audio Wave Editing:	GoldWave
Software Ambience and Reverb:	Altiverb
Software Guitar Amplifiers:	Samplitube 3 Samplitube Fender
Audio Wave Format Converter:	Switch
CD Authoring:	Sony CD Architect Platinum Edition.
Software Music Player:	uPlayer