Allanon’s Music Corner

Allanon’s Music because it’s my music, something that has been unleashed from my soul into the real world, from the dream dimension to the real life dimension.

I love spending my free time to make original music, I have this passion since I was 15.

When I was young I studied piano and later I’ve had a great time with the sax, I’ve also experimented the guitar but due to lack of time I failed.

Now I compose my music using several synthesizers and workstations, my current equipment is composed by:

Yamaha MOX6
This is one of the best workstation I’ve ever used with inspiring sounds and performances.
It simple to get new ideas with this keyboard: just sit in from of it, turn it on and start playing something random and soon or later a new original idea will pop out.
Korg Pa1000
This is an arranger workstation with incredible sounds and a deep synthesizer section that allow you to create new and inspiring sounds and rhythms. Really usefull to play any genre and to experiment to find new ideas.
Roland DS61
This keyboard is a performance keyboard, I bought it when i was playing in a band and it was really easy to setup and change sounds “on the fly” during a song.
It has great synth sounds and good vintage keyboard sounds, I like it very mush but due to the lack of an internal sequencer (it only has very limited a pattern sequencer) it’s now on its bag.
Casio MZ-X500
Casio is a controversial brand and the MZ-X500 is a controversial arranger/workastation excelling in some features and failing on others.
Many cool things are present like drawbars for synthesizer and organ sounds live editing, a nice touch screen with intuitive menus, and a cool 4×4 configurable key pad with the ability to playback samples, midi patterns and instruments.
Another cool features is that this keyboard has 2 sound generators allowing you to use 16+16 midi channels!
The problem with this keyboard are mainly 3:
– The keyboard is a toy, noisy, clunky and almost unplayable
– Classic instruments (violins, trumpets, saxophones, flutes, etc…) are bad, very bad and that’s strange because it has the capabilities to have great sounds like the onboard synthesizers which are really nice.
– Onboard sequencer is very hard to use, editing a song is a pain, it’s usable but composing songs on this keyboard is hard for me.

Unfortunately Casio dropped the support for this keyboard really soon, with a couple of firmware update it could have become a great workstation.

When I compose music my workflow is pretty simple:
– Find an idea while playing random stuff
– Use the internal keyboard’s sequencer to record the song (or the song patterns)
– Adjust the final recording using the internal keyboard’s mixer
– Use a computer to record the song into a digital loseless format
– If necessary adjust the final recording on the PC.

Before these amazing workstations, I’ve had a Korg Pa600, a Yamaha CS1-x, a Yamaha PSR730 and a lovely, but heavy like a tank, Yamaha PSR9000 workstation.

I haven’t a preferred kind of music but generally my tracks can be grouped under the new age, ambient, world/celtic, soundtracks/cinematic and electronic genres.

I compose generally in the night, instead of sleeping I wear my headphones and start to play almost randomly until something slowly takes a shape and when it becames something I like, I record it with the keyboard’s internal sequencer and usually I take a break.

The day after I listen again what I’ve recorded and if the idea was good I start working on it.

Some of my preferred artists are J.M.Jarre, Vangelis, Enya, Loreena McKennit, and many others.

In this page you can find some of my works, I will continue to upload my original contents (actually I’ve something like 120 track including my early works), you can listen them for free, but if you find that what I’m doing deserve a little help you can share this page on social networks or you can buy my tracks on online stores (including iTunes, CDBaby, Spotify and many other), just look for my artist name ‘Allanon’, and I will be very happy!

Happy listening! And if you have questions, commision requests or interested in my music feel free to contact me.