Aleksi Eeben
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Aleksi Eeben is a Finnish composer, sound designer, musician and programmer. He is best known for his musical contributions to the demoscene under the alias Heatbeat, where he has composed hundreds of modules using music tracker software and developed his own tools. He has also composed for video games, and was employed as a sound designer at Nokia (later Microsoft Mobile) between 2002 and 2015, creating many ringtones and sounds.
At age 4, Eeben sang all the time and had a pair of bongos. He found programming tutorials in 1982 and had three Commodore computers altogether up to 1993. The next six years, he was unemployed and then "stuck" at a university, and also with the PC and new Game Boy Color.
Eeben's younger brother, Konsta Mikkonen, is also a demoscene musician and dance producer known under the alias Muffler.
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Audio Development
Amiga
Eeben got a long-awaited Amiga 500 in 1991 and used "all" of the composing programs. Mostly, and for his only game, it was Protracker. Some of these songs are dated 1993-08-23. He sold the computer the same year.
Commodore 64
Eeben got a C64 in 1986 and later into 6502 machine language. He arranged his first five songs from 1989 to 1990 using Ubik's Musik.
In 2001, he developed a tracker named John Player, feeling that other music tools for the C64 were unintuitive. He also developed three different trackers with ambitious output, but they are not found in games.
Game Boy Color
Eeben developed his Game Boy own tools - Carillon Editor for music and FX Hammer for sound effects. He used Carillon Editor for his music demos. Some of his songs were included in his homebrew game Berlin. Later, Eeben's tools got used by other composers such as David Filskov and Simone Cicconi.
On Mean Mr. Mustard, Tom and Jerry: Mouse Hunt and Project S-11, he used Paragon 5's Game Boy Tracker.
Game Boy Advance
On Hardcore Pinball, Eeben used GBASS Sound Driver by Paragon 5.
Mobile
Eeben composed music for an unknown mobile game as single voice MIDI and converted it to Nokia's monophonic tone format. He used Nokia Internal Tone Editor (Nite) to optimize monophonic ringtones.
For polyphonic mobile audio, Eeben used Beatnik Editor to compose ringtones and optimize existing ones.
VIC 20
Eeben got a VIC 20 in 1984. In 2006, he developed Sid Vicious, a software emulator of the Commodore 64's SID chip.
Gameography
Picture Gallery
Bandcamp/SoundCloud
Wikipedia
Links
- mobygames.com/person/240027/aleksi-eeben/ - MobyGames.
- en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aleksi_Eeben - Wikipedia.
- aleksieeben.bandcamp.com - Bandcamp.
- facebook.com/aleksieeben - Facebook.
- instagram.com/aleksieeb3n - Instagram.
- linkedin.com/in/aleksieeben - LinkedIn.
- soundcloud.com/aleksieeben - SoundCloud.
- twitter.com/aleksieeben - Twitter.
- youtube.com/@AleksiEeben - YouTube.
- amp.dascene.net/detail.php?view=3268&detail=interview - Interview from 2001 (before April 11).
