Fabian Del Priore
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Fabian Del Priore is a composer and sound designer in Frankfurt, Germany.
Del Priore started out playing games on several platforms: Pong, Atari 2600, Commodore 64 in late 1983, Sega Master System, Mega Drive for Christmas 1990, a self-bought Amiga 500 in 1991, and Super Nintendo Entertainment System in 1993. On the C64, he programmed a bit in BASIC and made games and songs in Garry Kitchen's GameMaker. On the Amiga, he composed more seriously in Sonix, Music Appetizer, and Soundtracker V2.5. On the PC, he again programmed a bit and composed as Rapture using Fasttracker II.
From 1988 to 1998, Del Priore took piano lessons. Aged 16, he won a competition started by Chris Hülsbeck, who lived in the same state at the time, and with whom he still collaborates. From 2001 to 2006, he studied musicology at local Goethe University.
Del Priore works as a freelance computer and video game composer, arranger and sound designer for many software companies since 1995. Alongside his game projects he is composing music for CD Soundtrack albums like the successful "Merregnon" as Main Composer or "Immortal", the popular Amiga remix compilation series, to name a few.
His music could also be heard at the first Symphonic Game Music Concert in the World (outside of Japan) as part of the "GC - Games Convention 2003" opening ceremony in the famous Gewandhaus, Leipzig, Germany. In 2004, a second concert followed at the GC 2004 with a couple of arrangements created by Del Priore. In August 2005, the third Games Convention concert was held, again in the Gewandhaus in Leipzig, where Del Priore was responsible for the musical arrangement of Chrono Cross.
In 2006, the first worldwide video game concert tour, titled PLAY! A Video Game Symphony was announced where Del Priore works as music arranger. The concert tour was successful in 2007 as well and has been extended to 2008 and 2009 with concerts all over the world. In 2009, a CD of the concert tour was released with Del Priore's Chrono Cross arrangement.
Since 2006, Del Priore also works together with Dynamedion as composer and sound designer especially for handheld video games.
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Audio Development
Commodore 64
Del Priore composed in Garry Kitchen's GameMaker. He still remixes songs from other composers.
PC / PlayStation
For his early works, Del Priore composed music using synthesizers like Roland and Korg.
For indie games and main menu theme from Inspector Gadget: Gadget's Crazy Maze, he composed music in Fasttracker II.
For later titles, such as the cancelled indie game Vein of Vengeance, he used Cubase.
Web Browser / Nintendo DS
For Flash and handheld games, he composed music using Fasttracker II.
For Nintendo DS games, he converted XM files to Engine Software's sound driver by Jan-Lieuwe Koopmans.
Mobile
For mobile games, he wrote MIDI music using Cakewalk.
Gameography
Del Priore's official portfolio can be found here: http://www.delpriore.de/Projects%20-%20Fabian%20Del%20Priore%20%28Rapture%29%20-%20Portfolio.pdf
Picture Gallery
Remix64, 2001-06-20.
Twitter.
Links
- mobygames.com/person/13900/fabian-del-priore/ - MobyGames.
- fabiandelpriore.bandcamp.com/ - Bandcamp.
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ello.co/fabian_delpriore - Ello. - facebook.com/fabian.delpriore - Facebook.
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plus.google.com/109235229981434421719 - Google+. - linkedin.com/in/delpriore - LinkedIn.
- patreon.com/fabian_del_priore - Patreon.
- remix64.com/member/rapture/ - Remix64.
- soundcloud.com/fabian_del_priore - SoundCloud.
- twitter.com/fabiandelpriore - Twitter.
- xing.com/profile/Fabian_DelPriore - Xing (a German LinkedIn).
- youtube.com/@Rapturemusic - YouTube.
- remix64.com/interviews/interview-fabian-del-priore.html - Interview from 2001-01-20.
- amp.dascene.net/detail.php?view=6118&detail=interview - Interview from 2003-12-26.
