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Rob Hubbard (born 1956, Kingston upon Hull, England) is a music composer best known for his composition of computer game theme music, especially for microcomputers of the 1980s such as the Commodore 64. Kingston upon Hull ( almost invariably referred England is a Country which is part of the United Kingdom. Its inhabitants account for more than 83% of the total UK population whilst its mainland A composer (literally meaning 'one who puts together' is a person who creates Music, usually in the medium of notation, for Interpretation and Performance His work showed the real potential of both the Commodore 64's sound hardware and the ability of good music to improve the gaming experience.

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Early Career

In the late seventies, before scoring games, he was a professional studio musician. He decided to teach himself BASIC and machine code for the Commodore 64. In Computer programming, BASIC (an Acronym for Beginner's All-purpose Symbolic Instruction Code) is a family of High-level programming languages Machine code or machine language is a system of instructions and data executed directly by a Computer 's Central processing unit.

Gremlin Graphics

Writing a few demos and some educational software for learning music, he approached Gremlin Graphics in 1985 with samples of his work, to attempt to market his software. Gremlin Interactive was a British Software house based in Sheffield and working mostly in the Home computer market Year 1985 ( MCMLXXXV) was a Common year starting on Tuesday (link displays 1985 Gregorian calendar) Gremlin were more interested in the tunes than the software and he was asked to create the soundtrack for Thing on a Spring, a platform game. Thing On A Spring is a Side-scrolling platform/puzzle game produced in 1985 for the Commodore 64 by Gremlin Graphics Hubbard created a theme that mixed violins, electric guitars, and amusing basslines.

Hubbard went on to write or convert themes for games such as Monty on the Run, Crazy Comets, Master of Magic and Commando. Monty on the Run is a Computer game created by the Software house Gremlin Graphics and released in 1985 for the C64, Spectrum, For the PC game see Master of Magic Master of Magic is a Computer role-playing game for the Commodore 64 See also Bionic Commando is a vertically scrolling shoot 'em up Arcade game released in 1985 Some of his most famous tunes include also Thrust, Spellbound, Sanxion, Auf Wiedersehen Monty and Ricochet. Thrust is a Computer game originally for the BBC Micro and Acorn Electron. Spellbound is a computer game that was designed and programmed by David Jones with music by Rob Hubbard and released in 1985 for the Sanxion is a 1986 side-scrolling Shoot 'em up by Thalamus Ltd Auf Wiedersehen Monty (German for "Goodbye Monty" is a Computer game for the ZX Spectrum, Commodore 64, Amstrad CPC The game Knucklebusters includes Hubbard's longest tune that is 17 minutes long. The loading music for Sanxion, Thalamusik (named for the software house that published the game, Thalamus) still remains a strong favourite among his fans to this day. The thalamus (from Greek θάλαμος = room chamber, IPA= /ˈθæləməs/ is a pair and symmetric part of the brain

Move to Electronic Arts and the USA

After working for several different companies, in 1989 he left Newcastle to work for Electronic Arts in America as a composer. Newcastle upon Tyne ( (often shortened to Newcastle) is a city and Metropolitan borough of Tyne and Wear, England He was the first person devoted to sound and music at EA, and did everything from low-level programming to composing. He became Audio Technical Director, a more administrative job, involving deciding which technologies to use in the games, and which to develop further. After the Commodore 64 period he wrote some soundtracks for PC -games and Sega Mega Drive. The is a 16-bit Video game console released by Sega in Japan in 1988 North America in 1989 and the PAL region in 1990 One of his most famous C64-era compositions is the music featured in the loading sequence of the game Skate or Die, which features samples of electric guitar. Skate or Die! is a Skateboarding game released by Electronic Arts in 1987 for the ZX Spectrum, Commodore 64, Atari Playback of samples was facilitated by exploiting a flaw in the SID sound-synthesizer chip: altering the volume register produced an audible click. The MOS Technology 6581/8580 SID (Sound Interface Device was the built-in Programmable Sound Generator chip of Commodore 's CBM-II, Thus altering this register thousands of times per second allowed for a crude form of sample playback[1]

Recent Activities

Hubbard recently contributed a few re-arrangements of his themes to Chris Abbott's Back in Time Live C64 tribute. Hubbard has performed several times with the Danish C64 cover-band PRESS PLAY ON TAPE who have covered many of his early tunes using a full rock-band arrangement. PRESS PLAY ON TAPE is a revival and tribute rock band to the music used in games on the 1980s' Commodore 64 home computer Hubbard has also performed his old music on piano with the support of violinist madfiddler.

In 2005, music from International Karate was performed live by a full orchestra at the third Symphonic Game Music Concert. International Karate is a 1986 Karate Computer game for the ZX Spectrum, Commodore 64, Amstrad CPC and The Symphonic Game Music Concerts ( German: Symphonische Spielemusikkonzerte) are a series of German Video game music concerts produced The event took place in Leipzig, Germany. This sort of fix restores section edit linkpoints to where they belong Germany, officially the Federal Republic of Germany ( ˈbʊndəsʁepuˌbliːk ˈdɔʏtʃlant is a Country in Central Europe. Hubbard arranged and orchestrated the piece.

Hubbard left EA in 2002 and returned to England. He has recently resumed playing in a band, and has even revisited his past game music work in concert. Recent composition jobs have included music for mobile phone games. His original SID music can be found from The High Voltage SID Collection though emulated SID files sound occasionally quite different compared to authentic SID sound. The High Voltage SID Collection is both the name of a project to build a collection of music created on the MOS Technology 6581/8580 SID sound chip in Commodore

On 2007 Propellerhead Software released the new version of its music studio application, Reason 4. Reason is a popular music software program developed by Swedish software developers Propellerhead Software. 0, which includes one demo song made by Rob, his classical Commando song remade for the occasion.

Compositions

References

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