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Chris Hülsbeck (born March 2, 1968) is a game music composer from Germany.

He has written soundtracks for more than 70 titles, the latest being Star Wars Rebel Strike for Nintendo GameCube. Many of his scores for the Commodore 64 are regarded as classics among enthusiasts today, most notably Great Giana Sisters. He is best known for the soundtracks to the Turrican series of games. Chris's initial recognition arrived at age 16 when his composition "Shades" won first place in a music competition for the German "64'er" magazine.

He created a music replay routine for the Amiga called TFMX -- "The Final Musicsystem eXtended", which featured far more musically-oriented features than rival Soundtracker, such as logarithmic pitch-bends, sound macros and individual tempos for each track.

His music from Apidya, Turrican and Giana Sisters was performed live by a full symphonic orchestra in 2003, 2004 and 2005 at the annual Symphonic Game Music Concert-series in Leipzig, Germany. In 2006, a piano arrangement of his music from Turrican 3 was performed at the fourth Symphonic Game Music Concert.

Discography Excerpt

• Apidya (Amiga)
• The Baby of Can Guru* (C64)
• Dulcedo Cogitations* (C64)
• Great Giana Sisters (C64)
• Jim Power (Amiga)
• R-Type intro music (C64, Amiga)
• Shades* (C64)
• To be on Top (C64)
• Turrican 1-3 soundtracks (Amiga)

Chris Huelsbeck currently works out of OngameSoundfactoryStudio / Ongame Soundfactory Studio, San Rafael, California, USA.

Studio Setup Sampler & Synthesizer (Hardware):

• KURZWEIL K2500S (66MB RAM, SMP-K, P-Ram, All Roms)
• AKAI S1000PB (26MB RAM, SCSI)
• Clavia Nord Modular
• ensoniq SQ80
• E-MU UltraProteus
• Roland JV1080
• Roland M-OC1 Orchestra Module
• Roland M-SE1 String ensemble Module
• KORG 01R/W
• KORG Wavestation A/D

Sampler & Synthesizer (Software):

• KORG Legacy Collection (MS20, Polysix, Wavestation) with MS20 Hardware Controller
• KORG Legacy Collection Digital Edition (M1, Wavestation)
• Steinberg HALion (virtual sampler)
• Steinberg HALion 2
• East West Quantum Leap Orchestra Silver Edition (virtual sampler & sound library)
• Garritan Personal Orchestra (virtual sampler & sound library)
• Spectrasonics Atmosphere (virtual synthesizer module & sound library
• Spectrasonics Stylus RMX (Drum / Realtime Groove module & sound library
• Steinberg The Grand (virtual Concert Grand Piano)
• Waldorf PPG Wave 2.v (virtual PPG synth emulation)
• Waldorf Attack (virtual synth)
• Native Instruments Pro 52 / 53 (virtual synth)
• Native Instruments FM7 (virtual synth)
• Sonic Reality Sonic Synth (virtual sound module)
• Sonic Reality Sonic Synth 2 (virtual sound module)
• Roland Edirol Virtual Sound Canvas VSC1 (virtual sound module)
• MAZ-Sound Vsampler (virtual sampler)
• reFX QuadraSID (virtual emulation of the C64 SID soundchip)
• reFX Junox2 (virtual synth)
• reFX Beast (virtual synth)
• reFX PlastiCZ! (virtual synth)
• reFX / Steinberg Xphraze
• Sonic Syndicate Junglist (virtual synth)
• GMedia Music Oddity (virtual ARP Odyssey emulation)
• GMedia Music M-Tron all tape banks (virtual Mellotron emulation)
• GMedia Music Beatburner
• Arturia Moog Modular V
• Propellerheads Rebirth (virtual synth & drum-machine)

Mixing:

• YAMAHA 02R Digital recording console (40 Channel version)
• ensoniq DP/4
• Lexicon LXP1
• BOSS SE-70
• dbx Project 1 Microphone Processor 286
• Cubase SX Mixer
• lot's of effect plug-ins for VST and DirectX

Recording & Periphery:

• Studio Projects C1 Microphone
• DAT SONY DTC 57-ES
• TAPE TEAC W-790R
• Surround Sound Decoder Kenwood VR-6070
• Mackie HR824 Studio monitors * 5 (for surround mixing)
• SONY Headphone MDR-7506
• SONY Headphone MDR-CD 270

Computer, Periphery & Software:

• PC Pentium 4/2.6 gHz, 1536MB, 250 gig Raid system, Firewire, winXP
• 4*FX Teleport Server Computers PC Pentium 4/2.6 gHz, 1024MB, 120 gig HD, WinXP
• Notebook IBM Thinkpad T43, Centrino Pentium 2.13ghz, 2048mb Ram, 2*80gig 7200 HD, WinXP Pro
• RME Hammerfall DSP Multiface Audio system (PCI and PCMCIA)
• external SCSI-Minitower w. 640 MOD & 4xCD (used for Kurzweil K2500)
• Cubase VST5.1/32, Cubase SX3, Wavelab, Soundforge, Translator, CDXtract
• Steinberg Midex 8 Midi-interface (8 individual INs&OUTs)
• Opcode 8Port/SE Midi-interface (8 individual INs&OUTs)