fas55 is a combination from name and year of construction.
Franciscus Antonius Scholtze, date of birth 25-02-1955

No, I do not play live, because recording and playing happens in studio, located in a seperate room at home adress.
It is a fixed setup.
All the special moments are always concentrated in being proud about the complete result of completing a song, or track.

This is the most sophisticated, easy, and not expensive way to share, and enyoy other's work and ideas.
The technical possibilities are nowadays enough to transfer, worldwide, without big loss of quality, music recordings.
Of course I understand that the best results of creative work like making music will be to get an original CD from performing artists. This CD is of course the final result of the work of the performing artist with the whole disignig team, as well the production team.
I think the CD as medium for music will never dissapear.

If some label is interested in my work and sees some possibilities, of course I will be the last to refuse such possibilities.
But first let all things begin small. The future will learn.

I began to play music in 1980, with an analog synth Korg Poly 61, and a self build electronic piano.
Recording with a casettedeck an a tapedeck.
I bought my first synth and sampler in 1982. This was an AX60 and a S612.
After this a P330 piano module, and a CX5M music comp from Yamaha.
Played in local bands, from the company I worked, there were some collega's who made a band.
After this with some friends played symphonic rock for a year as keyboard player. During that period I owned AX73, AX60, P330, Solina strings, and a CVS10 organ.
In 1996, I began to play own music at home, with sequencer from Roland, I forgot wich one.
Then began the building-up of the gear I own nowaday's.
At the moment studio is in my opinion complete enough for me to make what I want and like.
Sometimes making musical projects with friends I know for a long time. Such a combination of different styles and Ideas gives very surprising and good results.

All symphonic, fantasy metal, classical, metal and even some trance, hiphop and equal categories.

Den Haag, The Netherlands

Sound generating: Akai AX60, Akai AX73, Kurzweil PC88, Yamaha CSV10, Roland U-220. D-110, P-330, Akai S-01, S612, E-mu Proteus1
effects processing: Yamaha SPX500, Alesis Midiverb3, Midiverb4, Korg G4 rotary speaker simulator.
recording: Akai DR4d HD recorder, Sony PCM510 PCM processor, Philips DCC-300.
Mixing: D&R700-MKIII (7mono, 13 stereo, 3aux, 2effret.)
Fostex 2016 16ch rackmixer.
Audio monitoring: custom build active3way with sub.
Tannoy Reveal audio nearfield.
Sequencer: Atari 1040 CubaseV2.01
Compac Deskpro2000 with XP and Nero.
Rode NT1 condensor microphone.

The studio will get a big maintainance and rebuilding period in september 2007.
All equipment is not very dated, old and some OOS.
Specially the D&R must have some cleaning and maintainance, but it is good to keep all gear perfectly working.
In the future I will put all musical work here.