147 - Dimitris Pap

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Giannis Kampiotis
January 16, 2024

Artist Interviews 🎶 Studio Tours 🎛

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Today in the spotlight, Dimitris Pap

Currently in Greece, a self-taught musician that wears all the hats in music production 🎶

Interview & Studio Tour

Who are you and what is your relationship with music?

I am an Electronic Music Artist, Composer, Producer, and Sound Designer from Athens, Greece. I’ve been playing/practicing and composing music for as long as I can remember. From my childhood, music was my call.

As a self-taught musician through the years, I’ve learned to play music through informal methods such as with books, videos, and most importantly, by ear, listening, observing, and exploring every melody or sound.

Even though music is my passion, it is not the main source of my income. I am also into the trading business world.

Which piece of equipment in your studio is essential to your production process?

I use both software and hardware in almost all of my productions.

Lately, I was thinking of how powerful computers have become through the years and how easily they can handle everything a sound engineer throws at them. Computer processing power nowadays is incredible.

I love my hardware synths but my iMac Studio M1 loaded with Logic Pro and various VST's, is the center of my studio and essential to my production process.

What is the least expensive piece of gear that gave you the most results?

My Tiny Yamaha CP Reface. If you pass the signal through stomp boxes you will be surprised.

Walk us through your process for creating and producing music.

The center piece of my setup is my iMac. Every hardware Gear Audio signal pass through logic and logic sends midi notes to all my hardware synthesizers. It is the Master clock.

I always have in mind to be simple concerning melodies and chords, and minimal concerning sound mixing using channel plugins.

The best sound is the one that sounds great without the need of compressors/limiters and major EQing.

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The goal is to be vibrant without complexity.

What is a production technique that you always come back to?

Playing live with clips (clips in ableton , live loops in logic) and when the result sounds nice I proceed to arrangement. When, sometimes, I have doubts for the result , I listen without looking at the screen.

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How would you describe your style?

My style is not very specific.

I am working on Electronic music genres but mostly blurring the boundaries of Ambient combined with Deep/Melodic Techno/Minimal/experimental/synth-pop/electronic orchestral music.

What is a big challenge you have as an artist?

If we go back in history , we will realize that great artists and scientists where totally dedicated to their "Craft". Focused without distractions. No family, no personal life.

Now I understand why they were so successful.

A huge challenge for me is to keep up being creative and inspired, while paying attention and spend time and effort in other essential tasks in life such as family and business.

Has building a hardware setup changed your perspective on music or life in general?

I am having fun in both worlds. From my point of view, hardware and software working together is the perfect setup with limitless possibilities.

One tip on how to spark creativity?

Spend time on your craft and eventually, insights and inspiration come. They arise as if from nowhere.

A book, movie, article, or album that has inspired you?

Books: Gates of fire and War of Art. Both by Steven Pressfield

Movies: Braveheart

Album (Soundtrack): Blade Runner

Anything else you'd like to say?

Thank you very much for the space you gave me here. I hope my answers help other people in their music creative process.

Where can people find more of your music and connect with you online?

Gear List

SYNTHESIZERS

VST'S

  • spectrasonics

  • u-he

  • nativeinstruments

  • arturia

  • rolandcloud

DAW'S

  • Apple - Logic PRO X

VISUALS

  • Midjourney

  • Finalcut Pro x

  • Pixelmator

  • Apple - Motion

  • OBS

CAMERAS

  • SONY - ZV-E10

  • NIKON - D7200

AUDIO INTERFACE

MONITORING

COMPUTER

  • Apple - Mac Studio M1 Max Chip (Apple M1 Max/32GB/512GB SSD)

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