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InVettagating: Line 6 - Marcus Ryle - Jan. 2006 page 1

Marcus Ryle

For introduction purposes, quoted from the Line 6 website:

Marcus Ryle
Co-Founder and Senior Vice-President, Product Development

Marcus Ryle, co-founder and Senior vice-president, product development is responsible for the long-term technology and product strategies and leads all research and development initiatives. He also serves on the Line 6 Board of Directors. Prior to Line 6, Mr. Ryle co-founded Fast Forward Designs in 1985, which became Line 6 in 1996. From 1980 to 1985, he worked at Oberheim Electronics, Inc. as a senior designer responsible for developing many of the company's successful synthesizers.

Mr. Ryle's long history and expertise in technology and product development have resulted in the co-invention of several patents. He is member of the Audio Engineering Society and has served on many industry standards and advisory committees. A classically trained pianist, Mr. Ryle has been involved playing keyboards and/or creating sounds for several motion picture and television soundtracks, as well as numerous professional recording artists, including Barbara Streisand, Olivia Newton-John, Christopher Cross, Chicago, Chaka Khan and Lee Ritenour.

Thanks go out to all the Marcus Ryle and Line 6, they have been very kind and helpfull.

Hi Marcus, thanks for taking the time to elaborate on Line 6, how you got there and your background. To keep it all in Line let’s start with the background. Since Line 6 is all about musicians and helping them to more creativity. What’s your background in the music industry?

Well Vinny, where do you want me to start? I’ve been interested in music since an early age. I think I was six years old, I decided I wanted to be a famous musician. Although it’s not exactly how it turned out, it has had a big influence on me since my very young age.

Actually my first instrument was drums, but my mom couldn’t tolerate it too long. So I switched at seven to piano, and studied classical piano for about ten years. At the same time I was also very interested in technology. As a result, I bought my first synthesizer when I was twelve, which was an old Arp Odyssey.

At the age of twelve, I started playing in bands, mainly playing keyboards. After some poor attempts at guitar, bass became my main second instrument. Immersed in music and technology, I started to modify synthesizers and effects, learning more about technology through trial and error. Sometimes while attempting to modify an instrument it would break, so I had to figure out how to make it work again since I couldn’t afford to buy a new one. Around the same time, I started teaching myself computer programming, using my father’s Apple II computer.

I attended California State University, Dominquez Hills, from age sixteen to nineteen. They had just installed a new 16-track recording studio and a synthesizer lab. I spend a lot of time recording different bands as well as my own, and teaching some classes in early digital synthesis. They had bought one of the first Synclavier I digital synthesizers, and I taught students how to write their own custom software to create new sounds on it. Tom Oberheim had heard that we had a Synclavier, and came to the studio to check it out. To my surprise, he ended up offering me a job so…

From 1980 until 1985 I worked at Oberheim. My first project was the DSX, a polyphonic sequencer, and I then worked on the OB-8 and DMX, Matrix-12 and Xpander. A few months after I started there I met a French engineer named Michel Doidic. He came over from France to work for Oberheim, originally for six months, but he ended up never leaving..

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