Dan Fisher

New! Version 3 of Sweetwater's popular Grand Piano CD

Master sound designer and Kurzweil VAST guru, Dan Fisher graduated Cum Laude with a Bachelors Degree in Music Production and Engineering as well as Cum Laude with a Bachelors Degree in Music Synthesis from Berklee College. After spending several years as a Soundware Engineer for Kurzweil Music Systems he went on to become the Director of Soundware Engineering at Sweetwater Sound and headed the creation of over 20 CD-ROMs and synth programs for Kurzweil, Alesis, Korg, E-MU, Yamaha, and TC Electronic. He is currently an "Associate Professor of Music Synthesis" at Berklee College of Music in Boston, Mass. and also designs user interfaces for Web-based applications for a financial company in downtown Boston.

During his years at Sweetwater, Dan was in charge of the creation of some of the best-selling soundware libraries ever created for Kurzweil's VAST series keyboards including the K-Series keyboard workstations. Most recently, Dan put the finishing touches on Sweetwater's new Grand Piano CD, V. 3 which includes three gigantic grand pianos for Kurzweil workstations and more. Click here to read Jim Miller's review of the new Grand Piano CD

While visiting Sweetwater recently, we had the opportunity to sit down with Dan and ask him a few questions relating to these libraries, VAST technology and more.