Who is behind BIT 31?

Hi, my name is: Karl F. Meis.

Born 1971 in West-Germany, I came in touch with home-computers and early synthesizers when I was about 13 years old and my passion was born.

I started to write programms to control synthesizers via MIDI-Interface when I still went to school. With my self-programmed MIDI-Monitor - an assembler-written MIDI-step-by-step sequencer-program - I composed my first pieces of music in 1988.

I like both, natural sounds like a grand-piano or a flute and synthetic sounds. Sometimes my music is rhythmic and funky (check out the songs on Electronic Journey), sometimes calm (check out my piano-songs on Love-Songs).

So after my study of computer-science, I bought several hardware-synthesizers (like the SIEL Opera 6 and Korg Polysix, Wavestation, etc.) and samplers (like the ensoniq EPS) and recorded my ideas on Digital Audio Tape.

In the year 2002 I moved completly over to software-instruments and computer-based composing. Since then I have all the old synthesizers and fantastic sounding samplers I always dreamed of under my fingers!

Why the name BIT 31?

In 32-bit-integer-calculations the bit at position 31 plays the most significant role, since it determins whether the number is positive or negative. So never underestimate BIT 31!

Contacting BIT 31

You may contact BIT 31 under the following address:
bit31@meis-software.eu

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