About Palmetshofer Audio

My name is Ewald Palmetshofer, and my relationship with music started in 1976 with piano lessons — and it never stopped evolving. By 1982 I was playing keyboards on stage, and in 1988 I got my hands on an Akai S900. That was the moment sampling got under my skin for good.

The early days were all about exploration: programming drum grooves on a Yamaha RX21, discovering synthesis on my first synth — a Korg Polysix — and recording experiments on a two-track tape machine my father gave me. From those humble beginnings I moved to Cubase in 1995, then switched to Logic Pro in 1997, which has been my home ever since.

In the late 1990s I produced two CDs in my parents’ basement. From 2000 onwards I worked in a professional recording studio, composing and producing radio and TV jingles. Since 2002 I’ve been working as a programmer in the IT industry — but music production, live performance, and the endless fascination with music technology have always stayed with me.

Over the decades I’ve built up an extensive sampling library, dug deep into sound design, and developed workflows that actually work. Watching friends struggle with tools I know inside-out was what finally pushed me to start this channel: I realised I’d accumulated a lot of knowledge — and it was time to share it.