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Rob Hubbard is a British video game composer and musician. He is best known for his work on the Commodore 64, where he composed the soundtracks for many popular games, including Uridium, Delta, Sanxion, and Commando. He was born in 1955 in Kingston upon Hull, England.
Rob Hubbard began his career in the early 1980s, when he was hired by Commodore International to compose music for their Commodore 64 computer. He composed the soundtracks for many popular games, including Uridium, Delta, Sanxion, and Commando. He also wrote the music for the Commodore 64 version of the classic arcade game Defender.
Rob Hubbard has been credited with helping to popularize the use of synthesizers in video game music. He was also one of the first video game composers to use sampled instruments in his compositions.
Rob Hubbard has won numerous awards for his work, including the Lifetime Achievement Award from the International Game Developers Association in 2006. He is also a member of the Video Game Music Hall of Fame.
Rob Hubbard is currently retired and living in England. He is married and has two children.
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In November 2016, Hubbard received an honorary degree from Abertay University for his contributions to video game music in the 1980s.
In 2014, Hubbard appeared in and composed music for the documentary feature film From Bedrooms to Billions, a film that tells the story of the British video games industry.
In 2005, music from International Karate was performed live by a full orchestra at the third Symphonic Game Music Concert. The event took place in Leipzig, Germany. Hubbard arranged and orchestrated the piece.
Hubbard left EA in 2002 and returned to England. He has recently resumed playing in a band, and has even revisited his past game music work in concert. Recent composition jobs have included music for mobile phone games.
After working for several different companies, he left Newcastle in 1988 to work for Electronic Arts in America as a composer. He was the first person devoted to sound and music at EA, and did everything from low-level programming to composing. One of his most famous compositions during his period at EA is the music featured in the loading sequence of the Commodore 64 version of Skate or Die, which features multiple sampled chords of electric guitar and organ. Playback of samples was facilitated by exploiting a feature in the SID sound-synthesizer chip: altering the volume register produces an audible click, and altering the register thousands of times per second enables a relatively crude (but surprisingly clear and sophisticated for eight-bit computers) form of sample playback. He eventually became Audio Technical Director, a more administrative job, deciding which technologies to use in games, and which to develop further.
Writing a few demos and some educational software for learning music, he approached Gremlin Graphics in 1985 with samples of his work, in an attempt to market his software. Gremlin was more interested in the tunes than the software, and he was asked to create the soundtrack for Thing on a Spring, a platform game.
Hubbard went on to write or convert music for a variety of publishers on over 75 games between 1985 and 1989 such as Monty on the Run, Crazy Comets, Master of Magic and Commando. Some of his most popular tunes include also Warhawk, Delta, Thrust, Lightforce, Spellbound, Sanxion, Auf Wiedersehen Monty and International Karate. The game Knucklebusters includes Hubbard's longest tune: a 17-minute opus. Hubbard has mentioned his personal favourites are Kentilla, WAR and Sanxion. His least favourite was Sam Fox Strip Poker which he admitted to have done purely for money. He went under John York as an alias on the game credits. He has stated that he had many musical influences including Jean Michel Jarre, Larry Fast and other synth bands.
Rob Hubbard (born 1955 in Kingston upon Hull, England) is a British composer best known for his composition of computer game theme music, especially for microcomputers of the 1980s such as the Commodore 64. His work showcased the potential of the Commodore 64's sound hardware, and he pioneered many advanced programming techniques. He provided many early examples of how music can improve the gaming experience.
