Allan Lobo

Hello! I'm Allan, I make a living helping keyboardists worldwide.

I took a leap of faith and gave up a promising career in biomedical science to follow my heart and dedicate my life to music.

My musical career began when I joined a Pink Floyd tribute band in 2016 and played over 200 live shows in the span of six years. It was a deep dive into the complex and captivating soundscapes of progressive rock, which has since become the foundation of my work.

Today, I combine scientific precision and artistic passion to create keyboard sound packs that embody the iconic sounds of prog rock and teach music and sound design, providing musicians around the world with the tools they need.

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This is my story

I was born in September 20th, 1995 in Curitiba, Brazil.

Curitiba is a subtropical state capital in the south, a great, award-winning city.

I was fortunate enough to grow up with present, supporting parents who always believed in me. My father was a highway policeman and my mother worked in the Brazilian IRS. I have an older brother and we were a pretty standard middle-class family.

Music always had a pull on me, I remember losing track of what somebody was telling me as a kid because my attention was being drawn to the music that was playing. It wasn't a voluntary effort to prioritize the music, it was more like a gravitational pull that the music was exerting. My brother says I was very annoying because I was always drumming on something; the table, the couch, the wall, whatever was available to bang on.

It's important to mention that my music taste was heavily influenced by a friend of my brother who usually came by our place. He offered to load music into my new mp3 player that my mother gifted me in 2006 or 2007 (that standard red one, which were the coolest thing back then) and I accepted. I can't remember 100% of the songs, and it was a mix of varied genres, but I know that Paranoid, Iron Man and War Pigs were there, as well as Killing In The Name, Enter Sandman, Chop Suey and The Trooper. There were a few reggae, pop and hip hop songs (50 Cent, Akon...), but what I was really hooked into was the rock / metal songs.

Also important to mention that this was when Guitar Hero showed up. My best friend from highschool had a guitar controller and I used to play at his house.

FIRST CONTACT

In 2008 at the age of 13 I went to my cousin's birthday party in my uncle's place, and I remember finding an old, dusty drum kit rotting away in a junk room at the back of their house. I asked about it and my uncle said that it was really old and dysfunctional but I could have it if I wanted. I obviously said yes and we brought it home. The cymbals were trash, one tom had a significantly torn drumhead, and the bass drumhead was partially torn. It sounded horrible, but it was a drum kit! My drum kit that I can play on! I had a blast playing on it for a few months, and for some reason I never actually took drumming lessons to this day, so I taught myself how to play by playing along to these songs I mentioned. My mother saw that I was actually playing it and improving, that this music thing was getting some traction, so for my birthday in 2009 she said we were going to the music store to get a brand new drum kit.

She got me a national, entry-level drum kit, and the most basic Zildjian ZBT cymbal kit, with the hihats, 2 crashes and 1 ride cymbal. By then I was HOOKED into Lars Ulrich and and Scott Travis, and I begged her to buy me a double bass pedal. She did. We got home, I set the kit up and I started annoying the neighbors right away. I wish I had pictures of this time. With time I built the conditioning and coordination to be able to play Painkiller, a very demanding Judas Priest song. My technique was (and still is) trash because I never had a teacher, but I remember spending months chasing it, and then the intense feeling of finally conquering the song.

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