Markk II Studios was first opened in 1978 by a young aspiring musician named Markk Roberts, at the young age of 17 when many of my classmates were borrowing money for their first car, I opted for my first loan for two synthesizers, and some outboard gear, a Prophet 5, and a Mini Moog Model D .

I started playing my first musical instruments around age 7 when I received a guitar for Christmas from my mother, she also taught me to play the piano learning duet's around this same time.

Learning on a Haddorff 1924 upright grand piano that was inherited from my grandmother. I would learn both upper and lower parts as I was just fascinated about how the sounds blended together, It was determined that this is where my love for very complex sequential pieces in the likes of Tangerine Dream, Jean Michel Jarre, Redshift and many others originated.

I first started touring in a rock band in 1982, while just out of high school and only at the age of 19, heck I wasn't even "legal" to be in some of the nightclubs that the required drinking age was 21. Let me tell you, it was certainly a "learning" experience. Even though I was born and raised in Rochester, Minnesota, I have been living in Scottsdale, Arizona for the past 17 years on and off and consider Arizona to be my second home. I just love it here...come visit and you'll understand...

Markk II Studios is a full fledged all digital recording studio utilizing both new and old technology in harmony. While using the latest new gear from Apple, Digidesign, Apogee, and Eventide, yet still retaining that old analogue flavors of Moog Modular gear re-introduced by people such as Roger Arrick and Synthesizers.com, Moon Modular, STG Modules and other analogue modular manufactures.

I am still in the process of working on a solo CD/DVD that will showcase the variety of styles and influences that have encompassed my life over the past 20 years of my musical career.

I would really like to perform live again sometime in the near future, as it is still the best way to intimately connect directly with a listener. I have always envisioned a show similar to Jean Michel Jarre's show he did in Moscow, and the use of laser light for many parts of the show to accentuate the music as it is played. I believes that a musical performance is not just based upon one of the senses, but by all of them, such as sight, sound, and feel.