About
Markkus Rovito is a writer, editor, and media producer with more than two decades of experience covering music-creation, pro and consumer audio, home theater, computing, and other technology.
Experience
Like a baby seal clinging to a shrinking iceberg, Markkus has managed to survive in the narrow cross-section of audio-tech geekdom and literary nerdiness. He’s worked on staff at Electronic Musician, Maximum PC, DJ Tech Tools, Maximum Tech, Keyboard, E-Gear, and Remix, as well as contributed to Mix, MusicTech, Gearspace, and other fine outlets. Markkus’s synthesizer obsession has ranged from a financial liability to a balanced appreciation. He can tell you both how to set up a home recording studio and the reasons why you probably shouldn’t.
After many years as a full-time editor in the music technology and consumer electronics spaces, he joined the Autodesk Redshift publication as a contributing editor, branching out into the architecture, construction, and manufacturing technology that makes the modern world run. The award-winning Redshift team tells the stories of companies large and small that attempt to do more with less and make a world that works for everyone.
Education
Markkus attended the E.W. Scripps School of Journalism at Ohio University, earning a degree in Magazine Journalism. His scribblings on music and movies as a staff writer for the independent student newspaper, The Post, helped broke students figure out what to do over the weekend with the money they got from selling their plasma.
