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Maclaine Diemer is a multimedia music composer. He worked on sound design and composing music for the Rock Band Series, and ArenaNet's Guild Wars 2.

Early Life
Maclaine started attending Berklee College of Music in 1999, and graduated with a Bachelor of Arts in Professional Music in 2003. Maclaine was mainly focused on Songwriting, and studio production.

Career
In September 2003, Maclaine worked as a professional musician for Smelly Van Riders, Inc until June 2008.

In September 2005, he started working as a researcher and technology coordinator for the Boston Search Group, Inc. He later left in June 2008 to work at Harmonix Music Systems.

In June 2008, Maclaine started working as a sound designer and composer at Harmonix Music Systems for 2 years. During this time, he worked on sound design and composing music for many of Harmonix's games. He worked on The Beatles: Rock Band, Rock Band 2, and Rock Band 3. Maclaine left Harmonix in July 2010 to work at ArenaNet.

In July 2010, Maclaine joined the ArenaNet team as a sound designer for the game Guild Wars 2, and later in 2012 he became the company's lead composer for the game. He later worked on the themes for Guild Wars 2's Living World Season 1, Living World Season 2, Guild Wars 2: Heart Of Thorns, Living World Season 3, Guild Wars 2: Path Of Fire, and Living World Season 4.

In April 2019, Maclaine stepped down as lead composer at ArenaNet to pursue other projects. However, he is still writing music for Guild Wars 2.