KVR Audio

memyselfandus · Post by **memyselfandus** » Sun Feb 01, 2015 12:29 am

this seems like yesterday

http://www.soundonsound.com/sos/jun01/a ... ksonar.asp

bailees7irish · Post by **bailees7irish** » Sun Feb 01, 2015 12:32 am

hibidy wrote:
arkmabat wrote:I guess I never saw the beginning? I'd not been born long in 1992.
Please, by 1992 I was on my 4th or 5th car.

I wouldn't be too proud of that.

memyselfandus · Post by **memyselfandus** » Sun Feb 01, 2015 12:42 am

"Just discovered Dosbox to run this elderly software, much faster for MIDI than any windows based sequencer I've used"

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A_p4IgBD5oE

memyselfandus · Post by **memyselfandus** » Sun Feb 01, 2015 12:44 am

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t-Zzxhhss2g

memyselfandus · Post by **memyselfandus** » Sun Feb 01, 2015 1:11 am

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1LEn94T ... Me8Vtv5LKe

memyselfandus · Post by **memyselfandus** » Tue Feb 10, 2015 5:25 pm

memyselfandus · Post by **memyselfandus** » Wed Feb 11, 2015 11:14 pm

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6F44b60Mq30

memyselfandus · Post by **memyselfandus** » Tue Feb 09, 2016 12:56 pm

Cool stuff

jabe · Post by **jabe** » Tue Feb 09, 2016 1:12 pm

Splendid! Some names in here I haven't heard in years. I had Digital Soup, but didn't do much with it. I ran my first MIDI sequencer on an Amstrad CPC664. It could send three MIDI notes to my keyboard at the same time as playing a few 8-bit drums sounds. The software allowed songs to have sections too, which was great. The output went to my Tascam Portastudio and gave me something to play along with.

The next time I encounter my box of floppy disks off magazines, I'll see if I can spot any early music ones.

memyselfandus · Post by **memyselfandus** » Tue Feb 09, 2016 2:28 pm

jabe wrote:Splendid! Some names in here I haven't heard in years. I had Digital Soup, but didn't do much with it. I ran my first MIDI sequencer on an Amstrad CPC664. It could send three MIDI notes to my keyboard at the same time as playing a few 8-bit drums sounds. The software allowed songs to have sections too, which was great. The output went to my Tascam Portastudio and gave me something to play along with.

The next time I encounter my box of floppy disks off magazines, I'll see if I can spot any early music ones.

Awesome! Post back

JonSolo · Post by **JonSolo** » Tue Feb 09, 2016 8:41 pm

It wasn't the first but I cut my teeth on Cool Edit in the mid 90s.

Gonga · Post by **Gonga** » Tue Feb 09, 2016 9:31 pm

1987: Cakewalk sequencer (DOS)
1989: Cubase sequencer (Atari)
1992: Cakewalk (Windows) - worked with most Windows sound cards
1993: Cubase (Windows)
Year? Cakewalk Pro Audio
1996: Cubase Audio

Gonga · Post by **Gonga** » Tue Feb 09, 2016 9:57 pm

Frantz wrote:Probably SAW.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Digital_audio_workstation

Around 1992, the first Windows based DAWs started to emerge from companies such as IQS Innovative Quality Software which today is SAWStudio, Soundscape Digital Technology (which was later acquired by Mackie then by SSL), SADiE, Echo Digital Audio and Spectral Synthesis.

This is a very incomplete article. It says "all systems used dedicated hardware" (in the early 90s). Not true. Both Cakewalk and Cubase worked with any Windows-compatible sound card.

Jim Roseberry · Post by **Jim Roseberry** » Tue Feb 09, 2016 10:22 pm

Quad Studio from Turtle Beach was one of the first DAW software apps for PC.
4 track of 16Bit/44.1k audio
If folks think today's software is problematic, they should have experienced Quad Studio.

Never worked as promised...

The original version of S.A.W. was out about the same time.
4 stereo tracks of 16Bit/44.1k audio
Unlike Quad Studio, S.A.W. worked extremely well.

Cakewalk Pro Audio (version 4) was released a while later.
That was the first app on PC to combine audio/MIDI in a workable environment.
That said, it was *extremely* primitive compared to what we take for granted today.
No realtime EFX. The included reverb was mono. CPU power wasn't up to much realtime processing.
Plus, the native processing that was available (then) was nowhere near hardware quality.

I remember the first time I could record/playback 48 solid channels of 16Bit/44.1k audio.
The was the end of tape (analog and digital).

Samplitude Studio 4.0 came out a bit later... and that (to me) was really exciting.
So much of the processing and editing could be done in realtime...
No more stopping the transport to do things like apply dynamics/EQ/reverb, or applying destructive fades or gain changes, flipping phase, etc.

BBFG# · Post by **BBFG#** » Wed Feb 10, 2016 3:33 am

In 1992 I was using TwelveTone Systems & PowerTracks ... on Windows 3.2
and Creator, but can't remember if it was Windows or DOS.

I still keep a fairly recent version of the first two just to be able to access those early sketches.

What was the first Daw on Windows?