KVR Audio

cron · Post by **cron** » Tue Feb 01, 2005 11:43 am

Started with Music X, later switching to OctaMED on my Amiga (got both of those from the front cover of Amiga Format magazine; RIP). Switched to Fasttracker 2 (:hail:) when I got my P110 'super-computer' with 8 megs of RAM and an 8 bit sound card. Moved up to Cubase 3.7 when I got my 1GHz 'super-computer'. Stayed dry for years and years as I never, ever got the hang of the sudden jump from trackers to Cubase. Eventually rested on Audiomulch, which I'm now using on my not particularly super any more XP2200.

C00kie · Post by **C00kie** » Tue Feb 01, 2005 11:53 am

Must have been around 1981. At school there was a Tandy TRS-80. It could beep. I discovered it could beep at different frequencies!

Then I made a basic step sequencer. I added a second track to that. It involved playing note of track 1 very shortly, then track 2 shortly, back to 1 and then 2 and finally 1.

Sounded a bit like the cheap Casio's of the same time, great fun!

Later I could do the same on my first PC in GW-Basic, still have the dual-tone version of the DrWho theme somewhere...

zeoy · Post by **zeoy** » Tue Feb 01, 2005 12:56 pm

For me it was not a steady afair but I started with Spectrum and basic around 1985 but I was disapointed and quit. Then, 10 yrs later bought my first PC (486 80MHz) with a SB FM16 I think, then a MaxiSound 64 soundcard with 16MB RAM for sampling (I even managed to send SysEx to the card to achieve various weird goals- I don't remember how to do anything like that now) but then came the glory days

with my band and didn't use the PC for music until recently (discovered KVR-Tracktion NFR and all those freebies)

elwood · Post by **elwood** » Tue Feb 01, 2005 1:29 pm

Shit! I found it! Blueberry was composed by Karsten Obarski. DL the mod at http://www.scenemusic.net/info.htm?idsong=58513

Stefan:
I listened to fjant 2, a very nice tune indeed. Played it with both modplug and xmplay and just hit play again

You can hear some of my early stuff here in both MP3 and XM formats:
http://www.inetware.it/elwood/
Page is made by a fan

M.M. de Jonge:
Thank you!

Lunatique · Post by **Lunatique** » Tue Feb 01, 2005 1:33 pm

Lunch Money wrote: The question could have as easily been worded:

How long has it been since you first used a computer for making music?

Greg

Gotcha.

For me, my bandmate was using a Mac and studio Vision (actually, I think it was another software--a grade lower than Vision--can't remember its name) in the early 90's (I met him in 92'). I would bring songs over on my Roland 2-track sequencer and we'd dump it onto his Mac, and he'd tweak envelops and filters and fix the timing with quantizer, and swap out my crappy Roland D-10 sounds with better samples on his Emu.

I didn't own my first computer until 1998--and I mainly bought it to build a DAW and also do 3D animation on it. I got a Turtlebeach Pinnacle Studio which included Digital Orchestrator. I ended up wasting over $500 on that piece of shit because the soundcard wasn't even compatible with my motherboard and kept crashing to blue screen of death(it was an Asus P2B MOBO)--and there's no way I could've found that out beforehand. I was very very very pissed, as I didn't get squat done with it and wasted so much time and money. I still hate Turtlebeach to this day. Let me rephrase that--I f**king HATE TURTLEBEACH for turning out that SHIT product that wasn't even compatible with one of the most popular and best motherboards on the market at the time. I could've made so much music if that rig had worked, instead, it made me broke and I ended up not making music for years because I couldn't afford anything else after that loss, and my old gear was already broken by then.

During those dark years of not being able to record music, I ended up just practicing guitar and drums, but didn't make any music.

It wasn't until 2002 that I started recording music again, and that was because I bought a Triton Le. I did two tracks on it but realized I had to have a software sequencer because that tiny LCD was driving me crazy. So, I tried out Sonar and Cubase SX and never looked back. In early 2004, I built myself the DAW I've always wanted, and should've had when I wasted that money in 1998. I'm damn happy now. Making music on the computer is so much more efficient, powerful, and VSTs are the best things to happen to music makers in a long long time. Powerful and high quality samplers/libraries are also a blessing. Technology is changing the way we make music every year, and one only needs a fraction of the money it used to require to have a rig that's far more powerful.

It's a good time to be making music.

stefancrs · Post by **stefancrs** » Tue Feb 01, 2005 1:36 pm

elwood wrote:Shit! I found it! Blueberry was composed by Karsten Obarski. DL the mod at http://www.scenemusic.net/info.htm?idsong=58513

Stefan:
I listened to fjant 2, a very nice tune indeed. Played it with both modplug and xmplay and just hit play again You can hear some of my early stuff here in both MP3 and XM formats:
http://www.inetware.it/elwood/
Page is made by a fan

M.M. de Jonge:
Thank you!

I've heard plenty of your stuff

. Even tried doing some doskpop with that "home of the stars" tune, but it didn't quite work for me

EJo · Post by **EJo** » Sun Mar 06, 2005 11:32 pm

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haydxn · Post by **haydxn** » Sun Mar 06, 2005 11:44 pm

i thought i'd replied to this already!

i started with PLAY and BEEP commands on my spectrum (+2, 128k).. even had a little tape sampler thing for that but it wasn't something you could perform with or anything..

then i got an amiga 500! and after mostly playing games, programming in AMOS and drawing in DPaint, i discovered OctaMED and got into computer music all over again! i think i used another tracker too but that was the first one i got into, from CU(commodore user) coverdisk (back when disk was spelled with a k

).

then PC... FT2 was my starting point.. then nothing for ages, and then fruity loops demo. and then some version or other of logic, and then my wonderful discovery of Tracktion!

mind you all this talk of Music on the psx... a year or two back i met up with my friend in guildford and we spent ages making tunes on that. got really carried away coming up with arrangements of the pre-supplied vocal samples, and wrote a song with a perfectly intelligible chop-together of one of the people saying "TAKE IT UP THE ARSE".. what a wonderful experience!

mwa · Post by **mwa** » Sun Mar 06, 2005 11:44 pm

i played with audiomulch and buzz a bit about 6 or 7 years ago..
then decided to try to get into it last august..

Electric Phase · Post by **Electric Phase** » Sun Mar 06, 2005 11:57 pm

I got my first computer about nine months ago. I'm in way over my head

, but I'm havin' a great time.

Lesha · Post by **Lesha** » Mon Mar 07, 2005 1:11 am

SOLA wrote:I am a part of a producer tripple called Giana-Brotherz www.giana-brotherz.com and we started making music with no machines.

RESPECT !!!!
oh man, i still love your tunes

those were the days...

i started in 1993 with amiga 500 and octamed... i feel so nostalgic right now....

later it was rebirth & fruity loops on pc....etc...

multree · Post by **multree** » Mon Mar 07, 2005 1:19 am

the first soundcard I had was a MAXI Studio ISIS from Guillemont.... which actually wasn't that bad.... they shipped it with Logic3 ISIS version....

but since they never made a driver for Windows XP I threw it away (wanted to give it away to someone still running ME or 98 but no one wanted to have it)

digitalmessiah · Post by **digitalmessiah** » Mon Mar 07, 2005 1:29 am

i began with sofo acid 5 years ago on a duron 600mgh pc, 128mb ram.

i know it's slow.

opiadream · Post by **opiadream** » Mon Mar 07, 2005 1:36 am

multree · Post by **multree** » Mon Mar 07, 2005 1:38 am

digitalmessiah wrote:i began with sofo acid 5 years ago

I just read:

"i began with sofo acid 5, years ago"

that seemed kinda strange.... you would have been part of the timetravelling betateam then

When did you begin making computer music?