KVR Audio

digitalmessiah · Post by **digitalmessiah** » Mon Mar 07, 2005 1:57 am

multree wrote:
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

hehe

i meant sofo acid (i think it was version 1 or 2), 5 years ago.

lawapa · Post by **lawapa** » Mon Mar 07, 2005 2:07 am

I started on a DX7 with a QX7. I added a TX7 and a RX7. this was 85 86. MAN sequencing through that tiny LCD was a royal pain. But I could find and delete bad notes. Sync this to analog tape and add a few more voices. It was not the best way to do things but computers were expensive and really didn't do what I wanted to do. I did feel if I waited long enough they had to catch up. I bought a used Dell P3 450 a few years back set up cakewalk and Band in a box. I could add guitar track to my sequences And I was off and running. I've got a dedicated DAW for audio and one for video. And these toys do so much I still pinching myself like it's all a dream. I can have a ton of stuff up and running. The term turnkey system does have meaning here. And I don't have to sell the house to get it.

al2k1 · Post by **al2k1** » Mon Mar 07, 2005 2:36 am

2001. Started with Reason 1.0, switched to Cubase - didn't like it, went back to Reason 2.5, discovered VST instruments, got Tracktion and have used it along side reason ever since.

I am almost done making my first song and hopefully will post it here within a couple of years.

digitalmessiah · Post by **digitalmessiah** » Mon Mar 07, 2005 2:54 am

al2k1 wrote:2001. Started with Reason 1.0, switched to Cubase - didn't like it, went back to Reason 2.5, discovered VST instruments, got Tracktion and have used it along side reason ever since.

I am almost done making my first song and hopefully will post it here within a couple of years.

when will you finish your 2nd song, in about 10 years?

Jesse J · Post by **Jesse J** » Mon Mar 07, 2005 2:58 am

I started making music on computer on Amiga Tracker in 1989.

al2k1 · Post by **al2k1** » Mon Mar 07, 2005 3:33 am

digitalmessiah wrote:when will you finish your 2nd song, in about 10 years?

Not sure how long it will take to finish my second song but It will probally be mixed with Tracktion 7.3.

kaden · Post by **kaden** » Mon Mar 07, 2005 3:44 am

Musta been '79 or '80...definitely pre-midi. I had a Soundchaser, which was 2 Mountain Digital oscillator boards stuffed into an Apple 2Ew/64K of mem, with a 37 note Pratt-Read keyboard controlling it. You could record 16 tracks in real time, on a staff, or in a kinda trackerish 'note/octave/duration' format.

It was an organ keyboard...just on/off note events, but you could tweeze the dynamics after they were recorded. The oscillator boards were just oscillators and envelopes...no filters, but you could draw insanely stepped squarewaves for the LFO and get a really cool sample-hold kinda thing going on. You had 16 oscillators available: You could useas many as you wanted per voice patch, but your max polyphony would take a hit. With 16 oscillators in a patch, you had 1 note polyphony on the keyboard, but (for 1979, anyway) it was a *Big* note. You could control pitchbend and modulation with the Apple's paddle controllers, or a joystick if you were cool enough to have one.

The sucker leaked audio like crazy: it sounded like you'd laid a 2x4 across the keyboard, no shit. The signal to noise ratio was about, like, 6. The indignities we used to subject the sound of that thing to *just* to make it useable you wouldn't believe.

Latency was negligible, though, and it was rock solid stable.

I don't miss the f**king thing one little bit.

K

Doogle · Post by **Doogle** » Mon Mar 07, 2005 4:57 pm

Is any of this talk of trackers n stuff (especially on the ol' Amiga) making anyone nostalgic for the demo scenes of yesteryear? When I see VJs doing their thing, along with the blips and bloops playing, it brings back loads of memory of trackers and copperlists (Amiga coding thing)

Back on topic... Started about 3 years ago.. I was trying to teach myself to drum, so I started playing around with HammerHead (beat box program)... a friend showed me fruityloops and I've been with that ever since. I still suck at drumming and fruity tho. Played around with trackers years ago but couldn't get anything done in them. I'm more of a coder anyway.. and I've played around loads with audio coding on the Amiga (including stuff using that parallel port sampler unit) and later on my PC and Soundblaster.

Doogle

quincy · Post by **quincy** » Mon Mar 07, 2005 5:03 pm

I know what you're talking about doogle, i used to be well into the amiga demo scene and did a little coding myself, although i much prefer PC these dasy coding to the old amiga stuff!

dj_icon · Post by **dj_icon** » Mon Mar 07, 2005 5:09 pm

I started last year when i was 14, stil learning new things everyday and enjoying every minute of it!

mmdejonge · Post by **mmdejonge** » Mon Mar 07, 2005 5:25 pm

Many years ago. I remember entering BEEP 1,0 on the ZX-Spectrum

putte · Post by **putte** » Mon Mar 07, 2005 5:26 pm

dj_icon wrote:I started last year when i was 14, stil learning new things everyday and enjoying every minute of it!

tiptop! welcome at kvr, and cheers to the musicmaking ..

putte

dj_icon · Post by **dj_icon** » Mon Mar 07, 2005 5:46 pm

putte wrote:
dj_icon wrote:I started last year when i was 14, stil learning new things everyday and enjoying every minute of it!
tiptop! welcome at kvr, and cheers to the musicmaking ..

putte

Thanx

alvakorn · Post by **alvakorn** » Mon Mar 07, 2005 5:55 pm

First computer was an Atari ST with SMPTETRACK in 1989. Before that it was a Yamaha QX21 hardware sequencer. Switched to PC in 1995 with Cakewalk 3.0

deastman · Post by **deastman** » Mon Mar 07, 2005 6:07 pm

My first synth was a Korg DW-6000, back in 1984 or 1985. My first sequencer for the Mac Plus came shortly after that- "MIDIMac Sequencer 1.0" which was later known as "Opcode StudioVision"

When did you begin making computer music?