What was your first sequencer or DAW?

[Rabid]

Mine was Personal Composer by Jim Miller back in the 80's when a 386 was considered to be a really good machine. Back then Personal Composer was a DOS program which worked by entering notes on a music staff. Then you assigned a staff to a MIDI channel. I remember thinking how cool it was to create a macro for entering repeating patterns. It was a picky program. You had to give the song a time signature, and you had to pu in measure breaks at the right points. If you had a note that sustained into another measure, or across several measures you had to make seperate notes in each measure and tie them together. It was easy to get a glitch in the MIDI playback because of misalligning notes, or getting an extra note shoved into a 4/4 measure. I actually got pretty good at creating glitches and used them to create pops in bass parts when using that old, awfull slap bass patch on a DX7.

Robert

[ceenda]

Quartet, on the Atari ST. The first "notation tracker". Loved it.

It was like a tracker, in that you could sample your own sounds (4bit, wheeeee!), but you could use notation instead of the usual tracker interface.




When we got our first PC, it was FastTracker II, but not before a short stint on ScreamTracker III, which I still have rather fond memories of.

[kovacs]

I used some sort of drum software on the Sinclair ZX Spectrum...I don't remember the name...needless to say it was remarkable state of the art.

My first, uhm, "real" soft studio was Magix Studio 2003, which was replaced after about 2 days with FruityLoops. Now I use Live.

[BONES]

Roland TB303, in about 1982. After about 3 years of those piles of krap I graduated to MIDI via a Yamaha QX7. My first workstation was a Korg M1.

[jackson]

Some proprietary tracker that came with the "sampler" I bought for my Amiga 500. Once I moved to PC, it was Fasttracker then onto Cakewalk then Logic. Stuck with Logic for about 6 years now. Need a change.

[The Chase]

rebirth, followed by fruityloops 2.0

[Apparition]

Pianito-Microstudio with cheesy GM bank or sf2 loaded into my SbLive 5.1 and like....1s latency

[slovak]

master trax , Alesis mmt8, and brother md-30 (still got sequences i need to transfer... anyone got?)

[clueless]

[Sascha Franck]

Some Yamaha hardware thingy I don't even remember the name of anymore (like with a maximum amount of 8000 events or so...). Along with some MT-32 (Yay, quality! The grandfather of the GM standard...).
Then the obligatory ST-1040 and Cubase 1.0 - 2.0. Switched to a P75 and Cubase 3.0 later on (that's when the Steinberg horrorshow began...). Stopped using it for years after 3.6 and moved to Logic. Still there (oh well, using SX 3 too, if I can't avoid it).

[slovak]

since clueless went there, I'll add my Casio CZ230s -my favorite keyboard / sequencer / synth ... this thing was awesome... \
Pissed off at Christmas when I got it and didn't get the CZ101 or other CZ series... then I found out I could load patches from the CZ series, sequence, and back up data to audio cassette...

I 've never seen this keyboard anywhere (anybody got?)

[slovak]

Can anyone tell me why BROTHER the typewriter company never kept going in the sequencer business-they were a different approach to the music making utilities...

[Mystical_Fantasy]

FL->Music Creator->Pro Audio 9->Sonar->Cubase.

[tetraplan]

Strictly speaking, my first sequencer was the one in my Poly-800. The first one that was really useful was my MC50. Made quite a number of tracks on that one. Step sequencing was a pain, though.

Groet, Erik

[jeffn1]

Strictly speaking, my first sequencer was the one in my Poly-800. The first one that was really useful was my MC50. Made quite a number of tracks on that one. Step sequencing was a pain, though.

Groet, Erik

Passport Mastertracks Pro (5).

jeffn1