What was your first sequencer or DAW?

[ttwalter]

But compared to what I started out on Orion (even my retarded 'basic' version) is a dream! And I really don't understand all these people with these flashy sequencers that to try to do everything but only succeed in clouding judgemment and causing indecision...IMHO...

I like orion also very much. But imho i will never understand why a seqeuence is bound to a instrument.

[Willabong]

Used Pro 12 off an Atari magazine cover disk (Floppy) for a while, also Pro Tracker, it was so easy to make music with.
Then i upgraded to Pro 24.(The first Cubase.)

[Sepheritoh]

Voyetra GOld (DOS)
Cakewalk
Sonar

[kritikon]

A Yamaha QX something-or-other sequencer, a Yamaha home keyboard. Quickly followed by an Atari, Cubase v1 and a 303+606 (took me another year to figure out how to get it midi'ed up though ). And then it all went downhill from there...I don't think I've ever had as much fun as on that little silver splat/hiss box and the 303 synced together. (Couldn't make many symphonies on those two though ).

[B1gBand]

Good to know some of you must be as old as me!!!!
QX21 > QX5 > Atari/Cubase (2?) > a big gap ... > Cakewalk Pro 9 > another big gap > Cubase SX > SX2.

[snooky]

Technomaker...about 9 years ago.

http://www.diu.se/nr4-96/nr4-96.asp?artikel=techno

[tha_man]

There was something on Spectrum and Commodore 64, but I've never made any real music with it.

Then I've got ProTracker on my Amiga 500 (1990), which was my first real sequencer that I made some music in it. After that it goes something like this:

OctaMED Pro 4 (Amiga 1200, 1992) --> Voyetra Orchestrator (Pentium 100MHz, 1996) --> Cakewalk Pro Audio 6 --> Voyetra Orchestrator Pro --> Fruity Loops 2 --> Cakewalk 7 + Rebirth 2.0 (AMD K6 233MHz, 1999) --> Yamaha DJX2b + Cakewalk 7 --> Fruity Loops 3 (AMD Athlon 1600+) --> Reason 1.01 + Acid 4 --> upgraded Reason to V2 and then V2.5 --> Renoise 1.5 + energyXT.

I've tried most of the other sequencers, and there was a chance to switch to Tracktion or Ableton Live 4 after Reason + Acid combo, but I decided to go back to the tracker roots, and I love it more than ever. I still use Reason (3) + Acid 4 too, just a lot less than I used to.

[deggy]

486, cubase 3.0 (pre vst which came in version 3.5 i think), a miracle piano midi controller (originally meant to be a teaching tool to help my mother's piano students learn sight reading with a commadore 64) and a Roland D110 sound module that my neighbor lent me. All my music sounded like bad ripoffs of the beverly hills cop theme recorded through the crappiest of crappy soundcards, the sound blaster 16.

a few years later, my parents loaned me money to buy an mc-303. my music got 10 times worse until i got an asr-x a year few years later. it was still shitty, but not as much as before (like bad ripoffs of the theme from blade runner now i guess).

[Lukow]

a Roland JSQ-60 (capable of storing some unbelievable 2,000 notes...) wired to a JUNO-60 synth got me started in 1984

In 1990 Cubase and Atari ST2 did the job ... and not a bad job at all. If not me, at least the machines were capable.

[braj]

100 note sequencer on my sh-101 CV'd to my DR-110. Moved up to Master Tracks on the C-64 a couple of years later when Midi came along.