When did you begin making computer music?
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- KVRian
- 1496 posts since 10 Nov, 2002 from Earth
Circa 1998 with HammerHead, Orangator and Acid 1.0. Soon became converted to Fruity Loops.
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- KVRist
- 432 posts since 3 Sep, 2001 from Atlanta, GA
My first real experience with using a computer to create music, was when I bought a Commodore Amiga 500(1/2 MB memory, no hard drive, everything was on 3.5" floppy dicks back then) and started using Passports MasterTracks Pro and got onto MIDI sequencing back in 1988. I later switched to an Atari 1040STE, which I continued to use until 1995.
Billy Buck
Billy Buck
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- Boss Lovin' DR
- 14312 posts since 15 Mar, 2002 from the grimness of yorkshire
Bought a second hand atari with cubase in about 1996, before that I was doing all the sequencing on my little Yamaha qy10. 
The setup was atari, qy10,cheetah sx16 sampler (a complete mentalists machine, with probably the worst operating system known to man.) and tascam 4 track then later a fostex 8 track for recording, with a shite h/h mixer, which I still use
The setup was atari, qy10,cheetah sx16 sampler (a complete mentalists machine, with probably the worst operating system known to man.) and tascam 4 track then later a fostex 8 track for recording, with a shite h/h mixer, which I still use
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- KVRian
- 711 posts since 16 Mar, 2002 from Mostly in planes and hotels. Terra Firma: Seattle, WA
Started making any kind of music at the end of 2001. My Yamaha PSR-510 had been picking up dust for a few years (I had used it for some cover band stuff and some theatrical orchestration work in the past). Anyway, I decided to start writing my own stuff. Scoured the market for sequencers, and started off with Orion, and then Cubase (which is now my weapon of choice). Went scouring the market for sound modules/and or a new keyboard, when I happened to take a chance on Omni Synth (and compare it to the JV/Sound Canvas stuff I was contemplating at the time). The rest is history
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- TopModernGeezer
- 2679 posts since 14 Mar, 2001 from Stuttgart, Germany
in 1993 i started making music with an ENsoniq EPS16-sampler having an onboard sequencer. In 1994 i got it started with an AtariST and Cubase.
(..Jaj, that was great!)
Now i am 78 years old and wait for the next war....
Yours,
Thorsten Puttenat
(..Jaj, that was great!)
Now i am 78 years old and wait for the next war....
Yours,
Thorsten Puttenat
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- Boss Lovin' DR
- 14312 posts since 15 Mar, 2002 from the grimness of yorkshire
May 24th 2003, London, England - Hun vs Englander all over again!putte wrote:
Now i am 78 years old and wait for the next war....
Yours,
Thorsten Puttenat
David Donkenstein.
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- KVRer
- 27 posts since 7 May, 2002 from Emerald City
About two years ago. While researching notation software, I discovered the existence of sequencers and VSTi's, and it's been downhill ever since.
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- KVRist
- 65 posts since 14 Mar, 2002 from NY
I bought my first computer specifically for music in 1989. An Atari ST: 2 megs of ram, 8mhz CPU, no harddrive. I ran Hybrid Arts SmpteTrack on it until 1995. Then I switched to PC, but thinking about the old days brings a tear to my eye 
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- KVRian
- 665 posts since 29 Nov, 2002 from Bury St. Edmunds, England
Started around 1992-1993, using 'Soundtracker' on a humble 128k +2A Spectrum! Then built a midi lead and connected my Spectrum to a Roland D10 (which I still use as my controller keyboard!) and began using BASIC to construct tunes through the D10!
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- Banned
- 18651 posts since 2 Oct, 2001 from England
About 90/91 on an Amiga 600, then a 1200 with 1gb HDD and 12megRam using OctaMed. Occasionally in my mates studio using the Amiga to sequence an Ensoniq EPS16+, SH101, Cheetah Drum Machine and MS-6.
Got a PC in Feb 2000 and bought Orion.
Got a PC in Feb 2000 and bought Orion.
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- KVRAF
- 2401 posts since 29 Dec, 2002 from In the dark
Gee, I kind of feel old now. Somewhere in the mid 1980's I got fired from my band (let's just call it personallity clashes) and started to do solo gigs and I started to work with MIDI. (I think about '86). My first "real" soundcard was a Midiquest card. It was even before soundblaster became a phenomenon. It really was a simple MIDI in/out. I had a AT computer (even older than the 386 proccessor). It was the first thing after IBM invented THE PC. It worked in DOS with a little program called Voyetra. Real magic we thought those days. The whole program fitted on a single floppy disc!
I used a Lowrey keyboard plus a borrowed Juno. Remember those? I still have a old tape recording of the Juno.
When Windows came along Cakewalk started to produce real good stuff. I upgraded to Cakewalk 3. My first step into DAW was with Cakewalk Audio Pro 7.
With Sonar I really started for the first time to explore soft synths etc.
Gee, now I feel kind of nostalgic. Better get another whiskey.
I used a Lowrey keyboard plus a borrowed Juno. Remember those? I still have a old tape recording of the Juno.
When Windows came along Cakewalk started to produce real good stuff. I upgraded to Cakewalk 3. My first step into DAW was with Cakewalk Audio Pro 7.
With Sonar I really started for the first time to explore soft synths etc.
Gee, now I feel kind of nostalgic. Better get another whiskey.
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- KVRian
- 575 posts since 9 Jul, 2002
When i had my 1st computer, the almighty ZX48, never tought was possible to make music at home like nowadays....
Started 10 years ago with an A500 & Protracker, Octamed & the other trackers series after that i heard some techno that a friend of mine did, so i bought a 2nd hand A500 & started to mess with it....then few years later, passed on an A1200 with midi interface & sampling interface so i was able to improve the music...Switched on a Pc (u know..22khz were not enough....and the Amiga audiocards were a bit expensive at the time) where i continued to use tracking soft (Fasttracker) and other free software till i saw the light with Rebirth at first (& with it a meet lots of cool people around the world,even irl), then Cubase vst3.7, Reason, Vst5.0, Recycle, Cubase Sx....As hardware i bought at first a JP8000 that i still own, a Creamware LunaII audiocard & later on a Behringer MX802A mixer......& friend of mine gave me as present an AudioTechnica Pro4L mic....which works fine....
That's all...for now....
Tom
Started 10 years ago with an A500 & Protracker, Octamed & the other trackers series after that i heard some techno that a friend of mine did, so i bought a 2nd hand A500 & started to mess with it....then few years later, passed on an A1200 with midi interface & sampling interface so i was able to improve the music...Switched on a Pc (u know..22khz were not enough....and the Amiga audiocards were a bit expensive at the time) where i continued to use tracking soft (Fasttracker) and other free software till i saw the light with Rebirth at first (& with it a meet lots of cool people around the world,even irl), then Cubase vst3.7, Reason, Vst5.0, Recycle, Cubase Sx....As hardware i bought at first a JP8000 that i still own, a Creamware LunaII audiocard & later on a Behringer MX802A mixer......& friend of mine gave me as present an AudioTechnica Pro4L mic....which works fine....
That's all...for now....
Tom
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- KVRian
- 637 posts since 5 Sep, 2001 from Hollywood, Ca. one block East of the Jack in the Box
I started in '98. I had half ownership of an adat, and I got a P2 300, and figured I'd get into sequencing, hopefully syncing it with the adat.
So I got cubase 3.55, and within about two days, couldn't figure out why I needed the adat. I had no idea you could record directly to the hard disk!
So I dumped the adat. I used rubberduck and hammerhead extensively. Then VstI's came out, and I dumped my outboard synth (MT-32 and a DJX!), drum machine (DM5) and sampler (EIIIex).
...now if they come out with virtual microphones and guitars (The interface, not the sound...), I'll get rid of the rest of it!
Caveat: I did, however, have a pretty good background...when I was a guitar tech back in the '80's I had some expierience with drum sampling/playback (dynacord and akai s-whatever)and I managed and setup a guitar synth system. I also played a little keyboards offstage, and, in one horrifying instance, played the vocal samples offstage at a packed Long Beach Arena!
Jeez!
-Sleek
So I got cubase 3.55, and within about two days, couldn't figure out why I needed the adat. I had no idea you could record directly to the hard disk!
So I dumped the adat. I used rubberduck and hammerhead extensively. Then VstI's came out, and I dumped my outboard synth (MT-32 and a DJX!), drum machine (DM5) and sampler (EIIIex).
...now if they come out with virtual microphones and guitars (The interface, not the sound...), I'll get rid of the rest of it!
Caveat: I did, however, have a pretty good background...when I was a guitar tech back in the '80's I had some expierience with drum sampling/playback (dynacord and akai s-whatever)and I managed and setup a guitar synth system. I also played a little keyboards offstage, and, in one horrifying instance, played the vocal samples offstage at a packed Long Beach Arena!
Jeez!
-Sleek
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- KVRist
- 282 posts since 1 Nov, 2002
Started circa 1989 using a D-50, Roland D-110 (rackmount D10) and an MC-300 stand alone sequencer. Spent the last ten years or so playing bass, then about a year ago decided to focus more on composing. Bought Sonar and haven't seen much of the sun since then. I am still amazed by just how far digital composing has come along. Damn kids have it so easy nowaday!!!
