Great!!! We have real heads here. Lots of Atari's & Amiga's
I started in 93 with an amiga 500. And a sampler cartridge that you plugged in the back. It gave me 12secs sampling time in 8Bit quality + 4 Note polyphony. It was a hell of a lot cheaper than an akai!
Later I moved to the AtariST
When did you begin making computer music?
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- KVRist
- 42 posts since 1 Jul, 2002 from Maryland
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- The Teach
- 8273 posts since 23 Jul, 2002 from flatness
> very tentatively [ and not very well ] with the same method as red [ beep n,n,n ] back in 82 with my beloved speccy [ i was only 12 and it was a HUGE leap on from my zx81 ... colour 
sound keys 
] ...
> moved on to an atari 800xl and found a basic sequencer [ cant remember the name ] that you HAD to program using 'proper' music notation ... staves / crotchets / minims and all that crap ... that was about 86 i guess ...
> BIG GAP till got a pc in 2000 ... found moonfish / hammerhead / orangator / etc and started to play around again ...
> 2002 developed commercial software gearlust and my credit card hasnt looked back since
...
> slainte
rob
sound keys ] ...> moved on to an atari 800xl and found a basic sequencer [ cant remember the name ] that you HAD to program using 'proper' music notation ... staves / crotchets / minims and all that crap
... that was about 86 i guess ...> BIG GAP till got a pc in 2000 ... found moonfish / hammerhead / orangator / etc and started to play around again ...
> 2002 developed commercial software gearlust and my credit card hasnt looked back since
...> slainte
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- Hun #3
- 4265 posts since 25 Mar, 2002 from A quaint little village just south of Hamburg, Germany
After years of doodling around on one of my friend's XP80 (we used to take turns in hacking notes in, thus building songs, we still don't know how the sequencer works 
),
I saw my first software sequencer at a friend's house back in late 2000. Obscure thing that was.
It was called "masterbeat" and I haven't heard of it since. After lots of looking around in 2001 (hitsquad.com, looking for freeware, downloading vstis thinking they were sequencers
, not really knowing what audio and midi were actually , I found an app called midigraphy. Does anybody know it?
That got me going. I soon discovered that I couldn't use other sounds than the ones on my soundmanager. Then after a second round of searching, I discovered Muzys.
Which was just the ticket for me, because I bought it in Dec 2001 when it didn't support VSTis yet, and I didn't KNOW VSTIs yet. So my personal learning curve and Muzys's developement fit just perfectly!
I really feel attached to it, little wonder.
I started looping wave files of saw waves etc., filtering them. So I got used to build my own little "synths" before I discovered virtual instruments, which has been a good lesson for me actually, learning to work with sounds to begin with, before that almighty gearlust eventually reached me too
Cheerio, Marco
),I saw my first software sequencer at a friend's house back in late 2000. Obscure thing that was.
It was called "masterbeat" and I haven't heard of it since. After lots of looking around in 2001 (hitsquad.com, looking for freeware, downloading vstis thinking they were sequencers
, not really knowing what audio and midi were actually , I found an app called midigraphy. Does anybody know it?That got me going. I soon discovered that I couldn't use other sounds than the ones on my soundmanager. Then after a second round of searching, I discovered Muzys.
Which was just the ticket for me, because I bought it in Dec 2001 when it didn't support VSTis yet, and I didn't KNOW VSTIs yet. So my personal learning curve and Muzys's developement fit just perfectly!
I really feel attached to it, little wonder.I started looping wave files of saw waves etc., filtering them. So I got used to build my own little "synths" before I discovered virtual instruments, which has been a good lesson for me actually, learning to work with sounds to begin with, before that almighty gearlust eventually reached me too
Cheerio, Marco
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- Pick Me Pick me!
- 10251 posts since 12 Mar, 2002 from a state of confusion
6 years ago w/ Scream Tracker 3 followed months later with Impulse Tracker 2
always felt confined and claustrophobic in Fasttracker 2... :/
always felt confined and claustrophobic in Fasttracker 2... :/
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- KVRAF
- 3032 posts since 12 Mar, 2002 from Central NY
My first computer experience was in 1979 progamming BASIC
on teletype connected to a mainframe. Needless to say, music was
not part of the equation. At about the same time, I started playing
in rock bands. In the late eighties I started rcording my first
four track demos on one the first Fostex machines. Finally
in 1997 I built my first pro-level project studio. It was largely
analog and based around a Mackie 16x8 mixer and Tascam 38
1/2" 8-track tape machine. All this time, I'd been playing close
attention to developments in computers, MIDI, sequencers
etc.....but as I said, I'm a rock guy and all that stuff seemed
just too geeky. That is until about three years ago when I
learned about VST. Once I heard about that,(I was also waiting
for Moore's Law to drive the computers up to the level where
you could really rock in real time!), I decided it was time to
take the plunge......now it's full speed ahead and damn the
torpedoes!!
Cheers.....CL
on teletype connected to a mainframe. Needless to say, music was
not part of the equation. At about the same time, I started playing
in rock bands. In the late eighties I started rcording my first
four track demos on one the first Fostex machines. Finally
in 1997 I built my first pro-level project studio. It was largely
analog and based around a Mackie 16x8 mixer and Tascam 38
1/2" 8-track tape machine. All this time, I'd been playing close
attention to developments in computers, MIDI, sequencers
etc.....but as I said, I'm a rock guy and all that stuff seemed
just too geeky. That is until about three years ago when I
learned about VST. Once I heard about that,(I was also waiting
for Moore's Law to drive the computers up to the level where
you could really rock in real time!), I decided it was time to
take the plunge......now it's full speed ahead and damn the
torpedoes!!
Cheers.....CL
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- KVRist
- 67 posts since 19 Jun, 2002 from Bordeaux, France
I started in 1996/1997 on a 486DX50 PC with Cakewalk Express which was with my SoundBlaster 32. I used only soundfonts then.
Things became more serious in 1999 with my Celeron 300A and a SB Live.
(It's still my hardware !
)
But there was a big step at the beginning of 2000 when I discovered VSTi, Cubase VST 3.7 and low latency ASIO drivers for my soundcard.
Things became more serious in 1999 with my Celeron 300A and a SB Live.
(It's still my hardware !
)But there was a big step at the beginning of 2000 when I discovered VSTi, Cubase VST 3.7 and low latency ASIO drivers for my soundcard.
Ne tombez pas dans l'oreille d'un sourd !
Polymerick Sonic Elucubrations
Polymerick Sonic Elucubrations
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- KVRer
- 5 posts since 7 Apr, 2002 from italy
1985.... yamaha cx5M
then
atari
then
mac
then
atari
then
mac
say: GOVINDA!!!.... aNd Be hAPpy
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- KVRAF
- 3404 posts since 15 Sep, 2002
I had Amiga 500 Serial number 31.
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- KVRer
- 12 posts since 19 Jul, 2002 from The Home of Hanson!!! aghhh!!!
I started in 1994 as a broadcasting audio production major, but the production slowly turned into music... Back then, I was using a Atari Digi-Master, Reel to Reel, and basically samples and what I could do instrument wise live recording... I thought the midi back then was awful and I've only been doing vst stuff for the last year or so...
I have kleptomania, but when it gets bad, I take something for it.
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- KVRist
- 77 posts since 27 Aug, 2001
Well,
I started in 1990 with Cubase for Atari. I bought Cubase VST for PC when they were at version 3.55. Someone remember when that exactly was? It was the time when they added inserts to the mixer, WOW! Now I'm working in the middle of all this stuph with VSTis and such. Fun.
I started in 1990 with Cubase for Atari. I bought Cubase VST for PC when they were at version 3.55. Someone remember when that exactly was? It was the time when they added inserts to the mixer, WOW! Now I'm working in the middle of all this stuph with VSTis and such. Fun.
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- KVRist
- 109 posts since 19 May, 2002 from Boston
In 1990 (or 89), I started using a sequencer called "Tool de Music." It is a DOS based sequencer, and had an elegant design.
About 10 years before that, I played with BASIC with which I could program music like,
10 play "E2DCDEEE"
About 10 years before that, I played with BASIC with which I could program music like,
10 play "E2DCDEEE"
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- The tallest of the gang
- 373 posts since 1 Jul, 2002 from Yon London
Hey. I had that. On my Atari 400.eXpeRIMentFOUR wrote: moved on to an atari 800xl and found a basic sequencer [ cant remember the name ] that you HAD to program using 'proper' music notation ... staves / crotchets / minims and all that crap
In about 1984. It was shit, as I recall. I'd traded up to that from my silent ZX81 (with traditional wobbly 16k ram pack).I then moved on to a yamaha cx5M
(horrible 'music computer' that did at least teach me FM synthesis) in about 1986, and then after a gap on to my first PC. in about 94, controlling my nasty TR626, Casio CZ1000 and Cheetah MS6 that I'd shared with friends in a terrible band in the early 90s, along with a truly nasty portastudio and a hideous sync box that I could never work to make it all multitrack.Then started doing some cut n paste stuff with wave files and a simple audio editor and some turntables in about 96. Which was fun, but very much on the edge of what my machine could do.
Anyway, with hardware like that, you can see why the birth of software synths and samplers was such a revelation.
Even floppy disks seemed like a big thing after years of praying that the track had saved on the dodgy C15 computer cassette.
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- KVRist
- 169 posts since 16 Mar, 2002 from Wales. For our American viewers that's "in England".
1988 - on an Amstrad CPC6128!!!!
First off it was twatting about with BASIC sound codes, then I got one of those crappy little 8bit sample cartidges. Which also had a midi interface so I could control my old Cheetah MD8 drum machine.
Then I got a weird little sequencer for the CPC which was step time entry only but it was multitrack/channel and I could drive both the drum machine and my shiny new Yamaha keyboard - 12 part multitimbral!!! All this was then recorded to a Tascam 4 track with guitars and a few crappy FX pedals.
Then in the early 90's it was the ubiquitous Atari ST - running Steinberg Pro 12 and a program called MidiStudio that did the graphical pattern arrange thing years before Cubeat/Cubase came out. Soon added an Evolution EVS-1 synth to the shitty drum machine and home keyboard. Black 1U rack that made me feel soooo professional!
The Drum machine was upgraded to a Cheetah MD16 later on (Welsh technology at it's best ) And I managed to get Steinberg Pro 24 for £15 which added more tracks and features to the Pro12 I was using. But that was about the time I started to play in live bands and that sort of killed off home music making for me for a while. Though I did upgrade from the home keyboard to a Korg X3 when they dropped below £800 in price.
In 1997 I got my first 'Wintel' PC. As I'd used Steinberg stuff in the past I went straight for Cubase, had no problem with the MIDI stuff which was really just a more graphical and multitasking version of Pro 12/24. The Audio was tha start of a lot of aggravation - computers were only just capable of doing audio in the dark ages of '97. I also discovered how far computers had come for graphics at the same time and got hooked on 3D while waiting for technology to deliver better audo capability.
Fast forward to a couple of years back - I bulit a new machine capable of audio and got into music again - VST here I come, synths and audio in one box, excellent! Still struggling with Cubase 3.7 at this point and it was becomming a drag.
Last year I jumped ship to Sonar - much better program for my way of working - and got into Orion which has put a lot of FUN back into making music for me.
Bringin my story up to date - in the middle of last year I discovered KVR...
First off it was twatting about with BASIC sound codes, then I got one of those crappy little 8bit sample cartidges. Which also had a midi interface so I could control my old Cheetah MD8 drum machine.
Then I got a weird little sequencer for the CPC which was step time entry only but it was multitrack/channel and I could drive both the drum machine and my shiny new Yamaha keyboard - 12 part multitimbral!!! All this was then recorded to a Tascam 4 track with guitars and a few crappy FX pedals.
Then in the early 90's it was the ubiquitous Atari ST - running Steinberg Pro 12 and a program called MidiStudio that did the graphical pattern arrange thing years before Cubeat/Cubase came out. Soon added an Evolution EVS-1 synth to the shitty drum machine and home keyboard. Black 1U rack that made me feel soooo professional!
The Drum machine was upgraded to a Cheetah MD16 later on (Welsh technology at it's best
) And I managed to get Steinberg Pro 24 for £15 which added more tracks and features to the Pro12 I was using. But that was about the time I started to play in live bands and that sort of killed off home music making for me for a while. Though I did upgrade from the home keyboard to a Korg X3 when they dropped below £800 in price.In 1997 I got my first 'Wintel' PC. As I'd used Steinberg stuff in the past I went straight for Cubase, had no problem with the MIDI stuff which was really just a more graphical and multitasking version of Pro 12/24. The Audio was tha start of a lot of aggravation - computers were only just capable of doing audio in the dark ages of '97. I also discovered how far computers had come for graphics at the same time and got hooked on 3D while waiting for technology to deliver better audo capability.
Fast forward to a couple of years back - I bulit a new machine capable of audio and got into music again - VST here I come, synths and audio in one box, excellent! Still struggling with Cubase 3.7 at this point and it was becomming a drag.
Last year I jumped ship to Sonar - much better program for my way of working - and got into Orion which has put a lot of FUN back into making music for me.
Bringin my story up to date - in the middle of last year I discovered KVR...
Steve.
I know I have got a negative edge, that’s why I sharpen all the others a lot.
I know I have got a negative edge, that’s why I sharpen all the others a lot.
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- angelboy
- 4586 posts since 21 Aug, 2001 from Larnaca, Cyprus
I was programming a fantasy adventure game in 1992 in QBasic [ I loved programming back then] called Invaders Of The Lost Country I [i wanted to do a sequel too ] and I needed to do a soundtrack... So i had a melody in mind and I used the Basic instructions to make my PC speaker beep. What was the instruction, I can't remember... Maybe sound (something) .
That was the first time. Then I started again in February 2001 and it's been a wild ride ever since...
] and I needed to do a soundtrack... So i had a melody in mind and I used the Basic instructions to make my PC speaker beep. What was the instruction, I can't remember... Maybe sound (something) .That was the first time. Then I started again in February 2001 and it's been a wild ride ever since...