KVR Audio

realmarco · Post by **realmarco** » Sat Jan 18, 2003 8:51 pm

back in late 89

I sued cooledit and pitch down the Stone rose's " I wanna be adored" to unrecognizable sound with a ton of echo...i gues thta's was my first electronic composition

Tokartta · Post by **Tokartta** » Sat Jan 18, 2003 10:06 pm

1987 - Born
1992/3 - Started using computers (Atari ST at that point; playing games)
1994 - Started listening to my brother making stuff in Fasttracker 2 on the amiga
1995/6 - Got my first PC. A Pentium 90.
1997 - Dance eJay

2000 - Acid 2.0
2001 - Fruityloops 3. Discovered VST a few months later.
2003 - Fruityloops 4, soon

Aah, that fateful day when I discovered Fruityloops

aMUSEd · Post by **aMUSEd** » Sat Jan 18, 2003 11:23 pm

You mean you can make music with these things?

AudioWhore · Post by **AudioWhore** » Sun Jan 19, 2003 12:30 am

I'm 21..
Got a Commodore 64 when I was about ten.. Used to program bleeps on that but it didn't go far.. And a music program that was pretty shit..
Then I got an Amiga 500 when I was 13.. Made my first techno tracks which sounded fairly crap (I had pretty shitty software).. This was because I was listening to the Prodigy at the time (1993/4) and basically I wanted to do what they did

Then got a Pentium 166 with an Awe64 soundcard in '95 with half a meg of samples and it mainly started from their... Using a demo of Cakewalk 6 and later pirated software (which I owe it to pirated software for actually being able to get into this game)..
So it pretty much started when I was 14 in '95....

monad · Post by **monad** » Sun Jan 19, 2003 1:42 am

Well I'm 36

I started with a TR909 and a Juno60 recording to a 4 track but the first "computer" I got was in about '86. It was a Yamaha CX-5M. Basically a Z-80 processor driving an 8 track sequencer with an inbuilt 8 voice, 8 part multi-timbral (DX-10 sounding) sound module + external MIDI.

About '93 I got my first PC, a 486SX25, using cakewalk, a JX-8P, an R5 drum machine and an SC-7 GM sound module.

Had to get my first Pentium when I discovered you could do audio recording in Cakewalk Pro Audio 4.

Soon after I took a break from music but I must admit it was stumbling across Fruity Loops 2.2 on the 'net one day that got the spark back. I registered it the same day and have never looked back.

Now it's Tracktion, FL, VAZ2010, RM3, BS-1,Scorpion + freeware

aMUSEd · Post by **aMUSEd** » Sun Jan 19, 2003 1:17 pm

Sorry, I was in a very flippant mood yesterday.

My serious answer is that I have only really been making music in the last 6-8 months - I joined KVR to learn more and get some pointers. That's why I haven't felt up to posting anything yet - and probably won't for several months or longer. I have been playing music for many years (a bad guitarist but I enjoy it) and enjoying music all my life but actually trying to compose music is new and I feel very "amateur" and thats not necesarily a bad thing I suppose. I have lots to learn and find that because my background is more visual arts I don't have much understanding of stuff like "busses" and audio-technical jargon.

Most of the time I still just like to just play synths rather than record what I am playing - I like to improvise and make strange organic, evolving sounds. When I do try to get stuff down my workflow is almost the same as I use when I paint. I start with an assemblage of themes and sounds (when I paint I start from collage and found objects and when my daughter was younger I even employed her as a semi-random scribble generator!) and use prgrams like Fratmus and KoanPro (when I can keep it from crashing!) to generate some random elements (I think of it as a process akin to firing Raku pottery - I'm looking for the flaws as well as the forms in order to create something organic and alive) and then I improvise around what these things make me feel and processes they start off in my mind and body.

RegPhoenix · Post by **RegPhoenix** » Sun Jan 19, 2003 1:28 pm

Tokartta wrote:1987 - Born
1992/3 - Started using computers (Atari ST at that point; playing games)
1994 - Started listening to my brother making stuff in Fasttracker 2 on the amiga
1995/6 - Got my first PC. A Pentium 90.
1997 - Dance eJay
2000 - Acid 2.0
2001 - Fruityloops 3. Discovered VST a few months later.
2003 - Fruityloops 4, soon

Aah, that fateful day when I discovered Fruityloops

Was there a f**king FastTracker for amiga??????

I think you mean - Noise/ProTracker mate - or that gay f**king OctaMED which was shit anyway.

Noisetrekker or Protracker were f**king cool at the time though!

serge · Post by **serge** » Mon Jan 31, 2005 5:18 pm

AndreasE wrote:Personally, I began in the beginning of 1999 with an Evolution sequencer and a SBLive fed with soundfonts. Then in the beginning of 2001 I discovered the VSTi stuff and that was my downfall (addiction, money loss, lack of time for other things, etc.).

Btw., this topic is only for men, women please don´t answer

Here's my timeline:

1995 - Friend introduced me to Scream Tracker 2 for MS DOS, I followed on to Scream Tracker 3. I started off with about 1600 8bit samples. I was really impressed by the 2nd Reality by Skaven, composed using Tracking software in 1993.

Come to think of it, the tune is still available. If you have Winamp - you should be able to play the S3M file: http://data-server-06.modarchive.com:80 ... PM.S3M.zip Excellent tune, considering that every instrument is 8bit mono sample (at best)!! This song was really what got me started in computer music making. It was used in an Assembly demo

1996 - Found Impulse Tracker, and used it through version 2.19 I think. Composed a ton of stuff, lost it in a horrible backup & restore process (something with a hard drive crash & tapes) My samples were jumbled up. I recovered about 2 songs, looked at how much time I invested in the restoration process - got frustrated enough to call it quits in 1997.

2001 - Came accross Fruity Loops 3, didn't do anything with it.

2003 - Came accross Orion, tried it, went back to Fruity Loops 3

2005 - FL Studio 5 is my main arranging software, I've built a good collection of VSTs Samples. Computer Music is one of my top hobbies now, I just wish I had more than an hour here & there. Some of my stuff is at http://www.dspmax.com/music.html

2010 - FL Studio 11.3 on Linux

serge

androidlove · Post by **androidlove** » Mon Jan 31, 2005 5:27 pm

I got an Atari 1200XL in 83 (I think). I programmed tunes. I later purchased a music prog by Apex.

There was a long period when I didn't use a computer for music.

VicDiesel · Post by **VicDiesel** » Mon Jan 31, 2005 5:34 pm

Joxer the Mighty wrote:Started circa 1989 using a D-50, Roland D-110 (rackmount D10) and an MC-300 stand alone sequencer.

I had an actual D-10, hooked up to an Atari 1040ST, running Super48, a sequencer that a buddy of mine wrote to outdo Steinberg's Pro24, the precursor of Cubase. This was 1988, I think.

I sold and gave away all that stuff when I left for the US, and didn't make computer music again until around 2000 with Cubase and later Logic.

V.

Krakatau · Post by **Krakatau** » Mon Jan 31, 2005 5:41 pm

so i did in early 90 with Atari 1040ST and Pro-24...

Metanol · Post by **Metanol** » Mon Jan 31, 2005 5:41 pm

1998 with Buzz tracker.

Now P5, EnergyXT, some plugins.

mmdejonge · Post by **mmdejonge** » Mon Jan 31, 2005 5:55 pm

pHz wrote:> 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 ] ...
> slainte rob

Those were the days

vurt · Post by **vurt** » Mon Jan 31, 2005 5:56 pm

bout an hour ago should be postin soon

chrissill31 · Post by **chrissill31** » Mon Jan 31, 2005 6:15 pm

Krakatau wrote:so i did in early 90 with Atari 1040ST and Pro-24...

Me too...

Then with Atari and Cubase with the Midex Midi out thingy...

Synths at the time were Roland D5, Yammy FB01, Sequential Tom, Akai S950 and all recorded onto an old Fostex X15.

Ahhh those were the days...

ASIO?

Latency?

No such problems those days

When did you begin making computer music?