KVR Audio

EnochLight · Post by **EnochLight** » Mon Dec 24, 2018 1:35 pm

Used actual keyboard workstations in the late 80's/early 90's - all Ensoniq. My last was an ASR-10. Around 1996-1997, built my first PC - an AMD K6 at 400 MHz with 128 MB's of RAM. I think I was running Cool Edit Pro as my first "DAW" around 2000 or 2001. Reason was added shortly after that.

I don't miss those days - LOL!

Examigan · Post by **Examigan** » Mon Dec 24, 2018 2:23 pm

The first setup I used was my brother's Atari 400 and Music Composer which was cartridge-based.
I think it had 16K of memory. Not really a DAW though...

My own first computer was an Atari ST (upgraded to 1 meg of RAM) and I had Master Tracks Pro back then. I also bought had a CZ-101 and a DX21.

I eventually bought a PC (133 MHz) and Cakewalk's Guitar Tracks 2.
Then I bought a new PC and upgraded to Sonar 4, and started visiting KVR around that same time.

THE INTRANCER · Post by **THE INTRANCER** » Mon Dec 24, 2018 7:19 pm

I was gonna post an episode of Bad Influence but I couldn't find the one with the clip of them running the ST with a sequencer. So instead I'll post this...because there's many previous ST users, (or Mega ST in my case in the early 1990's) that used one and of course there is some cross referencing with the Amiga which many here had too... It's quite a long video, but should be interesting whilst eating your gravy and turkey...tomorrow

robotmonkey · Post by **robotmonkey** » Mon Dec 24, 2018 8:26 pm

I guess about 1994. It was a top of the line Gateway2000 workstation with Pentium 100mhz (upgraded to 133mhz version when it was released a bit later) 16mb of RAM, 500mb hdd, 2mb ATI graphics card and Ensoniq S-2000 soundcard (switched to Soundscape Elite a year or two later).

Software wise it was Voyetra Digital Orchestrator, Cakewalk, Soundforge, Logic and Motu Unisyn for synth programming.

Atlatnesiti · Post by **Atlatnesiti** » Mon Dec 24, 2018 11:10 pm

Steinberg Pro-24 on Atari ST 1040

cron · Post by **cron** » Mon Dec 24, 2018 11:21 pm

While I briefly fiddled with OctaMED on the Amiga 1200, FastTracker 2 on my Cyrix 6x86 (or possibly 5x86?) machine with 16 megs of RAM was where it all kicked off for me. My first VST enabled platform was an Athlon Thunderbird machine with my ex-partner's copy of Cubase 5 (the pre-SX one with the parallel port dongle).

THE INTRANCER · Post by **THE INTRANCER** » Thu Dec 27, 2018 12:03 am

Octamed is still alive

Direct download for PC & Amiga versions of Octamed Sound Studio is here.

Older Octamed versions for the Amiga platform here.

More info... https://trackerbase.blogspot.com/2014/0 ... tudio.html

Man... the nostalgia of the days, where I started to take making music more seriously with external keyboards.

ShawnMH · Post by **ShawnMH** » Fri Dec 28, 2018 7:06 pm

IBM Aptiva 2153-E2U mini-tower, AMD K6-2 333Mhz, 6GB hard drive, 48 mb ram. Sound Blaster Live 16 bit sound card and Creative CD burner (added)

1998, - TWELVE TONE SYSTEMS Cakewalk Home Studio 6.

Shortly after that I also bought Sonic Foundry's Acid Rock and Sound Forge XP 4.5, and a program called Mixman.

Your First Ever PC & DAW Combo ?