Who has the oldest computer based DAW setup here?

[jabe]

Another non-qualifier here. All my old and new stuff is not being used much at the moment. I do have a 286 PC that runs DOS and uses a sequencer called Prism (pre-DAW days, so just MIDI). I got that PC in 1990. It's in storage at the moment.

https://www.muzines.co.uk/articles/magn ... -prism/398

[Mushy Mushy]

I'm thinking of buying a very old PC and trying to complete a project on it. Just for sh!ts and giggles.

Maybe go this route instead of PC, iMac G4 + Logic 8 Express

I'm not anti Mac per se but I'll never go that way. After >30 years of PC use I simply cannot get my head around the Mac way of working. My GF has one and I only last 5 minutes before screaming at it.

[chk071]

I'm not anti Mac per se but I'll never go that way. After >30 years of PC use I simply cannot get my head around the Mac way of working. My GF has one and I only last 5 minutes before screaming at it.

Reminds me of when i use the Macbook of a relative.

[enroe]

I'm not anti Mac per se ... my GF has one and I only last 5 minutes before screaming at it.

Hahaaa

Me too!

[Passing Bye]

I'm thinking of buying a very old PC and trying to complete a project on it. Just for sh!ts and giggles.

Maybe go this route instead of PC, iMac G4 + Logic 8 Express

I'm not anti Mac per se but I'll never go that way. After >30 years of PC use I simply cannot get my head around the Mac way of working. My GF has one and I only last 5 minutes before screaming at it.

Sure, just a challenge proposition.

[Mushy Mushy]

I'm thinking of buying a very old PC and trying to complete a project on it. Just for sh!ts and giggles.

Maybe go this route instead of PC, iMac G4 + Logic 8 Express

I'm not anti Mac per se but I'll never go that way. After >30 years of PC use I simply cannot get my head around the Mac way of working. My GF has one and I only last 5 minutes before screaming at it.

Sure, just a challenge proposition.

A good one indeed but slightly too far
For now anyway...

[perfumer]

A good one indeed but slightly too far
For now anyway...

Wow, your GF can handle a machine and you can't?

[Mushy Mushy]

A good one indeed but slightly too far
For now anyway...

Wow, your GF can handle a machine and you can't?

I have 400 responses to that, all of which I'll refrain from saying for 400 different reasons.

[Dúnedain]

My first setup was a SoundBlaster (AWE64 succeeded by a Live) with Cakewalk. Good memories about that. I want to resurrect it and start using it again for my productions. I honestly think it is a good setup as the SoundBlaster is just a very good sample based synthesizer.

[Tj Shredder]

My first was an Apple ][ clone and I was programming in Pascal my own algorithmic Midi generators... Midi interface was a Roland MPU-401 playing a Poly-800 and a DX-7...
I am happy that this isn't there anymore, and I am also happy that at least the DX-7 is covered well with emulations...
Before that I had hands on a Synclavier at university, and I was glad that I got my own machines, less capable but 24/7 instead of one night a week...

[THE INTRANCER]

An unexpanded, original Commodore Amiga 1200 with 2MB of ram and external floppy drive, sits to the front of my keyboards along side my monitor screens, connected to my Hifi amp system to pump out big and loud on my big speakers. I have a midi interface for it, which I used for connecting up my old Yamaha PSR 330 I still have in pretty good condition that lives in my loft now. Use to connect it to a Yamaha DJX D1 keyboard and use various music programs, but my favourite was Octamed Sound Studio. I still fire it up occasionally to play (or rather still try and play) the old great games I had for it like Ruff & Tumble, Super Stardust AGA, Settlers, and R-Type like game Disposable Hero. Still have few hundred floppies, mainly coverdisks packed away in cases in the loft. Not sure if the Midi Interface still works as I kinda remember having issues with it back in the year 2000.

[Jace-BeOS]

I'm thinking of buying a very old PC and trying to complete a project on it. Just for sh!ts and giggles.

Maybe go this route instead of PC, iMac G4 + Logic 8 Express

I'm not anti Mac per se but I'll never go that way. After >30 years of PC use I simply cannot get my head around the Mac way of working. My GF has one and I only last 5 minutes before screaming at it.

I continue to be amazed that computer users have problems with this. The two are more alike now than ever before. Familiarity takes some experience, but they’re not so different, especially if you’ve ever used Linux for any amount of time (which, depending on the strain of Linux, is trying to be BOTH Mac AND Windows). Actually, my intolerance for Windows, with which I was most familiar, drove me toward the Mac.

As for the whole thing of getting an old computer and making a retro music studio... I went that route and it was utterly foolhardy. I now have a collection of “classic” computers and various accoutrements, only to use them almost never, because... I’ve no patience for that stuff! Computer usability has evolved for damn good reason!!

[reggie1979]

Macs are very easy to deal with. The off button is incredibly useful

[goldenanalog]

I'm thinking Atari ST, Pentium 2, with Cubase 1 etc.

No particular point. Just curious.

It has to be in regular use.

I'm thinking of buying a very old PC and trying to complete a project on it. Just for sh!ts and giggles.

That's a *really* fun question, Mushy Mushy! Cool challenge!

OK: maybe (and I do mean maybe) there might still be a SAW user around; that uses said SAW on an ancient machine:

http://www.sawstudio.com/products_sawstudio.htm

In my book: some of the neatest audio-related coding ever done -

[fster]

I still have an Amiga 1000 with Dr. T's KCS software and Soundquest.