KVR Audio

empphryio · Post by **empphryio** » Fri May 15, 2020 11:17 am

Ensoniq KS-32 in 1993. It fell quite short of what I really wanted at the time. I was clueless. No internet back then. But I'm still using it as my midi controller.

WOK · Post by **WOK** » Fri May 15, 2020 11:36 am

Korg Poly-800 - first affordable polysynth with integrated stepsequencer

raiderpdog · Post by **raiderpdog** » Fri May 15, 2020 2:10 pm

WOK wrote: Fri May 15, 2020 11:36 am Korg Poly-800 - first affordable polysynth with integrated stepsequencer

same here.
As a teenager when I had it, I didn't know a step sequencer from a submarine.

I knew it could do something possibly cool that maybe bands I liked had done, if I could figure it out, but it kicked my butt for a while. Once I understood it, I actually enjoyed that very primitive little sequencer, lol.

parapentep70 · Post by **parapentep70** » Fri May 15, 2020 2:37 pm

Voyestra Orchestrator Plus (MIDI only), came free with my old Creative AWE-32 soundcard. I was so excited about it that I used a coupon and bought Voyestra Digital Orchestrator ("DAW" including audio capabilities, when nobody used this term!). I was able to record 4 tracks at 16 bits, 22KHz sampling on a 486 DX2-66. Cymbals were generated by the HW synth inside the AWE, so audio was aceptable for my standards at the time, 1994, win 3.11.

rob_lee · Post by **rob_lee** » Fri May 15, 2020 2:45 pm

Hardware - Roland MC50 MKII
Software - Bars & Pipes

fisherKing · Post by **fisherKing** » Fri May 15, 2020 2:51 pm

rob_lee wrote: Fri May 15, 2020 2:45 pm Hardware - Roland MC50 MKII
Software - Bars & Pipes

rob! mt first sequencer too, was the MC 50 mk2. my brother gave it to me, and i LOVED that thing... and got hooked on making (sequenced) music.

hmmm... am seriously tempted to buy one, & build a shrine for it

wagtunes · Post by **wagtunes** » Fri May 15, 2020 2:51 pm

It was the ARP 1601. I hooked it up to my ARP Odyssey. At the time I thought it was so cool.

legendCNCD · Post by **legendCNCD** » Fri May 15, 2020 2:53 pm

yamaha portasound mk-100

First MIDI sequencer used: Cubase in '89 on Atari to control Alpha Juno 2
First sequencer: C64 SID composer which name eludes me, Amiga SoundFX/Aegis????/Soundtracker

mchoffmann · Post by **mchoffmann** » Fri May 15, 2020 2:59 pm

PRISM-Midi-Sequencer with generic MPU101-ISA soundcard. By that time it had already a windows-based GUI under DOS 2.11 with my amber Monitor...... Awesome software on PC by that time (1989)

Unfortunatly given up by the deveoloper, i later moved to TRAX by Passport....
Cheers
Marc

FapFilter · Post by **FapFilter** » Fri May 15, 2020 3:07 pm

edit: i see you've corrected the year!

SLiC · Post by **SLiC** » Fri May 15, 2020 3:23 pm

Trackers on my Commodore64 but 'seriously' when Cubase VST (Cubase 1) came out, that was as close to 'magic' as I had ever seen and I don't think there has ever been a jump like that since.

FapFilter · Post by **FapFilter** » Fri May 15, 2020 3:25 pm

have you tried Reaper?

clipnotic · Post by **clipnotic** » Fri May 15, 2020 3:31 pm

Yamaha QY700

Then I switched to an Atari Mega ST4 with Notator

rob_lee · Post by **rob_lee** » Fri May 15, 2020 3:44 pm

fisherKing wrote: Fri May 15, 2020 2:51 pm rob! mt first sequencer too, was the MC 50 mk2. my brother gave it to me, and i LOVED that thing... and got hooked on making (sequenced) music.

hmmm... am seriously tempted to buy one, & build a shrine for it

Do it mate I am gonna get one too just for memories

fisherKing · Post by **fisherKing** » Fri May 15, 2020 4:23 pm

rob_lee wrote: Fri May 15, 2020 3:44 pm
fisherKing wrote: Fri May 15, 2020 2:51 pm rob! mt first sequencer too, was the MC 50 mk2. my brother gave it to me, and i LOVED that thing... and got hooked on making (sequenced) music.

hmmm... am seriously tempted to buy one, & build a shrine for it
Do it mate I am gonna get one too just for memories

on second thought, think i'll put my computer on the shrine, and start using the MC 50 instead...

Your first sequencer.