Your first sequencer.

[Aloysius]

[FrettedSynth]

Alesis Mmt8 late 80s cakewalk on dos 3.2 around 91, my how time goes by and technology advances

[auricle]

First hardware sequencer was an MC-50 Mk2. I loved it, but wished it had more than 2 MIDI outputs.

MC50.jpg

First computer sequencer was C-Lab Notator on an Atari 1040st. It was a great program and I go all misty eyed with nostalgia looking at the interface.

Notator.jpg

[classic]

Well I got my hands on an old Atari Computer, something like this.
And I had a copy of on of the first Cubase programs, AND I ownd an Korg T2
Greate synth.
But to be really honest, I did not get the Computer to record any of my playing, and
I was to stupide to create any new sounds in the T2
So I was limited to the onboard sounds, which where quite nice but.............
And now......................Am I any better?

[THE INTRANCER]

What??? We can argue about it but I find it really hard to swallow

But thats cool to have own DAW. My big brother and his friend tried to code assembler compiler and I was the data line checker. In the end it never worked properly, sigh

The Atari's PoKey chip, was cleaner sounding, and better in percussion than the SID chip... so had a better balance in terms of sound pallet which for most people back in the day came from a single TV speaker back in the 80's. There was some great music created back in the day for games I played and those I didn't get the chance to. I remember back in the day as my bro, spent literally days looking at a blue screen whilst I pointed out his typing mistakes he made. Another time I asked him to make a drawing program which he did pretty simply by assigning the pixels and co-ordinates to the joystick, that was probably my first photoshop experience. I guess it's because I used to design levels in the Mr Robot editor factory, which was similar to drawing.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pMW44Ih22Go

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ioZRUVTKLx0

[mcnelson]

Leftfield Groove Rider: how cool is that?

Hell yeah, been my first too! I can remember that I sampled the shit out of my cd's and ran out of memory space so fast... Good times!

Cheers
Marcel

Mine.

Original Music didn't even have sampling functionality.

My generation had it so tough.

[andrei.tuduran]

Impulse Tracker & Modplug Tracker.

[legendCNCD]

What??? We can argue about it but I find it really hard to swallow

But thats cool to have own DAW. My big brother and his friend tried to code assembler compiler and I was the data line checker. In the end it never worked properly, sigh

The Atari's PoKey chip, was cleaner sounding, and better in percussion than the SID chip... so had a better balance in terms of sound pallet which for most people back in the day came from a single TV speaker back in the 80's.

Well, from those examples, digi ones are always nice, but for me PoKey sounds way too digital for my taste, like the sounds are single cycles we used to use make "chiptunes" on Amiga protracker.
It does sound cleaner than most of 6581 though.

[legendCNCD]

Protracker on the Amiga.

You can get PT2.3 and FT2.x clones now from https://16-bits.org/
They're fabulous!

[kelldammit]

wow. my brother's esq-1 was my first. later i snagged a k2000s, and used that.
bought cubase vst 3.5 (i think) but took a while to start sequencing with that instead of the synth. i mostly used it as a tape machine. then lm-4 came along and changed all that!

[EdgarRothermich]

Started around 1985 with Steinberg Pro-16 on the Commodore 64
Then Atari ST with Pro 24 and then Cubase
Then Mac SE30 continued with Cubase Audio
2005, switched to Logic Pro and never looked back

[Tj Shredder]

Started around 1985 with Steinberg Pro-16 on the Commodore 64
Then Atari ST with Pro 24 and then Cubase
Then Mac SE30 continued with Cubase Audio
2005, switched to Logic Pro and never looked back

When did we meet at Christophs studio in Spandau? Was it already your SE30 era or still Atari? I was starting out with Max back then as I recall... good old times...; - )

[Monsum]

One of the first ones I used.
Magix Music Maker 2.0 which didn't even have real time effects but I managed to make some awesome tracks with it...
It also lacked a record feature so I used the Windows recorder app while running a backing track through Music Maker to play along.
I still have a legit copy of this software.


And beats were usually created in Hammerhead Rhythm Station

[THE INTRANCER]

Protracker on the Amiga.

You can get PT2.3 and FT2.x clones now from https://16-bits.org/
They're fabulous!

My older who was in the RAF in the 1990's knew a fellow RAF serviceman who was selling his Commodore Amiga 500. But just a few months before that, I had an Atari Mega ST which had been given to me for free from my sisters old ex boyfriend back in the 1980's, with a monochrome screen and although high resolution, pretty much hated to the point where I had tried to connect a TV to it. That didn't turn out well , but really, it was probably the first time I had the opportunity to use a commercial music program. Music programs never made their way to the screens of the RM Nimbus, Acorn Archimedes 32Bit RISC, or that of the 386 PC computers that finally replaced the former ones whilst at high school in the early 1990's...probably because 'Music' on the curriculum was so set in the past of the 1970's where computers didn't exist.

In any case, initially I had set out to buy an Atari STE 512 or 1024 if I could afford it, so I could use a colour screen and make use of the games and programs I had, and in that time I made use of a German NES (Nintendo Entertainment System), before my brother drove me to a shop in a neighbouring town to buy one...I didn't... So a few weeks past and there I ended up with a ton of new disks, a computer, a colour monitor, printer, an extra disk drive and even the computer desk to put it on, all for £300 in 1993. The first two disks I inserted had Sound Tracker printed on them, and the above image you posted is almost an exact copy of the GUI you posted. I had no idea what tracker meant at that point in time, but knowing that the reason I wanted a computer in the first place was to create music... I knew that something with sound on it was a good bet. It was all quite awesome... Having played games on my friends Amiga 500's, I finally saw how the music was composed and how I could then do what I wanted to do in my quest to create my own.

[Passing Bye]