Old DAWs - nostalgia thread

[voidhead23]

This was a wonderful program before Adobe turned it into Audition
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That was my very first. Some guy on mIRC 'gave' it to me...it took all night to download on a 256k modem.

[Halonmusic]

FruityLoops 3



I do miss it a bit

[rogiervg]

unfortunately no pictures, but mine was one of the first releases of cubase (on an atari 1040STfm, with a red/pinkish cardridge as dongle for protection of cubase)

[JoseC.]

Passport Trax running on an Intel 486 PC @66MHz, a Yamaha QY10 sequencer and a Fostex X29 four track...in 1992 or so.

[Timfonie]

Emagic Logic 5 running on a Pentium 4 forever - until Apple prevented PC-users from any further updates :




No wonder why they called it 'Logic' :

[anttimaatteri]

I still remember Cubase 1 as being a better midi sequencer than any of its more recent incarnations, though there's no way I'd go back to using an Atari. You could make a cuppa, roll a spliff, drink 1 and smoke 2 before it had loaded up.

but the look was pretty damn nice tbh. i was very jealous of a guy i knew , who had that package, plus a dx7 and whatnot. and he couldnt do shit with it. well he was one of the wealthier people in "centerville" ^^.

[clipnotic]

I used Notator SL on an Atari Mega ST4, was perfect for MIDI

[jabe]

Wondering whether anyone else bought/used a product called Digital Soup. It was produced in 1992 by a company of the same name based in Vermont, USA. I came across the box recently. It contains 3.5" and 5.25" floppy disks and came with a CD of sounds effects. The manual is still in hiding. I don't remember doing much with it. There's not much on the internet about it. I'm guessing it didn't get past version one.

I'll upload pics of the box when I've reduced the size.

[THE INTRANCER]

Whilst this wasn't the first music program I ever used on a computer (that was on an Atari 800 XL in the mid 1980's), it was the first commercial one...which I acquired from a friend who sent me his Atari Mega ST to me, (almost 800 miles, arriving 4 weeks later and partly damaged)... I'd have been about 16 then, not long having gone into 5th Year at High School.

'Sequencer One' by Gagits... It was pretty ugly even on a Hi-Res monochrome screen... A year later I was blessed with an Amiga 500... which I swapped for an Amiga 1200 from a friend some months later.



Just one of many sequencers I used in the early to mid 1990's...

Bars & Pipes... on the Amiga 500 /1200.

[Votox]

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This was my first DAW. There was this option to layer different WAV files; that was my startpoint to layer Audiofiles

[fandango]

I don't know if anyone remembers "Quartet". I had it on the Atari STE and from what I remember it was essentially a stave-based Tracker of sorts. It had an audio editor for recording samples and had a load of instrument slots, but I think you were limited to 4 at a time. I have fond memories of many hours spent looking at this stark colored screen.

[george]

Sweet memories

[AnX]

Quartz Audio Master



think this was the first thing I tried on a PC, after moving on from Amigas. Shortly after got Orion.

[Jim Y]

An AtariST running a shareware sequencer called Sweet Sixteen. A clone of E-lab Creator.
https://www.ronimusic.com/s16_ata.htm
Synched up via MIDI with a Roland VS-840 for audio tracks.
"Mastering" and editing with shareware Cool Edit Pro on a PC. CD burning with Nero on said PC. The PC I had was a puny AMD CPU thing and not up to multitracking or real-time audio processing although it did have a Soundblaster Live soundcard using Emu drivers that helped out.

[Monsum]

I recently purchased a rare gem - Cakewalk Club Tracks on Ebay for £1
It was still sealed, "old new stock".
The Club Tracks comes with Fruity Loops Express 2.7
Really cool vintage stuff. Works fine in Windows 10