KVR Audio

jamcat · Post by **jamcat** » Sun Sep 04, 2022 5:09 pm

VST2 was introduced in 1999.

It added MIDI to the VST spec, making VST instruments possible.

T-CM11 · Post by **T-CM11** » Sun Sep 04, 2022 5:28 pm

Mid 90s: FastTracker 2
Late 90s: Fruityloops (v1.7?)
Music: EBM/Industrial/Other inspired
I never had the money to buy hardware synths/samplers/mixers/etc. (poor student)
Still, Fruityloops was a great sequencer/sampler/mixer/recorder combination, for little money. Most other software (Cubase/Logic/Cakewalk/...) 'required' hardware instruments at the time.

HAL76 · Post by **HAL76** » Sun Sep 04, 2022 6:03 pm

Trance? Example?

Ralf Hildenbeutel (Väth): some interesting Videos in YouTube. Mainly analog gear and awesome samples.

The mentioned DnB Workflow was also extensively used in other styles and albums like Madonna Ray of light.

To make it short: everyvody worked freestyle. Before the net we couldn't even knoe how the others Work. Lots of sampling, also synth sampling. JV1080/2080 we're huge, Wavestation the pulse of time

Halcyon!

T-CM11 · Post by **T-CM11** » Sun Sep 04, 2022 6:24 pm

TW1306 wrote: Thu Aug 11, 2022 8:54 am And to a lesser extent are there still studios like that around today (as in accessible to anyone, not just for personal use)?

A commercial studio that still has all the same equipment from 20-30 years ago? I doubt it! (especially when it's about old computer hardware/software)

enroe · Post by **enroe** » Mon Sep 12, 2022 6:42 am

TW1306 wrote: Thu Aug 11, 2022 8:54 am Are there still studios like that around today (as in accessible to anyone,
not just for personal use)?

Haha, yes - I could only imagine this as a kind of "museum studio". So a studio
that is only there to document the earlier way of making music.

Here's the general evolution of studio-technology: Click me.

Really working with old studio technology today is comparatively tedious
and time-consuming. I can't imagine anyone doing that today.

ATS · Post by **ATS** » Mon Sep 12, 2022 6:47 am

A lot of the best Electronic music was produced in the 90s in my opinion. I almost equate it to rock music in the 70s.

TW1306 · Post by **TW1306** » Mon Sep 12, 2022 4:05 pm

HAL76 wrote: Sun Sep 04, 2022 6:03 pm Trance? Example?

Not to be intentionally vague but basically anything from that time period. if I had to narrow it down I guess anything by Ferry Corsten up to around ~2004 I guess?

poline54 · Post by **poline54** » Sat Sep 17, 2022 9:35 am

Really informative thread, thanks for the insight!

Deisss · Post by **Deisss** » Mon Oct 10, 2022 9:13 am

TW1306 wrote: Mon Sep 12, 2022 4:05 pm
HAL76 wrote: Sun Sep 04, 2022 6:03 pm Trance? Example?
Not to be intentionally vague but basically anything from that time period. if I had to narrow it down I guess anything by Ferry Corsten up to around ~2004 I guess?

Ferry Corsten did upload quite a bit of old videos "From the archive" where you can see his studio back then:

There is whole series of 10+ videos, some about events, some in the studio like this one:

Or:

You will find the usual suspect of trance back then:
Roland JP8000 & Roland JP8080
Access Virus C
Alesis Andromeda a6
Yamaha FS1r

And so on...

Biome_Digital · Post by **Biome_Digital** » Tue Oct 11, 2022 9:19 am

Deisss wrote: Mon Oct 10, 2022 9:13 am
TW1306 wrote: Mon Sep 12, 2022 4:05 pm
HAL76 wrote: Sun Sep 04, 2022 6:03 pm Trance? Example?
Not to be intentionally vague but basically anything from that time period. if I had to narrow it down I guess anything by Ferry Corsten up to around ~2004 I guess?
Ferry Corsten did upload quite a bit of old videos "From the archive" where you can see his studio back then:

There is whole series of 10+ videos, some about events, some in the studio like this one:

Or:

You will find the usual suspect of trance back then:
Roland JP8000 & Roland JP8080
Access Virus C
Alesis Andromeda a6
Yamaha FS1r

And so on...

I love the insight here, I've watched quite a few on these.

Synthman2000 · Post by **Synthman2000** » Sat Nov 05, 2022 6:14 pm

That is a 10 year span so things were changing a lot between 1990 and 1999.

24 channel project mixer, synths, sampler and drum machines MIDI'd... much was tweaked live/filters etc. 2-3 effects units in a project studio was about the norm.

One really characteristic element of sound in the 90's sound is project studio mixing desks did not usually have high pass filters (only on the microphone input) so whatever came out of the gear had all the lows left in whether you liked it or not unless cut by semi/fully parametric EQ on the channels.

Some might have had an external EQ but you could patch that only for 1 or 2 bits of gear... L/R - 2 mono or 1 stereo... that was not common.

It would be impossible to go back to those days where there was much less control.

However, when you know the techniques they are easy to replicate in a DAW. Just think about what could not be done and make sure that you do not over produce.

How were tracks produced in the 90s?