Your first DAW !
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- KVRAF
- 35296 posts since 27 Jul, 2005 from the wilds of wanny
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- KVRist
- 288 posts since 17 Jun, 2012 from East Coast US
I got a copy of Magix Music Maker 12 at Best buy when I was in college. My first real DAW was Protools Le 7 that came with an MBOX 2. That rewired with Reason blew my mind as far as capability.
Windows 10 PC. Reason. Cubase. Waveform. Reaper. Studio One Pro. Epiphone Les Paul Pro II. Nektar Panorama t4. Yamaha RBX Bass. Faderport 2. Eris E5 Monitors. SSL2 Interface. Audient Evo 4. AKG C214. Aston Origin. MXL 990.
- KVRAF
- 16608 posts since 22 Nov, 2000 from Southern California
Cubasis. I bought it from a guy at Interscope Records for $60 in 1996. He gave me a disk (spelled correctly, they were floppies) full of "extra" software to go with it.
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- KVRAF
- 1596 posts since 15 Aug, 2003 from Indianapolis
Fostex D-80, 8 track hard disk recorder.
God, I loved that machine. I was in heaven, coming from a Tascam 8 track cassette unit.
Came with an 800MB hard drive! I think I upgraded it to 2.1 GB. That's as much as it could handle.
Had to use a DAT recorder to digitally save your recordings, once the hard drive filled up. That was a pain in the ass, but the editing was light years beyond anything I had ever used.
God, I loved that machine. I was in heaven, coming from a Tascam 8 track cassette unit.
Came with an 800MB hard drive! I think I upgraded it to 2.1 GB. That's as much as it could handle.
Had to use a DAT recorder to digitally save your recordings, once the hard drive filled up. That was a pain in the ass, but the editing was light years beyond anything I had ever used.
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- KVRer
- 18 posts since 21 Feb, 2023
For real, does Notessimo 2 Count? This was my first music making "tools" as a kid although I didn't share anything during that time. It is a "Notation" kind of system, with preloaded soundfonts (which sounds not really good). For people who know mario paint, Notessimo is an "advanced" version of it.
Not mine, but someone recreated songs like Bohemian Rhapsody or what I have done:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6HDN9pXsL8Y
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ot6ge7Gxu30
However, I couldn't really make the music I want, so I moved on to things like SunVox or Nano-studio.
Edit: Unregistered Hypercam, I hadn't seen this for a really long time.
Not mine, but someone recreated songs like Bohemian Rhapsody or what I have done:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6HDN9pXsL8Y
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ot6ge7Gxu30
However, I couldn't really make the music I want, so I moved on to things like SunVox or Nano-studio.
Edit: Unregistered Hypercam, I hadn't seen this for a really long time.
- KVRist
- 257 posts since 19 May, 2017 from Ukraine, Odesa
My first music-making experience was Dance eJay 3. My first real music production software was pirated Fruity Loops 3.4, which was on a CD with software bundles I bought at a local flea market. Fruity Loops 3.4 was mind-blowing for me at that time.
- KVRAF
- 5587 posts since 2 Sep, 2019
THIS MUSIC HAS BEEN MIXED TO BE PLAYED LOUD SO TURN IT UP
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- KVRAF
- 5118 posts since 30 May, 2006 from Hollow Earth
Mark of the Unicorn Motu Performer v1.0 1985
I can’t believe I started on a Mac SE
I can’t believe I started on a Mac SE
MuLab of course
- something special
- 8572 posts since 16 Mar, 2002 from Birmingham, Alabama
Voyetra Sequencer Plus Mk2 on DOS! 1987, I had to upgrade memory from 16kb to 32 (which cost $300) Still have the Roland MPU interface around here somewhere...But as for real daws recording audio, somewhere in the 90's I saw advertised in keyboard mag a bit of software selling for $32! Can't remember the name, but it served me well for a short bit of time. Finally in 2001 I got Orion, still not a DAW..so 2002 got Cubase VST 5, which I loved very much.
- KVRer
- 28 posts since 20 Sep, 2018 from Long Island, NY
Sonus super sequence on a commadore 64. Midi only, also had Dr. T’s Algorithmic composer, T’s Keyboard controlled sequencer and a cz editor/librarian. A 4 channel Radio Shack mixer and some mic donated by a friend. must have been around 1988.
- KVRAF
- 2959 posts since 31 Jan, 2020
Cubase 5.0 but then i went on to use Renoise. Now i use Bitwig.
- KVRAF
- 1841 posts since 23 Sep, 2004 from Kocmoc
Are you me? Same here, first C64 and SID, but then I dabbled with Atari ST and Notator at the school - did not quite like it (did not know either much how to use it and had only one synth, Roland AJuno2). Then AAAAMMIIIIGGGAAAAA came and that was it. SoundFX, SoundTracker, NoiseTracker, ProTracker and or MIDI OctaMED Pro (and a bit of Bars&Pipes).MrJubbly wrote: ↑Wed Mar 27, 2024 7:47 pm For me, it was the various music trackers, that were available on the Commodore Amiga A500 in the late 1980s. Such as Soundtracker, NoiseTracker, MED, OctaMED, etc. Although, some may not consider such trackers as "DAWs" in the modern sense.
These were not however, my very first experience of using digital music software, as I had previously dabbled with various (very basic) music creation software, on my earlier home computer, the Commodore 64. Which was a couple of years prior, while I was first learning music.
But I didn't really take music more seriously, until I began using the Amiga's trackers during my early teens (I was around 12 or 13 at the time). As such, music tracker user interfaces, such as this, hold a lot of nostalgia for me.
With OctaMED Pro one had 14bit/57kHz playback for samples on 4 channels (we used 16/44 samples from the net and friends) and many many many MIDI channels to control synths etc. Could still make music with it but I'll now take Live 12
Soft Knees - Live 12, Diva, Omnisphere, Slate Digital VSX, TDR, Kush Audio, U-He, PA, Valhalla, Fuse, Pulsar, NI, OekSound etc. on Win11Pro R7950X & RME AiO Pro
https://www.youtube.com/@softknees/videos Music & Demoscene
https://www.youtube.com/@softknees/videos Music & Demoscene
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- KVRist
- 358 posts since 24 Jul, 2006
Since everyone seems to be including pre-DAW sequencers, mine would have been this:
https://zxart.ee/eng/software/tool/musi ... music-box/
and
https://zxart.ee/eng/software/tool/music/specdrum/
https://zxart.ee/eng/software/tool/musi ... music-box/
and
https://zxart.ee/eng/software/tool/music/specdrum/
- KVRAF
- 10755 posts since 20 Nov, 2003 from Lost and Spaced
My second one was Orion Pro. I miss that. I think it was one of the best DAWs ever.
- KVRian
- 501 posts since 3 Nov, 2023
On the PC in 2000, it was Quartz Audiomaster (just GM/samples iirc)
In 2001 it was Sonic Syndicate Orion, first one with VST loading for me
Had messed around with ReBirth, but got bored very quickly.
Before the PC it was Amiga/OctaMed
In 2001 it was Sonic Syndicate Orion, first one with VST loading for me
Had messed around with ReBirth, but got bored very quickly.
Before the PC it was Amiga/OctaMed