When did you get into nusic..

[EfreetiSultan]

.. And why?
For me it was 1997 with rebirth. Why cause I loved to create.
Curios to read your excuse. Also, do you regret it? Was it a hobby that turned out badly? Was it a success?

[thecontrolcentre]

I started learning guitar in 1983. Bought my first electric guitar and amp a couple of years later. Played in a few "indie " rock bands until around 1991 when I bought my first Atari and a couple of cheap synths and got into electronic music (dub-techno mainly). Ended up making D&B and got my first record deal in 1996 and a second in 1997. Did some live sessions on Amsterdam radio in '97 during a European tour. Released my first 12" EP in 1999 followed shortly afterwards by a CD album. Played on the Glade Stage at the Glastonbury music festival in 2000. Released my second album in 2003 and a clear vinyl single in 2004, which got reviewed in The Wire magazine and played on BBC Radio Three's Mixing it. I've never made any money outside of gigging ... but some of the music I released in 94-95 has regained popularity just recently thanks to Bandcamp.

[foosnark]

Since a young age. I had a fascination for electronic sounds and music thanks to my dad's 8-track tapes of Isao Tomita, Wendy Carlos, Pink Floyd, etc. I drove my parents crazy by twanging the metal racks for LPs on the bottom of my parents' TV stand, rolling marbles around in a steel mixing bowl for the sounds they made, and trying to play drones on my grandma's upright piano. Ran around recording everything with a cassette recorder for a while too. I had a really great inspiring music teacher in elementary school, and I won a composition contest in 2nd grade (1978) with an eerie tune about aliens.

A bit more serious study of music came in middle school with the violin, then a little bit of jazz piano in high school. I made some junk with primitive MIDI gear and a Tascam Portastudio, but it wasn't until VST plugins, Fruity Loops and KvR that I started actually completing projects.

[FranklyFlawless]

I started at eight years old with playing video game music on the piano/keyboard, which eventually became improvised medleys and rearrangements. I became adept at decompiling proprietary file archives using specialized tools (OpenMPT, Sappy, VGMTrans) in order to extract video game music sequences and soundbanks. I also developed strong relative pitch and started transcribing by ear in real-time when there were lack of such specialized tools for certain video game console generations. For music I especially liked, I learned manual transcription, which is still a very expensive process to this day.

I have no regrets about exploring this interest and hobby, as it has now turned into a serious journey of self-actualization. Currently I am attempting to transition from the piano/keyboard to the LinnStrument, but progress has been difficult and slow for various reasons. My understanding of music theory remains fully self-taught and self-driven, with my entire workflow now being based on gratis and libre open-source software. The only music genre I ever consume now anymore is jungle.

[cryophonik]

I started around fourth grade teaching myself piano and organ, started playing trumpet in fifth grade band, then bass shortly after that. Later on I took piano lessons for a while, but was more serious about bass, then started buying synths in the early 80s. After graduation in ‘85, I studied music theory/composition for a few years in college before realizing that I really wanted to be a scientist. While working on my second bachelor’s degree then master’s in college, I was working as a gigging and session musician, and soundman on the side. After grad school, my wife and I moved across the country for new careers and I mostly gave up live gigs, started a home studio and that’s been my primary musical outlet ever since.

[revvy]

What's nusic?

[dienddablju]

95 when i got guitar then in 2002 switched to live sound enginnering

[TheMaestro]

I don't remember the nonth, but is was a nonday.