KVR Audio

birrbits · Post by **birrbits** » Mon Jan 31, 2005 8:47 pm

In 88 drawing waveforms on my dad's Amiga 500 (trying to match his violin sound), I have no idea what software (but I was hooked!)
In 94 I bought an awe32 (when they were $200) on a 486 with cakewalk 5 bundled. How many rom based patches sit idle now....

jeffn1 · Post by **jeffn1** » Mon Jan 31, 2005 8:48 pm

I believe it was 1994 with my Roland JV-80 and my Apple Macintosh running Passport Masteracks Pro 5. Even back then I thought the technology was amazing.

jeffn1

bluedad · Post by **bluedad** » Mon Jan 31, 2005 8:50 pm

Started in '88 or '89 with my first pc and sequencer plus from voyetra. I think it was in '01 that I discovered Orion and vst's. Then I bought Cubase 5.1 a few months later.

e-modic · Post by **e-modic** » Mon Jan 31, 2005 8:59 pm

bluedad wrote:Started in '88 or '89 with my first pc and sequencer plus from voyetra. I think it was in '01 that I discovered Orion and vst's. Then I bought Cubase 5.1 a few months later.

Voyetra!?! me too in early 90ies I had them on 5 1/4 disks....but it was to complicated for the start so I moved over to Atari, Cubase..hmmm a dream for the non-musician. Atari Cubase and 24 Tracker thats my start.

Rabid · Post by **Rabid** » Mon Jan 31, 2005 9:20 pm

Like Bluedad I started sequencing on a PC DOS computer in the late 80's. We actually went on stage with the PC and played along with sequences. The computer was connected to two TX7's and a Yamaha drum machine.

My first sofware instrument was Seer Systems Reality connected to Cakewalk by a MIDI yoke. I got it the same time that I bought Rebirth.

Robert

oldevil · Post by **oldevil** » Mon Jan 31, 2005 9:23 pm

started with Buzz, couldn't get my head around it, found ModTracker thing which i used for 6 months then started downloading demos: FL, Orion, Making Waves; bought MW(so easy, especially for someone like me with no talent), finally got Tracktion in 2003, miditech keyboard, bunch of freebies. life is good! one day I'll post something...

idobs · Post by **idobs** » Mon Jan 31, 2005 9:23 pm

I started out on the Apple //gs using some tracker program; I can't remember what it was called for the life of me...

I REALLY wish I still had recordings of the music from back then, I think I had some pretty fun stuff that I'd love to hear again.

-Ido

Lunch Money · Post by **Lunch Money** » Mon Jan 31, 2005 9:26 pm

I haven't begun yet.

Actually, though-- on a C-64 in a notation-based program that had 3 voices of polyphony. Can't remember what it was called. Probably something stupid like "Commodore Composer". It was long after C-64s were first introduced... the last wave of software that was released, when you could get tonnes of different high-quality programs for $10.

So that would be... oh... 1986? 1987?

But since that hardly counts, I guess it's only been since around September 2003.

Greg

Kraku · Post by **Kraku** » Mon Jan 31, 2005 9:27 pm

Somewhere around 1984-1985 I was programming songs with MSX's Basic at my cousins place (I was around 7-8 years old back then). Later I found Amiga's trackers, around 1988 or so I believe, and a couple of years after that the Scream Tracker was released on PC.

Sepheritoh · Post by **Sepheritoh** » Mon Jan 31, 2005 9:28 pm

Somebody in the mood for picking up old posts he?

Those good ole times. This topic started when I had Sonar 1. We are on version 4 now

Armadillo · Post by **Armadillo** » Mon Jan 31, 2005 9:45 pm

I think it was around '91 when I encountered this one:

Stupid American Pig · Post by **Stupid American Pig** » Mon Jan 31, 2005 9:46 pm

mjones4th wrote:~1991 - My first pro synth. A Roland Juno 6 (stolen)

~1996 - Borrowed my friend's EMU SP-12 for a year or so (he got an SP1200 - I ended up giving it back once I got the SY22)

~1998 - Yamaha SY22 and Roland MC50 (SY22 stolen, sold MC50 to buy JV-1000)

~1999 Roland JV-1000 and S-550 (sold the S-550 to buy ASR-X)

~late 1999 to 2001 Ensoniq ASR-X and Roland JV-1000. (I made some beautiful music with that setup...)

Aug 2001 - Mac G4, Logic 4.7, and Yamaha MOTIF.

MOTIF later stolen, sold the ASR-X (wish I hadn't) and I recently sold the JV-1000 to pay rent...

January-February 2005 - Mac G5 (its in the mail now!) Logic 7, Alesis ION (also in the mail!), AthlonXP 2000 PC, and a bunch of plugins.

Man- you need to do two things:

1) Move
2) Hang around less shady folks.

I would be sick if I got that much of my shit stolen. There is nothing worse than a dirty theif.

Lunatique · Post by **Lunatique** » Mon Jan 31, 2005 9:53 pm

Errr, what exactly qualifies as computer music? I mean, I've been making electronic music way before I even owned a computer--used hardware sequencer and synths back then. Now that I use software sequencers, VSTs, and sample libraries on the computer, I actually make more orchestral music than electronic music. So, what exactly is "compuer music?"

I'm one of those people that firmly believes we should all just be making "music," not any specific kind--so that it doesn't lead to tunnel-vision.

Lunch Money · Post by **Lunch Money** » Mon Jan 31, 2005 10:01 pm

It's not genre specific, just equipment-specific.

The question could have as easily been worded:

How long has it been since you first used a computer for making music?

Greg

vurt · Post by **vurt** » Mon Jan 31, 2005 10:19 pm

i started when music came out for the playstation

serious

When did you begin making computer music?