DAW from last century

[AnX]

i made music so fast once, it broke the sound barrier so couldn't be heard by any body

was the music fast, or the making of it?

i make music so shit nobody wants to hear it

[vurt]

i made music so fast once, it broke the sound barrier so couldn't be heard by any body

was the music fast, or the making of it?

the making there of, it was actually the usual long drone notes, over two hours long. but took milliseconds to make

i make music so shit nobody wants to hear it

the music is great, its the shitty sh101 tones no one can stand

[AnX]

[vurt]

[jacqueslacouth]

Watch it all the way through and notice how the girl changes her guitar, but never actually plays either of them.

Argggghhhh!!!! The Roland G707. I remember that abomination. Quite possibly the worst balanced guitar made in history. Coupled with the GR700 synth a partnership clearly devised by Satan himself. The bloody awful tracking made it all but unusable. It pissed me off big time because it looked so amazingly futuristically cool.

[jacqueslacouth]

"There is no reason for anyone to even spend any time in trying to tweak the sound from scratch yourself” Jan Hammer.

I feel validated

[AnX]

you create from scratch, you tweak presets

[Bombadil]

First DAW was almost exactly 20 years ago. A Roland VS. Still have it, too. Paid $3,700 CAD. Lucky to get €150 for it now, which is why I still have it.

[tapper mike]

First DAW was almost exactly 20 years ago. A Roland VS. Still have it, too. Paid $3,700 CAD. Lucky to get €150 for it now, which is why I still have it.

Yeah, bought mine brand new back when it came out. I launched a full blown production studio. Cobbling together every penny I had. Spent close to 200k on modern gear. Then tried to get local artists/bands to record. That was also after spending tons learning music production at a well known local trade school. Lost everything it went bust. Had to sell everything I owed and still carried massive debt. I still have 4k to pay off but I just can't do it so it's growing again.

[Bombadil]

Ouch!

[jancivil]

I had a Roland-ready strat (abysmally set up) and one of their early guitar synths. Yes, the tracking was shite. I got very little out of this setup. A couple of the sounds were ok but mostly not. Venture outside of that synth and the guitar pickups became absolutely useless.

[jancivil]

I worked on someone's album during the late 90s. I couldn't even tell you what year, this was The Lost Time for me {1994-97}, we were on the dope. But I worked my ass off on it. We did the sessions in a GREAT studio, Oliver DiCicco's studio in Noe Valley. But after we'd tracked it, for some reason, probably money, the guy took it to Don Falcone to mix it on some hardware DAW. I think it was Roland. RUINED the album utterly. And he overdubbed some synth strings using it which was horrendous. He's pretty famous, I'd never heard of him. Parra was so excited, 'Don Falcone' (not the gangster on Gotham). I see him on FB all the time, numerous mutual friends. I don't know what's going on with that mix, but once I had the CD I couldn't stand to present it to anyone. I still have fans from that record (somebody at Wired thought it was the best record of the year {1997 iirc} which I find hilarious) but no fuggin' way, man. Everything bad about digital production, all the deficiencies we hopefully learn some way around, this thin sounding master out of those sessions. The rough take-home mix sounded good! I mean the physical sound of it (hate to say it, but: analog). Gone now.

Yeah, the whole idea of this era being anything to write home about is ludicrous. I live in 2018 and I feel I was born at the right time to come to maturity with all of this at my fingertips. All the innovations, real advances, in digital synthesis, and at the other end all the excellent modeling of what was good before.