Whats your story ? How did you get started with Computer music ?
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- KVRian
- 503 posts since 24 Nov, 2008
Well it began with working out how to list the chords of any scale using just the formulas and pen and paper, filling up notebooks.
Then i got a degree in CS.
Then i got a degree in CS.
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- KVRAF
- 8541 posts since 29 Sep, 2010 from Maui
I bought guitar rig ver 1 when it came out as I didn't want all the hardware at that time. Just kept going from there. Now I am all hardware lol. As for the instrument learning thing, I am one of those annoying folks who can do that automagically...
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an-electric-heart an-electric-heart https://www.kvraudio.com/forum/memberlist.php?mode=viewprofile&u=182734 - KVRAF
- 2513 posts since 13 Jun, 2008 from Napier,New Zealand
When I was a teenager I played in punk bands, then got a Tascam 4 track and started recording in around '97, so used that for a while (I had 2 actually, an entry level one, then a pretty good one). When I was studying art in 2000 or 2001, my flatmate had a communal computer in the living room, and it had one of the first versions of Fruity Loops and cool Edit Pro (I think they were dodgy versions), so that's when I started recording digitally. A couple of years later when I had money, I bought a computer and bought Adobe Audition and FL Studio. Audition was the worst money ever spent, about $500 and just garbage, but it's what I knew.
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Constructed Identity Constructed Identity https://www.kvraudio.com/forum/memberlist.php?mode=viewprofile&u=288890 - KVRian
- 1328 posts since 29 Sep, 2012 from Minnesota
Once upon a time I was a bored college freshmen looking for something to do during winter break. Our school had bulletin boards around campus on which various fliers and announcements were posted and one day I spotted a colorful flyer with an event going for new years eve.
I copied a phone number and decided that I was going to go to this for the heck of it. So on the 31st of December I called the number and was told of an address in Minneapolis to go, for further instructions... I drove to the address at a corner in a non-de script part of the city where a person was waiting to hand out a paper with directions to the location of this rave party.
It was in an old factory or wearhouse in an industrial part of the city I had never seen before. I remember getting closer to the building you could hear the noise getting louder and louder. These were the days of the illegal rave party. They had a list near the entrance of scheduled DJs playing that night: DJ Apollo, DJ ESP, etc. I guess DJ ESP was one of the main organizers of the event, he would later go by his given name, Woody McBride.
At this rave a wide variety of people were passing the time. Punks, students, and random bored people like myself. I thought it was interesting, but wasn't sold on the music. There was a loft area up above where the DJs were playing with a couch that I sat on. There was also a magazine, more like a little newspaper called Reactor. It was printed in Chicago and had been brought to Minnesota by a fellow attendee of the party. In the magazine was an article about a band I had never heard of called Meat Beat Manifesto....
I copied a phone number and decided that I was going to go to this for the heck of it. So on the 31st of December I called the number and was told of an address in Minneapolis to go, for further instructions... I drove to the address at a corner in a non-de script part of the city where a person was waiting to hand out a paper with directions to the location of this rave party.
It was in an old factory or wearhouse in an industrial part of the city I had never seen before. I remember getting closer to the building you could hear the noise getting louder and louder. These were the days of the illegal rave party. They had a list near the entrance of scheduled DJs playing that night: DJ Apollo, DJ ESP, etc. I guess DJ ESP was one of the main organizers of the event, he would later go by his given name, Woody McBride.
At this rave a wide variety of people were passing the time. Punks, students, and random bored people like myself. I thought it was interesting, but wasn't sold on the music. There was a loft area up above where the DJs were playing with a couch that I sat on. There was also a magazine, more like a little newspaper called Reactor. It was printed in Chicago and had been brought to Minnesota by a fellow attendee of the party. In the magazine was an article about a band I had never heard of called Meat Beat Manifesto....
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- KVRist
- 341 posts since 5 Jan, 2022
I was using a lot of Roland gear and one day at the music store the Ensonic Mirage Sampler showed up.
I started using it right away and once I found out you could program tracks, I got a Mac SE 30 and connected up one of my keyboards.
"Vision" had been released by Opcode and they had a great midi interface. Next thing I knew, I was slaving other things via MTC and upgraded my Mac in time for audio to become part of Studio Vision.
When 16 bit came around, everyone in my world was stoked: that was the audio standard for CD's and I jumped right on that bandwagon with a new Power Mac 8100 AV.
I've never been a computer only music guy, I just use the tracks to enhance what my live band does and I'm still having fun doing it in 2022 with all the new great stuff that is available. It's truly a time to celebrate the tek...I wish storage was cheaper 30 years ago for sure.....
I started using it right away and once I found out you could program tracks, I got a Mac SE 30 and connected up one of my keyboards.
"Vision" had been released by Opcode and they had a great midi interface. Next thing I knew, I was slaving other things via MTC and upgraded my Mac in time for audio to become part of Studio Vision.
When 16 bit came around, everyone in my world was stoked: that was the audio standard for CD's and I jumped right on that bandwagon with a new Power Mac 8100 AV.
I've never been a computer only music guy, I just use the tracks to enhance what my live band does and I'm still having fun doing it in 2022 with all the new great stuff that is available. It's truly a time to celebrate the tek...I wish storage was cheaper 30 years ago for sure.....
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- KVRist
- 35 posts since 2 Jan, 2022
Started in high school learning how to make beats for rap videos my friends and I at the time would do for fun and laughs. I started this music endeavor with a low spec macbook pro back in 2016. I got a k'd version of logic pro and later bought FL Studio 12 to focus on the rap and lo-fi genre.
After a couple years, I wanted to focus on other genres and eventually made the switch to Ableton live 11 suite because I liked the interface, file management, and features (like live's comping).
After a year I sold my 2016 macbook pro for the 2021 macbook pro just a few months back and solely focus on producing emo, pop and other genres I maybe interested in from time to time.
After a couple years, I wanted to focus on other genres and eventually made the switch to Ableton live 11 suite because I liked the interface, file management, and features (like live's comping).
After a year I sold my 2016 macbook pro for the 2021 macbook pro just a few months back and solely focus on producing emo, pop and other genres I maybe interested in from time to time.
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thecontrolcentre thecontrolcentre https://www.kvraudio.com/forum/memberlist.php?mode=viewprofile&u=76240 - KVRAF
- 37262 posts since 27 Jul, 2005 from Scottish Borders
Started using an Atari 1040 STe after a few years playing guitar in indie-rock bands, recording in pro studios and later to 4-track cassette. Being shown how to sync drum machines & synths over MIDI was a revelation. Then I got into samplers and the sky was the limit. This was way back in the late neolithic era of course, long before there were sub-genres for every genre ... we were poor but we were 'appy.