When did you begin making computer music?
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- KVRist
- 49 posts since 21 Apr, 2004
I started in the late 90's on a variety of non realtime synths and eventually graduated to VAZ+. I was definitely influenced by the music from the Commodore 64 and Amiga. In fact, I'm listening to some random mods from The Mod Archive and Chiptunes. Love this stuff, but I don't make music that even remotely resembles it, except that it's electronic.
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- Banned
- 6127 posts since 1 Apr, 2004 from Et in Arcadia Ego
With any level of competence? I'd say about a year now.
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- KVRist
- 261 posts since 1 Sep, 2003 from Studio Telex
Ooo-kay. *Rolls up sleeves*
80's - C64 with Microrhythm, the Delta loading mixer thing and godawful EA 'studio' crap.
89 - s/h CX5M - trying to make M1-ish sounds. I soon learnt my lesson.
91 - 2x A500 with Octamed (one was sample editor program (micromega?) acting as a real time delay line), some (wooden) crap mixer and a Yamaha QY8. I felt nearly professional!
95 - ST, Cubase, ESI32, SY35, MU10, Studio Quad, Mackie Desk, Loads and loads of f**king leads. Oh and hum and buzz, lovely... But I was a producer, or felt like one anyhoo.
97 - JV1080 (Crap), P2 450 (£450 for the chip!!!), Yamaha DSP Studio card, MC202, more f**king leads and buzz. Ill advised spend that lot (£7000 odd), did nothing for my composing except pile pressure on to make some money to begin paying it back. Idiot.
99 - Powerbook G3 and Logic 3.5 (bliss), Vaz Modular on a celeron 850 over Midi (nasty and brutal)
2001 - Sold the lot for a fraction of what I paid and went totally PC soft. Music now better than ever and no f**king leads and no f**king buzz/hum.
Looking at the above you may think I'm well off. Well, no, I'm in huge debt (£25k+) and due to the drop off in hardware value I have nothing to show for it. My fault tho - I didn't see the software revolution coming that quick, and to make decent stuff in the 90s you needed hardware.
At the risk of sounding old - beginners these days don't know how 'easy'* (or cheap) they've got it! If I started now I would not build a debt like I did with hardware. I really wanted (needed) to make music then, and oh boy did it cost. No choice tho - buy gear or make silence!
I dunno, maybe I'm just getting to be an old git!!
*You don't need to put up with midi daisychaining, extreme difficulty in recalling track mixer/hardware settings, leads, hum, dusts/crackles, no chance of taking the kit to a mates to work on, the huge cost, the space, polyphony, sample time, floppy discs, etc..
80's - C64 with Microrhythm, the Delta loading mixer thing and godawful EA 'studio' crap.
89 - s/h CX5M - trying to make M1-ish sounds. I soon learnt my lesson.
91 - 2x A500 with Octamed (one was sample editor program (micromega?) acting as a real time delay line), some (wooden) crap mixer and a Yamaha QY8. I felt nearly professional!
95 - ST, Cubase, ESI32, SY35, MU10, Studio Quad, Mackie Desk, Loads and loads of f**king leads. Oh and hum and buzz, lovely... But I was a producer, or felt like one anyhoo.
97 - JV1080 (Crap), P2 450 (£450 for the chip!!!), Yamaha DSP Studio card, MC202, more f**king leads and buzz. Ill advised spend that lot (£7000 odd), did nothing for my composing except pile pressure on to make some money to begin paying it back. Idiot.
99 - Powerbook G3 and Logic 3.5 (bliss), Vaz Modular on a celeron 850 over Midi (nasty and brutal)
2001 - Sold the lot for a fraction of what I paid and went totally PC soft. Music now better than ever and no f**king leads and no f**king buzz/hum.
Looking at the above you may think I'm well off. Well, no, I'm in huge debt (£25k+) and due to the drop off in hardware value I have nothing to show for it. My fault tho - I didn't see the software revolution coming that quick, and to make decent stuff in the 90s you needed hardware.
At the risk of sounding old - beginners these days don't know how 'easy'* (or cheap) they've got it! If I started now I would not build a debt like I did with hardware. I really wanted (needed) to make music then, and oh boy did it cost. No choice tho - buy gear or make silence!
I dunno, maybe I'm just getting to be an old git!!
*You don't need to put up with midi daisychaining, extreme difficulty in recalling track mixer/hardware settings, leads, hum, dusts/crackles, no chance of taking the kit to a mates to work on, the huge cost, the space, polyphony, sample time, floppy discs, etc..
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- something special
- 8629 posts since 16 Mar, 2002 from Birmingham, Alabama
clueless wrote:can't beat a bit of rough hexxoxos wrote:i can tell, you are now sexually aroused by the mere mention of the enumeration system.
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- KVRAF
- 2070 posts since 2 Apr, 2004
I think it was '98?
I also do remember vaguely playing around with 'Wham! The Music Box' on my ZX spectrum in the 80's, don't know if that counts too
I also do remember vaguely playing around with 'Wham! The Music Box' on my ZX spectrum in the 80's, don't know if that counts too
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- KVRian
- 538 posts since 18 Feb, 2005
In 1978-79 with an Apple IIe, when I was trying to do the impossible...generate two notes (tonal beeps actually) simultaneously. 
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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
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- KVRist
- 82 posts since 9 Jun, 2003 from Taiwan
Started in 1985 on my Atari 800xL with a midi intertface connector..
Moved to Atari 1040 st with master tracks pro , creator and cubase.
Went on to Mac11ci and cubase 1.5. (1992)
From there have been using pc mostly. Got rid of most of my gear and now use just plugins.
Moved to Atari 1040 st with master tracks pro , creator and cubase.
Went on to Mac11ci and cubase 1.5. (1992)
From there have been using pc mostly. Got rid of most of my gear and now use just plugins.
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- KVRian
- 1297 posts since 23 Jun, 2007 from Findlay OH USA
In the mid 80s I was taking composition lessons from a teacher in Los Angeles. One day I came to my lesson, he had a Mac hooked up to a DX7 connected to an amp and speakers. I asked him what that was all about, he said "The future." He tapped the spacebar, music came out, and the next week I bought my first machine, a 10 MHz PC/XT clone with a 20 MB hard drive. I loved how a computer helped me as a musician then, I'm still loving it today.
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- KVRAF
- 10171 posts since 2 Jan, 2005 from somewhere in the woods
i began with cm, when this thread was initiated, a bit late, but it's never too late.
"It dreamed itself along"
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- KVRAF
- 16856 posts since 8 Mar, 2005 from Utrecht, Holland
I tried that too (on a Tandy TRS-80) and succeeded!jdt wrote:In 1978-79 with an Apple IIe, when I was trying to do the impossible...generate two notes (tonal beeps actually) simultaneously.
Just swapped the frequency rather fast...
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- angelboy
- 4586 posts since 21 Aug, 2001 from Larnaca, Cyprus
2001 on a Pentium 200MHz PC and the earliest VST freeware. Fantastic times and it all began when trying to record a fart for laughs. Some say it hasn't changed much to this day.
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- KVRAF
- 1629 posts since 11 Dec, 2005 from Malmö, Sweden
Me too! Me too!Barf wrote:I think it was '98?
I also do remember vaguely playing around with 'Wham! The Music Box' on my ZX spectrum in the 80's, don't know if that counts too
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- KVRist
- 291 posts since 25 Apr, 2005 from GerMansk
1989 - Atari St + C-Lab Notator SL + Korg M1