When did you begin making computer music?

[tetraplan]

I've come to the conclusion that I'm just beginning. Up until now, I've only made computer-aided music (going on eight years now).

Groet, Erik

[jkleban]

Put me in the ATARI ST club... not sure of the year but it had to be after 1985 but before 1990... somewhere in the middle. I still remember running Dr. T's KCS (which stood for Keyboard Controlled Sequencer, I think).

Also, this machine booted up with floppy disks (I had no hard drive) and all the programs and data were stored on these floppies.

I remember doing a cover of Freeze Frame by J Geils that simply smoked and by accident I saved a different song under the Freeze Frame title... lost forever.

So, like others I stopped for huge amounts of time in between sessions and just recently got back into making music in the home about a year ago. Man, today's tools just blow me away mostly the Amp Sims and VST plugins... simply amazing.

Jim

[Gridlocked]

I began when I built my own MIDI lead and hooked my Spectrum up to my Roland D10. Actually, it probably would have been before that in about 1991-92, with Soundtracker on the Spectrum writing for PD Demos...

[morelia]

A long time ago, in a mental state far far away.

[Gridlocked]

A long time ago, in a mental state far far away.

My god...I remember that program!

[Compyfox]

1994 - Cubase 1.4 with a DB50XG Wavetable. Then I moved to Cubasis Audio with the wavetable and an AWE64, after that, Cubase 3.7 Score - and then gradually up. I sure walked a long way since then.

This year it's 15 years that I started making music with a computer, end of the year it will be 7 years since I dived into audio engineering.

[ianweb123]

First computer music would have been on the Spectrum (Rubber keys) with a Cheetah Specdrum and a Ram Music Machine. I helped contribute to the Spectrum Music Group Cassettes if anybody remembers those!??

[Vectorman]

The Sinclair Spectrum - wow, that's going back. When I was a kid I had a Timex/Sinclair 2068 with a hardware mod that allowed it to be switched into Spectrum emulation mode. My first computer was a ZX-81.

My first flirtation with computer-based sequencing was with Dr. T's KCS running on a Commodore SX-64 "portable" that I used for a few two-man MIDI gigs in my teens. I switched to sequencing on a Roland workstation after that. It wasn't until a few years later when I got a Macintosh II and Studio Vision Pro that I really got into computer sequencing (and hard disk audio - a whopping 4 tracks of it with no realtime effects).

[memyselfandus]

My first synth was a Korg DW-6000, back in 1984 or 1985. My first sequencer for the Mac Plus came shortly after that- "MIDIMac Sequencer 1.0" which was later known as "Opcode StudioVision"

[palebluedun]

May 1983.

[BertKoor]

Dirty little necromaniac

[deastman]

My first synth was a Korg DW-6000, back in 1984 or 1985. My first sequencer for the Mac Plus came shortly after that- "MIDIMac Sequencer 1.0" which was later known as "Opcode StudioVision"

You really are overly obsessed with this whole Opcode thing. You do realize that, don't you? Necro'ing an ancient thread just because I mentioned nine years ago that MIDIMAC was my first sequencer...

[Firebird]

Personally, I began in the beginning of 1999 with an Evolution sequencer and a SBLive fed with soundfonts. Then in the beginning of 2001 I discovered the VSTi stuff and that was my downfall (addiction, money loss, lack of time for other things, etc.).

Btw., this topic is only for men, women please don´t answer

I got started with one of those Roland 16 track stand alone systems that were very easy to use.
Then I moved onto computers.

More complex but sooo many more options.

[el-bo (formerly ebow)]

1990. A very stilted cover of mantronix' 'Got to have your love', with a mini-key casio keyboard, atari-st, and cracked copy of cubase

[andrew71]

A long time ago, in a mental state far far away.

Notator was probably my favourite software sequencer ever. I first used Creator (a cut-down version of Notator) in a studio in the early 90's and then bought an ST for myself with Notator. However, prior to that I cut my teeth using Cheetah's SpecDrum on the Spectrum and then Aegis Sonix on the Amiga.