What is your computer music history?

[V0RT3X]

I learned through reason and lots of experimenting.

*Edited*


How about you? What is your story?

[vurt]

creed!
ha!

[codec_spurt]

Are you sure you really want to ask me this question?

Really?

I'll let you off lightly - Atari 1040STFU&RTFM.

Cubarse 1.0.

All downhill from there...





Creed? Fair enough, but Hanz Zimmerframe? Is it true he can detect the amount of elastic bands wrapped around the inners of a golf-ball struck from over 150 yards away? If so, how do you feel that reflects in his musical compositions? Nowadays.

[Meffy]

Late 1960s. Built a few modules from schematics Bob Moog published in Radio-Electronics or Popular Electronics, don't recall which. Being a pre-teen with nearly no money I did them on the cheap, meaning the oscillators tracked CV even worse than real Moog 901s did. Oh well.

Since then I haven't done anything involving music at all.

[Tricky-Loops]

I've made my first "computer-based" song with Audacity many years ago...

I'll never ever do it again! But at this time I didn't know anything about DAW's, I used the d-lusion Drum-Station for the beat...

[Meffy]

Oops, you said computer music, not electronic. Early to mid-1970s, then. Homebrew stuff. I mentioned my Selectric rhythm box in another thread; a search will find it.

[Tricky-Loops]

I desperately tried to use trackers...I had Jeskola Buzz, but I didn't know how to insert the notes, so I gave it up... Now with REAPER I'm having more fun.

[VicDiesel]

Atari 1040STFU&RTFM.

Cubarse 1.0.

Pro24. Which is what Steinberg made before they started Cubasis (wasn't that what it was originally called?).

And yes, 1040. Nice machine. I had the Macintosh ROMs on a floppy disc so I could boot it as a Macintosh.

Victor.

[thebaggytrouseredone]

Pentium 3 PC using Sonic Foundry Acid (the cheap one you bought in PC World), and Evulution Midi, later Evolution Audio. I moved to Cubase VST32 shortly after.

[vurt]

came to puters fairly late, not that long before i joined here...
had been doing musicy type stuff in one form or another since i was a child
basically keeps me sane, just about, so why not?
also, i like the people ive got to meet through music over the years (mostly )

[Goseba]

Pro24. Which is what Steinberg made before they started Cubasis (wasn't that what it was originally called?).

And yes, 1040. Nice machine. I had the Macintosh ROMs on a floppy disc so I could boot it as a Macintosh.

Victor.

Pro 24 too for me in the early 90's. Still have my two Atari's but the Pro 24 dongle got broken, then lost, along the way. I was late getting into computer music,the Ataris were a revelation after coming from years of Yamaha QX sequencers.

[cron]

Watched a friend's older brother making tunes in ModEdit on his 386, totally fascinated. Sang on a few of his tracks. All the kids on the street were like a little band.

Got OctaMED on the Amiga Format subscribers disk and tried to replicate tunes from Amiga games on it. Failed miserably, couldn't wrap my head around it.

Said friend's older brother gave me a floppy with FastTracker 2 and some of his tunes on it when my family got a PC circa 1996 (Cyrix 133, 16MB RAM, Soundblaster Pro). My first tunes were made by deleting all the 'notes' in his tracks and using the samples present. Eventually figured out how to extract the samples and made my own. Although a few friends had the internet, I was really comfortable with the few samples I had and didn't really take advantage.

Was bought Cubase VST 5 as a gift and barely made any tunes for the next 4 years. The notion that my music could be studio quality was terrifying.

Eventually settled into a groove using a combination of Audiomulch for effects processing and EnergyXT for sequencing and arrangement. Eventually discovered Live, and here I am!

Here's a little kick/snare workout from 1999. I'll have been about 16. As it was fresh out of FastTracker 2. No remaster, no nothing.

http://soundcloud.com/chqtestsubjects/untitled-1999

[leggie]

Made an oscillator with a 555 timer then Atari and a sequencer i have yet again forgotten the name of

[codec_spurt]

Atari 1040STFU&RTFM.

Cubarse 1.0.

Pro24. Which is what Steinberg made before they started Cubasis (wasn't that what it was originally called?).

And yes, 1040. Nice machine. I had the Macintosh ROMs on a floppy disc so I could boot it as a Macintosh.

Victor.

Yeah, I used Pro-24, but it was on hired equipment. My first music computer was the atari with 2MB if I remember correctly. Anyway, I think there was even a Pro-16 out before Pro-24. Not sure if there was anything before that though by Steinberg. I'm pretty sure Cubase was the first name and Cubasis was a cut down version that they used to bundle with AWE-64 Gold cards and the like. I had that in fact before I bought 3.7 when I bought one of those cards for a computer with a 200MHz CPU and 2GB hd.

I was just amazed by this new thing called 'audio' like having a tape recorder in your computer. Good job no one told me about the wonderful world of vsts to be soon unleashed. I would probably have run a mile if I'd known what I was letting myself in for. Just say no kids!


Anyway, V0RT3X, pretty much the same as you, except I learned through a lack of reason and lots of experimentation. Things haven't changed much my end..



cheers.

[codec_spurt]

Here's a little kick/snare workout from 1999. I'll have been about 16. As it was fresh out of FastTracker 2. No remaster, no nothing.

http://soundcloud.com/chqtestsubjects/untitled-1999

That's pretty good. You could start a whole new genre with that. Call it cronK or summat.




Actually for the love of sweet baby jeebus, don't. It's all we'll get for the next five years before cronKaton arrives on the scene to rescue us.

Why did music start becoming crap, when computers and software just started getting good?