KVR Audio

gentleclockdivider · Post by **gentleclockdivider** » Thu Dec 06, 2018 11:16 am

Pentium 1 running sonic foundry acid , sound forge ..

mchoffmann · Post by **mchoffmann** » Thu Dec 06, 2018 11:18 am

It must have been early 90s, i had an IBM AT-Clone with yellow Monitor and got myself a CMS-101-Midi-Card with a software called PRISM. DOS only it had a windows-based graphical interface and was quite powerful at that time.

Shortly after that i switched to WIN and Passport-Software TRAX......

Man, i do feel old now.....

Marc

bluedad · Post by **bluedad** » Thu Dec 06, 2018 12:40 pm

1987-88 an IBM 8088 with 16 kb memory which had to be upped to a whopping 32 kb to run Voyetra Sequencer Plus
Roland MPU-1 interface (which I still have laying around here somewhere)

Drachenkatze · Post by **Drachenkatze** » Thu Dec 06, 2018 1:17 pm

I'm not sure if that counts as a DAQ, but...A 386 with Impulse Tracker when I was 15. That's how I got into music production back in 1995.

carrieres · Post by **carrieres** » Thu Dec 06, 2018 1:31 pm

Apple //c with Music Construction Set
Atari 520 ST with Pro24
Amiga 500 and 1200 with Soundtracker and MusicX
PC with Cakewalk, Fruity loop, Rebirth, Orion and Ableton Live

wetdentist · Post by **wetdentist** » Thu Dec 06, 2018 2:06 pm

in 2001, i got a custom built Pentium III machine with a Soundblaster Live soundcard, that had Cakewalk Pro Audio 9 & Fruity Loops 2 pre-installed. it was TERRIBLE!!!

Reefius · Post by **Reefius** » Thu Dec 06, 2018 3:57 pm

Actually my very first music software was 'Wham The Music Box' on the Sinclair ZX Spectrum in 1985. Does this count as a DAW?

http://www.worldofspectrum.org/infoseek ... id=0008965

Watchful · Post by **Watchful** » Thu Dec 06, 2018 4:01 pm

Dell 210 (80286) running Voyetra Sequencer Plus 4 on a VP-4001 interface.

That baby ran for almost a decade.

seismicfm · Post by **seismicfm** » Thu Dec 06, 2018 11:45 pm

(1997) Custom 486DX 100, Gravis Ultrasound card running Master Tracks Pro - Used for sequencing a Roland XP-10, which i returned for an Alesis QS6. Such MIDI headaches back then.

felis · Post by **felis** » Fri Dec 07, 2018 12:32 am

Reefius wrote: ↑Thu Dec 06, 2018 3:57 pm Actually my very first music software was 'Wham The Music Box' on the Sinclair ZX Spectrum in 1985. Does this count as a DAW?

http://www.worldofspectrum.org/infoseek ... id=0008965

Nope - Digital AUDIO Workstation.

Most of the things listed here, including part of my post, are midi sequencers.

jancivil · Post by **jancivil** » Fri Dec 07, 2018 1:55 am

I suppose the Ensoniq Mirage with the editor for the Mac was a digital audio workstation. 1986 is when the software came out, I believe.

JonSolo · Post by **JonSolo** » Fri Dec 07, 2018 2:09 am

The first computer I would consider as a DAW (native recording/processing of audio and midi) was 1998:

Intel Pentium MMX 200Mhz
64 Meg Ram
20 Gig Hard Drive
Nvidia graphics
Turtle Beach sound
OS: Win98

I ran Cubase VST24. Could not really act as a live studio. I often resorted to Cool Edit Pro just to be able to record multiple tracks.

What is crazy is that within 3 years the specs had blown that out of the water:

Intel Pentium 1.6ghz
4 gb Ram (only about 3gb usable)
500GB Hard Drive
M-Audio 24/96

Cubase SX1, Reason, and honestly the first REAL DAW and PC...

Reefius · Post by **Reefius** » Fri Dec 07, 2018 8:25 am

felis wrote: ↑Fri Dec 07, 2018 12:32 am
Reefius wrote: ↑Thu Dec 06, 2018 3:57 pm Actually my very first music software was 'Wham The Music Box' on the Sinclair ZX Spectrum in 1985. Does this count as a DAW?

http://www.worldofspectrum.org/infoseek ... id=0008965

Nope - Digital AUDIO Workstation.

Most of the things listed here, including part of my post, are midi sequencers.

A ZX Spectrum did not have MIDI, all the audio came out of the computer's internal speaker (which sounded like crap). So technically it was a digital audio workstation

Shifrin · Post by **Shifrin** » Fri Dec 07, 2018 8:35 am

Octamed on an Amiga 500+ circa 1992! (and I was more productive in those days than I am now

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machinesworking · Post by **machinesworking** » Fri Dec 07, 2018 9:18 am

jancivil wrote: ↑Fri Dec 07, 2018 1:55 am I suppose the Ensoniq Mirage with the editor for the Mac was a digital audio workstation. 1986 is when the software came out, I believe.

Similar, my band Systems Collapse in SF CA during the 80's had a Mac + with MOTU Performer 1.0 running an Ensoniq Mirage and that editor. We bought a rack mount Mirage as soon as they came out. saved for months to get it etc.

Your First Ever PC & DAW Combo ?