KVR Audio

do_androids_dream · Post by **do_androids_dream** » Fri Dec 07, 2018 9:28 am

Pentium III running a demo of Fruityloops version 2. I couldn't save anything so I had to complete every track in one sitting. The first 3 albums I did were all done this way.

bluedad · Post by **bluedad** » Fri Dec 07, 2018 11:36 am

I suppose my first digital audio workstation/pc combo was a 486 with a M Audio 24/96 running Cubase vst 5.1 This was around 2001 I think.
I recall upgrading to a 500 meg hard drive..my computer guy said it'd be the last one I'd ever need.

felis · Post by **felis** » Fri Dec 07, 2018 1:05 pm

Reefius wrote: ↑Fri Dec 07, 2018 8:25 am
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

OK - I know nothing about ZX Spectrum, so I possibly spoke too soon.
Do you know how pitch was determined, or if there was any audio editing at all?

Tj Shredder · Post by **Tj Shredder** » Fri Dec 07, 2018 3:50 pm

Audio editing with 16k RAM? Yes, 16368 bytes which had to run the program as well...

Edit: the spectrum had 48k

Reefius · Post by **Reefius** » Fri Dec 07, 2018 3:57 pm

felis wrote: ↑Fri Dec 07, 2018 1:05 pm
Reefius wrote: ↑Fri Dec 07, 2018 8:25 am
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

OK - I know nothing about ZX Spectrum, so I possibly spoke too soon.
Do you know how pitch was determined, or if there was any audio editing at all?

I think all you could do with it was just put notes on a staff and play them. No sound editing as it only had one sound which sounded a bit like a saw wave. At that time it was something revolutionary because the ZX Spectrum actually only had monophonic audio but somehow they managed to get 2 note polyphony out of it.

Reefius · Post by **Reefius** » Fri Dec 07, 2018 3:58 pm

Tj Shredder wrote: ↑Fri Dec 07, 2018 3:50 pm Audio editing with 16k RAM? Yes, 16368 bytes which had to run the program as well...

Edit: the spectrum had 48k

Yes, my Spectrum had 48k, which was quite a lot back then

Andreas71 · Post by **Andreas71** » Fri Dec 07, 2018 4:29 pm

Atari ST 1024 and Cubase 1.0 in year 1990.

Halonmusic · Post by **Halonmusic** » Sat Dec 08, 2018 5:32 pm

Reefius wrote: ↑Wed Dec 05, 2018 3:48 pm Atari ST with Cubase 1.0 (I think). Then switched to Atari Falcon and around 1996 I made the switch to PC.

My Atari Falcon is still working, but I can't run Cubase on it anymore because I crossgraded my license from Atari to PC back in the day. I still own a copy of Cubase 3.0 for Windows on floppy disks, parallell port dongle included

Nice

fese · Post by **fese** » Sat Dec 08, 2018 5:58 pm

One of those Mac clones that were around for a short time in '96 or '97, a Umax G3 (??), with a copy of Cubase VST I got from a "friend" (ahem...). I had not the slightest idea what to do with it, there were no manuals or howtos, let alone youtube videos that we have today, nothing. Somehow I managed to record two songs with the onboard sound chip. They were horrible.

Halonmusic · Post by **Halonmusic** » Sat Dec 08, 2018 6:42 pm

fese wrote: ↑Sat Dec 08, 2018 5:58 pm One of those Mac clones that were around for a short time in '96 or '97, a Umax G3 (??), with a copy of Cubase VST I got from a "friend" (ahem...). I had not the slightest idea what to do with it, there were no manuals or howtos, let alone youtube videos that we have today, nothing. Somehow I managed to record two songs with the onboard sound chip. They were horrible.

Like me back in the day when i installed the demo version of Fruity Loops 3. I had no idea how it worked or what to do.

a-type · Post by **a-type** » Mon Dec 10, 2018 8:58 am

Amiga 500! I started with Noisetracker, then Startrekker, followed by Protracker. First DAW for sequencing external gear was OctaMED, then Music-X and Bars & Pipes. Life was so much simpler then.

enroe · Post by **enroe** » Mon Dec 10, 2018 2:19 pm

Tj Shredder wrote: ↑Fri Dec 07, 2018 3:50 pm Audio editing with 16k RAM? Yes, 16368 bytes which had to run the program as well...

Edit: the spectrum had 48k

Hey yeah - 48k RAM, there you could do a lot with!

zzz00m · Post by **zzz00m** » Mon Dec 10, 2018 5:20 pm

Before PC:

But the first DAW I ran on a PC was Voyetra Digital Ochestrator Plus. http://www.oldschooldaw.com/forums/inde ... opic=534.0

It had audio recording and editing, alongside MIDI sequencing. PC was Windows 95, Pentium 1 @133MHz, with a Creative Sound Blaster Live for audio and MIDI.

THE INTRANCER · Post by **THE INTRANCER** » Mon Dec 10, 2018 7:42 pm

This was my first ever computer I used in 1981, I would have been around the age of 4, so was using computers long before I used them in primary school. It made no sound, but it wouldn't have made much difference because I was probably still pretty much profoundly deaf in both ears, until I had my adenoids out around then. I was completely absorbed and if it could make music, then I'd probably have found a way.

The first ever music I heard from a computer I owned in my home was from a game called 'The Lone Raider' as heard below on an Atari 800 XL in 1985. In 1986, my older brother programmed in the code for a music making program in assembly and basic languages. So that was really the first DAW (as they call them now) I ever used in effect with a computer...Waiting for the game to load was never boring with this one...Incidently..I still have the working Atari 800 XL today. In the 1990's I made music on the Amiga 500 and 1200.. after blowing up my Atari Mega ST..

(Bar & Pipes,ect, but settled on Octamed Sound Studio)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aZQt9uIiWxQ

Scrubbing Monkeys · Post by **Scrubbing Monkeys** » Mon Dec 10, 2018 8:06 pm

386 running cakewalk pro ( or whatever it was before sonar ). Sound forge and CD architect. 1997. Synced w/ 3 Tascam da 88s 8mm digital tape.

What a @#$&$# mess. constant crashes due to IRQ conglicts. I love my Reaper and a laptop running on Win 7.......bullet proof.

Your First Ever PC & DAW Combo ?