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offline hyakusen from 8=============> on 2003-09-30 14:33 [#00884377]
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Im curious-i startde with Amiga and some shitty trackers ,
then came PC with Magix Music Studio , then FL and finally
Reason

what is your way ?


 

offline ecnadniarb on 2003-09-30 14:38 [#00884379]
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I forget how I started and it was only a few months ago. I
have always pissed around with sounds though.


 

offline hyakusen from 8=============> on 2003-09-30 14:39 [#00884380]
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heh , its allways good to start with music , isnt'it ?


 

offline rockenjohnny from champagne socialism (Australia) on 2003-09-30 14:44 [#00884386]
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started banging away at a roland sequencer back in 98,
collected more gear since then, programming runs on a midi
framework, yet basic sounds are still built on me old
sequencers for the most part,

dont use software or anything downloaded from the net
really, except for songs to rip vocal samples from :]


 

offline Clic on 2003-09-30 14:45 [#00884388]
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You only use hardware?


 

offline Ceri JC from Jefferson City (United States) on 2003-09-30 14:45 [#00884389]
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A mate brought over a demo of the very first version of Acid
and some sample loops from a magazine cover disc. About 6
months later the same guy gave me a cracked copy of rebirth.
I then didn't do much music for about 2/3 years, but got
back into it when I won a big box of ejay software in a
music competition.

Having already used acid, ejay seemed very limiting to me,
so I dled floops which I found very intuitive. So began my
"proper" music making. I now use all sorts of stuff, mainly
floops, reason, Live and wave edit, but a whole host of
plugins and vsts as well as other programs to make loops for
use in the above programs.


 

offline rockenjohnny from champagne socialism (Australia) on 2003-09-30 14:47 [#00884393]
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yep


 

offline hyakusen from 8=============> on 2003-09-30 14:50 [#00884395]
Points: 7021 Status: Addict



ejay...:)))
i like those vocal's " c'mon baby-it's party time "

i have all these silly lirycs on drive and i will use them
someday...


 

offline Clic on 2003-09-30 14:50 [#00884396]
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Used a little tracker for a couple or three years.

Bought a sampler, an analog synth, and a digital 8-track,
and that's all I use these days.

Only use the computer for mastering/editing.


 

offline Clic on 2003-09-30 14:51 [#00884397]
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That's cool. Good to know I'm not alone. :)


 

offline hyakusen from 8=============> on 2003-09-30 14:52 [#00884399]
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heh - i still have problems with my old good Roland tr707 -
its the only hardware i have and i bought it from guy who
didnt have an idea what he was selling, so i bought it
veeeeeery cheap


 

offline evolume from seattle (United States) on 2003-09-30 15:00 [#00884412]
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my good friend, herbwest on this board, got a gig at a bar
and he asked me for assistance as i had a similar interest
in music. he showed me how to use DIgital performer on a
Mac and we cut a bunch of tracks together mostly using his
Korg X-5. we were an industrial duo called "the snakes are
active" and we played a couple shows in the area.
then a friend of his who was a rave promoter for "the new
dawn collective" asked if we would like to cut some dancy
toons so we did and played a few raves as Golgi Apparatus.

Later, another friend of mine hooked me up with a pile of PC
software including Acid and Soundforge and Floops.
and i started cutting my own tracks. i have no hardware now
except for a turntable and a mixer and a computer of course.


 

offline aphextriplet from your mothers bedroom (United Kingdom) on 2003-09-30 15:09 [#00884420]
Points: 4731 Status: Lurker



started writing tunes when i was 14. Now 8 years later they
kick ass.


 

offline pachi from yo momma (United States) on 2003-09-30 15:09 [#00884421]
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musically?

wow, let's see....i started playin the piano when i was 8,
though i kinda just wrote my own stuff. i did the same on
the organ at age 9, & my brother & i would record silly
stuff on a little tape recorder.

at about age 12-13 i got a big ol' Yamaha keyboard (which i
still have) and made my own tunes on it was well, even usin
it for a garage band (which was crap, though i wasn't in
charge =) ). i also did some experimental stuff with my
brother usin that keyboard, various low-grade outputs and
mixers, and guitar effects pedals. my brother also bought a
TR-606 for $25 (!!!) and we played around with that as well.
i wish it was still operational, but my brother has it but
it is broken, but probably still within maintainability.

at age 14-15 i found Stomper & CoolEdit and started making
sounds on it, and then making whole songs with it. i have a
CD with 5 songs on it and hopefully i can get them posted
sometime. i then did a little bit on & off throughout my
remaining high school years.

and now i just recently picked it back up on my laptop and
played around with the ever-popular FL and made a couple
trax on it. that is my current method of writing music
today, occasionally using the older programs (Stomper &
CoolEdit).

so that's the history of my music-writing.


 

offline hyakusen from 8=============> on 2003-09-30 15:11 [#00884422]
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well i heard gigs about hidden afx on the board ...maybe
it's you ???
tell now !!!


 

offline rockenjohnny from champagne socialism (Australia) on 2003-09-30 15:12 [#00884423]
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musics grate from the toaster


 

offline hyakusen from 8=============> on 2003-09-30 15:13 [#00884425]
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quite impressive - i played piano by 5 years and i can
easily say that this improved my musical experience a lot
!!!



 

offline hyakusen from 8=============> on 2003-09-30 15:15 [#00884427]
Points: 7021 Status: Addict



hey : little interuption . check out my next thread !!!
( then we wil back to discussion )


 

offline pachi from yo momma (United States) on 2003-09-30 15:17 [#00884429]
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yeah =)

i guess the talents we get at an early age tell a little
more about our directions in life.


 

offline Ceri JC from Jefferson City (United States) on 2003-09-30 15:19 [#00884430]
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Oh yes, I played violin and sang in achoir as a child as
well as starting to learn keyboard and guitar in my early
teens.


 

offline evolume from seattle (United States) on 2003-09-30 15:20 [#00884433]
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as for me, i really didn't even listen to muisc untill i was
in high-school. i mean i heard music, but i didn't actively
pursue it untill i was about 16, when i had a car and cd
player.
i didn't start making toons untill i was about 20 or so.
about 7 years ago.


 

offline pachi from yo momma (United States) on 2003-09-30 15:25 [#00884439]
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yeah, i guess the early age thing doesn't necessarily apply
to everybody. some people get a late start but still lead a
bright musical path.


 

offline giginger from Milky Beans (United Kingdom) on 2003-09-30 15:36 [#00884449]
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Bizarrely I started making sounds in QBasic. Then I moved
onto CakeWalk after a couple of years break. Cool Edit. Now
I'm into Reason and loving it.

If I don't just talk computers then I started with the
Recorder. Then the Piano, then the trumpet then the guitar.


 

offline loopychoon on 2003-09-30 20:47 [#00884693]
Points: 280 Status: Lurker



Formed a dodgy teenage bedroom band with 2 pals called
Tranquil Dreams..

..then started songwriting proper on my own..

..then joined a band at university who were called Bumper
which I renamed All Round Icons after a Half Man Half
Biscuit lyric..

..then collaborated with some people..

..lost interest in the song format and went into
electronica, collage and weirdness..

..then realized I have no future in music..

..now I'm gonna eat an apple cos apples are good and
consider my lack of a future :)


 

offline loopychoon on 2003-09-30 20:48 [#00884695]
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Oops I knew I'd forget something.. before uniersity I did a
college coarse on studio techniques and atari st cubase n
stuff.


 

offline Key_Secret from Sverige (Sweden) on 2003-09-30 20:50 [#00884696]
Points: 9325 Status: Regular



Started on my old Yamaha SY77 (1996 or so)... continiued
that way for several years... then did some music in FT2,
and finally Buzz. I will probably go back to my SY77 soon, I
need something hardwareous! :)


 

offline mc_303_beatz from Glasgow, Scotland on 2003-09-30 21:07 [#00884704]
Points: 3386 Status: Regular



Played guitar for years. Used to record mad experimental
guitar music on my tascam 4 track. Then I got a Roland
Mc_303 and made an entire album on that and my fourtrack and
used tape loops from the radio etc. Some decent work, though
the production was shoddy.

No I mainly use software apart from my guitars and bass.

Soundfonts are a good part of my repertoire.


 

offline DeLtoiD from Ontario on 2003-09-30 21:19 [#00884708]
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cool edit.

all the way


 

offline PigeonSt from Detroit on 2003-09-30 21:29 [#00884711]
Points: 1780 Status: Regular



started with floops three or four years ago (I don't even
remember that short term, how sad), continued to use that
until I switched to buzz maybe about a year ago

that's it, I still suck


 

offline PigeonSt from Detroit on 2003-09-30 21:30 [#00884712]
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how do people make entire songs in cool edit?


 

offline pachi from yo momma (United States) on 2003-09-30 21:44 [#00884716]
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a helluva lotta commitment.

i can't even imagine making songs that way these days
anymore ^_^


 

offline fleetmouse from Horny for Truth on 2003-09-30 21:52 [#00884722]
Points: 18042 Status: Lurker



I started with a comb and some wax paper, saved my money and
bought a Gibson original Lloyd Loar kazoo with mahogany
sides and a spruce top. Last week I scored some vintage 1923
wax paper on ebay!


 

offline wakisan from The L-Mont (United States) on 2003-10-01 01:38 [#00884808]
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First shits: korg electribes er1 and ea1. those shits were
dopens.


 

offline giginger from Milky Beans (United Kingdom) on 2003-10-01 02:06 [#00884823]
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You can take sounds and stretch them and add effects and
shit. I made synth sounds with cool edit doing that and then
pitched them. Stupid way to do it though :$


 

offline rF from __e____e_________e______q_____ (Australia) on 2003-10-01 02:21 [#00884825]
Points: 956 Status: Lurker



started playing guitar when i was 6
in late 1996-early 1997 (age 12/13) i started playing around
with fasttracker2 from a pc format cover disc.. used that
for a while, discovered acid, fl and rebirth but they didn't
do anything for me so i went back to ft2.. then in late 2001
i started using buzz.. now i use buzz, reaktor, soundforge
and some other stuff..


 

offline Refund from Melbourne (Australia) on 2003-10-01 02:39 [#00884828]
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a music making program on the playstation, forget what it
was called


 

offline Taxidermist from Black Grass on 2003-10-01 03:28 [#00884869]
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Was it by anychance called Mixman?

I started with the windows wave editor. Then moved to
tapedeck, then moved to cooledit then moved to Floops, and
then just expanded around floops and cooledit with vsti and
reaktor.


 

offline Refund from Melbourne (Australia) on 2003-10-01 04:28 [#00884944]
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actaully I think it was just called "music" or something

had this cool looking guy done in a similar design style to
the napster logo in purple

next thing I used was floops, which was a demo, so I had to
do an entire track at once, they were crap, don't do music
anymore


 

offline Aphexisatwin from your mom's room (United States) on 2003-10-01 04:38 [#00884959]
Points: 2777 Status: Regular



played classical piano from 3rd grade on.... then took up
violin, trumpet, clatinet, flute, guitar, drums, bass,
turntables, and eventually, into programming where I make
most of my music today... It's so nice to have classical
theory under my belt :)


 

offline AK47 on 2003-10-01 04:51 [#00884968]
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I did a sound engineering course that was taught by members
of Bailter Space(Flying Nun) Nick Roughan and Brent
McLaughlin. I owned roto toms for a time and I like making
music and videos on the Playstation One with Music 2000.

I mainly leave the music making to flea... who started with
a casio sk3 sampling keyboard, then he made music on a
Commodore 64, then Amiga, after that he got tired of making
electronic music, brought himself a bass and taught himself
every musical instrument he could get his hands on, guitar,
percussion, drums, etc etc. In America flea discovered the
ensonique sampler keyboard. Now he uses a PC, and entirely
software, now too many (every bit of freeware, shareware he
can find) to mention but primarily Fruity Loops.


 

offline Drunken Mastah from OPPERKLASSESVIN!!! (Norway) on 2003-10-01 04:51 [#00884969]
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started out back in '95 making fun-tunes in fasttracker.
then i got madtracker, and now, i use acid, reason and
soundforge.


 

offline hepburnenthorpe from sydney (Australia) on 2003-10-01 09:12 [#00885268]
Points: 1365 Status: Lurker



i played guitar and sang in a band dat65 for about
9 years before our drummer bought a pc and got me into FT2.
i played around with that for a few years, quit the band.
started getting into fruity. now im using project5 with
fruity as a vsti. havent made a song in a while though.


 

offline nacmat on 2003-10-01 09:20 [#00885278]
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I did never star

yet?


 

offline Paco from Gothenburg (Sweden) on 2003-10-01 09:24 [#00885282]
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Amiga 500 with Noisetracker 2.0 in 1991.

Now it's all hardware and 128 channels of MIDI going out
from my laptop and ESI M8U interface to the gear.

-P



 

offline pomme de terre from obscure body in the SK System on 2003-10-01 09:24 [#00885283]
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tape loops>microsoft sound editor>ft2>mt2>renoise


 

offline teapot from Paddington (Australia) on 2003-10-01 09:27 [#00885284]
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when i was 13 i started with 4 tape decks, a mic, a tv, a
radio and a crappy casio keyboard, vintage pipe organ
trombone and a trumpet. i would basically record layers upon
layers onto cassette and syncronise them all and make a
master recording (horribly quality) i spent mose of 13-16
concentrating on playing brass for orchestras and brass
bands. these recordings are some of my favorites, some
horrible stuff, some truly disturbing stuff, and stuff i
wish i could recreate now.

at 16 i bought a 486 computer and i had some crappy beat
sequencer that was pretty lame, couldnt really do too much
else on a 486... so now my tape tracks had beats and not
pots and pans. influenced by bands like NIN and The Cure, my
tracks were depressing and industrial

at 18 i bought my first pc... wrote using floops3

at 21 (now) i bought a newer pc, and a laptop... compose
using logic6, flstudio, reason2 and many many other
things...


 

offline Paco from Gothenburg (Sweden) on 2003-10-01 09:33 [#00885294]
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Nothing wrong with a 486, if you use it for MIDI. I did for
a long time, with something called Cakewalk Apprentice. It
stopped working when Windows 95 came out. I was using
Windows 3.11 then.



 

offline S M Pennyworth from East Timor on 2003-10-01 09:38 [#00885303]
Points: 2196 Status: Lurker



tape recorder and commodore and then fostex x18 and pc


 


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