I was thinking of which software I actually used to make music though the years, so here is a chronological list:- Wavelab (One track, overdub)- Fruity loops- Dance- and HipHop Ejay- Cubase- Logic Pro- Studio One- Ableton Live- Bitwig

[jmorahan@mastodon.ie]

@mosgaard

Audacity
Jazz++
Rosegarden
Ardour

[elsemusic@musician.social]

@mosgaard My journey?

Thorn 4218 reel-to-reel with sound-on-sound
Ampex mono reel-to-reels (3)
Tascam four track reel-to-reel
Revox stereo reel-to-reels (2)
Ampex four track and two track reel-to-reels
MCI four track and Revox stereo reel-to-reels
Tascam Portastudio 246
N-Track Windows software
Reaper on Windows
Boss BR-1600 hard drive recorders (2)
Reaper on MacOS
Reaper on Linux

[jrp@hub.kliklak.net]

@Morten Mosgaard Pro Tools. Cubase/Nuendo. Reaper. Wavelab. Pure(Plug)data.

[dried@sonomu.club]

@mosgaard the journey started with recording emo songs using a conferencing mic and windows 98 sound recorder. upgraded to audacity shortly afterward. lots more between then and now!

[jvw@musicians.today]

@mosgaard

My music recording tech journey goes something like this:

Two cassette players wired together,
TASCAM portastudio 414
`snd` on Debian
Audacity? I think? on Debian
definitely Audacity on Mint
Reaper on Mint
TASCAM DR24 + Reaper

I still use the portastudio as an effects bus sometimes

Link to snd page appears to be dead. Wayback snapshot: https://web.archive.org/web/20251207101535/https://ccrma.stanford.edu/software/snd/snd/snd.html

#MusicProduction #LinuxAudio

[musenhain@friendica.andreaskilgus.de]

@mosgaard
Fostex 160
Fostex 160 & C-Lab Creator Atari
Atari Falcon 030 Soundpool AudioTracker & C-Lab Creator
Logic Audio Silver Windows
Mixbus/Ardour on Linux

[ranjit@friend.camp]

@mosgaard

- Studio Session
- Music Mouse
- Max before it was Max/MSP
- Audacity
- PD
- Reaper
- Max/MSP
- Ableton Live
- Garage Band

(and lots of simple handmade software)

[nicolasbaillard@mastodon.social]

@mosgaard
- My father's Akai DS4000 1/4" to record fake radio shows with my brother as a kid
- a 4 track mixer for video into stereo K7 deck to record my school grunge rock trio as a teenager
- a Fostex D108 digital 8 track DTD + Yamaha 01v mixer (Atari 1024ST + cubase to learn midi + Roland MC500 sequencer)
- Apple Mac G3 + Digital Performer and Motu 2408 audio interface
- Protools 5 / Otari Radar II / Protools 7-10
- Ableton Live for demo composing and recording
- Reaper (on Mac and Linux)

[mosgaard@uddannelse.social]

@lagu totally forgot everything about Fasttracker! I actually think that was my first music software, but it was in an after school club I used it.

How is Tracktion?

[mosgaard@uddannelse.social]

@billyjoebowers wow, Cool Edit Pro! Totally forgot that one. I’m not completely sure where it would be in my list, somewhere around FL and the Ejays.

[mosgaard@uddannelse.social]

@matthewconroy that’s one impressive list!

[mosgaard@uddannelse.social]

@elsemusic you just need Reaper on FreeBSD and you have all the desktops

That’s an impressive list of hardware recorders. To be honest I also started on a cassette machine and later minidisc (line out from a mixer into the line in on the minidisc).

[mosgaard@uddannelse.social]

@jrp are you using Plugdata for stage-performances/theatre?

[mosgaard@uddannelse.social]

@dried this was my first mic, as far as I remember: https://www.reddit.com/r/nostalgia/comments/pjwfhs/the_gateway_2000_pc_microphone/

Lot’s of mid frequencies and natural saturation

[dried@sonomu.club]

@mosgaard That is pretty much the same one I was remembering! Awesome.

[mosgaard@uddannelse.social]

@jvw that’s a whole lot of Linux! Nice!

Was that Tascam cassette?

[mosgaard@uddannelse.social]

@musenhain uh! Atari, you don’t see a lot of that anymore.

Was that for recording or tracker/ish software?

[mosgaard@uddannelse.social]

@ranjit nice list! What’s the most used today?

[ranjit@friend.camp]

@mosgaard Garage Band, oddly! I like it enough that I might buy its big brother Logic.

[mosgaard@uddannelse.social]

@NicolasBaillard love the fake radio shows idea! Reminds me I had this Ghettoblaster I recorded these extremely weird mixtapes on, where I would record 10-20 seconds of a song make small break and the record 10-20 seconds of a new song and so forth. To this day I’m still impressed at how random it all was, I wasn’t going for chorus or a fixed set of bars, I was just going for start/stop, timing would be totally non existent.

Perhaps the first sign of my later love for free jazz?