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

[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?

[mosgaard@uddannelse.social]

@dried I remember making a beat in Fruity Loops and then recording this whole jam with me sticking the mic on to the speaker to create feedback.

It was really reliant when it came to feedback