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
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@mosgaard Something like FastTracker 2 -> Jeskola Buzz -> FL Studo -> (long break, nealy 10 yrs) -> hardware/DAW-less -> hybrid hw/eurorack + Tracktion Waveform + digital mix and FX.
@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?
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Cool Edit Pro -> Pro Tools
Side quests in
Logic
Ableton Live
Tracktion
Digital Performer
Ardour
and more@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.
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@mosgaard Here's my list:
- Csound@matthewconroy that’s one impressive list!
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@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@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).
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@Morten Mosgaard Pro Tools. Cubase/Nuendo. Reaper. Wavelab. Pure(Plug)data.
@jrp are you using Plugdata for stage-performances/theatre?
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@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!
@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
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@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
@mosgaard That is pretty much the same one I was remembering! Awesome.
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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 + ReaperI 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
@jvw that’s a whole lot of Linux! Nice!
Was that Tascam cassette?
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@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@musenhain uh! Atari, you don’t see a lot of that anymore.
Was that for recording or tracker/ish software?
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- 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)
@ranjit nice list! What’s the most used today?
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@ranjit nice list! What’s the most used today?
@mosgaard Garage Band, oddly! I like it enough that I might buy its big brother Logic.
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@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)@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?
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@mosgaard That is pretty much the same one I was remembering! Awesome.
@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
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@mosgaard Garage Band, oddly! I like it enough that I might buy its big brother Logic.
@ranjit I was a really happy Logic user for years, but totally forgot it until I started working with a local “several million plays” LoFi producer, who knew all the tips and tricks. Really great DAW still.
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@musenhain uh! Atari, you don’t see a lot of that anymore.
Was that for recording or tracker/ish software?
@mosgaard Well, it was the first half of the 90s.
An Atari ST did the sequencing for my hardware synths (mainly a Korg Trinity and some 19"-synths I am not sure of which ones I owned at the time). The Falcon served as 8-track audio recording system: atari.soundpool.de/at_ie.htm (used for voice, guitar, field recording elements, already mixed down sequencer master track).
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@mosgaard Well, it was the first half of the 90s.
An Atari ST did the sequencing for my hardware synths (mainly a Korg Trinity and some 19"-synths I am not sure of which ones I owned at the time). The Falcon served as 8-track audio recording system: atari.soundpool.de/at_ie.htm (used for voice, guitar, field recording elements, already mixed down sequencer master track).
@musenhain ah, of course!
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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
- BitwigWhat’s your journey?
@mosgaard This is fun!
- Reason 1.0
- Digital Performer
- Emagic Logic Gold
- Pro Tools
- Various 24 track and 16 track tape machines from Ampex, Studer, MCI, & OtariI’ve never stopped using Reason or Pro Tools and I don’t bother trying to talk clients out of recording to tape: if they’re serious about it, I’m a solid choice and I’m rarely the cause of sessions taking longer than the artist has budgeted).
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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
- BitwigWhat’s your journey?
@mosgaard for me it went:
- Audacity
- Logic Pro
- Audition (in an undergrad music tech course, just for a bit)
- Max/MSP
- Pure Data
- REAPERAll of these except for Audition I still use regularly
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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
- BitwigWhat’s your journey?
@mosgaard
Abandoned, never forget :
- Cubase 2 (Atari ST)
- Pro 24 III (Atari ST)
- Cakewalk
- Samplitude
- Pro Tools
- Digital PerformerStill using, runs fine on Debian / Wine :
- Sequoia
- Emagic Logic Audio 5
- FL Studio
- Studio One -
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
- BitwigWhat’s your journey?
@mosgaard
Cubase
Cubase w/Reason
ProTools w/Reason
just Reason(I still like Reason!)
