I've been using Live for about a year now, and I was thinking back to the time when I was using some really basic but effective software in the past and how much things have evolved in the last 5 or so years.
I started making music in the early 1990's with an Amiga 500 program called Protracker. I cannot really draw any comparisons with this and Live other than looping. It was awesome, and I was forever sending off for loop disks in the post and experimenting with different noises.
I was just interested in where it all started for you people, and how you have made your path from the beginning to what you are doing with Live at the moment.
Love to hear your comments on this guys.
JUPES
Electronic Music - Where Did It Begin For you?
Re: Electronic Music - Where Did It Begin For you?
i started with a korg m1 in the 80'sJupes wrote:
Love to hear your comments on this guys.
JUPES
and then got an akai asq10
then a wavestation
then i drifted away from electronic music
and went rock and roll.
in the last year i have come back though
live and reason.
mostly because computers are getting
to the stage that i can actually do what
i always wanted to do..
the wavestation just was too limiting back
in the day for me
i still play the guitar, only i love to process it so it doesn't sound like one.
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the_viirus
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first piece of true gear was a korg prophecy.
then i realized...its nothing without a recording device.
i sold it for my first [and still my only] PC desktop in 2003.
a p3 600mhz with 128ram and random pieces of software.
im still using it for dynamo, audio editing and such.
i also have a g3 powerbook. [my second laptop.]
minimal? possibly.
focused? quite.
then i realized...its nothing without a recording device.
i sold it for my first [and still my only] PC desktop in 2003.
a p3 600mhz with 128ram and random pieces of software.
im still using it for dynamo, audio editing and such.
i also have a g3 powerbook. [my second laptop.]
minimal? possibly.
focused? quite.
Around 1982-83
Listening to electro,new wave, oldscool hiphop, and later in 85 to house music.
From 1978 till 82 i played key's later in 1985 i bought my first drum box, a dr 110.
From that time on, i bought more and more stuff cuz most peepz got rid of their analoge stuf, cuz they wanted digital, and could get it for cheap
And stil use it cuz the sound is incredible phat, no need for fx or eqing, just plug it in and it will rock your pants up and down.
Form 85 till 88 i used just cv gate ,triggers, and sync, no midi.
In 88 i bought my first atari with notator, later i switched to logic.
Never could hope for a nice live seq as ableton has become now, so i went for that, and no regrets.
Listening to electro,new wave, oldscool hiphop, and later in 85 to house music.
From 1978 till 82 i played key's later in 1985 i bought my first drum box, a dr 110.
From that time on, i bought more and more stuff cuz most peepz got rid of their analoge stuf, cuz they wanted digital, and could get it for cheap
And stil use it cuz the sound is incredible phat, no need for fx or eqing, just plug it in and it will rock your pants up and down.
Form 85 till 88 i used just cv gate ,triggers, and sync, no midi.
In 88 i bought my first atari with notator, later i switched to logic.
Never could hope for a nice live seq as ableton has become now, so i went for that, and no regrets.
Wondering what Benny the keyboard player in Abba was playing that looked kinda like a piano... and then finding out and asking my mum to buy me a synthesizer from age 6-13. She couldn't pronounce it so I never got one.
Trying to "remix" Dr Mabuse by Propaganda using two tape decks on the pause button. 82-84?
Discovering overdrive and feedback on a crap semi-acoustic through a plastic amp. Wow. Unpopular but very fulfilling.
Making the soundtrack to a Super 8 film I made at college with a four track. Mostly clanging a gas cylinder. 86-88?
Discovering that my Powermac 7200 could run SoundEdit 16 to record sounds, reverse them, process them, mix loads of tracks together... a very happy day.
93-94?
Korg Prophecy. Amazing.
Using SoundEdit to produce some pieces for galleries using field recordings and relying on very short looping times. Drove everybody completely hatstand I think. 95-96?
Alesis SR16. Great.
Loopy Guitar Pedal. Amazing.
The modern era began. Started to feel like I was getting somewhere after 25 years. But only actually beginning...
nice thread jupes...
Trying to "remix" Dr Mabuse by Propaganda using two tape decks on the pause button. 82-84?
Discovering overdrive and feedback on a crap semi-acoustic through a plastic amp. Wow. Unpopular but very fulfilling.
Making the soundtrack to a Super 8 film I made at college with a four track. Mostly clanging a gas cylinder. 86-88?
Discovering that my Powermac 7200 could run SoundEdit 16 to record sounds, reverse them, process them, mix loads of tracks together... a very happy day.
93-94?
Korg Prophecy. Amazing.
Using SoundEdit to produce some pieces for galleries using field recordings and relying on very short looping times. Drove everybody completely hatstand I think. 95-96?
Alesis SR16. Great.
Loopy Guitar Pedal. Amazing.
The modern era began. Started to feel like I was getting somewhere after 25 years. But only actually beginning...
nice thread jupes...
MacBook Pro Retina, Live 9.5, Reason, UC33, KRK RP5s, Teenage Engineering OP1, Korg ESX2, Korg Prophecy, Clavia Nord Lead, Bass, Guitars.
http://soundcloud.com/motorradkinophone
http://soundcloud.com/motorradkinophone
Cubasis, for years in my early teens trying so hard with the cheesiest midi samples in my Roland JV-30 to be Chemical Brothers and Daft Punk and Prodigy. Somehow I stumbled across Autechre in the late 90s and that changed my world. But things really kicked off when I found a pirated version of Fruityloops.
Gehehe that was a welcome thingie, i used to cut tape with a revox set, and splicing tape, washing hands in pure alcohol otherwise u could get dropouts, when grabbing tape with yer fingers:Dtelekom wrote:
Discovering that my Powermac 7200 could run SoundEdit 16 to record sounds, reverse them, process them, mix loads of tracks together... a very happy day.
93-94?
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noisetonepause
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What I learned using SoundEdit when I was 13-16 is still at the heart of how I make music, which is why I prefer cutting waveforms to using MIDI..telekom wrote:
Discovering that my Powermac 7200 could run SoundEdit 16 to record sounds, reverse them, process them, mix loads of tracks together... a very happy day.
93-94?
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I have always known electronic music. When I was a kid it was 80's new wave on the radio. The late 90's as a child of the raves in southern california. In 2001 i got a pirated copy of Fruityloops to try and make the stuff I heard from the 80's. lol. With time comes change ... so I went mac with a Live 4, PTLE, an SH-101 and a Juno 2. 
Every situation(1) should be confronted with its opposite(2) to come to a better situation(3).
1 Thesis
2 Antithesis
3 Synthesis
- Hegel
1 Thesis
2 Antithesis
3 Synthesis
- Hegel
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DeadlyKungFu
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~ 8 years old, used a plain tape recorder to make goofy stories about neigborhood kids being flushed down toilets and such. Sampled stuff like Intellivision, the radio, things being dropped into toilets.
~24 years old after hearing Underworld (grew up on new wave though), got a Roland JX305, added a Novation Nova, then a Roland SP808, then Cakewalk, then Sonar then Live. I've been through other gear, those are the 'highlights'.
Now I'm 33 and it's back to recording goofy sounds in Live about people being flushed down toilets.
~24 years old after hearing Underworld (grew up on new wave though), got a Roland JX305, added a Novation Nova, then a Roland SP808, then Cakewalk, then Sonar then Live. I've been through other gear, those are the 'highlights'.
Now I'm 33 and it's back to recording goofy sounds in Live about people being flushed down toilets.
My friends older brother played this to me when I was about 11
I bought it immediately, and also their 'new (at the time) album
I saved up and six months later I bought one of these.
and a whole shitload of Radio Shack electronics, such as their awful bucket brigade delay with a max length of about 1 second. I built up from ther to a Fostex 4 track
that was about 1981 or something.
Shortly after that point I discovered Tangerine Dream and weed.
I bought it immediately, and also their 'new (at the time) album
I saved up and six months later I bought one of these.
and a whole shitload of Radio Shack electronics, such as their awful bucket brigade delay with a max length of about 1 second. I built up from ther to a Fostex 4 track
that was about 1981 or something.
Shortly after that point I discovered Tangerine Dream and weed.
I started in High School doing hip-hop. Me and a few friends decided that in order to fuck girls, we needed to be rappers. That was around '86 - 88. I didn't give a crap about music, it was a means to an end.
But, I was one of the MC's, and the principal "producer". Our DJ was strictly a turntablist. I went and bought an Akai S-01 sampler and a 4 track to go with the decks and radio shack mixer.
I gave up music in university - you know, studies and all that. Then, in '97 I got into electronic music (Daft Punk was first, then others). I realized I had all the gear and know-how to make electronic music. I tried my hand in Gabber and hardcore for a bit but realized that breaks suited my old experience in hip-hop best. Again, I got into it because I was single and trying to fuck women. Around 2000 I actually started making music because it was personally satisfying.
-hey, at least I'm honest... I was never 'inspired' or 'had a calling' or anything like that. I never was really moved by any electronic producers either, though I can appreciate anything with funk to it (electronic or not).
From '98 up until just recently I built up a stuidio worth tens of thousands of dollars, but since sold 85% of it all, and went 100% software in 2004. I'm much happier now...
But, I was one of the MC's, and the principal "producer". Our DJ was strictly a turntablist. I went and bought an Akai S-01 sampler and a 4 track to go with the decks and radio shack mixer.
I gave up music in university - you know, studies and all that. Then, in '97 I got into electronic music (Daft Punk was first, then others). I realized I had all the gear and know-how to make electronic music. I tried my hand in Gabber and hardcore for a bit but realized that breaks suited my old experience in hip-hop best. Again, I got into it because I was single and trying to fuck women. Around 2000 I actually started making music because it was personally satisfying.
-hey, at least I'm honest... I was never 'inspired' or 'had a calling' or anything like that. I never was really moved by any electronic producers either, though I can appreciate anything with funk to it (electronic or not).
From '98 up until just recently I built up a stuidio worth tens of thousands of dollars, but since sold 85% of it all, and went 100% software in 2004. I'm much happier now...
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markaugust
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my seperated parents sort of fucked me up in a good way from early on.
mother playing kraftwerk, laurie anderson in between jimi hendrix and nina simone..
my father philip glass and steve reich in between miles and coltrane..
I was singing along jimi's voodoo child (the long bluesversion) when i was 4 my mom told me..
I reckon it started there
then it took some 20 years and some drugs and a friend who played carlcraig's 69 (the one with those very sad strings and that monsterbreakbeat) after a party in six in the morning.
I think I ended up shedding a tear..
a few months later I got cash from my grandmother (thanks grandma!!) because she went to the big guy above, and bought myself a atari with a full-on 32 mb harddisk (zooming like a vacuumcleaner) and a akai s5000.
thinking I would sell it if I didn't like it to much.
that's 8 years ago.
now I am lost for life....
every music has influenced me, but I think these greats have been the base of me being lost in my own musiworld: prince/jimi hendrix/nina simone/kraftwerk/steve reich/miles davis/cat stevens/ the black dog/basic channel/
carl craig/theo parrish/derrick may/anthony rother/autechre/aphex twin/ juan atkins/ plastikman/ kevin saunderson
I know cat stevens really doesnot fit there... but the guy just had it's impact when i was 4-8 with both my parents playing it so much....
o yeah...let's not forget... after I really got into the music really deep after finishing my studio-engineering school I listened really different to music I would before that call easy mass-music ...to make a long boring story short..: the production of " all night long" from lionel richie still blows me away since then.
engineeringwise a fukkin masterpiece!!
anyone thinks this also?
mother playing kraftwerk, laurie anderson in between jimi hendrix and nina simone..
my father philip glass and steve reich in between miles and coltrane..
I was singing along jimi's voodoo child (the long bluesversion) when i was 4 my mom told me..
I reckon it started there
then it took some 20 years and some drugs and a friend who played carlcraig's 69 (the one with those very sad strings and that monsterbreakbeat) after a party in six in the morning.
I think I ended up shedding a tear..
a few months later I got cash from my grandmother (thanks grandma!!) because she went to the big guy above, and bought myself a atari with a full-on 32 mb harddisk (zooming like a vacuumcleaner) and a akai s5000.
thinking I would sell it if I didn't like it to much.
that's 8 years ago.
now I am lost for life....
every music has influenced me, but I think these greats have been the base of me being lost in my own musiworld: prince/jimi hendrix/nina simone/kraftwerk/steve reich/miles davis/cat stevens/ the black dog/basic channel/
carl craig/theo parrish/derrick may/anthony rother/autechre/aphex twin/ juan atkins/ plastikman/ kevin saunderson
I know cat stevens really doesnot fit there... but the guy just had it's impact when i was 4-8 with both my parents playing it so much....
o yeah...let's not forget... after I really got into the music really deep after finishing my studio-engineering school I listened really different to music I would before that call easy mass-music ...to make a long boring story short..: the production of " all night long" from lionel richie still blows me away since then.
engineeringwise a fukkin masterpiece!!
anyone thinks this also?