Ableton Forum

djstory wrote:

I was joking about the Barry Gibb thing, actually an old joke from when Winger was in their prime. Most probably don’t even know who Barry Gibb is now a days, and even less people know who Kip Winger is.

Cool to hear he’s still doing music in a different direction. A tiny percentage of successful musicians are able to make a good living for the long haul just doing what made them successful in the first place and most long for their heyday to return while they get out of the industry altogether, especially those from commercial genres. Maybe they do reunion tours from time to time but I think that’s kind of sad in most cases, not all.

I knew you were joking, but is the joke that they look alike or is there something else I'm missing? I didn't know who Barry Gibb was, but I looked him up. Probably should have known who he is. He formed the Bee Gees for crying out loud!

The comparison is they look alike and are both from bands that got clowned more than they get praised.

Anyhow, how I started music. A friend and I in middle school saw an obscure synth pop video in the 80’s and for whatever reason thought we should form a band based on that. There was some contention over who would play what but I bought a synth first and that decided that, and synths are a gateway instrument to sequencers and writing every damn part of the song yourself. Oddly the first bands I played live in were metal and I played guitar. There wasn’t a lot of live synth oriented music being played at the local level back then.

I play amabient experimental guitar, just a short jump into ambient experimental computer music.

i've played music all my life and when i bought my first computer it was curiosity that lead me to try out software.
so just a natural progression i suppose.

As a kid I started getting into Crystal Method, Fatboy slim and the like. My uncle found out and gave me his old copy of Acid Pro 3. Been on the downward slope ever since.

Mint Invader wrote:As a kid I started getting into Crystal Method, Fatboy slim and the like. My uncle found out and gave me his old copy of Acid Pro 3. Been on the downward slope ever since.

So, last year?




God I wish there was a place like this when I started doing music.

in the 90's, after shelling out massive credit card cash on local studio time in southern NJ, to record on analog tape with an engineer sporting a bad wig who was a drummer in the local popular glam/cock rock band, I got introduced to cakewalk, and an ADAT.....

aisling wrote:in the 90's, after shelling out massive credit card cash on local studio time in southern NJ, to record on analog tape with an engineer sporting a bad wig who was a drummer in the local popular glam/cock rock band, I got introduced to cakewalk, and an ADAT.....

Oh ADATS. I worked in a studio for a spell when ADATs were the hot new toy. The studio also had a 16 track analog reel to reel deck. I think the better part of my time there was spent disconnecting and reconnecting the input/output snakes between the 2 setups.

The craving to start making music.

beats me wrote:

Mint Invader wrote:As a kid I started getting into Crystal Method, Fatboy slim and the like. My uncle found out and gave me his old copy of Acid Pro 3. Been on the downward slope ever since.

So, last year?




God I wish there was a place like this when I started doing music.

Lol I was 10 then. Now Im 20.

Mint Invader wrote:

beats me wrote:

Mint Invader wrote:As a kid I started getting into Crystal Method, Fatboy slim and the like. My uncle found out and gave me his old copy of Acid Pro 3. Been on the downward slope ever since.

So, last year?




God I wish there was a place like this when I started doing music.

Lol I was 10 then. Now Im 20.

I bought vegas in early 98, I feel soo old

Somewhere around 1968 I went to the Smithsonian and saw a laser light show with Switched on Bach driving the lasers. So I vowed to own a Moog one day. I learned to play one in the Electronic music studio at Case Tech under Donald Erb. I built a 3 voice hardware synth in 1979 and used a Tascam cassette Portastudio 4 track for a while. Several studios later and I am all digital now. I think a new CPU is in my immediate future, though. Something with a Core i7-2600K running at 4.5 GHz will probably do just fine... for a while.

The fact that I didn't have the discipline to learn to play an instrument like a real musician. And then this sampling and "producer" shit happened and I thought... that's the ticket!

my friend rented "mtv music generator" from block buster when it just came out for the playstation 1 a looooong time ago

it was so fun, i bought the game.

We use to use the "jam mode" just to play stuff, but day by day i tinkered with the "sequencer/song" mode. and started composing little hip hop beats here and there. Couple months later, I was banging out complete songs and impressed all my friends. I moved up to mtv music generator 2 for the pc i think...


i took a hiatus from making beats, then started back again with logic pro. now im using ableton and im hooked!

Used to play in indie rock bands, got addicted to Oxycontin, quit playing music obviously as I was about half dead. Moved back home from Seattle to get clean and about 6 months later my love for music started to come back. I really wanted to make music but didn't have anybody to play with, so I thought, now is the time to get into "computer music" (which had always scared me as too complicated to learn before). I think I actually Googled "sequencer" and found Ableton, no joke. My dad split it with me for Christmas, I'll always remember that. Now clean and sober and bored out of my mind, I found I could actually concentrate for the 1st time and had a bit of every paycheck left over for gear (gear lust ended that). I just threw myself into it, as if I was a teenager again. Music really got me through.

Hope that's not too much info.

Here is my path to Ableton live.

It was about 1987 had a Radio Shack mixer, two cassette decks, cheap consumer yamaha keyboard, and a guitar/amp. Did lots of sound on sound overdubbing.

Next it was a reel to reel 1/4" stereo with a cassette deck through high school, still sound on sound

Finally a Marantz 4 track in 1995, Tascam 8 track cassette in 1996

Sonic Foundry (now Sony) Acid in 1998(9) blew my mind away I converted the studio over to the computer, also using Cool Edit Pro

Sonic Foundry Vegas in 2000

Ableton Live in 2004 (version 4) been there ever since.