SeaWasp Posted December 13, 2006 Posted December 13, 2006 hey whats up? i thought this would be kind of a neat thing. it would be to find out how old everyone was when they first started using software sequencers, and trackers and such... if you must know, I had my first dose of loopy fruits when i was 12, i d-loaded the demo and tried making stuff, i later found out that i couldn't save, so, i started tracking when i was about 13, then slowly, when i got some money, i bought fruityloops (as flstudio). ehm.... yeah, i'd like to hear from the rest of you... i think its really cool... Quote
NEMO.BOFH Posted December 13, 2006 Posted December 13, 2006 hey whats up? i thought this would be kind of a neat thing. it would be to find out how old everyone was when they first started using software sequencers, and trackers and such... if you must know, I had my first dose of loopy fruits when i was 12, i d-loaded the demo and tried making stuff, i later found out that i couldn't save, so, i started tracking when i was about 13, then slowly, when i got some money, i bought fruityloops (as flstudio). ehm.... yeah, i'd like to hear from the rest of you... i think its really cool... Cant remember what year I used the first tracker like program for my C64, but it must have been around 1984-86? I think I was around 10 when I started playing with the first tracker like program. The trackers for Commodore 64 didnt have any facilities to play sampled sounds, so it was sidsounds style Quote
faze Posted December 13, 2006 Posted December 13, 2006 I was old. I think I bought Rebirth as my first try at age 28. Sadly, try as I might all these years I never could grasp making music and finally gave up this year. I guess I started too late in life. Either that or I just plain suck. Likely, the suck. Quote
Veracohr Posted December 13, 2006 Posted December 13, 2006 18 or 19, in a class about MIDI. It was Opcode's Studio Vision Pro I first used. I never have used trackers. Quote
chatnik aka alien Posted December 13, 2006 Posted December 13, 2006 I have started in '99. with old cubase and rebirth.I was 13 years old... Quote
chans Posted December 14, 2006 Posted December 14, 2006 i got my hands on fruityloops 18 months back thats when i was 16...i'm 17 today and i've learned quite a lot in these 18 months...also finished 12 complete tracks out of which 5 r psytrance Quote
Jikkenteki Posted December 14, 2006 Posted December 14, 2006 My first exposure to any sort of sequencer was when I got my first synth, a Yamaha SY-85 back in 1992 so that would have made me 19 I guess. I never touched a computer based sequencer until Fruityloops in either 2000 or 2001 so making that final jump to the computer side of music production was a fairly late thing with me being 27 or 28 at the time. Quote
crazyboris Posted December 14, 2006 Posted December 14, 2006 cool topic 6-7 years ago, when I was 14. A friend gave me a Fruity Loops demo. Those were the days..... Quote
Stalker Posted December 14, 2006 Posted December 14, 2006 The first time I heard and understand what is a sequencer was when I saw a Fruity Loops running on a mates PC. That was 4 years ago, and I was 19 years old But I only got myself one about 3 years later Quote
Kalki Posted December 14, 2006 Posted December 14, 2006 i got a demo of fruity loops from a computer magazine CD which containes demos of programs. three years back. i was 19 then. i remember i was trying to play mp3 in that not knowing what is that for . it was a big exitement when i came to know i can make music with that Quote
Reznik Posted December 14, 2006 Posted December 14, 2006 my first sequencer was also fruity although i already installed cubase a year before or so and tried to record rebirth with it. didnt go well cause my soundcards latency and cpu lol. so actually rebirth was the start. Quote
robbierabbit Posted December 14, 2006 Posted December 14, 2006 Does using 1 shitty Casio keyboard (no synthesizing functions, just preset tones) and 2 tape recorders with recordings alternated between them with each new part or instrument added count? If so, 11. Quote
Otto Matta Posted December 14, 2006 Posted December 14, 2006 I was either 15 or 16 (1988), using a tiny Roland hardware sequencer that if I recall had only 2 tracks. Quote
Shaft Posted December 15, 2006 Posted December 15, 2006 14... 18 if you count actually programming the synth. Quote
alleycat Posted December 15, 2006 Posted December 15, 2006 13-14 with impulse tracker really? Me too! closer to 14 I believe... it was a while ago. Quote
Colin OOOD Posted December 15, 2006 Posted December 15, 2006 I think I was about 16... step sequencing on a Sequential SixTrak and an SH101, and using a Yamaha RX7 to trigger my Akai S612 sampler. It was soon after that I got my hands on a friend's Atari ST and did my first stuff with Steinberg Pro 24. Quote
Symphoid Posted December 15, 2006 Posted December 15, 2006 Hmm, let's see...I think I was about 8 or 9. I got this Casio keyboard for my birthday with which I would record 2 tracks on. When completed, I mixed them down onto my fisher price tape recorder Quote
FTP Posted December 15, 2006 Posted December 15, 2006 My first sequencer was nokia cellphone, but it was just too complicated.... Quote
Reznik Posted December 15, 2006 Posted December 15, 2006 When completed, I mixed them down onto my fisher price tape recorder Quote
Bahamut Posted December 15, 2006 Posted December 15, 2006 Age 9 keyboard/synth lessons.. I think I did record stuff sometime with the help of the teacher on a very old cubase or cakewalk version or whatever. Age 15 Fasttracker 1 Quote
artifact303 Posted December 15, 2006 Posted December 15, 2006 I think I was 16 or 17 (1997 or 1998) when a guy gave me a software called Fasttracker II, he said you can make music with it so I began to experiment with it on a 486/100mhz I was always curious how music and sounds are made. I didn't know nothing about synths, music theory or equipment. In 2001 I was still using Fastracker II and I finished my last track in Fasttracker II called "Anything is Possible", heavily Astral Projection influenced oldschool goatrance (they were my popstarts... ), I uploaded it here: http://www.mytempdir.com/1117337 Than came the VST world... Quote
Zeyon Posted December 16, 2006 Posted December 16, 2006 I assume the old eJay-series still count as a "sequencer", if so, I were about 11.. 18 now, and found something alot better than the eJay crap.. Quote
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