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This is what I used in the early 90s :)
Posted: Wed Mar 28, 2012 7:46 am
by wouterz
My first soundcards were from Turtle Beach. The Maui and the Monte Carlo. The Maui had 2 MB sample memory. I had one sample CD with 808 and 909 samples and other loops.
Re: This is what I used in the early 90s :)
Posted: Wed Mar 28, 2012 7:48 am
by wouterz
Bundled with the cards was a sample editor called Wave SE
Re: This is what I used in the early 90s :)
Posted: Wed Mar 28, 2012 7:58 am
by wouterz
First I only had this control panel for the Maui. This version did now have envelope editing so I had to add a sustain MIDI message to all the MIDI tracks and only use one shot samples (mostly drums). So I was very happy the find the WavePatch software later on (shown in the first post).
It could load stereo samples but it had a strange phase problem between to left and right channel that randomly changed by every note trigger. So I used only mono samples and with 2 MB of sample RAM that was not a bad choice. I used a 25 MHz 486 with Win 3 .11 with Cakewalk but the timing was very wobbly. Under Windows 95 and an upgrade to a 66 MHz CPU things got better.
Re: This is what I used in the early 90s :)
Posted: Wed Mar 28, 2012 8:57 am
by garyb
we've come such a long way, and yet....
Re: This is what I used in the early 90s :)
Posted: Wed Mar 28, 2012 9:57 am
by wouterz
garyb wrote:we've come such a long way, and yet....
It is still as difficult as 20 years ago to make beautiful music...
Re: This is what I used in the early 90s :)
Posted: Wed Mar 28, 2012 10:01 am
by wouterz
This is how Cakewalk looked like back then. I can still run it on my Win XP machine using DOSBox
Re: This is what I used in the early 90s :)
Posted: Wed Mar 28, 2012 10:07 am
by wouterz
It even had its own MIDI scripting language.
Re: This is what I used in the early 90s :)
Posted: Wed Mar 28, 2012 11:36 am
by dante
I had the Turtle Beach Tropez card and ran the Voyetra Digital Orchestrator Pro - an upgrade to the below software :
- DOP Pro
- dop_pro.JPG (102.68 KiB) Viewed 1303 times
No real time effects, everything done offline.
Moved on to Sound Blaster Pro with extra ram slots for uploadable soundfonts (still using DOP).
Those systems were great for their time. Then moved on to C/W PULSAR !
Re: This is what I used in the early 90s :)
Posted: Wed Mar 28, 2012 11:51 am
by siriusbliss
dante wrote:I had the Turtle Beach Tropez card and ran the Voyetra Digital Orchestrator Pro - an upgrade to the below software :
dop_pro.JPG
No real time effects, everything done offline.
Moved on to Sound Blaster Pro with extra ram slots for uploadable soundfonts (still using DOP).
Those systems were great for their time. Then moved on to C/W PULSAR !
I used Voyetra DOP also.
Great for MIDI.
Used it with Samplitude 4.x - running on floppies.
Ahhhhh.... the good ol' days - only 20 years ago.
30 years ago however..... hehehe....
Greg
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Re: This is what I used in the early 90s :)
Posted: Wed Mar 28, 2012 12:32 pm
by wouterz
My first computer could only playback one stereo track at a time
Re: This is what I used in the early 90s :)
Posted: Wed Mar 28, 2012 12:36 pm
by wouterz
Before Cakewalk I used Trax
Re: This is what I used in the early 90s :)
Posted: Wed Mar 28, 2012 7:07 pm
by siriusbliss
wouterz wrote:My first computer could only playback one stereo track at a time
Nothing much has changed with Samplitude
Somebody should bring back this skin
Greg
Re: This is what I used in the early 90s :)
Posted: Wed Mar 28, 2012 9:16 pm
by garyb
i had a copy of cakewalk for Atari(i think that's what it was). i wish that i can say that i used it for anything but a custom laser light show....
Re: This is what I used in the early 90s :)
Posted: Thu Mar 29, 2012 1:47 pm
by dante
This was the workhorse - on Atari 1040ST synced to Tascam 8 Track (but mine was color):
- Atari Final Cut
- final_cut.JPG (142.94 KiB) Viewed 1238 times
LOL !
Re: This is what I used in the early 90s :)
Posted: Thu Mar 29, 2012 2:00 pm
by next to nothing
Re: This is what I used in the early 90s :)
Posted: Thu Mar 29, 2012 5:48 pm
by siriusbliss
This is obviously not me, but I used a similar setup at one time.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CGCFat9dMgs
G
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