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

Morten Mosgaard

@ranjit nice list! What’s the most used today?

ranjit

@mosgaard Garage Band, oddly! I like it enough that I might buy its big brother Logic.

Morten Mosgaard

@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?

Morten Mosgaard

@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

Morten Mosgaard

@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.

Andreas Kilgus

@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).

Morten Mosgaard

@musenhain ah, of course!

Scott McDowell

@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, & Otari

I’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).

Reilly Spitzfaden (they/them)

@mosgaard for me it went:
- Audacity
- Logic Pro
- Audition (in an undergrad music tech course, just for a bit)
- Max/MSP
- Pure Data
- REAPER

All of these except for Audition I still use regularly

mᵤkᵐuₖ

@mosgaard
Abandoned, never forget :
- Cubase 2 (Atari ST)
- Pro 24 III (Atari ST)
- Cakewalk
- Samplitude
- Pro Tools
- Digital Performer

Still using, runs fine on Debian / Wine :
- Sequoia
- Emagic Logic Audio 5
- FL Studio
- Studio One

kingdom krumb

@mosgaard
Cubase
Cubase w/Reason
ProTools w/Reason
just Reason

(I still like Reason!)

Morten Mosgaard

@kingdomkrumb that's great! I tried Reason a couple of times, but never really got into the workflow. But have been using the plugin-version ever since, to get access to mostly the samplers.

What kind of music do you produce with it?

Morten Mosgaard

@tourte great list! Can you work using the apps through Debian / Wine, or does it give you any limitations?

Morten Mosgaard

@reillypascal what a diverse list! Do you only use Max/MSP stand alone?

I actually still use Audacity to rename meta-data in Wav files sometimes

Morten Mosgaard

@fadersolo It have to be joy working a place, where the tape machines are kept running like that.

Is Pro Tools the usual digital recording solution at your place?

JWcph, Radicalized By Decency

@mosgaard
- Band In A Box
- Garageband
- Garageband
- Garageband (I picked it back up a few times )
- n-Track Studio (test)
- MTP Beats (test)
- Ardour
- Reaper

Scott McDowell

@mosgaard Yeah, all the large format studios I’ve encountered in both northern and Southern California are always built around Pro Tools. Many have HDX cards, like my spot, which really levels Pro Tools up a notch.

Lars G. Gudbrandsen

@mosgaard I think it's awesome. I used UAD Luna for a bit, and while it was a very nice GUI and workflow, it was very unstable on macOS. Waveform 13 is super solid, very fast and also works very well on linux. ️

mᵤkᵐuₖ

@mosgaard No limitations on my LMDE workstations. A minimum of 16 or 32 GB of RAM is required. On the ZorinOS distro, Wine is already preconfigured, you just need to install software like on Windows.

Morten Mosgaard

@tourte that sounds great! I’m using a lot of Windows plugins, but in my Native Linux daw, since I had a hard time getting a decent latency in the Windows DAW.

Zorin is great for this stuff! I use CachyOS for performance.

Wandering Adventure Party

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