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
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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
- BitwigWhat’s your journey?
Audacity
Jazz++
Rosegarden
Ardour -
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
- BitwigWhat’s your journey?
@mosgaard My journey?
Thorn 4218 reel-to-reel with sound-on-sound
Ampex mono reel-to-reels (3)
Tascam four track reel-to-reel
Revox stereo reel-to-reels (2)
Ampex four track and two track reel-to-reels
MCI four track and Revox stereo reel-to-reels
Tascam Portastudio 246
N-Track Windows software
Reaper on Windows
Boss BR-1600 hard drive recorders (2)
Reaper on MacOS
Reaper on Linux -
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
- BitwigWhat’s your journey?
@Morten Mosgaard Pro Tools. Cubase/Nuendo. Reaper. Wavelab. Pure(Plug)data. -
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
- BitwigWhat’s your journey?
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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
- BitwigWhat’s your journey?
My music recording tech journey goes something like this:
Two cassette players wired together,
TASCAM portastudio 414
`snd` on Debian
Audacity? I think? on Debian
definitely Audacity on Mint
Reaper on Mint
TASCAM DR24 + ReaperI still use the portastudio as an effects bus sometimes
Link to snd page appears to be dead. Wayback snapshot: https://web.archive.org/web/20251207101535/https://ccrma.stanford.edu/software/snd/snd/snd.html
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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
- BitwigWhat’s your journey?
@mosgaard
Fostex 160
Fostex 160 & C-Lab Creator Atari
Atari Falcon 030 Soundpool AudioTracker & C-Lab Creator
Logic Audio Silver Windows
Mixbus/Ardour on Linux -
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
- BitwigWhat’s your journey?
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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
- BitwigWhat’s your journey?
@mosgaard
- My father's Akai DS4000 1/4" to record fake radio shows with my brother as a kid
- a 4 track mixer for video into stereo K7 deck to record my school grunge rock trio as a teenager
- a Fostex D108 digital 8 track DTD + Yamaha 01v mixer (Atari 1024ST + cubase to learn midi + Roland MC500 sequencer)
- Apple Mac G3 + Digital Performer and Motu 2408 audio interface
- Protools 5 / Otari Radar II / Protools 7-10
- Ableton Live for demo composing and recording
- Reaper (on Mac and Linux) -
@mosgaard Something like FastTracker 2 -> Jeskola Buzz -> FL Studo -> (long break, nealy 10 yrs) -> hardware/DAW-less -> hybrid hw/eurorack + Tracktion Waveform + digital mix and FX.
@lagu totally forgot everything about Fasttracker! I actually think that was my first music software, but it was in an after school club I used it.
How is Tracktion?
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Cool Edit Pro -> Pro Tools
Side quests in
Logic
Ableton Live
Tracktion
Digital Performer
Ardour
and more@billyjoebowers wow, Cool Edit Pro! Totally forgot that one. I’m not completely sure where it would be in my list, somewhere around FL and the Ejays.
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@mosgaard Here's my list:
- Csound@matthewconroy that’s one impressive list!
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@mosgaard My journey?
Thorn 4218 reel-to-reel with sound-on-sound
Ampex mono reel-to-reels (3)
Tascam four track reel-to-reel
Revox stereo reel-to-reels (2)
Ampex four track and two track reel-to-reels
MCI four track and Revox stereo reel-to-reels
Tascam Portastudio 246
N-Track Windows software
Reaper on Windows
Boss BR-1600 hard drive recorders (2)
Reaper on MacOS
Reaper on Linux@elsemusic you just need Reaper on FreeBSD and you have all the desktops
That’s an impressive list of hardware recorders. To be honest I also started on a cassette machine and later minidisc (line out from a mixer into the line in on the minidisc).
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@Morten Mosgaard Pro Tools. Cubase/Nuendo. Reaper. Wavelab. Pure(Plug)data.
@jrp are you using Plugdata for stage-performances/theatre?
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@mosgaard the journey started with recording emo songs using a conferencing mic and windows 98 sound recorder. upgraded to audacity shortly afterward. lots more between then and now!
@dried this was my first mic, as far as I remember: https://www.reddit.com/r/nostalgia/comments/pjwfhs/the_gateway_2000_pc_microphone/
Lot’s of mid frequencies and natural saturation
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@dried this was my first mic, as far as I remember: https://www.reddit.com/r/nostalgia/comments/pjwfhs/the_gateway_2000_pc_microphone/
Lot’s of mid frequencies and natural saturation
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My music recording tech journey goes something like this:
Two cassette players wired together,
TASCAM portastudio 414
`snd` on Debian
Audacity? I think? on Debian
definitely Audacity on Mint
Reaper on Mint
TASCAM DR24 + ReaperI still use the portastudio as an effects bus sometimes
Link to snd page appears to be dead. Wayback snapshot: https://web.archive.org/web/20251207101535/https://ccrma.stanford.edu/software/snd/snd/snd.html
@jvw that’s a whole lot of Linux! Nice!
Was that Tascam cassette?
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@mosgaard
Fostex 160
Fostex 160 & C-Lab Creator Atari
Atari Falcon 030 Soundpool AudioTracker & C-Lab Creator
Logic Audio Silver Windows
Mixbus/Ardour on Linux@musenhain uh! Atari, you don’t see a lot of that anymore.
Was that for recording or tracker/ish software?
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- Studio Session
- Music Mouse
- Max before it was Max/MSP
- Audacity
- PD
- Reaper
- Max/MSP
- Ableton Live
- Garage Band(and lots of simple handmade software)
@ranjit nice list! What’s the most used today?
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@ranjit nice list! What’s the most used today?
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@mosgaard
- My father's Akai DS4000 1/4" to record fake radio shows with my brother as a kid
- a 4 track mixer for video into stereo K7 deck to record my school grunge rock trio as a teenager
- a Fostex D108 digital 8 track DTD + Yamaha 01v mixer (Atari 1024ST + cubase to learn midi + Roland MC500 sequencer)
- Apple Mac G3 + Digital Performer and Motu 2408 audio interface
- Protools 5 / Otari Radar II / Protools 7-10
- Ableton Live for demo composing and recording
- Reaper (on Mac and Linux)@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?
