What was your first ever DAW?
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Reason was my first daw!
Minnetonka MXTrax. that shit was the bomb back in the day. I think it might’ve been one of the first DAWs with customizable channel strips.
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GarageBand.
MasterTracks Pro from Passport Designs running on a little Mac SE30... way way long ago
wreaking havoc with since 2.5
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Opcode Vision, then Studio Vision Pro. Until Gibson bought-and-killed it in 1998. Yes, I still hold a grudge.
protools
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Whatever version of Cakewalk was out in 1997. It was the only DAW I could find at CompUSA at the time. I miss the music notation features in the piano roll. On a side note, I just read that Calkwalk was bought from Gibson and is now available for free by Bandlab.
It was Soundmonitor on a C64 https://csdb.dk/release/?id=59929
Steinberg 24. Cracked version for the Atari ST... As it crashed quite often I saved up for C-Lab's (Emagic's predecessor) Creator... Those of course were actually only sequencers... My first foray into audio integration was with Steinberg's Cubase VST and Reason.
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Pro 24 II on the Atari 1040 ST & SM124 Monitor
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ACID 2.0 which came bundled with a sound card.
Reason User Since Version 1.0
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Reason Sound Design & Content Creation
Sound Dimension https://www.sounddimension.io
ReFiils: Ambientia Cinematic Soundscapes | String Theory (Friktion) | Algoritmo (Algoritm)
Protracker on the Amiga, for about 5 years.
Some clever bloke created a perfect clone of PT v2.3d for modern computers. It's really strange to not only hear, but also see all of the old songs play back perfectly like 30 year old time capsules. https://16-bits.org/pt.php
Some clever bloke created a perfect clone of PT v2.3d for modern computers. It's really strange to not only hear, but also see all of the old songs play back perfectly like 30 year old time capsules. https://16-bits.org/pt.php
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ProTracker on the Atari STe, if that counts as a DAW. I remember it operated at 50khz, which is kind of mind-boggling in retrospect.
I used to combine it with a sample editor called StereoMaster, which included a cartridge with a 3.5mm input - so I'd record stuff using a little cassette recorder and transfer it across using that. This led to me writing a tune when I was about 12 or so for an English assignment in which we had to give a talk about our pets - I knew my talk was going to suck, so I was hoping that writing a tune featuring my cat meowing would be enough of a distraction to get a decent grade. It totally worked
I used to combine it with a sample editor called StereoMaster, which included a cartridge with a 3.5mm input - so I'd record stuff using a little cassette recorder and transfer it across using that. This led to me writing a tune when I was about 12 or so for an English assignment in which we had to give a talk about our pets - I knew my talk was going to suck, so I was hoping that writing a tune featuring my cat meowing would be enough of a distraction to get a decent grade. It totally worked
Awesome thread, I really enjoy reading these posts and seeing all those names
If we want to go technical then my first DAW (or I suppose it was more like a sequencer) was on a C64. I have no idea how it was called, I do know it was provided by an electronic magazine I used to follow back then called Magic Disc 64, a magazine made in Germany. The only problem: I had no idea how it worked, I was also pretty clueless about digital audio back then so... I don't think this counts. I do recall that it had a demo song which was the intro music of Airwolf (an action series back then).
I got my first real DAW around 10 years ago: Ableton Live 8 suite. One or two days later I grabbed Reason 4 (even though my license allowed me to use 5) and I've been working with that combination for years. Later I upgraded my setup to Live 9 and Reason 6 (I loved Reason 6) and this year I upgraded again to the "10 versions": now I use both Live 10 (suite) and Reason 10.
I'm very happy to say that Reason has been a major part of my setup ever since I started.
If we want to go technical then my first DAW (or I suppose it was more like a sequencer) was on a C64. I have no idea how it was called, I do know it was provided by an electronic magazine I used to follow back then called Magic Disc 64, a magazine made in Germany. The only problem: I had no idea how it worked, I was also pretty clueless about digital audio back then so... I don't think this counts. I do recall that it had a demo song which was the intro music of Airwolf (an action series back then).
I got my first real DAW around 10 years ago: Ableton Live 8 suite. One or two days later I grabbed Reason 4 (even though my license allowed me to use 5) and I've been working with that combination for years. Later I upgraded my setup to Live 9 and Reason 6 (I loved Reason 6) and this year I upgraded again to the "10 versions": now I use both Live 10 (suite) and Reason 10.
I'm very happy to say that Reason has been a major part of my setup ever since I started.
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There were no DAWs when I first started (we were just basing sticks together back then), but my first sequencer experience was with Fairlight CMI (1984) and a buttload of the coolest synths of the day (my first full time studio job). Then I got a Mac at home (late 1985) and a then Total Music (later MIDIPaint) MIDI sequencer. My first proper DAW was the first version of Pro Tools, in 1991 which allowed integration with Studio Vision. I too am still pissed at Gibson for killing it, but in a way it's why I had to look for another solution (since Pro Tools was not inspiring as a music creation DAW). That solution was Reason 2.0 in 2003, never looked back!
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To be clear, I didn't "move" to Reason from PT. After Studio Vision Pro became "unsupported" I started looking for a pure software based solution, as Studio Vision used PT hardware and Sample Cell PCI sampler. Shorly after, I needed a new computer, and my existing hardware didn't work with the new model (PCI card changes) and it was cheaper to update just the Pro Tools stuff and find a replacement for Studio Vision. Enter Reason.
So technically speaking, I moved to Reason when Studio Vision was no longer viable, and still use Pro Tools as I always have used it!
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