I have been producing music for about 15 years way back in the day i owned an Atari ST and a technics keyboard. I had an idea that i wanted to write a song around an old doug lazy acapella that i had. So set to work - its so much easir these days with the likes of Ableton. I wrote a song using a primative sequencer set the tempo of the sequencer to the acapella track by trial and error - now bare in mind the acapella was being played in from a fidelity record player (showing may age now) with no pitch control. So to record it all down i started the sequencer and droped the acapella over the top the tempos didnt quite match so i had to place my finger on the platter to slow it down whilst it was recorded on a 4 track cassette on my Amstrad studio 100.
I have been producing music for about 15 years way backin the day i owned an Atari ST and a technics keyboard. I had an idea that i wanted to write a song around an old doug lazy acapella that i had. So set to work - its so much easir these days with the likes of Ableton. I wrote a song using a primative sequencer set the tempo of the sequencer to the acapella track by trial and error - now bare in mind the acapella was being played in from a fidelity record player (showing may age now) with no pitch control. So to record it all down i started the sequencer and droped the acapella over the top the temposdidnt quite match so i had to place my finger on the platter to slow it down whilst it was recorded on a4 track cassette on my Amstrad studio 100.
Howtimes have changed.LOL!!!:)[/quote]
My dad has an ST. Remember watching his recording his guitar into it when I was a kid That thing is more like an antique now compared with Logic and Ableton
I heard the prodigy’s first album was made on an ST! Still sounds good today imo
i think Prodigy used Roland W30s on their early stuff.
The first dance tunes i made where on a prog called TCB tracker on the ST. I didnt move to cubase until version 1.2 on the PC midi only wasnt till v.3 they had any audio.
Don’t get me started, I bored everyone in the office with my tales of the old days. I upgraded my ST from half a meg to 1 meg for £200. Allowed me to move from Pro 12 - 12 tracks of MIDI and you had to re-programme every bar - to cuabse. First sampler cost nearly £1000 and could sample 19 secs in mono…ah the good old days.
so lucky that i learned to produce in Cubase . well seems that back in the days it was harder to make Music . no wonder everyone used to see EDM Producers like magical beings that created awesome music !!!
hahaha you lot sound like some of my older friends.
the tracks were a lot simpler too (most of them) and some great tracks from back then if you uploaded to sound cloud the only comment you would get these days is wtf. i’ve got a track on vinyl which is just a 303 over a kick drum for 8 minuets with a snare roll in the middle somewhere and all the guys does is tweak the cutoff of the 303 up and down.
quite a few of the vinyl tracks now when you listen back over the are pretty rough. vocals not in key, sometimes not in time, loops that feel out of loop over 32 bars and suddenly snap back in. most of the music was only great because people had never heard it before. these days a modern producer has got to really pull out the big guns to get noticed or sell records.
all we need to finish off this thread is simon parkes. is he a member of this forum ? now simon can really write a story about the old days producing for tony de vit with His studio that cost me a gazillion pounds not like the cheaper and more accessible studios of today and how …yawn yawn “oh is it that late? time to take you medication again! and off to bed for you” great bloke though.
[quote]phil johnston (13/08/2010)[hr]i think Prodigy used Roland W30s on their early stuff.
The first dance tunes i made where on a prog called TCB tracker on the ST. I didnt move to cubase until version 1.2 on the PC midi only wasnt till v.3 they had any audio.
Ah them where the days.[/quote]
I had a Roland W30, well my mate bought one then lost interest in music and it sat at mine for something like 10 years, I loved the thing.
Was the saddest day of my life when he asked for it back so he could sell it, I actually stopped making music for about 10 years after that and just stuck to dj’ing and mixtapes/cd’s
[quote]phil johnston (13/08/2010)[hr]i think Prodigy used Roland W30s on their early stuff.
The first dance tunes i made where on a prog called TCB tracker on the ST. I didnt move to cubase until version 1.2 on the PC midi only wasnt till v.3 they had any audio.
Ah them where the days.[/quote]
Yeah your right W30!
Had a look in the Attic last night, found a very dust ST and Notator
Dunno if it still works but might have to check it out after the weekend
