Post by popmann on Dec 16, 2016 14:12:19 GMT -6
I thought this would be a fun topic....so as not to derail the Reaper or Cubase or PT threads. Also to point out how NOT tribal I am about such things. Shit like tech is fluid. 
MasterTRaxPro 1989/90'ish to 91: Midi sequencer. Given to me (wait is that illegal?) by the OWNER OF A MUSIC STORE....to go with his selling me a MIDI interface for my toaster Mac. Drum machine was forever retired.
Performer 91-99/00'ish'ish: MIDI only again. Always smpte sync'd to analog tape, 4 trk cassette....then 8trk R2R....at the VERY end, to a Roland VS1680. Needed a new Mac to run and do the tap tempo relative to SMPTE I needed to do both at home and the studio I worked in at the time. It was the ONLY sequencer that could do that. Thus how popular it was with film composers.
CubaseVST5 2000'sih: When the Mac died, I was doing so little MIDI, and had a Windows Gigastudio machine, I figured I'd just use that for a while--but, buy cross platform so I could replace it with a Mac at some point. Great UI. Instable. Unuseable on the same machine as Giga--Steiny said it was the drivers' fault, so I bought an RME which didn't fix it....turns out? When they rebooted the nexxt year with a new audio engine? That problem magically went away on my original hardware. ehm....in the mean time I had to work, so:
Logic 5 (Gold if memory serves?)00-03: Most stable and full featured music creation environment on Windows. But, apple bought it. Discontinued windows support, so it started having issues with a new XP computer, and I just punted backwards:
DIGITAL Performer:2003-05'ish I went backwards....crossgrading to DP3 and running it on an elderly g3 I was gifted from my father's "retired macs" closet.
Midi only mode. But, now that meant I had THREE digital things in my studio: a 24 track recorder/mixer, a PC running Gigastudio and now VIs, and a Mac running DP3 for MIDI.
Cubase4 2005-10: So I consolidated. Cubase 4 had finally gotten to where I'd told them previously they should go--use Cubase's midi and Nuendo's audio engine....technically that happened with SX1, but I was in Logic land at that point....I hear it wasn't that stable fo a few versions. Like any all new code base. VSL allowed me to do an exchange of their Gigastudio strings to their then new VI versions....I retired all but one hardware MIDI module, I think. Still--this was only for MIDI/VIs. It was turned on for maybe 5-10% of a production time.
Cubase6 2010-current : they had finally gotten 64bit stable, so I could use Win7x64 and load up that massive 8 gb of RAM---and finally load the entire VSL chamber and solo strings live at once for doing string arranging. client work was starting to outpace the old hardware recorder's capabilities in both track count and sample rate....so, I began the transition to doing audio with it as well.
Briefly loaded Logic9 in like 2012 when I got the latest Macbook....because my Kronos has a single USB intergration, I thought I'd try doing the demo process with that duo. I quickly found Cubase 6 ran better and Apple had completely changed Logic from what I was used to....decided I was just in camp Cubase now for better or worse. But, GaragebandX/LPX might change that. that "follow" feature on the drummer is sublime....depending on some edit/export/transformation factors that of course would only be available in Logic. Ha.
MasterTRaxPro 1989/90'ish to 91: Midi sequencer. Given to me (wait is that illegal?) by the OWNER OF A MUSIC STORE....to go with his selling me a MIDI interface for my toaster Mac. Drum machine was forever retired.
Performer 91-99/00'ish'ish: MIDI only again. Always smpte sync'd to analog tape, 4 trk cassette....then 8trk R2R....at the VERY end, to a Roland VS1680. Needed a new Mac to run and do the tap tempo relative to SMPTE I needed to do both at home and the studio I worked in at the time. It was the ONLY sequencer that could do that. Thus how popular it was with film composers.
CubaseVST5 2000'sih: When the Mac died, I was doing so little MIDI, and had a Windows Gigastudio machine, I figured I'd just use that for a while--but, buy cross platform so I could replace it with a Mac at some point. Great UI. Instable. Unuseable on the same machine as Giga--Steiny said it was the drivers' fault, so I bought an RME which didn't fix it....turns out? When they rebooted the nexxt year with a new audio engine? That problem magically went away on my original hardware. ehm....in the mean time I had to work, so:
Logic 5 (Gold if memory serves?)00-03: Most stable and full featured music creation environment on Windows. But, apple bought it. Discontinued windows support, so it started having issues with a new XP computer, and I just punted backwards:
DIGITAL Performer:2003-05'ish I went backwards....crossgrading to DP3 and running it on an elderly g3 I was gifted from my father's "retired macs" closet.
Midi only mode. But, now that meant I had THREE digital things in my studio: a 24 track recorder/mixer, a PC running Gigastudio and now VIs, and a Mac running DP3 for MIDI. Cubase4 2005-10: So I consolidated. Cubase 4 had finally gotten to where I'd told them previously they should go--use Cubase's midi and Nuendo's audio engine....technically that happened with SX1, but I was in Logic land at that point....I hear it wasn't that stable fo a few versions. Like any all new code base. VSL allowed me to do an exchange of their Gigastudio strings to their then new VI versions....I retired all but one hardware MIDI module, I think. Still--this was only for MIDI/VIs. It was turned on for maybe 5-10% of a production time.
Cubase6 2010-current : they had finally gotten 64bit stable, so I could use Win7x64 and load up that massive 8 gb of RAM---and finally load the entire VSL chamber and solo strings live at once for doing string arranging. client work was starting to outpace the old hardware recorder's capabilities in both track count and sample rate....so, I began the transition to doing audio with it as well.
Briefly loaded Logic9 in like 2012 when I got the latest Macbook....because my Kronos has a single USB intergration, I thought I'd try doing the demo process with that duo. I quickly found Cubase 6 ran better and Apple had completely changed Logic from what I was used to....decided I was just in camp Cubase now for better or worse. But, GaragebandX/LPX might change that. that "follow" feature on the drummer is sublime....depending on some edit/export/transformation factors that of course would only be available in Logic. Ha.
