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Glad to have you here @Mandrakonian. Hopefully the rest of your life will help balance your earlier years with good memories.
I second that Mandrakonian. I wish you well.
Boy, this thread makes me recapitulate some years now. In the eighties I used to play bass and sing in a band, in the nineties I started with a Fostex 4-track (1200,- deutschmarks then!!!, later an uher 8-track, around 2000 got rid of almost all my hardware and bought into digital recording (Logic in the then available small version, Reason and Live). All that time spending less and less time actually playing with my Instruments, and bit by bit loosing interest in musicmaking (no more friends to call in for a session -everybody was starting families). Got sparked by the whole IPad thing, started different improvising Projects, and up to today still can hardly believe all these possibilities are actually really there, especially for these prices! Just got the spectacular TC -11, and about to get virsyns cube now (used to play around with the demo version of the plugin back in the day).
Also the nice friendly atmosphere on these pages keeps me amazed, thanks everybody for polite sympathetic comments help stories, makes me feel home.
Haha...great thread... really revealing... I'm 40 and it's good to see the more "mature" crowd getting down with their iPads.
@SecretBaseDesign - I remember Castle Wolfenstein....and cassette storage. I need to show that vid to my kids!
Some great stories here. Mine? I come from Sierra Leone and I've been living in England for the last twenty five years, half of my life. Civil war made my family flee from Sierra Leone and most of them are now living in the US in Indiana, Virginia and Detroit. I was in the US on holiday in June and I had a great time travelling to all the above states. Went to Chicago, Ohio and. Washington as well. Awesome country. I was at the famous SweetWater music store in Indiana and what a funking amazing complex that is. Been playing guitar for more than half of my life, was a guitar teacher in London and living in the West has made my guitar playing very expansive. I dig everything from rock, funk, jazz, electronic to dance music and everything in between.
Music is a language as we all know. Just learn the grammar and you are ready for self expression. I have an album out on digital music carriers like iTunes and Amazon and it is titled The World As One. I used iPad synths like ThumbJam and Sunrizer on the album; very eclectic tracks. Here is the link for one of my tracks on YouTube titled The Cotton Tree Song -
Although I love my guitars, I also love my iPad as it an instrument. At the time of the iPhone's emergence I thought a bigger iPhone would be cool for musicians and so the iPad was a no brainer and I was a day one owner in the UK. Got up at about 4am on the day the iPad was released in London and I got to the Regents Street store at about 7am and there were 297 people in the queue lol. Men and women of all ages and colour with happy faces just like we have on this forum. The reason for the coolness of this forum has now been revealed. The Wisdom Of Life.
Very good and relaxing tune @FrankieJay.
I like the positive atmosphere, which is like in this forum with all the great people here.
So very different people yet we all have something in common, the love of music.
@Shay thanks, very much appreciated.
I think I'm getting a mite maudlin here.
If you're over 55 you may like me remember experiencing that brief decade or so between the Pill and the end of incurable STDs, and HIV. That peaked in the 70's.
It marked for me the start of my love affair with playing improv and New Agey kinds of music instead of crystalline classical, building up a recording studio, meeting and jamming with other musicians, and living in Topanga Canyon under the watchful eye of the Watch Tower and just down the hill from the Center for Human Potential Development and its Encounter Groups. So I mean this, seriously:
Group Hug, folks! :-))
I'm 55, first synth back in the 70's was a Roland SH5 which I was very proud of, first seq was Dr T KCS on the Amiga (I wrote a couple of early computer games too!). Things have come on so much it is unbelievable - still enjoying making music, and the iPad has really kickstarted that again.
I keep seeing the Amiga pop up in these replies, which is interesting because somewhat like the iPad it was also a liberating device for its day, opening up a lot of creative possibilities for artists, animators, videographers and of course musicians. It's also where I got my start as a programmer (aside from some dabbling on the Apple //e). Of course it didn't hurt that it had a load of great games too (which I also enjoy about the iPad).
I think the iPad has been the first device to give me back the feeling I used to get from the Amiga... I moved to Windows PCs afterward but they never held that same sense of wonder and possibility for me.
Commodore did a great thing with Vic->C64/128->Amiga, making each new device a large step a head of its predecessor. Then they crashed. Now they are only a good vague memory.
On a positive tone, I hope Apple will be wiser, make the right turns, last longer and stay on top.
I wish you all a happy music making.
Loved the Amiga. Wish Commodore did a better job in marketing it, but I imagine the programmers went to all corners from there.
I'm 31. I feel young here.
@synthandson: thank you, of course, you're right. It's too much emotional involvement mixed with fast writing, that makes me create strange misleading words, I guess..., hehe
My first synth was a Roland sh101 in 1986. Rocked it with my Casio mt-100 like I was Nick Rhodes. Then I got a Juno-106, tr-77 and Roland HS-60.
Really wanted an Amiga but couldn't afford one. I got a Yamaha QX-1 sequencer to tie it all together. Hello Depeche Mode.
Eventually I got whatever it was that was before a 286 (xt?) and ran Voyetra DOS on it. Got more gear. Rinse, repeat.
+1: happy birthday to @syrupcore and @JMSexton
@syrupcore
On a totally random tangent since you mentioned Depeche Mode, I stumbled across this track the other day. This guy has captured a bit of the band's earlier sound (I like it better than anything they've done themselves recently anyway).
@syrupcore - don't know the QX1 but my QX5 was my goto sequencer, synced to a timestripe on track 8 of a Tascam T388. It is still my reference for how a sequencer should just work, with a super simple UI and tape paradigm. Indeed I still have both. Don't use tape any more but I frequently think about hooking them up again (I have 2 QX5's). Only stopped by lack of a decent bulk dump librarian for it - my XT system is no more.
But I might break it out just to see how the iOS sequences fare working with it. Reason had no problem capturing two piano performances from them.
53 here.
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36 years young here
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I'm 28 myself. Never played any instrument, did a little bit of music theory in 4th grade that I forgot a long time ago.
As I was growing up, my cousin was playing drums in a band and had a big music collection that I also got to enjoy. Afterwards I survived on MTV and radio until the Audiogalaxy days because I couldn't afford to buy any music as a kid. At the beginning of the year 2000 I started listening to a lot of electronica, especially house and trance music including ambient, psy/goa.
My first attempt at actually doing something creative with music came and went two years ago, when I was looking at some NI controllers and thinking of doing a little DJ'ing. I figured that if I could do it at friend's parties with mp3s and a few plugins, why not go to the next level. I couldn't justify the 400+ euros in costs for what would be only a hobby though. And reading about the experiences of others was a bit demotivating...
I got my iPad mini at the beginning of this year to read books and to learn more about iOS development. A while ago there was an AppStore anniversary and TraktorDJ was free for a few days. I downloaded it and then got bitten by the iOS music bug, started learning music theory (that's going slow), reading about synths, sequencers, MIDI, the works. I love it!
Reading all the posts here it's very interesting! And good to know that i still belong to the young people
. Interesting group age and seems also mainly male. 
. It's also one of the forums where the most music app developers come together and one of the few troll free so far.
But the forum is really great (and my only social contact in the universe beside my work
My first synth was the Yamaha SY33. It had two speakers, midi and you could aux in your audio so it was also my first monitoring set up
Since my first instrument is the guitar I always yearned for controlling synth sounds so I ended up with a Roland MIDI synth player with a GK2 setup which enabled me to layer guitar and synths in the studio as well as playing live. I now have a Roland VG99 which is absolutely awesome linked to a Line 6 Variax. My pride and joy. My first computer was the Atari and it was the first home computer with MIDI. I think it was the Atari 1040ST. I ran Cubase Pro 12 on it and that was a big improvement over 4 track studios. Yes back in the day. What fun.............
Now we have Cubasis on iPad with the all singing and dancing features which you can take anywhere with you. When Cubase Pro 24 arrived, the music industry was revolutionised. More fun..........
58 here.Yeah I think I owned every Amiga that came out.I remember Music Mouse and M. Cool programs.I even still have a Videotoasternt with Lightwave.Amazing stuff.I remember building my first synthesizer(a PAIA). And then getting a Minimoog and later an ARP2600 and then various synths all through my years.Now I'm happy to have all these great IOS apps on my IPad and IPod touch5.i wonder what it will be like 20 years from now!
Nice to see the Amiga love here
Amiga 500 beat everything in its day !
This thread has been a real eye opener.
im sure the devs had no idea that a bunch of oldies were down with their apps.
if you think about it tho,should be no surprise,as we know what went before and therefore know what we have now....to appreciate the digital realm,(be that sound or image),an understanding,experience and knowledge of the old school,is handy to have.
The whole ios midi issue is making more sense now.who better to sought it out then us...
As I was playing around with Cube Synth it reminded me of something someone pointed out recently... The save icon in the app is a floppy disk, but a younger person these days might have never seen an actual floppy in their life. Most likely they simply know the image as the international symbol for 'save', without understanding its relevance.
I would imagine its the same thing with all these synths and sequencers, we have built up a sort of visual and conceptual vocabulary based on all the legacy stuff we used to use, and might not consider how foriegn it could be to someone just starting out.
It's funny how relatively small passages of time can make such a difference. My wife is only 6 years younger than I, but that is enough gap that I was truly surprised the other day when she mentioned that she's never handled vinyl or even used a record player...