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JWM - Scarlet (Demo of The Very First Track I Ever Produced back in 2002)
So, back in 2002, I received a Windows/DOS version of MTV Music Generator 2000 (which was originally a PS1 title). Needless to say I produce many tracks in that, both covers and originals, most of them cringy rubbish. "Scarlet", despite being the first EDM track I ever created, was one of the sparkling gems in a pile of sonic rubble.
Above is a quick comparison. You can hear the dodgy "quality" of the 2002 original. The remake was created in Nanostudio 2 and will feature on "A 2024 Summertime Album", which will tentatively be released on 31 August. Five tracks done for the album thus far. Five more to go!
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Very cool! You have come a really long way. The difference is like night and day. I love to stroll down memory lane. I started with a DOS program called Texture. Everything was done with keyboard commands, Ctrl-this, Alt-that, etc. I didn’t know anything else, so it was quite good for 1993. I had a Korg 01/W which was state-of-the-art at the time. It had a whole 8 tracks of MIDI and I used them all. You might have already heard this, but it was one of my first “computer” tracks. I created it one note at a time, and I think it took about a week. I recorded it in one pass to a really good metal cassette recorder that I borrowed from a friend. This was before you could easily burn your own CDs at home. I have since converted it to WAV and moved it to my iPad, and processed it with MagicDeathEye, DDMF, and a few other things to improve the sound, but the performance is the same as the day I did it.
Best of luck with your latest project. Keep us posted. Looking forward to hearing it. Peace out!
That is sick! I love it.
I'd say you've came a long way too, but despite that being one of your first pieces, it already sounds a lot more professional than my dodgy first productions, lol. An enjoyable listen at any rate. 
Right, "Scarlet" was a diamond in the rough. So many of the early pieces I made were covers that had rubbish whingy singing on them (this was before I could actually sing, which was before the current situation where I lost my singing voice due to lack of practice lol), or me shouting the song titles like some 90s Eurodance cheese, and even worse - cringy lyrics and lyrical themes. I wouldn't dare share 90% of what I made back in those days here, because it's just utterly abysmal and embarrassing.
Dodgy production "quality" is absolutely the least embarrassing thing from those days, and actually isn't embarassing in the least since when I do find a "diamond in the rough" I'd like to remake, I can show a snippet of the original version and a snippet of the remake and say, "See, world, this is how far I've come, and I can only continue to grow from here!"
This has me curious as to others' stories of their humble beginnings with computer-based music creation, or at least how they got into creating music with computers/iPhones/iPods/iPads, etc. Let's see some more origin stories and audio examples posted here.
That's a great idea - hearing how others got started, and listening to some old tracks. I have a few more, but would really like to hear from other members. It could be a great long-term thread in itself.
This is so cool. I wish I still had the earliest recordings I made (although they would be on audio cassette).
I think so too.
Normally when I create a thread in "Creations", my aim is to see what people think about the track. In the case of this thread, my aim is to see what others' origin stories RE Computer Music/iOS Music are.
So how did you get into computer music mate?
Well I worked in a recording studio part-time as an engineer around 1984-85, and just worked with analog stuff for some years. I worked in theaters or on tour as a sound guy or stage manager in the late 80s/early 90s, and worked on recording backing tracks and sound effects while I did that, sometimes in various studios with not so great equipment that required a lot of work to get into shape.
When a friend bought an expensive sound card (for gaming) in the mid 90s, he and I started recording a bunch of stuff, and it went on from there. As I had a good grasp of all the underlying principles it was a pretty easy transition.
That's pretty fascinating.
Sometimes I'm envious of those who started off in the 80s with an Atari PC and 90s with a hardware set up. But then again, my wallet is thankful I started with 100% software.
MTV Music Generator 2000 came easy to me, intuitively. When I searched for a new DAW for my PC back in 2003, FL Studio was the closest to MTV Music Generator (in that it used to use "lego blocks").
MTV Music Generator 2000
FL Studio 3.xx
No other DAW on PC was as close to my workflow back then as was FL Studio, lol. (Of course FL Studio no longer looks or functions like that.)
What got me interested in iOS was I finally bought my first iPod Touch in 2011 to beta test FLSM 2.xx (this was back when FLSM was based on the Xewton Music Studio software architecture). And of course I wanted to play Angry Birds as that was all the rage back in those days. 😂 I liked playing around with the various apps. When Korg released Gadget, that instantly became my "go to" app on my iPad Air 2. Then NS2 was released in (I think it was) late 2018, and the rest was history.
What an amazing journey - it was a great start and now professional grade jams are pumped out weekly. Good for u bro. U should be proud
Thank you so much mate.
How about you? What got you into computer music/iOS production?
Yes, a big difference, indeed, Jim. Here’s my first track (as posted on this forum six yrs ago. lol, can you believe it, it was ambient! I didn’t even know how to upload a picture. I think it was made in Gadget, which I tried first, then Xequence (imagine that!). Then @CracklePot clued me into Cubasis. Thinking about it, this was probably made in Cubasis using iM1.
I was shocked at my initial restraint. I think it was cause the sounds were just so gorgeous to my newbie iOS ears. Maybe it’s time to return there and wrap up the jazz bs. 😉🙃🙏
That was actually a pretty nice piece of Ambient, not gonna lie. I myself don't produce Ambient anymore like I did two years ago, but I do still love listening to Ambient once in a while, mostly for meditation purposes. That piece was very meditative.
CracklePot is an OG for turning you onto Cubasis. I love the Jazz you create in CB3. Would be cool to see you take a sharp turn down Ambient lane for a short distance, but don't give up the Jazz.
For me, the only thing that would get me back into producing Ambient is Rymdigare. Now there's a strange and wonderful plugin. I never truly learned exactly what Rymdigare does or how it does it (too sciency), but I just kind of took to the UI naturally and loved tweaking Rymdigare live in AUM.
Anyways, thank you for sharing your story.
Wow brings me back to my raving days. Reminds me of stuff I was making back in 99-2000. My buddy Christopher and I were living in SF and we would go to the bars and just talk about music production for hours. Next thing you know it was 2am and we didn’t even talk to any girls! Blame it on the music.