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John Rohde Jensen Feb 19

@mosgaard Logic to Reaper. But still use logic for a few things.

Lars G. Gudbrandsen Feb 19

@mosgaard Something like FastTracker 2 -> Jeskola Buzz -> FL Studo -> (long break, nealy 10 yrs) -> hardware/DAW-less -> hybrid hw/eurorack + Tracktion Waveform + digital mix and FX.

@lagu totally forgot everything about Fasttracker! I actually think that was my first music software, but it was in an after school club I used it.

How is Tracktion?

Lars G. Gudbrandsen Feb 20

@mosgaard I think it's awesome. I used UAD Luna for a bit, and while it was a very nice GUI and workflow, it was very unstable on macOS. Waveform 13 is super solid, very fast and also works very well on linux. ❤️

Morten Zøllner Wendelboe 🟢🟣Feb 19

None.

But I find it sad/problematic that Spotify is flooded with AI-music. In some cases an artist perhaps mainly use AI to “record” the song, but I am pretty sure an increasing amount of songs are now fully AI composed and generated.

#AIMusic

Matthew Conroy Feb 19

@mosgaard Here's my list:
- Csound

@matthewconroy that’s one impressive list!

thaell Feb 19

@mosgaard I think it went :

Fl studio (cracked I'll admit)
Ableton
Cubase
Reaper

I did try Ardour and lmms at the same time as reaper but ended up choosing the latter

John Morahan Feb 19

Audacity
Jazz++
Rosegarden
Ardour

*_jߍyrope Feb 19

@Morten Mosgaard Pro Tools. Cubase/Nuendo. Reaper. Wavelab. Pure(Plug)data.

@jrp are you using Plugdata for stage-performances/theatre?

dried Feb 19

@mosgaard the journey started with recording emo songs using a conferencing mic and windows 98 sound recorder. upgraded to audacity shortly afterward. lots more between then and now!

@dried this was my first mic, as far as I remember: https://www.reddit.com/r/nostalgia/comments/pjwfhs/the_gateway_2000_pc_microphone/

Lot’s of mid frequencies and natural saturation 😂

dried Feb 19

@mosgaard That is pretty much the same one I was remembering! Awesome.

@dried I remember making a beat in Fruity Loops and then recording this whole jam with me sticking the mic on to the speaker to create feedback.

It was really reliant when it came to feedback 😂

Jen 🏳️‍⚧️Feb 19

#MusicProduction #LinuxAudio

My music recording tech journey goes something like this:

Two cassette players wired together,
TASCAM portastudio 414
`snd` on Debian
Audacity? I think? on Debian
definitely Audacity on Mint
Reaper on Mint
TASCAM DR24 + Reaper

I still use the portastudio as an effects bus sometimes

Link to snd page appears to be dead. Wayback snapshot: https://web.archive.org/web/20251207101535/https://ccrma.stanford.edu/software/snd/snd/snd.html

Snd

@jvw that’s a whole lot of Linux! Nice!

Was that Tascam cassette?

Andreas Kilgus Feb 19

@mosgaard
Fostex 160
Fostex 160 & C-Lab Creator Atari
Atari Falcon 030 Soundpool AudioTracker & C-Lab Creator
Logic Audio Silver Windows
Mixbus/Ardour on Linux

@musenhain uh! Atari, you don’t see a lot of that anymore.

Was that for recording or tracker/ish software?

Andreas Kilgus Feb 19

@mosgaard Well, it was the first half of the 90s. 🙂

An Atari ST did the sequencing for my hardware synths (mainly a Korg Trinity and some 19"-synths I am not sure of which ones I owned at the time). The Falcon served as 8-track audio recording system: atari.soundpool.de/at_ie.htm (used for voice, guitar, field recording elements, already mixed down sequencer master track).

SoundPool AudioTracker Software

@musenhain ah, of course!

Andreas Kilgus Feb 20

@mosgaard Having thought about it again: The Ataris remained in use - as far as music was the topic - for the complete 90s. The switch to Logic Audio did not occur before the arrival of the current century.

ranjit Feb 19

- Studio Session
- Music Mouse
- Max before it was Max/MSP
- Audacity
- PD
- Reaper
- Max/MSP
- Ableton Live
- Garage Band

(and lots of simple handmade software)

@ranjit nice list! What’s the most used today?

ranjit Feb 19

@mosgaard Garage Band, oddly! I like it enough that I might buy its big brother Logic.

@ranjit I was a really happy Logic user for years, but totally forgot it until I started working with a local “several million plays” LoFi producer, who knew all the tips and tricks. Really great DAW still.

Nicolas Baillard Feb 19

@mosgaard
- My father's Akai DS4000 1/4" to record fake radio shows with my brother as a kid
- a 4 track mixer for video into stereo K7 deck to record my school grunge rock trio as a teenager
- a Fostex D108 digital 8 track DTD + Yamaha 01v mixer (Atari 1024ST + cubase to learn midi + Roland MC500 sequencer)
- Apple Mac G3 + Digital Performer and Motu 2408 audio interface
- Protools 5 / Otari Radar II / Protools 7-10
- Ableton Live for demo composing and recording
- Reaper (on Mac and Linux)

@NicolasBaillard love the fake radio shows idea! Reminds me I had this Ghettoblaster I recorded these extremely weird mixtapes on, where I would record 10-20 seconds of a song make small break and the record 10-20 seconds of a new song and so forth. To this day I’m still impressed at how random it all was, I wasn’t going for chorus or a fixed set of bars, I was just going for start/stop, timing would be totally non existent.

Perhaps the first sign of my later love for free jazz?

Scott McDowell Feb 20

@mosgaard This is fun!
- Reason 1.0
- Digital Performer
- Emagic Logic Gold
- Pro Tools
- Various 24 track and 16 track tape machines from Ampex, Studer, MCI, & Otari

I’ve never stopped using Reason or Pro Tools and I don’t bother trying to talk clients out of recording to tape: if they’re serious about it, I’m a solid choice and I’m rarely the cause of sessions taking longer than the artist has budgeted).

@fadersolo It have to be joy working a place, where the tape machines are kept running like that.

Is Pro Tools the usual digital recording solution at your place?

Scott McDowell Feb 20

@mosgaard Yeah, all the large format studios I’ve encountered in both northern and Southern California are always built around Pro Tools. Many have HDX cards, like my spot, which really levels Pro Tools up a notch.

Reilly Spitzfaden (they/them)Feb 20

@mosgaard for me it went:
- Audacity
- Logic Pro
- Audition (in an undergrad music tech course, just for a bit)
- Max/MSP
- Pure Data
- REAPER

All of these except for Audition I still use regularly

@reillypascal what a diverse list! Do you only use Max/MSP stand alone?

I actually still use Audacity to rename meta-data in Wav files sometimes :)

Reilly Spitzfaden (they/them)Feb 20

@mosgaard since M4L only works in Ableton, I use it stand-alone. I do have RNBO, so I'll play with that, and I sometimes use Plugdata, which lets you use Pd as a plugin

@reillypascal sounds great! I haven't used Max myself, but I have friends who have been using it alot.

I meet a audio technician recently, who thought it was easier to track in Max than using a DAW :D

shoshin Feb 20

@reillypascal @mosgaard

- Reason
- ProTools
- Max/MSP

(learned about gnu/linux)

I started running the PureDyne AV distro which included things like:

- Puredata
- Audacity
- SooperLooper
- kluppe
- Ardour
- Jack & Jack Timemachine
- Rosegarden

it was probably too much and i mostly experimented.

lately i use the Synthstrom Deluge, which runs on free software

on the computer, the excellent SurgeXT synth and Carla as a plugin host

kingdom krumb Feb 20

@mosgaard
Cubase
Cubase w/Reason
ProTools w/Reason
just Reason

(I still like Reason!)

@kingdomkrumb that's great! I tried Reason a couple of times, but never really got into the workflow. But have been using the plugin-version ever since, to get access to mostly the samplers.

What kind of music do you produce with it?

kingdom krumb Feb 21

@mosgaard Most of my stuff is sorta like bedroom pop. Traditional pop song structures with a mix of acoustic instruments plus synths and drums. I also use it to add to arrangements of rock recordings. I've just always found Reason to be a very creative tool. Comes with a great selection of instruments, synths and effects. And it's a completely stand-alone DAW now.

Morten Mosgaard Feb 21

@kingdomkrumb love the instruments and effects too, that's also why I have used the plugin version.

I had a really hard time adapting to the workflow, but I could easily imagine, that if you learn the workflow from ground up, it can be a really strong tool.

JWcph, Radicalized By Decency Feb 20

@mosgaard
- Band In A Box
- Garageband
- Garageband
- Garageband (I picked it back up a few times 😁)
- n-Track Studio (test)
- MTP Beats (test)
- Ardour
- Reaper

PaulNickson 🕊️🎛️🎼Feb 20

@mosgaard Cubase (Atari STe then TT030); Logic; Pro Tools; Reaper (a bit); now giving Ardour v.9 a go. All on Macs various.

@PaulNickson they have really done a great work with the Ardour v.9 update, I have it installed too.

PaulNickson 🕊️🎛️🎼Feb 20

@mosgaard They really have. I tried v 8.12 and had to give up on it due to screen redraw issues (Mac) and Inst. plugins muting the wrong way when muted/soloed (The Inst.’s MIDI was muted instead of the audio output from the plugin - that took me a while to convince them!) v 9 is so much better.

Other DAWs I’ve used but only just remembered: SADiE and Pyramix.

Bitstreem Feb 20

@mosgaard Oh my... Something like this, if I recall correctly:

* Amiga 500:
- NoiseTracker
- OctaMed
- Bars and Pipes (sidequest)

* Atari Falcon:
- Digital Tracker (had like 16 tracks on that thing)
- Sweet Sixteen (sidequest, MIDI sequencer)

* Windows:
- FastTracker 2
- Emagic Logic (purchased in 1998) up until Apple bought it

* Mac:
- Apple Logic/Logic Pro up until version 10 (on a Hackintosh the last few years)
- Bitwig

* Linux:
- Bitwig
- Ardour (current sidequest)

David McMullin Feb 20

A pretty short list for me:

Finale (tried and didn’t like it)
Samplitude
Sibelius
Reaper

There was something before Finale too, an early Mac notation program that wasn’t very good. I stuck with pen and paper for a very long time, because I liked calligraphy, and notation software at first wasn’t really faster—except for extracting parts. That’s what made me switch finally. Samplitude/Reaper were mainly just for editing concert recordings.

David McMullin Feb 20

@mosgaard
I did take a course in grad school where we used a Unix system and dabbled in Csound and I forget what else.

sb arms & legs Feb 20

@mosgaard
Wavelab was my jam back when I was recording and editing VO (voice over) all day.

I walked away from an expensive #Sonar license to use #reaper full-time about 15 years ago. Never looked back.

Fugue State Audio Feb 20

Voyetra Digital Orchestrator Plus
Cakewalk SE (? whatever the "lite" version was in '97)
Cakewalk Pro Audio
Sonar
energyXT
Reaper

With some Buzz, Bidule, and Bespoke Synth on the side at various points.