Stop whinging about workflow!!

[Orvillain]

You have no bloody idea!!!!

 

[norminal]

Laughs in Tascam 4-Track Cassette Tape Recorder.

 

[Sascha Franck]

You have no bloody idea!!!!

Unfortunately, I have more of an idea than I'd like to admit.

 

[Frodebro]

WTF is “whinging?”

 

[nicolasrivera]

Laughs in Tascam 4-Track Cassette Tape Recorder.

I still have my 424Mk II from the 90s fully operational.

 

[JiveTurkey]

WTF is “whinging?”

 

[Will Chen]

Laughs in Tascam 4-Track Cassette Tape Recorder.

Yep. I cut my teeth on a Fostex (and then a Tascam 4 track), a boss drum machine, a shitty crate amp, and an SM57. Usually a pretty good hint the generation one belongs to when workflow of a modeler is a super critical decision point.

 

[nicolasrivera]

Yep. I cut my teeth on a Fostex (and then a Tascam 4 track), a boss drum machine, a shitty crate amp, and an SM57. Usually a pretty good hint the generation one belongs to when workflow of a modeler is a super critical decision point.

Man, those where the days..... I had that drum machine and always wanted the Alesis one but could not get it.

 

[ragingplatypi]

The bad old days.

 

[Will Chen]

Man, those where the days..... I had that drum machine and always wanted the Alesis one but could not get it.

I was so excited when I upgraded to the Dr. Synth so I could stop using my Mom's Casio. Had no idea what MIDI was back then, so had to program bass and synth parts step style using the pads. Despite all the work, still fondly look back on those days.

 

[norminal]

Dr. Synth

I had a Dr. Synth! Sitting on top of my Midi controller (Yamaha 4-track lower right):

 

[nicolasrivera]

I was so excited when I upgraded to the Dr. Synth so I could stop using my Mom's Casio. Had no idea what MIDI was back then, so had to program bass and synth parts step style using the pads. Despite all the work, still fondly look back on those days.

I traded my Casio for a cassette stereo player that I latter modded into a guitar amp, because all my previous attempts on my dad's Sony stereo setup had failed and was not allowed near them at all. I didn't have an electric guitar yet but was able to create a pickup out of a small transformer and a magnet ( from one of my moms speaker that she thought was blown! ) oops. i was about 13yo. 1990

 

[JiveTurkey]

I was so excited when I upgraded to the Dr. Synth so I could stop using my Mom's Casio. Had no idea what MIDI was back then, so had to program bass and synth parts step style using the pads. Despite all the work, still fondly look back on those days.

"Stop whinging and get your own Casio!"

 

[Sascha Franck]

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The bad old days.

That Ministudio is exactly what I had. And man, what an upgrade compared to the previous thing, namely this:

I still know exactly how all the buttons, faders and knobs on each of them felt like.

 

[Sascha Franck]

And fwiw, the biggest update ever (after fooling around with an EMU Drumulator, something I've already described somewhere) was this:

Right, that's pretty much your Cubase in a neat box. Luxurious monitor included.

Sitting top of it, there was this thing here:

Kinda like the NI Kontakt equivalent back in the days when Miami Vice and carrot jeans were en vogue.

 

[Enchilada Jones]

Laughs in Tascam 4-Track Cassette Tape Recorder.

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The bad old days.

Lol, I literally burned out one 'track' on the head of mine with the sync tone feature

 

[jellodog]

Laughs in Tascam 4-Track Cassette Tape Recorder.

Did you ever to wind the tape speed / pitch up to the highest setting in order to squeeze out a little more "fidelity" ?

Teenage me was convinced that this worked.

 

[norminal]

Did you ever to wind the tape speed / pitch up to the highest setting in order to squeeze out a little more "fidelity" ?

Teenage me was convinced that this worked.

Never tried that, but when bouncing my tracks down to another cassette recorder that had a slightly slower tape speed, all my tracks would be slightly off-pitch. Oh the struggle…

Sorry @Orvillain, but you didn’t have it that bad!

 

[norminal]

And fwiw, the biggest update ever (after fooling around with an EMU Drumulator, something I've already described somewhere) was this:

Holy shit! I’ve been looking for a picture of that forever but couldn’t remember the model number. I had the exact sequencer (check out the botton left of my last picture, on top of the Nike shoe box).

Any of you who are used to programming midi in your DAW, try doing it with one of these! You have NO idea!

 

[dronerstone]

I had a first run DX7 for a few years...