My first sequencer. Dr. T's KCS

Oliver Chesler · Post by **Oliver Chesler** » 12 Dec 2007, 01:19

What was your first sequencer? I wrote a short article about my days with Dr. T's KCS and an Atari 1040ST. Check it out:
http://www.wiretotheear.com/2007/12/11/ ... sequencer/

tremolounge · Post by **tremolounge** » 12 Dec 2007, 07:06

Me too! Only I ran it on a Commodore 64, and then a 128 (with the worst, most unreliable external disk drive ever made).

After that, I used Voyetra Sequencer Plus Gold for DOS

(with their MIDI/SMPTE card -- remember "virtual tracks"?) on a Tandy 1000 PC clone. Did hundreds of projects with SPG, one of the best MIDI sequencers ever!

Sometimes I get nostalgic for the simplicity of those days...

Falk · Post by **Falk** » 12 Dec 2007, 08:40

I started out with Hybrid Arts "MidiTrack" and then "SMPTE Track" Had a little dance with Dr.T, but I could never get into that software. So I went with Notator. Think I started with 1.2 or 1.5.

groundhum · Post by **groundhum** » 12 Dec 2007, 08:55

I wrote my first sequencer in Pascal and assembler for a Z80 running CP/M. Eventually, I moved on to SoundScape on an Amiga 1000.

tremolounge · Post by **tremolounge** » 12 Dec 2007, 09:27

groundhum wrote:I wrote my first sequencer in Pascal and assembler for a Z80 running CP/M.

Ladies and gentlemen, we have a winner!

groundhum · Post by **groundhum** » 12 Dec 2007, 13:29

Ooooh, fabulous prizes! Or am I just old?

Falk · Post by **Falk** » 12 Dec 2007, 14:26

I remember buying computermagazines and typing in the programs printed in them.. The thought of being 14 again...

I wonder if it was a ZX81?

kenn.michael · Post by **kenn.michael** » 12 Dec 2007, 17:35

First sequencers for me:

MidiPaint and the Synclavier.

Post by **Loopy C** » 12 Dec 2007, 18:06

Errr, other than something that ran on the Commodore (Cherry Lane Sequencer 64?), that would have been 'Creator' in 1987 (or as you youngens call it now, 'Logic'!). Imagine, using the same (sorta) sequencer for TWENTY YEARS!

toltek · Post by **toltek** » 12 Dec 2007, 21:46

Steinberg Pro-24 followed soon after by Cubase on Atari 1040STE...

chriscarter · Post by **chriscarter** » 13 Dec 2007, 00:11

My journey with Macs n' MIDI started in 1995 with the wonderful MasterTracks Pro http://www.gvox.com/mtp.php... that I'd previously used on the Atari ST for many years.

putte · Post by **putte** » 13 Dec 2007, 00:29

.. my first sequencer was the built-in one from the fabolous Ensoniq EPS16+, followed by Notator. next was Creator, and then Cubase. (all on the lovely AtariST) ..

Falk · Post by **Falk** » 13 Dec 2007, 03:18

Remember the Atari ad?
Hello Atari!
Goodbye Mac!
Incredible 8 Mhz!

desmond · Post by **desmond** » 13 Dec 2007, 10:31

Loopy C wrote:that would have been 'Creator' in 1987 (or as you youngens call it now, 'Logic'!). Imagine, using the same (sorta) sequencer for TWENTY YEARS!

Well, Creator/Notator is not Logic - the developers had kinda reached an architectural brick wall, and they started over from scratch to develop the next generation Notator Logic - they joked to me that by the end of Notator's life, they "hated the bloody thing"

Obviously, a few concepts and designs that worked very well in Creator/Notator were implemented in Logic, so the heritage shows in places.

And yes, I've on the Creator -> Logic path for twenty years now...

Toy Sun · Post by **Toy Sun** » 13 Dec 2007, 15:09

My first: Logic!
Oh boy, it was rough back then - midi only, no audio, and there were no templates, nothing in the environment. My first computer, my first sequencer.... I didn't get any sound out of it for 3 days.

And no BigBlueLounge.com.... oh, so lonely!

J

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My first sequencer. Dr. T's KCS

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