I remember seeing Future Crew's Second Reality in a pc-store showroom where someone had connected the SoundBlaster to amplifier with these big speaker. It was j

I remember seeing Future Crew's Second Reality in a pc-store showroom where someone had connected the SoundBlaster to amplifier with these big speaker. It was just released and some smart ass had managed to put hands on it from some BBS. My mind was blown immediately and I got hooked to computer music, computer audio, graphics and multimedia in general. I knew that C64 had a dedicated audio chip, and my COM port (or maybe printer port) had something called COVOX in it, but this SB thing was beyond any previous measure cool. And the C64s were in fact quite pricey and not being sold at all where I lived. My parents got me a present that was the SoundBlaster as a gift that I managed to get into the elite national school of math and sciences. I started digging scream tracker 3 (by the FC gang), and a school teacher in 10th grade was definitely surprised when I played a demo-tape of self-made recordings. There are many SoundBlaster stories I can tell. Eventually few years later (in 1996/1997) our group of 2 people released 2 demos, and most of the music was composed by myself, while my mate was spitting thousands of assembly lines, and was also proud to implement a tracker of his own making for the production... After having played as a DJ at more than 300 events electronic music is to date important part of my life and SB has a very special place in my heart. I can still remember the touch of the product.