Back in the 90s kids used a variety of sample trackers on their Amiga home computers: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Music_tracker#Selected_list_of_music_tracke

Back in the 90s kids used a variety of sample trackers on their Amiga home computers: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Music_tracker#Selected_list_of_music_trackers https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Music_tracker#Selected_list_of... Oh, and samples? Kids used hardware samplers to rip or record their own: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37376675 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37376675 And how'd that work out? The end result was a piece of music called a module ("mod"). Strangely enough, I can't find exact (or even approximate) numbers. A snapshot of the MOD archive from 2007 had 120k mods: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mod_Archive https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mod_Archive So, yeah, a very low barrier of entry... ;-)