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I taught myself to do serious programming writing a drum sequencer for windows, back in 1994'ish. I was living and consorting with a bunch of techno producers,
by jawngee 13y ago
I taught myself to do serious programming writing a drum sequencer for windows, back in 1994'ish. I was living and consorting with a bunch of techno producers, as well as being pretty deep in the underground rave scene. I'd spend hours in their studios and wanted to make my own music but couldn't afford the much coveted 808/909, so I spent countless nights replicating it.
I put out a couple of records using it. It also, inadvertently, lead to me getting a call from Richie Hawtin asking me to write audio DJ software for him. I told him it couldn't be done with current hardware, and I think I was probably right (this was 286/386 era). You couldn't put two sound cards in a system, so the output would have been mono. Maybe I was wrong. I'm not so sure.
http://www.sonicspot.com/tekknobox/tekknobox.html http://www.sonicspot.com/tekknobox/tekknobox.html
Yes, the UI is hideous, but Windows 3.11 baby!
Edit: The follow up was called Alien Disko Systems 3000.
http://www.sonicspot.com/aliendiskosystems/aliendiskosystems.html http://www.sonicspot.com/aliendiskosystems/aliendiskosystems...
- wrongc0ntinent 13y agoIt's not hideous, it's vintage! Not as vintage as trackers though :)
- rhizome 13y agoTekknobox was excellent and I spent countless hours with it, major props for providing the only trigger sequencer available at the time and enabling me to sidestep Cakewalk and their ilk forever to this day. I see both Ableton Live and Fruityloops as owing enormous debts of gratitude for your work. http://imgur.com/rsdbIfR http://imgur.com/rsdbIfR
- jawngee 13y agoThe internet constantly amazes me. Thanks!
- GuiA 13y agoRelated: Cubase 64, one of my favorite demos ever :) http://m.youtube.com/watch?v=artEQkifGG0&desktop_uri=%2Fwatch%3Fv%3DartEQkifGG0 http://m.youtube.com/watch?v=artEQkifGG0&desktop_uri=%2Fwatc...
- coldtea 13y ago>You couldn't put two sound cards in a system, so the output would have been mono. Maybe I was wrong. I'm not so sure. Huh? Nothing says you have to have two soundcards to get stereo (or multi channel for that matter) output. And already in the 386 era were apps and soundcards offering more than mono.
- boomlinde 13y agoFor DJing electronic music you typically want to have two stereo output pairs so that you can hear what you are cross-fading into. I don't know of any soundcards from the mid-90s that did that
- jawngee 13y agoTwo stereo outputs. Somethign about IRQ sharing disallowed more than one soundblaster or gravis ultrasound in a system at one time. IIRC. YMMV.