Members Magpel Posted December 1, 2007 Members Share Posted December 1, 2007 My mom will still only use the Leading Edge Word Processor (circa '86 -- I wrote my grad school essays on it) but that's not what I'm asking... I'd say the oldest music software I still use is GigaSampler 1.60...in fact I have a Windows 98 machine and M-Audio Audiophile dedicated to it, pretty much for one piano and a handful of percussion samples. Other than that? Hmmm, Sound Forge 5, probably, and some of the first VSTs I discovered, like the the Traingle II freebie from Rene (rgc, Cakewalk). Nothing terribly, impressively old. What about you? I still play free cell. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members Raymar Posted December 1, 2007 Members Share Posted December 1, 2007 I still have a Win 98 machine too with the Audiophile 2496 so I can run an old softsynth Reality. It has alot of sounds I've used in past recordings that are pretty much exclusive to it, and sampling them just wouldn't get it. Its become a hardware synth with no chance of ever being upgraded, which will probably become the fate of alot of today's VSTi's a couple of operating systems from now. Vista is already giving my VAZ Modular a little lip. Oh well, hardware synths get abandoned or discontinued too, that's synth life. Steve Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members DevilRaysFan Posted December 1, 2007 Members Share Posted December 1, 2007 Voyetra Sequencer Plus Gold.. circa early early 90s... DOS-based MIDI sequencer...Its not my main MIDI editor but I still use it periodically because - using "arrow keys" and "Enter" - it is rediculously fast to use Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members rasputin1963 Posted December 1, 2007 Members Share Posted December 1, 2007 Probably the little freeware auxiliary programs made by AnalogX. Sometimes a tiny little proggie-- that does one thing-- is exactly what you want... See their website: http://www.analogx.com/contents/download/audio.htm Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members Alndln2 Posted December 1, 2007 Members Share Posted December 1, 2007 While it came out in 1999, Iv'e yet to be able to replace....... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members Mike McLenison Posted December 1, 2007 Members Share Posted December 1, 2007 AudioSurgeon 5 purchased in 2002. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members UstadKhanAli Posted December 1, 2007 Members Share Posted December 1, 2007 Oh, that's easy. It's the DAW I'm still using, Pro Tools LE 5.1 (Mac). Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members Philter Posted December 1, 2007 Members Share Posted December 1, 2007 I still boot into Apple OS 9.2.2 and run ProTools TDM 5.1.3 with my 2 Samplecell cards. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Phil O'Keefe Posted December 1, 2007 Share Posted December 1, 2007 Probably C-Lab Notator 3.21. I don't use it day to day, but I still have it and an old Mega ST/e to run it on, along with the Unitor and so forth, and I pull it out of storage once in a while just to remind myself what I'm missing in terms of MIDI notation in PT. Outside of that, probably Sound Forge. I have later versions, but I still regularly run V5. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gus Lozada Posted December 1, 2007 Share Posted December 1, 2007 Voyetra Sequencer Plus Gold.. circa early early 90s... DOS-based MIDI sequencer...Its not my main MIDI editor but I still use it periodically because - using "arrow keys" and "Enter" - it is rediculously fast to use I guess you win ! I also used Voyetra Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members alphajerk Posted December 1, 2007 Members Share Posted December 1, 2007 i still have a MAC9600 running Akai MESA for my Akai S2000 sampler via SCSI interface. i dont use it anymore, but i still have it. i dont really know what to do with it honestly. i thought about throwing away the MAC but then what would i do with my sampler? it was so much easier to program the sampler via MESA than through the front interface. though i dont really know if i need the sampler anymore with what is out now, i do like their DACs on it for drum samples, so punchy. geez, thinking about it, i dont know what to do with any of my MIDI sound modules anymore... they seem kind of pointless now with VSTi's and modern computing power. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Moderators Lee Knight Posted December 1, 2007 Moderators Share Posted December 1, 2007 Sound Forge 4.5I use it everyday for my day gig, recording, editing and processing telephony files. I bought it new, set up a complicated batch process and haven't changed it since, insuring consistency with same voice updates being strung together with files that were recorded 9 years ago. I upgrade as well... but 4.5 gets the brunt of work. That piece of software bought my home. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members Han Posted December 2, 2007 Members Share Posted December 2, 2007 Cubase 3.01 on an Atari TT, works like a charm, never any problem and steady like a tall ship. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members bbach Posted December 2, 2007 Members Share Posted December 2, 2007 Amazing slow downer I purchased back in 2001. I've never upgraded it. It does what it's supposed to do. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members Magpel Posted December 2, 2007 Author Members Share Posted December 2, 2007 Sound Forge 4.5I use it everyday for my day gig, recording, editing and processing telephony files. I bought it new, set up a complicated batch process and haven't changed it since, insuring consistency with same voice updates being strung together with files that were recorded 9 years ago. I upgrade as well... but 4.5 gets the brunt of work. That piece of software bought my home. I love 4.5. SF 5 is garbage by comparison. The only problem with 4.5 was no 24 bit. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Moderators Lee Knight Posted December 2, 2007 Moderators Share Posted December 2, 2007 I love 4.5. SF 5 is garbage by comparison. The only problem with 4.5 was no 24 bit. Which is why I keep copy of 8 along side 4.5 at work and I use 7 at home. 9 soon... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members Jon Gnash Posted December 2, 2007 Members Share Posted December 2, 2007 i still have a MAC9600 running Akai MESA for my Akai S2000 sampler via SCSI interface. i dont use it anymore, but i still have it. i dont really know what to do with it honestly. i thought about throwing away the MAC ...Same deal here. I Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members elsongs Posted December 2, 2007 Members Share Posted December 2, 2007 It's not installed right now, but in a previous Windows (XP) install on my computer, i used Cakewalk Pro 3.01 (INSTALLED FROM A SINGLE FLOPPY DISK!) just to sequence my own MIDI ringtones. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CMS Author MikeRivers Posted December 2, 2007 CMS Author Share Posted December 2, 2007 My favorite editor for assembling music programs is Fast Edit. I started out with Fast Eddie and upgraded to the latest version, but I think that's from 2001. It edits, it's fast, and I almost never have to re-do an edit because it knows how to crossfade through a splice (unlike some modern programs that were designed by people who never cut tape). Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members D Charles Posted December 2, 2007 Members Share Posted December 2, 2007 I still use SAW from the mid 90's. I don't use it as a multitrack (I use Sonar 6) but SAW is the only software I've ever had that has input levels in software so I can adjust recording levels from my turntable or dat or old cassettes and such. It's a one trick pony for what I use it for, but it's a necessary trick. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members Kerouac Posted December 3, 2007 Members Share Posted December 3, 2007 It's not installed right now, but in a previous Windows (XP) install on my computer, i used Cakewalk Pro 3.01 (INSTALLED FROM A SINGLE FLOPPY DISK!) just to sequence my own MIDI ringtones. I have my disk for that, but the oldest software I have is Cakewalk Pro Audio 9, which is actually on this laptop I'm on right now. I just use it for MIDI, but I'm 100% dependent on Cakewalk when it comes to my MIDI writing... it takes me three times as long to do things on a piano roll... I bring up the staff, click, click, done. I'm very excited that one of the bands I'm in has recently purchased DP... I hear the notation view in that is excellent. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members techristian Posted December 3, 2007 Members Share Posted December 3, 2007 COOL EDIT 2000 !!! DAN Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members panthalassa Posted December 3, 2007 Members Share Posted December 3, 2007 Intel Macs can't run OS 9, otherwise I'd love to bring over ReBirth. So, for now it'll stay on the old G4.Or maybe it does work. Has anyone here been able to run it successfully? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members DevilRaysFan Posted December 3, 2007 Members Share Posted December 3, 2007 I guess you win ! I also used Voyetra Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members TimOBrien Posted December 3, 2007 Members Share Posted December 3, 2007 How about a pen and one of these editable/eraseable custom displays: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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