Beepster
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Just found an old copy of Cakewalk Kinetic I was given years ago...
Considering I have X2 Producer is this thing archaic and/or redundant? I never really used it so I'm not even sure exactly what it is aside from some kind of step sequencer.
And just to keep things interesting... what kind of old Cakewalk goodies do you have stashed in your gack piles?
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Re:Just found an old copy of Cakewalk Kinetic I was given years ago...
2012/11/22 13:11:07
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Still got Guitar Tracks somewhere - its what I started with about 10 years ago before moving up to Sonar
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Re:Just found an old copy of Cakewalk Kinetic I was given years ago...
2012/11/22 13:15:34
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Don't recall which version but I still have the 5 1/4" floppies for Cakewalk down in my basement somewhere...circa 1997 or so?
Makes me laugh just to think of 5 1/4" floppies...they're just so 80s.
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Re:Just found an old copy of Cakewalk Kinetic I was given years ago...
2012/11/22 13:24:46
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Hi Miguelito You'll have to be careful referring to 5 1/4" floppies - most of the younger generation who use this forum won't realise you are talking about Computer Discs!!!! I only know as my grandfather told me..........................  Nigel
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Re:Just found an old copy of Cakewalk Kinetic I was given years ago...
2012/11/22 13:25:22
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@Bajan... I've seen some screen caps of Guitar Tracks posted on here. That thing looks AWESOME. :-)
@miguleto... Wow. They used floppies in '97? What in the heck for? lol
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Re:Just found an old copy of Cakewalk Kinetic I was given years ago...
2012/11/22 13:25:46
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Don't know if I've still got it...but did have my original 3.5" disk of Wincake 3.1 . Also Sonar 5.0 CD.
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Re:Just found an old copy of Cakewalk Kinetic I was given years ago...
2012/11/22 13:38:48
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Re:Just found an old copy of Cakewalk Kinetic I was given years ago...
2012/11/22 13:52:12
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Bajan: yes and my grandkids probably think I'm senile ;-)
Beepster: see my comment above about senility...maybe they were 3" floppies - a technological breakthrough at the time!
On a holiday note of being thankful: how cool is that we can walk around with a 32G chip plugged into some device (think phones cameras et al). I think my first 1G SCSI HD cost about two/three grand at the time...wow time marches on.
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Re:Just found an old copy of Cakewalk Kinetic I was given years ago...
2012/11/22 14:01:12
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Remember Zip Disks and how they were the shiznit for a few years? lol... glad I never invested in one of those drives. Those things sure didn't stick around long.
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Re:Just found an old copy of Cakewalk Kinetic I was given years ago...
2012/11/22 14:39:14
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Remember Zip Disks and how they were the shiznit for a few years? I bet I got some a those down in the basement too...I stay out of that place it really is to frightening to contemplate. lol Regards
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Re:Just found an old copy of Cakewalk Kinetic I was given years ago...
2012/11/22 15:09:52
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Beepster
Remember Zip Disks and how they were the shiznit for a few years? lol... glad I never invested in one of those drives. Those things sure didn't stick around long.
they were handy compared to the EZ drive I have, they were used for DTP and samplers.. nothing bad about them.. you have to think , samplers were 32 meg etc.. so it was to scale of them vs 3.5's I still own 5.25's / 3.5's / ez and zip carts and even the 3.5 's have their uses still (bios reflashing etc) the things that "kept" the best... 30 year old tapes for 8 bit computers, where disks / cd's / floppy's have long failed.
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Re:Just found an old copy of Cakewalk Kinetic I was given years ago...
2012/11/22 15:30:32
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Yeah, newer does not always equate to better. I have a feeling Zip disks were more expensive to manufacture though as well as those old tape cartridges. The tape based stuff was waaaay before my time though. The only stuff I saw that for in my short time in the PC scene was back up systems.
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Re:Just found an old copy of Cakewalk Kinetic I was given years ago...
2012/11/22 18:52:00
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I remember when PC memory was $100 per MB...not GB but MB :) .
Dang I'm old....LOL.
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jb101
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Re:Just found an old copy of Cakewalk Kinetic I was given years ago...
2012/11/22 18:56:34
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My brother wrote the floppy disk format software for the BBC model B.. Was it 5.25", I can't remember? It used to play Beethoven's Fifth if it worked, and the funeral march if it didn't..
post edited by jb101 - 2012/11/22 19:10:11
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Re:Just found an old copy of Cakewalk Kinetic I was given years ago...
2012/11/22 19:06:41
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My first computer was a Commodore 64 back in 1983. It came with a cassette deck and some programs took upwards of 10 minutes to load. I used to write programs in assembly language, convert it to hex and then to decimal, which I loaded into memory via POKE statements. I remember getting a drum sequencer for it called Dynamic Drums and it was awesome. The SID music chip was a legend, and I have fond memories of listening to game music over and over. Some of the C64 game music by Rob Hubbard was incredible - check out One Man And His Droid on YouTube.
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Re:Just found an old copy of Cakewalk Kinetic I was given years ago...
2012/11/22 19:07:08
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@Ted... Ya, man. I avoided computers completely until about... oh I guess about ten years ago (yeesh... it's been that long? lol... gettin' old too I guess). One of the main reasons was they were just so prohibitively expensive and complicated for very little benefit to me. I even wrote songs about my Neo-Luddite sentiments back in the day. However as things got less expensive and I was forced to use them more and more at work and they started doing things that were actually useful to ME I slowly changed my tune. I still kind of hate the buggers but at least I can see their usefulness now so the learning curve and expense are worth it. Seriously if you guys knew me even 3 or 4 years ago you'd think I had suffered some kind of head trauma from my sheer lack of intelligence in regards to computers.
Heck... even reading my posts from a few months ago makes me cringe. lol
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Beepster
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Re:Just found an old copy of Cakewalk Kinetic I was given years ago...
2012/11/22 19:14:41
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So have any of you guys used Kinetic? Is this just garbage? I won't bother installing it if it is.
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jb101
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Re:Just found an old copy of Cakewalk Kinetic I was given years ago...
2012/11/22 19:36:09
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I remember my brother building one of the first home computers, was it called a UK101?
My first computer was a ZX81, with 1k of memory. He built me a 4k expansion pack for my birthday. Sinclair released a 16k expansion pack, but that was insane - what could you possibly need 16k for?
Sorry to go off topic, Beep.. Nostalgia..
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Re:Just found an old copy of Cakewalk Kinetic I was given years ago...
2012/11/22 19:40:49
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Heheh... not off topic at all. It was a boring question which is why I asked for tales of relics as well to spice it up. This is awesome. ;-)
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Re:Just found an old copy of Cakewalk Kinetic I was given years ago...
2012/11/22 19:41:52
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Re:Just found an old copy of Cakewalk Kinetic I was given years ago...
2012/11/22 19:49:54
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jb101
My first computer was a ZX81, with 1k of memory. He built me a 4k expansion pack for my birthday. Sinclair released a 16k expansion pack, but that was insane - what could you possibly need 16k for?
I recently got a zxpand + ay interface for my zx81.. so it now has SD card / 64k ram / joystick and sound. jb101
My brother wrote the floppy disk format software for the BBC model B.. Was it 5.25", I can't remember?
It used to play Beethoven's Fifth if it worked, and the funeral march if it didn't..
it supported both 3.5 and 5.25.. it now supports IDE / USB / and SD http://acorn.chriswhy.co....d/ctorwy31_MMCKIT.html such programs just flicked between track/sector to make a note, knocked the drive heads out of alignment, there was one for 1541 on c64, that would play daisy-daisy. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5gnMgmlKi_o the bbc micro's "trick" these days is for the caps to fry in the psu after 10+ years of none use.. so need replacing straight away before turning them on and since certain bakers seem to like star wars.. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5B346G-wRAk
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Re:Just found an old copy of Cakewalk Kinetic I was given years ago...
2012/11/22 20:00:51
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In the eighties we (my siblings and I) tried to convince my father to get a computer at work, but he kept refusing because "They are SO Noisy".
When he worked at Etam the computers filled several large rooms, and had big punchcard and ticker tape machines that sounded like a factory.
I still have Computer Studies text books from school (very ahead of our time) with pictures of hard drives the size of washing machines.
I'm off to bed now in a fit of nostalgia to dream of cassette back ups, one alien space invaders, BASIC and the life size picture of Debbie Harry my brother printed on his teletext printer with only "X"s..
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jb101
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Re:Just found an old copy of Cakewalk Kinetic I was given years ago...
2012/11/22 20:04:37
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Fog
jb101
My first computer was a ZX81, with 1k of memory. He built me a 4k expansion pack for my birthday. Sinclair released a 16k expansion pack, but that was insane - what could you possibly need 16k for?
I recently got a zxpand + ay interface for my zx81.. so it now has SD card / 64k ram / joystick and sound.
jb101
My brother wrote the floppy disk format software for the BBC model B.. Was it 5.25", I can't remember?
It used to play Beethoven's Fifth if it worked, and the funeral march if it didn't..
it supported both 3.5 and 5.25.. it now supports IDE / USB / and
SD http://acorn.chriswhy.co.uk/New4Old/ctorwy31_MMCKIT.html
such programs just flicked between track/sector to make a note, knocked the drive heads out of alignment, there was one for 1541 on c64, that would play daisy-daisy. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5gnMgmlKi_o
the bbc micro's "trick" these days is for the caps to fry in the psu after 10+ years of none use.. so need replacing straight away before turning them on
and since certain bakers seem to like star wars.. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5B346G-wRAk
64k is just silly. What are you trying to do, take over the universe?
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Re:Just found an old copy of Cakewalk Kinetic I was given years ago...
2012/11/22 20:08:59
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jb101
Fog
jb101
My first computer was a ZX81, with 1k of memory. He built me a 4k expansion pack for my birthday. Sinclair released a 16k expansion pack, but that was insane - what could you possibly need 16k for?
I recently got a zxpand + ay interface for my zx81.. so it now has SD card / 64k ram / joystick and sound.
jb101
My brother wrote the floppy disk format software for the BBC model B.. Was it 5.25", I can't remember?
It used to play Beethoven's Fifth if it worked, and the funeral march if it didn't..
it supported both 3.5 and 5.25.. it now supports IDE / USB / and
SD http://acorn.chriswhy.co.uk/New4Old/ctorwy31_MMCKIT.html
such programs just flicked between track/sector to make a note, knocked the drive heads out of alignment, there was one for 1541 on c64, that would play daisy-daisy. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5gnMgmlKi_o
the bbc micro's "trick" these days is for the caps to fry in the psu after 10+ years of none use.. so need replacing straight away before turning them on
and since certain bakers seem to like star wars.. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5B346G-wRAk
64k is just silly. What are you trying to do, take over the universe?
I know for a fact you dont even need that much power to overcome an alien invasion, as they only attack one at a time, and they do it very sssloooooooowly..
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Re:Just found an old copy of Cakewalk Kinetic I was given years ago...
2012/11/22 20:09:13
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Maybe it's the stress and exhaustion but I'm giggling that jb's post count is now "486" because of this thread.
Oh goodness me... I have become a dork.
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Re:Just found an old copy of Cakewalk Kinetic I was given years ago...
2012/11/22 20:10:17
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aaaah... well it was funny while it lasted.
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jb101
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Re:Just found an old copy of Cakewalk Kinetic I was given years ago...
2012/11/22 20:13:18
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Took me a minute to see the joke, but Ha Ha Ha.
486? That's a bit modern.. Maybe I'll move up to Pentium soon..
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Beepster
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Re:Just found an old copy of Cakewalk Kinetic I was given years ago...
2012/11/22 20:38:24
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The first computer I owned was a 486. It was craptastic. I just found the old hardrives I yanked out of it. Not sure how I can access the data on them. It's mostly just lyrics and crappy MS paint art but I still want it.
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Re:Just found an old copy of Cakewalk Kinetic I was given years ago...
2012/11/22 20:59:20
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If you know what core memory is than you've been around awhile.
P.S. No fair looking it up.
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Re:Just found an old copy of Cakewalk Kinetic I was given years ago...
2012/11/22 21:11:09
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Bajan Blue
Hi Miguelito
You'll have to be careful referring to 5 1/4" floppies - most of the younger generation who use this forum won't realise you are talking about Computer Discs!!!!
I only know as my grandfather told me..........................
Nigel
Then you'll never guess what's on my 10 1/2" reels! 
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