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January 12, 06 10:14 PM
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Great thread!
I've been a CW user since the first Windows version. I'm still using CWPA 7.0 driving a Kurzweil K2600 to create MIDI drum tracks for my band.
And I also still have my old tapes I made by bouncing back and forth between tape recorders!
Things are more like they are now than they've ever been before!
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October 08, 08 9:17 PM
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Thought I'd revive this ancient thread & let some recent joiners entertain themselves with the tales of some of the older-timers in the first few pages.
Pardon the revival; I truly thought this was an entertaining read, and I missed it the first time around.
Enjoy,
Ed
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October 08, 08 9:41 PM
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Been here since that beautiful purple and black thing that my colleague R!soc has on his avatar. I think that came out in 1947 - shortly after the Roswell crash. I think I started sequencing on an Ensoniq VFX SD in like 89 or so,  recording to my Tascam 688.  And adding vocals and guitars to the midi (well audio once it came out of the VFX SD).
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October 08, 08 9:56 PM
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Was sequencing with Voyetra's "Sequencer Plus" until the second or third edition of Cakewalk...for DOS. And I'll go ya one better Maurice. I had one of the first run of ARP 2600s...along with my ol pal, Edgar Winter.
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October 08, 08 10:03 PM
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I still have a grey meanie right behind me, along with an orange/black sequencer. I also have a synthi aks, where k = keyboard and s=sequencer, but you would have to assume that the keyboard was usable and that the synthi is musical. You sunk my battle ship 
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October 08, 08 10:19 PM
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I remember the 12 tone software on 3.5 inch floppy disks. All midi, those were the days.
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October 08, 08 11:48 PM
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The first time I saw Cakewalk software was at a Daddy's Music store that featured a picture on a box of a piece of cake with legs. Must have been Cake for DOS...1986 or something? Anyway, I remembered thinking. "What the hell is software? Why would you need that?" A few years later... In 1992 I got my first 486SX from Radio shack with 2 megs RAM and a whopping 120 meg hard drive. It was enough to run Cakewalk for Windows v1.0 with one of those midi ISA cards MQX-32M by Musicquest. I hooked it up to an Ensoniq ASR-10 and the obsession began. Each version of Cake...err..Sonar gets better. Still digging it. Brian
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October 09, 08 0:18 PM
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Someone brought a TAPE drive over with the dos version of cakewalk, and aside from a brief moment (3yrs) with Steinberg, Ive been with Cakewalk/Sonar ever since.
Viva La' TwelveTone! :)
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October 09, 08 0:18 PM
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I started on I think it was Cakewalk for Dos 4.0E on an XT with a huge 20MB hard drive,0 about $500 for the drive itself (never thought I would fill it up). I still have the original floppy and manual. Bye the way I had to upgrade one of the 5 1/2" floppy's to the new fangled 3 1/4" drive to install the app. I was using an 8 track reel to reel and sacrificing 1 track for midi time code to sync to the computer. Guess what? It worked every time and was rock solid timing wise...hmmm. These days that is not always true, I wonder what has happend. 
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October 09, 08 1:19 AM
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I hooked it up to an Ensoniq ASR-10 and the obsession began. Now that brings back memories (I still have and use my ASR-10)...
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October 09, 08 4:49 AM
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Computers??? Pffft. When I started making music, all I had was this wooden box with a narrow stick that came out of the top. It had these metal strings that stretched over the stick and vibrated over a round hole in the middle of the box. That's right, no speakers, no nothing, not even electricity. I still have it.
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October 09, 08 5:39 AM
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Cakewalk 3.1 was my first Cakewalk experience and I used it for years. I messed around with Cubase and Notator but I never felt comfortable.
I had a good sideline making midi backing tracks
I used to input using standard music notation and Cakewalk was the best then (pre Sebalious days).
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October 09, 08 7:24 AM
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ORIGINAL: papa2004
I hooked it up to an Ensoniq ASR-10 and the obsession began.
Now that brings back memories (I still have and use my ASR-10)...
I had the EPS-16+ the model that came out just before the ASR-10. Started using Cakewalk with Cakewalk Express, soon upgrading to Pro Audio 7.
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October 09, 08 8:55 AM
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i started out with pro audio 9 a midi sport 2x2 and an ensoniq ks32. It was such an upgrade from my 4 track yamaha cassette recorder, I was blown away.
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October 09, 08 9:25 AM
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wow a trip down memory lane....after graduating from a Korg SQD1 synced to a portastudio I had an Atari 520 and 1040 with whatever was the sequencer progra of the day . I found 12 Tones and Purchased Cakewalk for DOS 1 using a Roland MPU401 for midi interface , the then a musicquest MQX-32, I synced them via SMPTE to a fostex A-8 via some midiman sync stuff and then got a deal on a Yamaha MSS1 SMPTE/SYNC hardware . I also have a copy of cakewalk LIVE! on 5 1/4 it was a neat jukebox/live peformance sequence player anyone remeber that? BTW I think it is interesting that the old Cake DOS days used the Roland MPU-401 or its clone as the preferred MIDI interface and now cake and roland are married ....
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October 09, 08 9:39 AM
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Hey If you were around early enough You got SOUND GLOBS
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October 09, 08 9:56 AM
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I started on this  24 Audio tracks, 64 MIDI tracks.. Back in 2001. Wow. It just came to me. That beats PTLE.. 
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October 09, 08 10:12 AM
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Started with cakewalk 2.? Got it in a trade upgraded it to the first pro audio, 4.0 it came on floppy's been using it every since I missed one or two upgrade but all in all I got a lot invested in cakewalk, havent got 8 yet but I plan to
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October 09, 08 10:28 AM
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My first vesrion of Cakewalk came bundled with MIDI Composer. It had a QuickShot MIDI controller 47 key keyboard and Cakewalk Home Studio 3.0. Then I got CAKEWALK EXPRESS 6.0, upgraded to ProAudio 9 then onto Sonar 4 which I am now using.
My 486 PC had such a bad sound card (Aztech?) that the latency was so bad that if you tried to play along with a MIDI song you were at least a full beat off!
I used CakeWalk 3.0 to creat MIDI files to drive my QSR synth via a Peavey MIDI Streamer. 720K disks only!
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October 09, 08 10:49 AM
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My first sequencer was Prism for Dos and I used it with an Akai AX-80 keyboard and a Proteus 1 sound module. I remember it being pretty good but that was quite a while back. I think most everything MIDI was done using an event list and there was no audio capability at all. I graduated to Cakewalk for Dos but do not remember what version it was. I picked up a Yamaha 4-track mixer/cassette deck all in one package and used it several years. Then I stopped playing for awhile, came back and got Home Studio 2004. I upgraded to Sonar 5 Studio, then Producer, Sonar 6PE, 7PE and now 8PE.
Right around 5 and 6, I decided I wanted/should try something else to get a general idea as to how another company approaches home recording. I purchased the Firepod 3 years ago and it came with Cubase 4 LE. When I was unable to even get my MIDI devices up and running after 2-3 days, I gave up and went back to Cakewalk. I still think it is a benefit to know more than one audio package so I picked up Reaper to play with but haven't really done anything with it.
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October 09, 08 11:49 AM
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Wow, I guess people are indeed enjoying the revival! Here's to another seven pages!
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October 09, 08 1:27 PM
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My first sequencer was Prism for Dos and I used it with an Akai AX-80 keyboard and a Proteus 1 sound module. Pretty unbelievable. My roommate (at the time) and I started with almost the exact combination. The Proteus was actually a dded a little later - we had an AX-80, though, and Prism for DOS. We actually used this in an analog studio with striping to tape and a JL Cooper sync device of some kind. I think there was a Kawai K1 in there along with and Ensoniq VFX. After Prism, I moved to Power Tracks under Windows, which held me until I switched over to Cakewalk Officially with Sonar2. I actually toyed around with a few earlier versions, the only one of which was of value to me being Pro Audio 9. Once Sonar came out, I was hooked.
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October 09, 08 1:40 PM
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great old thread...... It makes you realize just how loyal Cakewalk users have been. I started out with Cakewalk Pro Audio 4 (according to the list). Without going back through this thread, is there an actual list of ALL products and their names? I remember they added Pro to the Audio name for Cakewalk9 I think, but now SONAR is almost up to 9. Where did the time go? [edit] never mind...found it
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October 09, 08 2:03 PM
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October 09, 08 2:30 PM
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I can't quite recall if it was Cakewalk 2 or 4 for DOS. MPU-401 and some cheap keyboard synth. I was working for a little startup called Midisoft that was sort of a competitor (used the GEM OS on the Atari and PC).
Once they came out with 1.0 for Windows I think is when I got a MQ-32s (with SMPTE!). By then I was working for Microsoft and I applied to beta test 2.0. One of the product managers somehow traced my name back to Midisoft and was very reluctant to let me test, but Greg Hendershott convinced him otherwise.
I also beta tested 'Knoxville' which IIRC became Cakewalk Pro Audio.
It's been a long strange road.
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October 09, 08 4:39 PM
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I started with Cakewalk Professional 3 and a Korg Poly 800II keyboard and a Yamaha 4-track casette tape recorder--all on a little laptop running Windows 95.
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October 09, 08 4:51 PM
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First Analog setup: Tascam Porta One. TR-505 and Juno-2. 1985
First computer based setup: A sequencer package I cannot rememebr the name of with a parallel prot dongle, with an actual Roland MPU-401. I still have the MPU-401. And the dongle. Not the software though. 1985-1986ish. Synced to Tascam 80-8 vis FSK (damn, lost that important 8th track).
Had the Tascam m-16 mixer with Audio Upgrades mods on mic-pre's.
In between i added a Mirage, FB-01, Alesis MidiVerb/Delay and HR-16/HR16B. Later added D5 module, Roland D550, Yamaha FB-01, D30 Piano and EPS-16 (not the +).
Shortly therafter got the Voyetra Sequencer and still synced to 80-8 but with the Voyetra multi-port MIDI interface (bye bye dongle). 1987ish.
Had a PCM60 and PCM70 at some point. Sold 'em. Didn't like 'em.
Then went to ADATS (3 blackfaces) with a BRC. and The Alesis X-2 console. 1992ish.
I got PA3 in March of 1996, although for some reason I never really used CW stuff until XL (got every upgrade thru PA9, tho).
Added a MidiSport 8x8. Still have it. Got an apex dominator and still have it (what for? I dunno).
Due to perosnal financial crisis in Dec if 2002, I sold all recoring and MIDI equipment equipment (except EPS-16, would not even fetch an offer and thus I still have it)
Startied building up the "in the box" solution in 2004 and I've been on that slow road ever since.
I've got 8PE and have not installed it as my DIY room treatment is taking precedence (moving slow the last week or so).
I've also got my Q9550 to replace my Q6600. Same situation as the 8PE (DIY treatment is top priority).
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