My first sequencer was Micro-rhythm on the Commodore 64 :D I think I paid £1.99 for it back in the day.
 
 

beltrom

Anderton $1200 is what I paid for my 3340 4-track tape recorder. Times have definitely changed!

 That's great Craig - but did you have to spend my money as well? Your "Electronic projects for musicians" probably was a large part of the reason I went this route in the mid-late seventies. If it wasn't for that book I would probably have been one of those guys that plays in a couple of bands in their youth and more or less forgets about it. And then I had to make the addiction worse with "Home recording for musicians" that pushed me into buying a Tascam Portastudio, back then it was definitely well above $1000 here in Sweden.  First software sequencer Voyetra Sequencer+, then over to TTS Cakewalk 2.0 and stayed with them ever since. A few version gaps when family and work was taking too much space.

Voyetra! Yes! I used that as a 12 year old kid (I think), completely computer based with no midi keyboard. Or evn a mouse, for that matter. I was so fascinated I could enter notes and the computer would play them perfectly every time. Come to think of it, it must have been an illegal copy our computer guy installed, haha :)
I think I got to a Windows version of Cakewalk shortly after, 3 maybe? Another crack, probably, I didn't buy it at least. Switched to Mac for a few years and bought Logic... 5 through 7 I think. But was excited to get back to Cakewalk at S6 PE. I never went back to Mac privately, though other places I've worked at are usually all Mac. Ran a Hackintosh for a while for compatibility. But I just go too attached to the Cakewalk workflow. I couldn't really get used to the new X way and the loss of features at first, but X3 seems to really have put it back on track for me.

Lazyboy
Ran cakewalk sequencer on a 286 with 14" monochrome monitor. It controlled Roland  MT32 synth and Yamaha DX7, chasing a sync track on the tape.
 

 
I also had the MT32 - I remember being absolutely astonished and thinking "How do they fit 8 synths and drums into this?" when I got it. Had the Yamaha FB01 (great little box for dx piano and bass) and Rolands Alpha Juno 2. Tried FSK syncing for a while but never really liked it so I worked around the limitations instead.
 

Lazyboy
I still have my Tascam 32 and 38 matched tape machines, along with a 16 channel mixer and an 8 channel sub-mixer. All built in to a beautiful 10 foot long angled recording desk. When I went digital (currently on my 6th computer and I/O upgrade) I put a big sheet of gold plexi over the whole desk, and the new control surfaces, keyboards, etc. sit on that. You can still see the old stuff through the crinkly plexi, thus preserving the mojo.

That's a great idea! My own old stuff is spread around the room, but I kind of have a pre midi corner, including the portastudio so it won't get lonely.

bapu
I started out with Pro Audio 4 and I have since upgraded/purchased PA5,6,7,8,9,SONAR XL, SONAR 3,4,5,6,7,8,8.5,X1 and X2.
(note, somehow I skipped SONAR 2).
 
Fortunately, I was really only charged $149 for X3.
 

MEH,  My HARD DRIVE is bigger than your hard drive ...

bapu
I started out with Pro Audio 4 and I have since upgraded/purchased PA5,6,7,8,9,SONAR XL, SONAR 3,4,5,6,7,8,8.5,X1 and X2.
(note, somehow I skipped SONAR 2).
 
Fortunately, I was really only charged $149 for X3.
 

Take the cost you paid from Pro Audio 4 to X3 and then divide that amount by the number of years/months you had Sonar software.  The calculation will give you the average yearly/monthly cost you paid during those years that you were making music with the software you choose to buy.
 
You may be surprised by how relatively low the amount actually is.
 

markyzno
My first sequencer was Micro-rhythm on the Commodore 64 :D I think I paid £1.99 for it back in the day.

Hehe, nostalgic trip this thread. That reminded me that I actually built a CV/gate interface from instructions in a magazine (Radio electronics and for Sinclair spectrum if my memory isn't messed up). I had to adapt the design to my Spectravideo 328 and code the program myself, but managed to run my Monopoly on it.

Sanderxpander
Voyetra! Yes! I used that as a 12 year old kid (I think), completely computer based with no midi keyboard.

We have a saying in Sweden that roughly translated goes: "if you want it bent well you should bend it early"  :)
A trip down memory lane maybe?
 
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A_p4IgBD5oE
 
 
 
 

Actually mine was blue and white, like this one;
http://youtu.be/go98Di9FJI0
Looks like it's the same program though! Good times!
I remember thinking for a long time it was the same company/product as Cakewalk, as that was th only sequencer I knew :)

Heh - yeah Tascam/Cakewalk/Gibson is nice enough to show you your purchase history.  I just make sure my wife isn't around when I log into the CW store.

Before going ITP I too used SPG sync'd to my Alesis BRC which drove my 3 black face ADATs.
This was my last console/desk