[MENTION=9465]Brad[/MENTION]: shame about the 3000. I had an A1500 but I peeled off the sticker (yeah underneath the sticker there was an A2000 badge) and tricked it out. I used it to make a record back in the day.
I had a Picasso II and a GVP68030 with 50mb HD, Golden Gate II bridgeboard so I could have a PC ethernet NE2000 card. Had a CDROM drive, etc.
I used Bars and Pipes (about 200 quid - a lot of money in 1990 or 91, Music-X never made any sense to me) and a midi interface to control a Casio FZ1 sampling keyboard and a Korg S3 drum machine. Was ok at the time but I was on a knife edge, most of the equipment was 2nd hand and we needed more polyphony and multitimbrality to make it sound "thicker", but we just couldn't stretch to it.
Good times though! Making music today at studio quality is in everyone's reach. The range of options probably makes it way harder to settle for anything. On my sampling keyboard I had about three floppy disks of bass guitars and probably only three of the instruments sounded good enough to use. Made choosing easier!
I had a Picasso II and a GVP68030 with 50mb HD, Golden Gate II bridgeboard so I could have a PC ethernet NE2000 card. Had a CDROM drive, etc.
I used Bars and Pipes (about 200 quid - a lot of money in 1990 or 91, Music-X never made any sense to me) and a midi interface to control a Casio FZ1 sampling keyboard and a Korg S3 drum machine. Was ok at the time but I was on a knife edge, most of the equipment was 2nd hand and we needed more polyphony and multitimbrality to make it sound "thicker", but we just couldn't stretch to it.
Good times though! Making music today at studio quality is in everyone's reach. The range of options probably makes it way harder to settle for anything. On my sampling keyboard I had about three floppy disks of bass guitars and probably only three of the instruments sounded good enough to use. Made choosing easier!
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