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I was thinking about this from something I saw in another forum thread.
How many DAW's have you had since you started in digital music?
I think I'm on DAW #4.
1. Windows 95 computer running a version of Cakewalk Pro 8 deluxe. This machine is no longer running.
2. Laptop dedicated to music with Windows ME. This computer is still operational and I use it in my studio for other things besides recording. It still has a number of project files on it.
3. A custom machine that I built from parts. This is an Intel i5 processor running Windows 7 Pro 32. I used this one for a very long time. It still runs and I keep it in the studio mainly because it contains the original files for a bunch of the music I have recorded over the past decade. I built it in 2008 if I recall correctly.
4. A rehabbed computer running Windows 10 64 bit. This is my current machine and runs everything now. I had to do a lot of work and upgrading and updating of my base programs to get back to functionality.
How about you? How many computers have you burned through pursuing this musical addiction?
You can find my music at: www.herbhartley.comAdd nothing that adds nothing to the music. You can make excuses or you can make progress but not both. The magic you are looking for is in the work you are avoiding.
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Computers: too many to list with too much overlap
DAWS: depends on the definition. I could do multitrack audio with Cool Edit Pro, which became Audobe Audition. And although it wasn't on my computers (as in "had" it), I've used Pro Tools in studios. But for pure DAWs I use at home:
Cakewalk Pro Audio, which became all the editions of SONAR. I think SONAR X3 was the last?
Then brief experiments with Digital Performer and Mixcraft and fleeting glances rejecting several others.
Five years now, Studio One Pro (now up to version 7).
For all practical purposes, I would say that three DAWs account for almost all of my work at home: Cool Edit Pro and its derivatives, Cakewalk/SONAR and its derivatives, and Studio One.
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![[Linked Image - Only viewable when logged in]](https://www.pgmusic.com/forums/ubbthreads.php?ubb=download&Number=30393&filename=IMG_2104.jpg) In the past 25 years or more, I have had 4 PC's which I bought for Music! Here is a picture from my closet which shows 2 of them. Still working but long ago decommisioned. I used to love Dells, until I didn't. In the early days it was ProTools but they become too much propritary and left me. I have been with Reaper for the past 20 years.
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Voyetra Sequencer Plus (DOS MIDI Sequencer)
Voyetra Orchestrator Pro (Windows MIDI Sequencer with Audio Sample Playback)
Cakewalk Music Creator 2, 4, 6 (Consumer grade DAWs)
Cakewalk by Bandlab
Goldstar 486 (IBM clone)
PII (homebuilt with DrDOS & Windows 3.11)
Dell Inspirion (Windows XP)
Dell i3 laptop (Windows Vista, 7 & 10 hand me down)
Dell i7 desktop (Windows 10 & 11)
Jim Fogle - 2025 BiaB (Build 1128) RB (Build 5) - Ultra+ PAK DAWs: Cakewalk Sonar - Standalone: Zoom MRS-8 Laptop: i3 Win 10, 8GB ram 500GB HDD Desktop: i7 Win 11, 12GB ram 256GB SSD, 4 TB HDD Music at: https://fogle622.wix.com/fogle622-audio-home
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Atari - Dr. T's sequencer
Windows:
Gibson's Vision
Cakewalk Pro Audio
Cakewalk Sonar
Studio One Pro
I got banned from Weight Watchers for dropping a bag of M&Ms on the floor.
It was the best game of Hungry Hippos I've ever seen!
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Software:
Cakewalk/Sonar from 1991 (DOS!) or so until they went under in 2017 or so. Later picked up the free version of the new Cakewalk for but don't use it except to open archives.
Studio One through 5.5 since 2017. Every upgrade opportunity I squint at the new features and shrug. Maybe 8.0 is the one.
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WAY too many until...
Had a dedicated DAW built in 2017 by Studio Cat and it's still a beast. Sadly, the processor will not support Windows 11...
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Presonus Studio One
StudioCat DAW dual screen
Presonus Faderport 16
Too many guitars (is that a thing?)
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... dedicated DAW built in 2017 by Studio Cat and it's still a beast. Sadly, the processor will not support Windows 11... I've had doubts about Microsoft's claims on this ever since I tried to reinstall a previously working Win7 on a "CPU built for a newer version of Windows". It seems others have also had doubts are there are seveal articles on the Web outlining ways to install Win11 on older CPUs. I searched for "older cpu win11" and found several. Caveat: I haven't actually tried it myself. Yet. Another method may be via a virtual manchine. VirtualBox purportedly supplies a virtusl TPM that may satisfy Win11. I know not if there's a significant performance hit.
Jazz relative beginner, starting at a much older age than was helpful.
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I haven't tried this and will not, but my understanding is that yes, you can use workarounds to install Windows 11 on older PCs not adequately equipped with the security module. However, I've read that you then cannot install Windows updates, which could leave you in a vulnerable state. I don't know for sure if any of that is true. After all, I only read it on the Internet...
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Good caution Matt.
That sounds likely to be true if bypassing TPM 2 to install.
My old Win7 was installing updates OK for a long time, then suddenly stopped on a major, 95% installing and rolling back every few days, with just an obscure error number that barely helped. Eventually, after 18 months, I heard that it was related to that "This CPU..." message. The whole business was a real PITA.
A virtual machine may do better with a virtual TPM 2, but there can be other downsides.
I ran Win7 in VirtualBox on Linux to see if BiaB and my CAD would run there, but there was some messing about due to complications with hardware and, on Linux at least, the right DirectX wasn't then fully implemented, so my CAD wouldn't render.
Summary ... I think I'd also do as Matt would ... not even try. I'd either stick with the old machine and its old Windows, or buy a new machine and put Linux on the old one.
Jazz relative beginner, starting at a much older age than was helpful.
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... and another caution ... My old Win7 was installing updates OK for a long time, then suddenly stopped on a major, 95% installing and rolling back every few days, with just an obscure error number that barely helped. Eventually, after 18 months, I heard that it was related to that "This CPU..." message. The whole business was a real PITA. BTW, the reason I had that situation was because I'd done that old trick of moving (a clone of) the hard drive from the old mechine onto a new machine, successfully avoiding all the countless hours of re-installations, but paying the time and effort many times over with the above install-rollback cycles.
Jazz relative beginner, starting at a much older age than was helpful.
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My first was an Atari 1040 ST. I modified the mobo and installed a heap of extra RAM, all piggy-backed and soldered directly onto the existing RAM data lines on the IC's, with some careful new address lines to successfully enable it to map to my extra RAM. It worked. I doubled the RAM ! I was doing a lot of hardware maintenance and repairs on bigger mainframe stuff then (DEC PDP's). They were fun days, indeed. But I don't miss them  I was using Notator software on the Atari. I then tried early versions of Logic Pro and found it cumbersome and unintuitive. Short-lived. Definitely didn't count. Step forward into another millennia and I use BIAB with Sonar Platinum, Cakewalk by Bandlab, and Izotope Prod.Bundle on a separate Windows 11 system. I also use a Windows 10 system with only BIAB installed (no DAW) which is only for testing and to help other users on this platform. Annoyingly. Microsoft keep sending me alerts to upgrade to Windows 11, even when they know this hardware is probably not compatible. So, to answer your question, I don't really know how many that makes. If Notator was a DAW, then I think, 3. Hardly a record, eh?
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I've had so many computers that sometimes were and sometimes weren't used for music production I couldn't begin to list them. But my original DAW software was PG's own PowerTracks and I've stuck with it, just installing the 2025 version. In the mean time, other software came and went, some lasting a while, some just a test ride. Adobe Audition was the fave for a while. Currently playing with Ardour on Linux but I can't quite see it becoming my go-to.
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Currently playing with Ardour on Linux but I can't quite see it becoming my go-to. FWIW, Harrison Mixbus is Ardour-Based and also runs on Linux, I have 9 and like it, but I've struggled rather to understand their product range and licensing since they were taken over by SSL. Harrison used to contribute a lot to Ardour development; I don't know if that's still true. Reaper runs on Linux. BitWig runs on Linux. Ardour and LMMS are both OpenSource, come from the Linux world and have been ported to other platforms.
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Am I the only one here that used a Roland RAP-10 back in the day?
I finally threw out that old Hemlett-Packard 486 machine with the ISA slot during the pandemic.
That was a decent SoundCanvas card and recorded 16/44.
I do not work here, but the benefits are still awesome
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Yes, Bob. You were the only one.
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Figures 
I do not work here, but the benefits are still awesome
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Figures I can’t begin to imagine who’s fault that is.
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How many I’ve had? Too many to list.
Digital Performer is my go-to but many of my collaborators use others so I need to know ten or so.
I’ve used more notation apps than I can remember and have current licenses for six but Encore was the only one I ever liked. I hate only MuseScore and Sibelius.
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Mario Paint > Sound Forge > Acid > Pro Tools > Logic
Currently I only use Logic (though I use a zillion others for testing with BIAB)
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Mario Paint > Sound Forge > Acid > Pro Tools > Logic
Currently I only use Logic (though I use a zillion others for testing with BIAB) Assuming Mario Paint isn’t a joke, is that something for writing music for games?
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Mario Paint > Sound Forge > Acid > Pro Tools > Logic
Currently I only use Logic (though I use a zillion others for testing with BIAB) Assuming Mario Paint isn’t a joke, is that something for writing music for games? I had to google this: https://arcadespot.com/game/mario-paint/I'm glad that it is real and not him watching me paint my new shed 
I got banned from Weight Watchers for dropping a bag of M&Ms on the floor.
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Assuming Mario Paint isn’t a joke, is that something for writing music for games? It's a game that lets you write music:
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my music app lunacy...lol
Atari st > reaps v1 plus powertracks > reaps v2 plus bb and rb...
plus along the way useing various commercial studios large and small.
lots of fun.
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my songs....mixed for good earbuds...(fyi..my vocs on all songs..) https://soundcloud.com/alfsongs(90 songs created useing bb/rb) (lots of tips of mine in pg tips forum.)
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Software from oldest to youngest:
- PowerTracks - 2 years?
- Sonar LE (I think it came free with something) - 1 year
- Reaper - 5 years
- Cakewalk by Bandlab - 5 years
I won't mention hardware because changes were made irrespective of the DAW I was using.
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Off topic, sorry. Do I recognize the Sturt's Desert Pea flower? If so, v.nice
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Off topic, sorry. Do I recognize the Sturt's Desert Pea flower? If so, v.nice Yes - state floral emblem of Sth Aust. I took this pic while walking during COVID.
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I was actually headed in the hardware direction in the initial post.
Talking about software:
Cakewalk 8 Pro Deluxe : on the Win 95 machine
Music Creator 4 (MC4) ( by cakewalk ) On the laptop
Music Creator 5 (won from CW)
Music Creator 6
Sonar Essential On the custom machine
Sonar by Bandlab : current on the Dell
You can find my music at: www.herbhartley.comAdd nothing that adds nothing to the music. You can make excuses or you can make progress but not both. The magic you are looking for is in the work you are avoiding.
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I was actually headed in the hardware direction in the initial post. Then in my case - too many. Apart from the aforementioned Super Nintendo, first DAW I used was ACID on a Win98 machine - Pentium 150mhz with 32mb ram. Since then - I can't even count. I currently have 8 machines that regularly get used for audio work.
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Started with Clarion 4 track cassette player
old win 98 with Cakewalk home studio 2
followed with Cake music creator 1, and 2 and Sonic foundry Acid pro 1, 2, and 3
New computer with the above and Powertracks (forgot the version)
Hand built computer with Powertracks cakewalk music creator 3 thru 5
Sonar essential, band in a box and N - tracks studio Added Multitracks studio 2 thru 4 pro
New laptop and studio one 2 and Reaper 2
New Desktop with Band in a box, Studio one 4 and 5 and Real band. Cakewalk by bandlab.
Mac mini with Mixbus, reaper 5 and 6, Logic.
New win 11 laptop with Realband, Reaper 7 Mixbus 9, BiaB
My My how fickle i am about software.
HP Win 11 12 gig ram, Mac mini Sonoma with 16 gig of ram, BiaB 2025, Realband, Reaper 7, Harrison Mixbus 9 32c , Melodyne 5 editor, Presonus Audiobox 1818VSL, Presonus control app.
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Started with Clarion 4 track cassette player
old win 98 with Cakewalk home studio 2
followed with Cake music creator 1, and 2 and Sonic foundry Acid pro 1, 2, and 3
New computer with the above and Powertracks (forgot the version)
Hand built computer with Powertracks cakewalk music creator 3 thru 5
Sonar essential, band in a box and N - tracks studio Added Multitracks studio 2 thru 4 pro
New laptop and studio one 2 and Reaper 2
New Desktop with Band in a box, Studio one 4 and 5 and Real band. Cakewalk by bandlab.
Mac mini with Mixbus, reaper 5 and 6, Logic.
New win 11 laptop with Realband, Reaper 7 Mixbus 9, BiaB
My My how fickle i am about software. I actually started with a Teac 4 track reel to reel. It was a real pain to record on. The brake wasn't adjusted right and it would destroy the tape on stopping from either a FF or rewind. I sold that to a guy who ran an 8-track tape copy operation.... bootlegging the popular 8-tracks. It was confiscated from him when the feds busted his operation, confiscated all his gear, and put him in federal prison for 10 years or so. He was transporting and selling across state lines so that was another charge. Some time later, when a house band I was in was in the process of self destructing, I bought a Roland TR-808 (IIRC) and a Tascam Porta-One. That was a pretty cool tape machine using 4 tracks on cassette. Still kinda hard to do edits and punches, and of course, limited to 4 tracks without bouncing. It was after this, and after seeing a friend of mine who was running a very early version of Cakewalk DOS midi, that I started looking at the digital realm and computers.
You can find my music at: www.herbhartley.comAdd nothing that adds nothing to the music. You can make excuses or you can make progress but not both. The magic you are looking for is in the work you are avoiding.
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I assume we all had a Porta-One (or similar) at one point in our travels. Nice for it's time.
I do not work here, but the benefits are still awesome
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I also had a Teac 4-track with 15” reels. I still have it but I haven’t dared to try any of the old tapes, and I’m sure the rollers would have flat spots. It had an outrigger sound-on-sound attachment with push buttons to route signals to combine a signal with a prior recording, so you could do multitrack recording up to a point when the sound quality would degrade.
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I also had a Teac 4-track with 15” reels. I still have it but I haven’t dared to try any of the old tapes, and I’m sure the rollers would have flat spots. It had an outrigger sound-on-sound attachment with push buttons to route signals to combine a signal with a prior recording, so you could do multitrack recording up to a point when the sound quality would degrade. I hear you. I have multiple analog decks in my basement. The thought of ever using them again… well, first, what’s the condition of the belts, heads and electronics? Do I need to get new calibration tapes from MRL? My friend, Bill Hare (Pentatonix, London Symphony etc.) turned me onto Thin Brown Line Studios last week. I’m going to send them a few reels and see how it turns out.
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I guess I'm the odd one (again) because I've only been using Cubase (since Cubase SX3 circa 2006).
I also have a license for Reaper because I want to support the developer, but I don't use it.
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I guess I'm the odd one (again) because I've only been using Cubase (since Cubase SX3 circa 2006).
I also have a license for Reaper because I want to support the developer, but I don't use it. Well... some of us have been doing this since long before digital was a thing. In my case, Dad worked at AMPEX from the mid '60s–mid '70s — I got to tag along, hang out & learn. I was able to borrow equipment, too, When digital came along, there were many hardware and software "solutions" out there. It took a long time till anything was reliable enough to trust. Not going to describe my first DAW setup other than to say that I was running an AMPEX or TASCAM half-track, TASCAM 4 or 8 track analog backup simultaneously for a couple of years until I became confident that I could fly without a net around 2001 or so.
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Like many of the contemporary musicians I started to create my first beats with Fruity Loops, back in 2002 .... Then I moved to Cubase . And finally I tried Samplitude which I use to this day. But I realized that the DAW is not so important for me but the lack of real hardware synths . I never liked the plugins sound ...The hardware has significantly changed the sound of the beats I make.
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We had a Fostex 8 track reel to reel with a 2 track master beside it that synced.
We gave a lot of money to that Ampex company ..
I do not work here, but the benefits are still awesome
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We gave a lot of money to that Ampex company .. Didn't we all? I worked in a studio that had a 24-track Studer - and it mostly collected dust, as most people didn't want to spend that kind of money!
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