Originally Posted by Rob Helms
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.

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