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kokorodoko wrote: Fri Feb 11, 2022 1:14 pm

Kniferide wrote: Fri Feb 11, 2022 12:58 pmI learned Fast Tracker 2 in the early 90's on a IBM 386. I paid $500 for a Soundblaster 16 bit card when they came out and another $200 for a 100 MB hard drive for samples. All that just to make bleep bloop music like this.

I respect your dedication.

It always takes me by surprise when I hear prices of old stuff. Like you assume since it's so early in its development it's slightly shitty and it wouldn't be as expensive, but nah. Seems like computer stuff have kept a pretty steady pace in terms of prices. I watched some John Romero interview the other day where he mentioned that Wolfenstein 3d was sold for $60. And that's 1992 money!

RAM and HD space is a fraction of what it used to cost. Hundreds of dollars for sub 500 MB (Megs, not Gigs much less Tera) hard drives, more if you bought high speed SCSI. I think my 386 had 64, maybe 128 MB of ram. Windows 3.1. Fast tracker had to be launched from command prompt. I could reliably do 16 tracks of sample sequencing though. I used it as my drum machine until maybe the late 90's/early 2000's. There is some wacky company making a hard ware version of Fast Tracker right now and the masochistic side of me wants to buy one. I remember paying $80 for a 1GB usb stick when they first came out that big. Computer shit is insanely cheap in comparison these days.

Rhythm & Sound - See Mi Yah

I paid $2000 in the late 90s for a video capture card just so I could capture and play back broadcast-quality video in real time - that's 640x480 at 30fps. That was a big deal in those days - it meant I could do digital video editing. Very cutting-edge.

I still have the card. I don't suppose it's still worth $2000.

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new Ryley Walker ep

A_Man_Who_Tries wrote: Sat Feb 12, 2022 3:14 pm Rhythm & Sound - See Mi Yah

solid...do those guys still make music?