I like to create the arts (game art). I also enjoy music transcribing.

I use mine as a drink table. 😁

Been composing MIDIs since 1990, currently STILL using Cakewalk Pro v3.02. I never was much into Tracker format composing, although I registered MODEDIT as well as bought Tetra Compositor.

I too remember Voyetra's SPP, and had a MIDI driver for it that could access my old Wave Blaster 1 😀

I used to do the same stuff back in the day, i remember first having a wave editor, i forgot the name, tedwin or something like that. Then I purchased a copy of Magix Music Maker... That was a mistake. Finally I got into it a little more seriously with Jeskola Buzz, took a while to even figure out how it worked... Now i just download the latest "Future sound of Egypt" mixed by Aly & Fila and call it a day 😉

Edit: sometimes i think about going back into it, especially after hearing good pieces like Arksun's Arisen, but then i realize i have a job, kids and almost no time to do anything else, so a quick game of starcraft before i go to sleep and that's it for me.

Using my PC to record my vinyl records to CD...some of these LP's have never been released on CD so one of my hobbies is to track down rare LP's

But I tend to use my Mac Pro more often for this task since it has better software for editing/recording sound

did you know with audacity you can record your lp's at 45rpm (saves time)

Here is a "short" list of things I have done with home computers over the past couple decades I've been using them for:

* Playing games
* Making games (IE: Programming)
* Pixel artwork
* Photo editing
* Story writing
* Tracking sales records
* Non-Linear video editing (IE: My new ADG webshow)
* Sound editing
* Sound effect creation
* Sound recording
* Composing music (MIDI and Impulse Tracker)
* Browsing the World Wide Web
* Browsing FTP servers
* Internet Relay Chat
* Connecting to Bulletin Board Servers
* Watching DVDs
* Calculating complex mathematical equations
* General research
* Hex editing (very helpful thing to know how to do!)

There's probably more but I'm just going off the top of my head.

I suck at programming and music-making, so not much of that for me...mostly just non-creative entertainment/educational uses for my PC.

Besides gaming, I use my PC for listening to "internet radio" a lot, watching some vids or movies...and I use it in coordination with my iPod (5th Gen) Video 80GB to timeshift and listen to a *lot* of podcasts on various topics, especially Sci-Fi and MMA (mixed martial arts) podcasts.

With my PC, I also download books in txt format and use a text-to-speech utility to convert the books to MP3 speech files which I then transfer to my iPod...again, to listen to at my leisure.

I used to do a few remixes in SONY Acid (which I started with Sonic Foundrys version first)

But it was only remixes, so it was really any kind of cover versions , just having fun.

But every now and then, the old remixer pops up in me, and I go remix crazy.

Davros wrote:

did you know with audacity you can record your lp's at 45rpm (saves time)

Yeah, but when you're recording old 78s, it still takes longer than real time....

I. For me, I used to create music using Tetra Music Compositor in my 286, which came with early sound blaster 2.0, I think, (my friend gave it to me, I had only SB 1.5 at that time.)

Currently using Madtracker.
Has been some time since I last tinkered with the tracker.

II. I listen to cd and dvd music often. Like to listen some relaxing tunes in surround.

III. Watch movies - usually DVDs (as some of you know of my room's HTPC-like setup.)

IV. Archiving my games, especially all my DOS games, both floppy and cd versions. These classics are too precious to get lost along with the fragile floppy media.

V. Collecting, organizing and reading classic games' manuals, classic pc games mags. (I have the first 100 issues of Computer Gaming World in PDF format.) Some of those mags/articles, I print out for bedside reading.

VI. Creating CD cover arts / CD labels, for all my backup cd games.

EDIT: Tetra Music Compositor which came with the Sound Blaster 2.0 is the fully registered version. Another version was released with Sound Blaster Pro, called Tetra Compositor Pro, which takes advantage of the SBPro's Stereo Output, by enabling the assignation of the samples to either L,R, or both channels.
I just couldn't find a copy of this anymore. I really wish it comes up sometime in the net.

Malik wrote:

I. For me, I used to create music using Tetra Music Compositor in my 286, which came with early sound blaster 2.0, I think, (my friend gave it to me, I had only SB 1.5 at that time.)

I used Tetra Compositor shortly before MODEDIT. Do you still remember the songs "In The Mix", "Voyager", and "Echo", which comes with the software? Ahhh... those days....

Malik wrote:

Currently using Madtracker.
Has been some time since I last tinkered with the tracker.

Does it have trance samples?

Malik wrote:

Tetra Music Compositor which came with the Sound Blaster 2.0 is the fully registered version.

None of my sound cards came with it, but I did purchase it back in the day.

Malik wrote:

Another version was released with Sound Blaster Pro, called Tetra Compositor Pro, which takes advantage of the SBPro's Stereo Output, by enabling the assignation of the samples to either L,R, or both channles. I just couldn't find a copy of this anymore. I really wish it comes up sometime in the net.

Thanks for the info, I never knew that before 😀

Kreshna Aryaguna Nurzaman wrote:

I used Tetra Compositor shortly before MODEDIT. Do you still remember the songs "In The Mix", "Voyager", and "Echo", which comes with the software? Ahhh... those days....

I loved those tunes! 😀 BTW, check my message above <grin>, the link http://www.cmoo.com/snor/weeds/Echoing.htm 😀 Oh, and here's another -> http://www.cmoo.com/snor/weeds/Lars.htm 😀

rfnagel wrote:

Kreshna Aryaguna Nurzaman wrote:

I used Tetra Compositor shortly before MODEDIT. Do you still remember the songs "In The Mix", "Voyager", and "Echo", which comes with the software? Ahhh... those days....

I loved those tunes! 😀 BTW, check my message above <grin>, the link http://www.cmoo.com/snor/weeds/Echoing.htm 😀 Oh, and here's another -> http://www.cmoo.com/snor/weeds/Lars.htm 😀

Yep! Some of the greatest mods ever! 😀

And here is my previous post highlighting "Echo". I might have even got it from rfnagel!! Thanks! 😀

Kreshna Aryaguna Nurzaman wrote:

Does it have trance samples?

I think there are some trance samples. If you're looking for the instruments used for the trance samples, you can extract them from any mods, just like in any other trackers, as you're aware of.

It comes with some mods. My fav is Embrace by Souleye. (http://souleye.madtracker.net/souleye%20-%20embrace.mp3)

Malik wrote:

And here is my previous post highlighting "Echo". I might have even got it from rfnagel!! Thanks! 😀

Yep, that MIDI in that thread is it 😀 Cool 😀

Malik wrote:

It comes with some mods. My fav is Embrace by Souleye. (http://souleye.madtracker.net/souleye%20-%20embrace.mp3)

Interesting. I'll take a look, I mean, take a listen to it.

Anyway, nobody like graphics and animation? I'm not really into such thing, but Arga was such an animation freak when we were in highschool. He was using Autodesk Animator for DOS, as well as GRASP "animation programming language". Anyone remember that?

Anyway, nobody like graphics and animation?

I've played around with a program for my Tandy, something called "Disney Animation Studio", if memory serves. Kinda fun, but requires a fairly large investment of time to do it right.