Anyone of you use MIDI etc in 1980/90s? (1 Viewer)

[Scientician 0.8]

Where did you buy the equipment? Were there vendors in Dublin in 1980's? Anyone know anyone who has been using computers for music that long? Anyone care? Use amiga/ataris for tunage etc?
Thanks,
The Scientician

 

[aoboa]

Yeah - since 93/94.
Started with a Boss DR550 drum machine and moved to an Amiga with midi interface.
CTI did Atari/Amiga stuff but the small adds on the back pages of future music were cheaper.
Peats even carried a few midi/audio interfaces for Amigas.

 

[pissypants]

Yeah, CTI in the early / mid 90s. The older, bigger McCullough Piggot used to have lots of midi gear too.
I had (and have!) a KORG M1, and cubase on an Atari ST - which had built in MIDI ports. Why do you ask?

 

[Scientician 0.8]

I'm writing postgrad research on computers and music in Ireland and was wondering how people got access to equipment pre-web. Where is/was CTI?

 

[aoboa]

Where is/was CTI?

Malpas St, D8.

 

[lemonbravo]

i started with an alesis hr16 about 91, it was my dad's.
Then 93/94 i lived in england, bought stuff there and continued to buy in england for most of the 90's.
I did go into CTI in the mid 90's, but they wouldn't give me any discount under the rrp so I ordered stuff from england again.

Ad's in Future music and The Mix mostly (that was the other one wasn't it?).

 

[aoboa]

Buy & Sell was the only other source of midi/synth stuff.
Picked up a couple of cheap DX's, an MMT8 and a 303 from B&S.
Also used to use a guy called Bumblebee Music who had a music equipment stall at markets. Used to carry a lot of Alesis stuff.
His shop (i.e. his garage) was based in Wicklow.

 

[pete]

Around about the time the Amiga 500 came out (1987?), Peats were selling a tiny little sampler for it. Was about 50 quid, I think.

 

[pissypants]

I used to get stuff from abroad too - got some bits and pieces from Rea Sounds up north.

 

[aoboa]

Around about the time the Amiga 500 came out (1987?), Peats were selling a tiny little sampler for it. Was about 50 quid, I think.

yeah - Technosound Turbo

 

[lemonbravo]

i think Darren in studiosolutions.ie used to work at cti, he might have some useful info or contacts.

 

[shower another shower]

Contact Larry O'Toole at Ballyfermot Sr. College.

 

[pissypants]

Contact Larry O'Toole at Ballyfermot Sr. College.

Great idea. Larry really really knows his shit from back in the day, and would give a really great interview. Sound as a bell too.

 

[Red_Dog]

hI -

I used to use octamed on an amiga 1000 back in 1994/1995 and it was a copy i got on a disk from a friend -

Thats was what we had before the internet - your friend would copy the disk.I also got some stuff on amiga mags.Also the mags used to have ads for public domain copaines who would sell really cheap software via mail order

never bought any gear but most of the music shops in dublin were there in 80s
There was also richer sounds , rocksteady ,the place at the back of jervis was way better and there was a second hand place across from where cineworld is now.

Memories.

 

[ernesto]

Great idea. Larry really really knows his shit from back in the day, and would give a really great interview. Sound as a bell too.

word, great lecturer too.
legened.

 

[Red_Dog]

There was also a music shop in temple bar - i remember being in there in 96 and trying out a Yamaha cs1x - jeez that was a long time ago now- i wonder if you had of gone in to Waltons in 87 would they have had 303s and stuff for sale- funny

 

[Scientician 0.8]

Cool, thanks for responses folks. I'll contact that dude and hopefully he can help me out. I want to get a clearer picture of how things were pre-WWW, globalisation, 911, thomann and the like.

By the way, I've been considering doing a focus group on computer tech in music making/composition and wondering if anyone would be interested in joining in. I've nothing concrete planned as yet but would like to hear from people with experience of using computers for composition and music making and especially those who've used recent tech and older/analogue techs for music making.

I did some interviews last summer which I found very useful and will be attempting to conduct more. It's made when you have a bit more knowledge/perspective you can start asking the right questions. Sounds wanky but then it is an academic thesis!

 

[Red_Dog]

If ye cant get a hold of LOT try Fran Prendergast in same college - shes cool

 

[HMD]

the first thing i got was a Yamaha RX21 in 93, then i picked up a second hand Atari St 4mb with a sampling card, a Yamaha SY22 and a Alesis SR16 about 94/95. I was using Concerto for sequencing.

 

[shower another shower]

for what its worth, hr16 midi'd to a roland octapad with a dw5000 trigger pedal and home-made ext. trigger pads made from mdf, sheet metal, rubber car floor mats and a piezo transducer. Made the pads myself. Bought the hr16, octapad and kick pedal in Guitar Center, Santa Ana, CA in '88.