![]() Towards the mid 902s Macs were creeping in, they were better computers, even better than the Atari ST 1040 model, they had colour screens and it wasn’t long until we had the capability to record and edit audio to a degree. So back then, Cubase was my sequencer of choice and I zipped around on it like lightning as I knew it so well. I think before Notator, they were called Creator but let’s not go there! Speaking of Apple, in those days Macs were quite new on the music production scene and Atari ST’s were always thought of as more stable, and they were rock solid timing wise. Later on Emagic changed the name from Notator to Notator Logic then finally settled at Logic long before Apple bought them out of course. Cubase on the other hand was a lot more intuitive giving us the ability to drag, drop, copy and paste blocks of midi information. from what I remember, Notator looked like the event list in Logic and that was it. The two most popular sequencers were Steinberg’s Cubase and Emagic’s Notator. Lisa and Maddy at the Roundhouse were the exception there – they went on to manage me when I went freelance as a mix engineer. I went freelance as an assistant as soon as possible as I got on well and was in demand from engineers and producers but didn’t get on so with with the management who ran the studios. Back then for sampling, we had the classic Akai S900 and S950 and later the Akai S1000. Obviously all audio was dealt with using 24 track 23 tape with up to 3 slaved together synchronised with lynx synchronisers. When I very first started in the olden days (early 902s) we all used Atari ST’s with a whole 512k of Ram for sequencing Midi and not much else. Okay I don’t suppose I am the first nor will I be the last to raise this question that is which DAW is best out of Logic, Pro Tools, Ableton or Cubase but here is part one of my thoughts and coming up soon, part two and the thoughts of music production school tutors, Al, George and Paul.
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