i was just curious to how old everyone was.. and I suppose how long theyve been making tunes. ( not playing instruments but actually recording themselves )

im 20.. and I got into computer music about 3 yrs ago when I stumbled on propellerheads site and got rebirth demo... and then I made some ugly ugly music

NEXT!!!!!

21, started writing computer music when I was 15 with ScreamTracker. I've played various "real" instruments since I was 8.

18, been making music for 2 years now...like you with rebirth...the bad old days

24. been playing instruments since age 3. First recording in a real recording studio age 5; with family band. Not just singing a baby song either. First solo project recorded in Nashville age 22.

28 I WIN!! 29 in feb. Started in 1991 with Noisetracker 2.0 and an Amiga 500. I had lots of samples on floppies.

-tek

edit: I'm tired.

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My God....I was playing free form when most of you were in liquid form.
Me...51
did my first paying gig at 13
Still playing, still writing.....
Still breathing

Damn you! For once I was winning, then some WW2 veteran has to post.

-tek

36...started with a sax at 12....discovered wind midi controllers at 32...tryed using a taperecorder which...sucked...got a computer dicovered the wonderful world of midi sequencing....been down hill every sence.

Hello..........I'm 43..... started playing trumpet in 3rd grade.......became first chair in "jazz band" thru highschool. Always had a large console organ at home growing up. Never had lessons, but learned to play pretty good by ear. I remember my first "synthesizer" in the late 70's......something radio shack sold..... had all kinds of knobs and sliders and mono only! Wish I still had it..........
Now I love to sequence via computer.......so much easier than the punch in machines from the 80's. Easy to get instant gratification too. Thanks for asking!

Leon ..... you're just getting to MIDDLE age ... I've got you by 10 years, and there are players on this board who call ME 'kid' .... started with accordion lessons at 13 ... played first gig at about 15 ... still gigging ... don't do any 'computer' music ... play an arranger and that's fine for me....
... as Charlie Chaplin said "Just keep warm!!"
t.

Of course you started with accordion. Electricity came much later

-tek

Ouch!!!
Nice shot Tek!!

51 as well and my first paying gig was at 16.

so the trouble makers are the youngers ones.

Hi Guys,
I'm 65 and still growing (round the middle!)
but that's ok!
I picked up my first guitar when I was 6. A nice lady taught G,C & D chords then I got a study book to learn.
I was playing pretty fair acc rythmn at
8 yrs. old. I play lead guitar,guitar bass,
mandolin,Autoharp, and keboard for the last 10 years. I have PSR2000 arranger. I know I'm over here amongst all of you synth musicions. But promise I'll behave!
Cheers,
Nobby

30 ....eek 31 in 16 days! ,learnt classical piano at about 6 or so ...Playing in bands for 16yrs or so got the pc music bug about 7 yrs ago .Quite chuffed to beat tek big up's to our more senior members you guys rock !

31... started as a DJ at age 8, played alto sax from 9 - 13, at age 14 bought a Korg DDD-1, at 19 I conned my way into owning an Ensoniq ESQ-1, then traded that for an Ensoniq Mirage.

First show in 1987 I opened for Run-DMC.

54 - made a whopping $8 for my first gig at age 16 playing piano iin a polka band!

Hehe, aj. Right after you comes M33 in and beats you by a year.

-tek

PS. Old people smell funny.

Well, I'm right up with you Nobby. Started on the piano at an early age, migrated to clarinet and sax in dance and jazz bands in my youth, played in a chamber music group after that and finally got to playing keyboards. But I wrote a music compiler for a mainframe computer way back in 1965 so I guess that makes me a pioneer in computer music. The mainframe didn't have a speaker so I tuned in the central processor on an AM radio. The processor ran at 150 kHz (yes that's kilohertz) so it radiated signals all over the AM band.

Nobby - that PSR2000 is a mighty synth in its own right - not just an arranger keyboard. Have you looked in the Data List manual at all that stuff you can do with sysex? All those DSPs and effects - it'll blow away some of those hifalutin synths.

Thought of the day...

According to the doctors who checked him out, Bruce Lee had the body of an 18 year old when he was 32 years of age.

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Hi Pilot
I was 65 Jan. 13th. 2002, so I might be a little older!

I'm not into writing music much, I have done a little tape recording. I would like to convince my wife that I need a Mini Recorder Ha!
See Ya Around,
Nobby
PS: Yes I love my 2000, It's been great for me!

I'm 32. I started in a punk band with no lessons, just figuring out how to slam around a guitar loudly. I was about 14-15 at that time. After a while, I began experimenting with noise and taped sounds and began to do stuff like play several sterios, all with different sounding "noise"tapes all playing at the same time and I would reccord the chaos. I then descovered noise industrial bands like Throbbing Gristle, Cabare Voltair, and Einsturzende Neubauten were all doing the same thing and so I got into industrial music. Durring this time, I also became a proficient electric and acoustic guitarist. My first industrial band was called "The Vault" and I was around 19 at the time. We never made it out of the garage. By that time, I had a computer and had discovered the wonder of Mod Editors on several local BBS's. Our setup was... Backing sounds, electronic rythms and noise.. I did with the mod editor (nammed Modedit)...I played guitar, we had a bassist, a drummer, and a friend who went around my garage with a microphone in his hand who hit stuff with it. Then we all went to college and never saw each other again.
I got my first synth, A Yamaha SY35, and an Alesis SR16 drum machine(and I still have them and I'd never part with either of them).
My current setup includes those, plus an old Ensoniq EPSm, Sequential Circuits Split 8, Yamaha TX7, and a Korg MS2000 (my baby)!
I am starting off a new, very melodic styled, industrial project with a drummer friend. We'll see where that goes..
(looks up... Wow ! I wrote out my life story !! Cool !)