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I may be wrong about the version, but it was from age 14 or so onward that I was using FL Studio. I still remember being 14 and my sister's friend (who was in his 20s) showed me FL. At the time I had been really obsessed with software and what it can do. Got into EDM around 12, got Nick Bennison's Trance Nation, 2MadMice, DJ Micro, DJ Dan as hand-me-downs. Got pretty lucky to have someone in my life who gave me all those records, because I listened to that stuff non-stop and loved it. My sister's boyfriend was like 16 or 17 and had just gone through a "rave" phase, and was no longer interested in them. They're married now and currently he runs one of the best DIY punk labels around. To this day, he still hates electronic dance music!
It seeded a love for it very early on and the payouts are still materializing. I did make my own garbage for a while too Caleb, and didn't get into technical prodution for years after. Probably worked on stuff that wasn't club ready for about 8 of those 10 years. I was encouraged to play a lot of what I worked on but I knew it wasn't good enough for my own standards.
I worked in Reason for far, far too long (4 years?), and with Alan Marcero's encouragement, made the switch over to a DAW that supported VSTs. That was only about 3-4 years ago though, but I wish I would have done it way sooner. I don't know what it was, but once I switched to Ableton from Reason (I had some pretty decent monitors at the time too) I started on a much better path. Have actually been considering firing up Reason one of these days, because I do really like the sound of Malstrom, Subtractor and Thor.
1 quick edit: I don't regret using Reason for as long as I did, because I was doing some pretty good song writing and working tons with composition and developing my style as a song writer. When I used FL, I would be constantly writing out chord progessions. Start out with the bass, fill the chords, then write the top, all without any tutorials on YouTube. It was still that era where none of those really existed. YouTube didn't even really exist as we know it today. One thing I am pretty happy about is that I have my harddrives from that entire Reason era (save one crash when I was 17), and the 2 from my first couple years using Ableton. Basically awesome ideas and melodies that I couldn't adequately produce. Would be nice to go back and check them out some day.
Last edited by Evolve140 on Sep-25-2012 at 02:00
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now you can legal get drunk 
-> but stay away from your buddies place because we will loose you for another week (at least lol)
so I was making weeeeeeiiird remixes 666 - Amokk, where I used a bee sound. It was cool.
