happy birthday pip squeak.

Legal Drinking age? Shit that makes me feel old.

Happy Birthday none the less!

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Originally posted by DJ RANN Legal Drinking age? Shit that makes me feel old.

Oh I'm pretty sure he's been at the sauce for quite some time. And when I say at it, I mean all over it.

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Originally posted by TranceLover007 The day just came now you can legal get drunk -> but stay away from your buddies place because we will loose you for another week (at least lol) All the best man !!!! Darek

Thanks, everyone... I'm turning 25 so have been able to legally drink for 4, and as the lord says I've been hitting the sauce (when I say hitting, I mean slamming) for about 10 years. Probably time to slow down.

This is actually about the 10 year mark I started working on music (15 years old, FL9) so I'm thinking about posting one of the first tracks I ever worked on. Something for my girlfriend. Glad to have had this forum over the years, because no one where I live knows how to do it (produce) properly, and without this place incubating my talent and ambition the way it has, I'm frightened to think where I would be music wise. Probably still trying to figure out synthesizers and compression.

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Originally posted by Evolve140 Thanks, everyone... I'm turning 25 so have been able to legally drink for 4, and as the lord says I've been hitting the sauce (when I say hitting, I mean slamming) for about 10 years. Probably time to slow down. This is actually about the 10 year mark I started working on music (15 years old, FL9) so I'm thinking about posting one of the first tracks I ever worked on. Something for my girlfriend. Glad to have had this forum over the years, because no one where I live knows how to do it (produce) properly, and without this place incubating my talent and ambition the way it has, I'm frightened to think where I would be music wise. Probably still trying to figure out synthesizers and compression.

FL9 ten years ago?

I remember when I started using FL full on (legal :P) it was at 2.5.1, or 2.7.X... but I had dabbled with it since 1.something... But that's like... 13-14 years ago?

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Originally posted by itsamemario FL9 ten years ago? I remember when I started using FL full on (legal :P) it was at 2.5.1, or 2.7.X... but I had dabbled with it since 1.something... But that's like... 13-14 years ago?

It's interesting you mention it Alfi. When I was around 10-12 or something I used download.com and looked for different music making freeware and found the FL Studio demo. This would have been around 2000-2001. It was a low number 1,2,3 or something. In the demo you couldn't save, but you could export to MP3 whatever you could get done in one session.

I actually didn't even know about EDM until 2005-2006 though and didn't start learning how to properly produce until 2010. Before then I just made songs in my own 'style' that were completely amateur with no mixing or technical skill whatsoever.

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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.

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Originally posted by Evolve140 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!

Ii-ii kno-oow of someone who used to do drugs before but don't anymore lalalalaaaa

Oh man, tutorials haha! That wasn't something that existed on the internet when I started out. And samples? Hah!! I remember looking for hours and hours on end, hooked up with my shitty 28.8k dialup modem, finding like these crappy 4 bit samples, that kiiiiinda sounded like what you were looking for.. Man, the first FL I used didn't even have the ts404 so I was making weeeeeeiiird remixes 666 - Amokk, where I used a bee sound. It was cool.

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Originally posted by Evolve140 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.

yeah, I can relate. I had some ideas I just couldn't pull off due to lack of skill.

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Originally posted by itsamemario ts404

FL Studio without ts404 is hard to imagine. Remember 3xOsc? Analog Dreamz was my favorite preset.

Since this thread has gone down this road, here is one of my early ones:

Early Productions - Alone In The Cathedral (circa 2005) by CalebGolston

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