alt Hacker News> in the early 90s. They were only powerful enough to control external equipment like synthesizers.
Tell that to ScreamTracker!
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Screamtracker was sampling. Great for the days and much more accesible for the teenager I was than buying and controlling synths but that was not exactly same. More a competition to the early akai MPCs.
And we were mostly ripping those samples from records on cassettes and CDs, or other mods.
Well now that you mention that, my very first steps actually were with Soundmonitor on a C64, one of the OG trackers probably (even though not called tracker yet IIRC). I kind of forgot about that, as that was still very amateurish (I mean what I made with it, not the software).
https://www.c64-wiki.de/images/f/f1/rockmon3.png
Or also at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=roBkg-iPrbw&t=400s in the video already linked below. And yes, I had to type in that listing.
In case anyone's wondering:
https://youtu.be/roBkg-iPrbw