Mine was like the meme; sound recorder and a beige stick microphone put up to an old used Fender practice amp, and a no-name brand guitar from the pawn shop. We’ve come a long way.
Mine was like the meme; sound recorder and a beige stick microphone put up to an old used Fender practice amp, and a no-name brand guitar from the pawn shop. We’ve come a long way.
Jeskola Buzz Tracker. Making tracks in a vertical midi step sequencer with no mixer was wild AF.
IIRC it came with an awesome drum kit called PSI Drums and a set of proprietary plugins (non VST) which included several cool synths abd Whitenoise Stereodist - the most brutal distortion I’ve ever heard, surpassing Ohmicide, Coldfire and Rift in its ability to turn things into aggressive digital terrain.
Migrated to Fruity Loops pretty soon thereafter
Buzz was my first love as well and tbh I really miss it. I wanted to make industrial music back then and Buzz made it simple, which was good because I had no idea what I was doing!
Same! I have a few of my very early very primitive tracks in Buzz.
Jeskola briefly revived it so if you’re wanting to return to trackers could be worth a look. Renoise is still hyped (haven’t tried it) as is the hardware Polyend Tracker (also haven’t tried it).
I’m more of a (virtual) modular than a tracker mindset these days so a combo of FL, Bitwig, Reaktor, Plugdata etc to make a fusion of industrial and idm–
https://sunthief.bandcamp.com/album/thy-neighbors-looking-glass
Awesome, I will check this out, thanks! I do enjoy some Renoise from time to time. I also still make modular, industrial-esque music, using the Nerdseq tracker hardware, here’s my latest: https://circuit23.bandcamp.com/album/mens-vermis