It wasn't until the late-90's, after pro tools, cubase (cubase being a name i heard before protools in the late 80's) and waves were already well established in most major studios (at least all the ones i visited), and the first versions of stuff like Fruity Loops, Sonic Foundry's Vegas, ACID and Sound Forge, Cool Edit Pro (when it basically became a multitrack DAW) and even the first version of Ableton in 1999, before the really BIG home producer boom happened.Īgain, "professional" software was still quite expensive, and most people didn't know enough about the computer scene to justify the investment, and tended toward multitrack tape, or hard disk (as in zip/cd) recorders. Unless you were rich most "professional" software (and hardware) that allowed you to use "plugins" at that time, was still way out of reach.
There was always audio nerds using commodore 64's and the like all through the 80's, but in the early- to mid-90's, you started seeing the majority of the younger "computer musicians" starting to embrace Tracker software (like modtracker, fasttracker ii, etc.) and misc wav form editors (like windows Wave Editor and later on cool edit in the mid 90's) that usually had their own built in effects to edit samples. In the Mid-90's you saw digital multitrack recorders (like the roland vs880) replacing the home tape machines. This left most home producers still using tascam or fostex multitrack tape recorders, since hard drives still weren't that large. Waves were the first quality plugins, and therefore adopted by people and studios that could afford "the best".Īt that time, for home producers, the storage mediums were all about ADAT (being brand new), and later Zip-Drives (for a blink of an eye), before cd burners became widely available and took over.
protools started popping up in studios in the early 90s, in a hybrid studio sort of capacity, waves plugins started showing up maybe a year or two after that, and in fact, the L2 Maximizer around 94-95, was considered a contributing factor to starting the "Loudness Wars".
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