gear (software / hardware) back in 92/93?

i'm interested what gear (both hardware and software) was used back in 92/93 era

hoping for your extensive knowledge, guys

the 808

well personally i used

roland d10 la synthesis keyboard
atari running cubase v2 i think
amiga runing octamed


8 bit sample kru innit
lots of cool synths tho it was on the verge of VA but not quite so stuff like the Korg WaveStation SR, Yamaha SY-85, Ensoniq ASR-10, Roland JV-80 and Roland R-70

but of course a whole load of stuff was made in the 20 years previous so i guess alot of people would be using mainly old late 80's kit.. thos synths above would have been well expensive..

typical synths:
sci pro-one
all the junos
moogs etc, anything analog basically
some horrible digital rubbish like the korg M1 / yamaha DX-whatever for pianos and cheesy pads.... more interesting digital synths like the roland JD800

samplers:
mostly akai s950 / s1000

drum machines:
more 909, less 808
alesis HR10 A/B

sequencers:
alesis MMT8 or
atari 1040ST running cubase or pro24 or
amiga running some tracker program like octaMED

misc:
roland w-30 workstation
digidesign soundtools on mac


i loved my MMT8. so limited by todays standards but awesome for loopy techno. shitty membrane keypad sucked though.

oh yeah, the 303 was still popular of course.

and the 303 clones....

some horrible digital rubbish like the korg M1 / yamaha DX-whatever

They're not rubbish they're classic.

[Macc]

stolen 4 track tape machine from school

akai shit sampler whatever it was ('juss cos oi got da buuurddd, wrrreeeeeeooouuuwwwwwwww' eh john ) in school making beats with claire hermon
drum kit with no legs on the bass drum so it rolled over
my brother's yamaha fxg 400 acoustic which i wrote my first song on
boombox with condensor mic which got put up close to the amp when i was playing for overdubs

akai s1000
Atari 520 st
Cubase
Cassette Recorder

2 bontempi pro's linked via midi going through a Kam made2fade mixer from argos!

some horrible digital rubbish like the korg m1 / yamaha dx-whatever

they're not rubbish they're classic.

let's compromise; they're classic rubbish

I started on Screamtracker in about 95 or 96

atari st
notator
roland d110
(roland u220 but it was my school's so i couldnae nick it)
no sampler

these are the real classics released that year: Korg WaveStation SR, Yamaha SY-85, Ensoniq ASR-10, Roland JV-80

the sy-85 was a monster for pads and the wavestation was pretty cool too but you gotta hand it to roland - the jv-80 line continued till this very day and i guess pretty much every decent studio had a descendant at somepoint.

these are the real classics released that year: Korg WaveStation SR, Yamaha SY-85, Ensoniq ASR-10, Roland JV-80

the sy-85 was a monster for pads and the wavestation was pretty cool too but you gotta hand it to roland - the jv-80 line continued till this very day and i guess pretty much every decent studio had a descendant at somepoint.

I guess this was about the time digital synths got interesting. SY/TG strings are lovely. But i think this was all still quite new in 92/93, so not typically used as much then as it was for the next 10 years and on.....

yes these were brand new so i doubt many people had them for productions till following years..

[denaris]

I've had and still got an SY85 since about 93 (well my dad bought it). I loved it. Never did much with it though, I've always found the AWM synthesis very limiting.

amiga runing octamed

Now you're talking.

some horrible digital rubbish like the korg m1 / yamaha dx-whatever

they're not rubbish they're classic.

let's compromise; they're classic rubbish

yeah, that kind of covers it. although i get the impression that the dx series are really good synths if you're one of the three people on earth who's figured out how to do anything beyond play the cheesy house piano / organ presets. witness the success and aclaim of fm7, for instance.

and i'd still kind of love to have an m1 to play with.

wilshy get into the sy85 man!!!

[denaris]

I was quite shocked at how good it sounded when I powered it up last year. If someone could point me to a good tutorial on programming AWM synthesis I'd love to get into it.

Just all samples with envelopes on top in my eyes.

i used an akai that ran 5" floppy discs.. the alesis mmt8 and hr16-sr16's got used a lot, and later on it was a mac running some kind of sequencer into a Korg M1, killer for drums..

and.. how could i forget?? -4trak tape recorders, broken and fixed so many times over lost count.. favorite one was a tascam, but usually had a yamaha cuz they were easy to fix.. i miss 4 trax