how long hav u guys been makin beats?

[afriquedeluxe]

ive been makin beats 4 bout 2.5yrs now, from about when i was 14, using audio logic n importin sounds from ejay, every1 said my beats were indian, or horror, i made sum wierd stuff. bout 5months l8a i moved to reason, cool edit wit a midi keyboard from a youth club, dats all ive got up 2 now wit a mini disk 4 recordin samples from radio etc...in my summa holiz afta my exams , ill look 4 a job, make sum $$ n buy some hardware, jus 2 start havin a setup dat aint jus virtual.

[MaximeRobin]

I began when I was 14 too. But that's 9 years ago. I started by fooling around with a (now) very old version of cakewalk. Doing weak midi stuff. 1 year later I moved to Fast TrackerII. DOS driven power sampler/sequencer (not that great really...). Then came Acid with it's loop stretching ability.

at that point, four years ago, I got a mac and began getting some real equipement and pro software. Cubase, then cubase with reason, then ableton live. some reference monitor, midi controler, good usb audio interface, a laptop, good reference headphone, an old ass turtable. That's it I guess. In the last 4 years, I did 4 independant cd and a mixtape.

[Copenhagen]

Ah shit, I remember producing in FastTracker...damn that program seems so weak today...but was just so easy to use.

I've only been producing steadily the last 3 years or so. Before that it was only once in a while cause my time was spent Dj'ing.

[N.U.G.]

I've been messing around with making beats for about two years now. Over the last six months or so I've become more and more serious, to the point where it is now the center of my universe.

[CamCreationz]

Ive been into music all my life.
Nobody in my family is a musician but somehow, from some foreign realm, I was given the gift of music.
Ive been using software to make beats for a good 3-4 years now.
My first experience with beat making was in the 8th grade on an old as KORG sequencer. When I first got my PC I would record my voice beatboxing, and layer it to make some insane Bobby McFerrin type joints. Then Fruity Loops came to my life....

Ive never been the same since..

[fame_keyz]

I been kind of making beats since i was 17 im 23 now but i feel i started all over again since i got all new gear last year cause its a who different world now....new ways to look at doing music unlike my good days where i had so many limits.

[K.O.]

I started making beats 20 years ago and im 20 years old now. I popped out my momz with a triton keyboard strapped to me. Atleast thats how it feels. but on the real its been about 2 years

[milLion]

6 years and still going

[The Konductor]

On and off for five years. Mostly off.

[Pug]

Copenhagen, you started off on a tracker too? Damn, I thought I was the only one! I used impule tracker however.. don't remember how long ago that was!

[joeburnem]

10 years. 17 if you count the years with only two tape decks. (record - pause- rewind)

[fiz]

that's how mixmaster mike got his name (according to him in the movie "scratch") great documentary if you haven't seen it by the way

[Skaet]

I started to make beats bevor I was 15.
Peace Skät

[Copenhagen]

Originally posted by Pug
Copenhagen, you started off on a tracker too? Damn, I thought I was the only one! I used impule tracker however.. don't remember how long ago that was!

The wild thing was that FastTracker was shareware.
I've even done mixtapes in it...damn, this whole thing got me thinking many years back.

[MaximeRobin]

wo!
A mixtape in fasttracker! Crazy. You definitly have my infinit respect now.

[HaZwaiOh]

anybody remember hammerhead? bass drum sounds had so much punch in there! after that came dlusion drumstation. time flies by

[Skaet]

I do beats for 6month

[JPeg]

started making beats when i was 18 turning 19 so the end of 1999 on a computer got my 1st equipment in the summer of 2000 being going eva since its been a long road but i still got a loooong way to go, but i feel i have the dedication, determination and musical vision to get to where i wanna be at....eventually

[Lo-Key]

My first beats were MODs, one ov my friends found a program to make beats with so we made a tape, then bought an ASR10. The sequencer sucked so we used cakewalk to sequence the beats. Then from there just upgraded the equipment. Its been about a 9 year process. And who could forget Hammerhead?

[database]

since im 14, on fasttracker 2, now 20 and own a lil homestudio

i still use fasttracker sometimes, just to see if with more skills u can get more out of fasttracker

[TITO]

5 years and in my last 2 years there have been major changes in my skills.

[drew_petti]

I started when I was 15, on a casio keyboard, and a casio sk1 sampler. That was 1988. I moved on to using a studio and screwing around on the korg m-1. then i bought an hr-16b, and a 4-track, roland jx-1 analog synth, and alesis quadraverb. that was 1991. In 1993, I got the asr-10 - which is my baby...also picked up a nuemann mic, juno 6, ms 2000, vs-880 ex (for digital mixing only, not recording), a jv-1010, and a ensoniq esq-1.

anyways, I been goin' hard for 15 years, put out 4 12"s, produced for 4 retail released albums, been in the source's independent's day, houston press, etc...been offered fucked up contracts by major production companies...I keep em all to remind me how janky this business is...

I got a new cd coming out in the fall, and the 12 inch for that coming this month. This is the one, and this is the year. I've built this from the ground up, and I'm about to pull a damon dash on everyone.

[Cosmonaut]

I actually started makeing tracks on this crap Casio 2 seconds of sample time garbage mini keyboard. A real real ghetto setup 2 tape decks I think that was 1989 we would sample a snare and use a metromone to play it through the 3 minutes. Then sample the kick and record back to the other tape deck using this crap realistic mixer sad really. Took use forever just to get the drums layed down.

Then we moved up to a sp12 now that was a nice joint. Used it till
like 1993 before I finnaly got a EPS. Mostly did local stuff while I collected a bunch of random old school equipment. Of course it was only a matter of time before it all got jacked.

Anyway I took a couple of years off then started in with a old atari st and some crap sequencer in like 1996. Which brings me to now I use Logic Audio with a pc a few random keyboards and a gang of old vinyle for sounds.

So I guess about 11years where there was actual beats being produced in my lab.

[dacalion]

I've been in music for a while now (over 20 years) but only making beats for about a year or 2. I started out as a DJ, my specialty was srcatching. Now that I'm beyond that point, I choose to produce. I see new and far more exciting challenges producing beats.

--dac

[MadScientist]

Ive been doing this for 10 years strong

[highlite80]

i started makin beats about 18 months ago when i got my first pc so i kinda learned to use both at the same time,i used to freestyle but after i stopped doin dirt i really didn't have much to flow about and i never wrote shit down so i really didn't have old songs i could work on either but i really always listened to the beats in songs more than the lyrics ecspecially after the lyrical content started going downhill(in my opinion)

[hardboiled]

too long to not be making hardly any money...bout 4-5 years and i haven't run into any down "artists" yet..especially ones that'll pay me for what i'm worth..figure i'm worth something with thousands of dollars of equipment being used

[light]

Ive been doin it for bout 4 years now

[changalang]

been doing it since last august i think, i was about to quit but i started again around january and now im definatly gonna keep going strong

[Beatz 101]

I been doin this since i was 17. DAMN! like 3-4 years

im new to this computer shit tho. about 7 months deep

[mike kilo]

for about 5 years now.......

[detox_one]

3 years

[Ash Holmz]

4 years ....started out w/ fruityloops as a hobby in colllege...people likeed my shit so i got serious

[Guevara]

7 months....im a quick learner

[J-malice]

I been at it for about 3 or 4 years now. i started out on a play station game called music generator. after about a year my dad got me a BOSS DR-202 drum machine. now im as versatile as they come. i can kill a beat on anything...just name it

[enots]

roughly 6 years

[KrAzE]

Im a few years deep


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