Atari St & Cubase?

Just wondered if any of you folks are still using an Atari for sequencing. I've got an Atari St 520. I think its only got half a meg of ram - would that be enough to run Cubase do you reckon?

Interested to hear if any of you folks are using an Atari?

wrong forum bro

http://www.atari-forum.com/search.php?sid=597a804b9575be0687acc73123f4f59d

sorry, but why on earth would anyone still be using an atari with half a mb of ram?

Its like people who need to keep upping their sex fetish to get off. Eventually they will be doing weird shit with toilet paper rolls and jelly doughnuts just to stay interested. I think that's how modern day musicians end up trying to get it on with an old copy of cubase from 1989.

direct midi outs provide sharper timing?

People are still rockin' C64s and Gameboys; I see no problem here.

the ST has rock solid timing as tge midi port is directly wired to the cpu and a mate sez it also has a quartz crystal but im not sure about that

anyone want to buy a 4mb STe?

I don't see no problem (excuse the double negative). I started out making music on Atari 1040 about 20 years ago at school. My friend GadManDubs who makes crazy sick music bought a 1040 recently to make tunes. I don't see the issue ... you do it 'cause its fun and shit I've always loved my Atari. The only reason I don't use it these days is 'cause the disk drive is broken!

there's no real issue, I just don't understand why you'd want to use something that had only 1/2 mb of ram... Knock yourself out!

  On 12/20/2011 at 8:03 PM, Velazquez said:

there's no real issue, I just don't understand why you'd want to use something that had only 1/2 mb of ram... Knock yourself out!

Ha ha fuck off!

I'm always on the lookout for old Atari gear. Picked up a couple of STs and a few peripherals earlier this year (like a super-useful external single-sided floppy drive), as well as a nifty Steinberg MIDI interface. There are still a few handy utilities (AkaiSeX, hello?!) that make keeping an ST around worthwhile.

  On 12/20/2011 at 5:16 PM, sweepstakes said:

People are still rockin' C64s and Gameboys; I see no problem here.

Yes, but people use C64s and Gameboys for their sound. Using an Atari ST to control external gear is pretty pointless when you could just do the same with a netbook.

I've got a 1040ST I run Cubase on for the majority of my hardware sequencing. Anything that isn't done in Cubase is done on the machine itself (303s and whatnot).

  On 12/21/2011 at 8:49 AM, modey said:

  On 12/20/2011 at 5:16 PM, sweepstakes said:

People are still rockin' C64s and Gameboys; I see no problem here.

Yes, but people use C64s and Gameboys for their sound. Using an Atari ST to control external gear is pretty pointless when you could just do the same with a netbook.

Was about to say exactly the same !

Shit makes no sense promo!

  On 12/21/2011 at 8:49 AM, modey said:

  On 12/20/2011 at 5:16 PM, sweepstakes said:

People are still rockin' C64s and Gameboys; I see no problem here.

Yes, but people use C64s and Gameboys for their sound. Using an Atari ST to control external gear is pretty pointless when you could just do the same with a netbook.

There are few ST tracks which allow you to use the YM chip. I dunno its just the fun of it really. Besides that I want to boot it up play some games on the old hardware. I use to love the smell that my ST made when it got a bit warm!

  On 12/21/2011 at 3:43 AM, children r r future said:

I'm always on the lookout for old Atari gear. Picked up a couple of STs and a few peripherals earlier this year (like a super-useful external single-sided floppy drive), as well as a nifty Steinberg MIDI interface. There are still a few handy utilities (AkaiSeX, hello?!) that make keeping an ST around worthwhile.

Cool. Got any pics of your set up?

  On 12/21/2011 at 8:49 AM, modey said:

  On 12/20/2011 at 5:16 PM, sweepstakes said:

People are still rockin' C64s and Gameboys; I see no problem here.

Yes, but people use C64s and Gameboys for their sound. Using an Atari ST to control external gear is pretty pointless when you could just do the same with a netbook.

Not if you like the workflow of the sequencer. Plenty of hip hop producers also still use MPC60s to sequence S950s.

Actually the man has a point there !

Bottomline is using an Atari ST for sequencing was basically how you made music right through most of the late 80s and early-mid 90s.

not if you were in megadeth

  On 12/21/2011 at 5:59 PM, Promo said:

Bottomline is using an Atari ST for sequencing was basically how you made music right through most of the late 80s and early-mid 90s.

My amiga is very unhappy with this statement.

  On 12/21/2011 at 6:14 PM, BCM said:

not if you were in megadeth

Zole

  On 12/21/2011 at 6:30 PM, Gocab said:

  On 12/21/2011 at 5:59 PM, Promo said:

Bottomline is using an Atari ST for sequencing was basically how you made music right through most of the late 80s and early-mid 90s.

My amiga is very unhappy with this statement.

You'll have to figure me but I was an Atari head. I'm sure if I got a Commordore Amiga I would have a slightly different view. :-)

  On 12/21/2011 at 8:49 AM, modey said:

  On 12/20/2011 at 5:16 PM, sweepstakes said:

People are still rockin' C64s and Gameboys; I see no problem here.

Yes, but people use C64s and Gameboys for their sound. Using an Atari ST to control external gear is pretty pointless when you could just do the same with a netbook.

I sequenced my music from an Atari Falcon030 in the mid to late 2000s, and I miss it like hell. You couldn't do the same with a netbook at all (you lose the rock solid MIDI timing for a start).

It's almost like the argument between analogue and digital. Why do some people prefer to use trackers instead of a linear DAW? It's usually mostly to do with the workflow, and how you interact with the system. In that sense, it's exactly like the argument between analogue and digital.