What WAS your typical setup?

[DJ Excellence]

I made my first beat with Hip Hop E-Jay 2 circa 1999. For those too young to remember, the EJay series were rudimentary DAWs with a bunch of stock sounds, marketed mainly to kids and teenagers. However, you could also load your own samples in WAV/MP3 format. I learned a lot through this.

In the early 2000s, my DAW of choice was Sonic Foundry ACID 2.0/3.0 (I still use version 7.0 to this day!). I also used Acoustica Beatcraft for drum programming (and still occasionally use it these days). My DJ equipment included a Gemini 626 PRO mixer (notoriously ugly), two Gemini PT-1000 turntables, and a preamp.

 

[K-waz]

I made my first beat with Hip Hop E-Jay 2 circa 1999. For those too young to remember, the EJay series were rudimentary DAWs with a bunch of stock sounds, marketed mainly to kids and teenagers. However, you could also load your own samples in WAV/MP3 format. I learned a lot through this.

In the early 2000s, my DAW of choice was Sonic Foundry ACID 2.0/3.0 (I still use version 7.0 to this day!). I also used Acoustica Beatcraft for drum programming (and still occasionally use it these days). My DJ equipment included a Gemini 626 PRO mixer (notoriously ugly), two Gemini PT-1000 turntables, and a preamp.

I forgot about E-Jay My boy was using that and gave it to me. I think I still have it somewhere in here. When I first saw that program I thought it was a cheating beatmaking program but the sounds that it had in it was excellent to me

 

[DJ Excellence]

I forgot about E-Jay My boy was using that and gave it to me. I think I still have it somewhere in here. When I first saw that program I thought it was a cheating beatmaking program but the sounds that it had in it was excellent to me

A big chunk of EJay Hip Hop 3's sound library was conceived by DJ Tomekk. It was pretty decent IMO.

 

[2GooD Productions]

A big chunk of EJay Hip Hop 3's sound library was conceived by DJ Tomekk. It was pretty decent IMO.

I used hip hop ejay for a while, all the sample were in the key of C

 

[konceptG]

I made my first beat with Hip Hop E-Jay 2 circa 1999. For those too young to remember, the EJay series were rudimentary DAWs with a bunch of stock sounds, marketed mainly to kids and teenagers. However, you could also load your own samples in WAV/MP3 format. I learned a lot through this.

In the early 2000s, my DAW of choice was Sonic Foundry ACID 2.0/3.0 (I still use version 7.0 to this day!). I also used Acoustica Beatcraft for drum programming (and still occasionally use it these days). My DJ equipment included a Gemini 626 PRO mixer (notoriously ugly), two Gemini PT-1000 turntables, and a preamp.

I used to spin with a pair of Gemini XL500mkII's and a Gemini 626 Pro2.

 

[Fade]

Big shoutout to Gemini for starting young kids' dreams with shitty/ugly but reliable and cheap gear!

I had the TECHNOMASTER:

 

[DJ Excellence]

Big shoutout to Gemini for starting young kids' dreams with shitty/ugly but reliable and cheap gear!

I had the T

Big shoutout to Gemini for starting young kids' dreams with shitty/ugly but reliable and cheap gear!

I had the TECHNOMASTER:

Gemini Marketing teams used to have wild brainstorming sessions to come up with names like that.

 

[konceptG]

Gemini Marketing teams used to have wild brainstorming sessions to come up with names like that.

*clears nose*

How about... "TECHNOMASTER!!!" yo pass that to Sonny he looks like he needs a bump ""TECHNOMASTER!!!"

 

[CalvinCoolidge]

I know this post is stale but I'll poke it a bit. My first beat-making stuff was Acid 2.0 as well. They had a "Hip-Hop" pack that came with a bunch of pre-programmed drums, horns, strings, basses and stuff that were all really close to the same BPM so you could just kind of drag and click them together. Surprise, I still use that library today (although now it's for its 1 shot drums). After that I went into the worst way - I'd chop a sample in GoldWave, then PASTE the drums into place and make a beat that way. Yikes.

First DJ Gear, lucked out, no Gemini for me, I sprang a bit extra and got a Stanton Str8-60 and a shitty Behringer mixer.

 

[BiggChev]

I know this post is stale but I'll poke it a bit. My first beat-making stuff was Acid 2.0 as well. They had a "Hip-Hop" pack that came with a bunch of pre-programmed drums, horns, strings, basses and stuff that were all really close to the same BPM so you could just kind of drag and click them together. Surprise, I still use that library today (although now it's for its 1 shot drums). After that I went into the worst way - I'd chop a sample in GoldWave, then PASTE the drums into place and make a beat that way. Yikes.

First DJ Gear, lucked out, no Gemini for me, I sprang a bit extra and got a Stanton Str8-60 and a shitty Behringer mixer.

Acid Pro was sick...I wish they made a version for Mac. I started with 2.0 (maybe 3.0) as well. It was a cracked version, so no access to the loop library. I was using around early Kanye era and sampling had a big resurgence. The warping/stretching was amazing for sampling. What I really liked it for was arranging. A lot of what I made in Fruity Loops or Cubase was exported out then arranged in Acid.

 

[CalvinCoolidge]

Acid Pro was sick...I wish they made a version for Mac. I started with 2.0 (maybe 3.0) as well. It was a cracked version, so no access to the loop library. I was using around early Kanye era and sampling had a big resurgence. The warping/stretching was amazing for sampling. What I really liked it for was arranging. A lot of what I made in Fruity Loops or Cubase was exported out then arranged in Acid.

Yeah, the arranging was a completely welcome surprise for me. I think it was my recording/arranging program of choice until I got a hold of a cracked version of Adobe Audition.