Down memory lane: Trackers, Trax/Demo Scenes and my first MIDI Controller Keyboard
Note: This was going to be a post about the new M-Audio Axiom 2nd Gen controller keyboards ... and, after some sentences, I realized it wasn't going to happen as soon as I first envisioned... oh well, better change the post title and move on... :P ... As you may already know, I've been accidentally collecting more MIDI Keyboard controllers than I ever wished for. Buying new, not selling the old because there's always an excuse use for it. It all started when I bought my (really mine) first "real" (as opposed to my Sinclair ZX Spectrum ) Personal Computer (I had used PCs for a while at this point: 8086, i286, i386sx, i386 based, but none were mine), a brand new D-I-Y i486DX2 @66MHz based PC with (at the time) 4Mb (a few years after, upgraded to 32Mb) of RAM. It had a Creative Labs Sound Blaster 16 because I've always hoped to use a PC to generate sound through synthesis using math (i.e. DSP algoritms), besides taking advantage of the digital s...