I loved Future Music - even won an Akai Sampler in one of their comps in the late 90s! I sold my old copies and wish I hadn’t as I’m now on eBay collecting all the cool hardware I wanted but couldn’t afford back in the day. Magazines were a monthly dose of inspiration to keep you excited about your hobby. And pretty girls on the cover for no reason - just so symbolic of happier times.
I miss the magazine landscape that used to exist. I go all the way back to the first electronic music magazine, Synapse. They were way ahead of their time and they folded quickly but it was great for awhile. All the magazines like Electronic Musician, Recording Engineer/Producer, and even Keyboard and Guitar Player have dwindled away. It’s sad, really.
I loved the magazine when I was learning production from 2000 to 2012 or so and had honed my skills. I still have every print issue and all the CD/DVDs for that entire period. Have tons of those samples ripped to hard drives and in folders as the media drives were removed from generations of PCs. I still refer back to a few of the issues when there is a production technique or genre I want to emulate. Gradually, as workstations like the Fantom and Kronos - alongside samplers like my MPC X have expanded their sounds sets and capabilities I used less and less of that material. There is just not enough time to consume all the information without being paralyzed by the options to learn. Great vid.
I collected those magazines for the cd samples. I only had an upgraded Yamaha A3000 sampler to work with, I loved that thing. I'd had enough of sampling My 12" dance vinyls (to death) so the cd's were very useful for a while. I gave up eventually. 20 plus years later lockdown had me spending my little rainy day money on a synth to get me through it. Today, I am no synth wizard by any stretch, but my home studio is now more than adequate. A dream fulfilled. Bless those magazines back then, I still own my Yamaha A3000...
I'm just about to move house in the midst of the irish housing crisis, so have to downsize a lot! I'm staring at decades of sound on sound, fututre/computer music/tape op piles that I'm gonna have to dump. Seriously considering storage for them, I know I'll regret throwing them out
Wow, end of an Era..... I collected both Future Music and Computer Music religiously for about 5 years, I still have most of them.... the content was always amazing, you are right about this stuff being unavailable at the time on the internet back then... the free loops were like gold! younger producers these days would be horrified at how much we use to pay for a 400mb Sample CD!
Even I, probably same generation as you are, who also collected these magazines an d others and their sample goodies for years, learning stuff in the articles, drooling on the pictures, even I have to admit that even reading an online version feels like a pain to me and I became that lazy that the only thing I do is tuning in YT and search for stuff there, watching videos etc... It's a pity! Shame on me! And I so regret to have got rid of my old magazines after countless moves in from one place to another. Thank you for reminding us of that good old times.
I could never get into the online version, too. There was a shift, and some things got left behind in the transition from traditional media as it transformed into our current YT reality.
@@Knightsnare Can't disagree. Grew up with magazines of all sorts. Online video is better for demoing things real time (+audio), but we definitely lost other things in the process. What about the magazine's ink odor, right?! 😊
I subscribed to Electronic Musician for many years during the late 1990s and early 2000s, and I can't understate how much I learned through that one publication. Sadly, I stopped my subscription after they moved to a mostly online model, and the physical magazines began to resemble pamphlets that contained mostly advertising. I think I'd still be subscribing today if that change hadn't taken place.
To be honest i think it's just paper media that's dying... and it's kinda sad. I always prefer to have my information in hardware form. On the other hand most of the musical acts in the magazine is not real stars. They're just... a producers. The same ones we see on YT everyday. Not saying those are bad musicians. But none of them (if we exclude oldtimers) are the new Prodigy or Orbital. And it's actually a music problem of today's era. Maybe this led to "bad ratings"? Not sure. Also i wonder if there's any magazines in stock nowadays? I bet in a year or so there will be no new printed ones and a memory of it will be gone.
I really liked your take about how, in the past, we were getting rare glimpses behind the scenes of legendary producers, and maybe that's why it felt special. There were only so many of those iconic figures, and you can't keep revisiting the same stories forever. Now, with newer producers, we can easily see their process on platforms like RUclips, so maybe it's just a natural evolution. But, as you said, there's a bit of sadness to that. I'd also be curious to know-who do you guys think could be the next big producer, like Orbital? I'm always on the lookout for cool new acts, but it feels like things are a bit more standardized these days.
@@Knightsnare i can't see nobody actually. All i can see is some hotshots that bought themselves some fancy SMM YT promotion, but none of them is THAT good (nor they are bad)... And to be fair i prefer ppl with 20-200 views now. At least hey don't think about promotion and money and fame.... some of the best music i've heard was made by the neckbeards living in their momma's basement twisting volca knobs.... Let's wait and see. I still miss those day where we were getting new Prodigy and others almost every year... i miss them so much.
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At one point my entire setup was free VSTs from CM. I miss those days and have been trying to get all that software back.
I loved Future Music - even won an Akai Sampler in one of their comps in the late 90s! I sold my old copies and wish I hadn’t as I’m now on eBay collecting all the cool hardware I wanted but couldn’t afford back in the day. Magazines were a monthly dose of inspiration to keep you excited about your hobby. And pretty girls on the cover for no reason - just so symbolic of happier times.
I miss the magazine landscape that used to exist. I go all the way back to the first electronic music magazine, Synapse. They were way ahead of their time and they folded quickly but it was great for awhile. All the magazines like Electronic Musician, Recording Engineer/Producer, and even Keyboard and Guitar Player have dwindled away. It’s sad, really.
I loved the magazine when I was learning production from 2000 to 2012 or so and had honed my skills. I still have every print issue and all the CD/DVDs for that entire period. Have tons of those samples ripped to hard drives and in folders as the media drives were removed from generations of PCs. I still refer back to a few of the issues when there is a production technique or genre I want to emulate. Gradually, as workstations like the Fantom and Kronos - alongside samplers like my MPC X have expanded their sounds sets and capabilities I used less and less of that material. There is just not enough time to consume all the information without being paralyzed by the options to learn. Great vid.
Thanks for sharing! Doing the video brought up a lot of memories for all of us!
I collected those magazines for the cd samples.
I only had an upgraded Yamaha A3000 sampler to work with, I loved that thing.
I'd had enough of sampling My 12" dance vinyls (to death) so the cd's were very useful for a while.
I gave up eventually.
20 plus years later lockdown had me spending my little rainy day money on a synth to get me through it.
Today, I am no synth wizard by any stretch, but my home studio is now more than adequate.
A dream fulfilled.
Bless those magazines back then, I still own my Yamaha A3000...
I love this comment ❤
I've been a subscriber since day one all those years ago so this is a major blow for me.
Use to buy Computer Music regularly in the 90s. It was a great resource for us before the web and even during the early years of the web.
Lets have a moment of silence to honour the hilarious peak 90s stylings of "hot girl poses with synth" covers.
I'm just about to move house in the midst of the irish housing crisis, so have to downsize a lot! I'm staring at decades of sound on sound, fututre/computer music/tape op piles that I'm gonna have to dump. Seriously considering storage for them, I know I'll regret throwing them out
Maybe we can come up with a cool strategy to give them away to upcoming producers some way. Have to think about how....
don't do it !
Wow, end of an Era..... I collected both Future Music and Computer Music religiously for about 5 years, I still have most of them.... the content was always amazing, you are right about this stuff being unavailable at the time on the internet back then... the free loops were like gold! younger producers these days would be horrified at how much we use to pay for a 400mb Sample CD!
400 mb sample CD 😂 those were the days ❤
Even I, probably same generation as you are, who also collected these magazines an d others and their sample goodies for years, learning stuff in the articles, drooling on the pictures, even I have to admit that even reading an online version feels like a pain to me and I became that lazy that the only thing I do is tuning in YT and search for stuff there, watching videos etc... It's a pity! Shame on me! And I so regret to have got rid of my old magazines after countless moves in from one place to another. Thank you for reminding us of that good old times.
I could never get into the online version, too. There was a shift, and some things got left behind in the transition from traditional media as it transformed into our current YT reality.
@@Knightsnare Can't disagree. Grew up with magazines of all sorts. Online video is better for demoing things real time (+audio), but we definitely lost other things in the process. What about the magazine's ink odor, right?! 😊
i still have those cds ... love that mags ..
Crazy... Big loss. ANd yes, I still have samples from the discs on my drives.
It’s a big loss
Totally
I subscribed to Electronic Musician for many years during the late 1990s and early 2000s, and I can't understate how much I learned through that one publication. Sadly, I stopped my subscription after they moved to a mostly online model, and the physical magazines began to resemble pamphlets that contained mostly advertising. I think I'd still be subscribing today if that change hadn't taken place.
These mags were "Geartube" before the internet took over. Such valuable publications for so many of us!
Bought the first issue of FM way back when.
Same for others music magazines like guiatr oriented ones..weird times
Oh no, I read both of these magazines fairly regularly.
To be honest i think it's just paper media that's dying... and it's kinda sad. I always prefer to have my information in hardware form. On the other hand most of the musical acts in the magazine is not real stars. They're just... a producers. The same ones we see on YT everyday. Not saying those are bad musicians. But none of them (if we exclude oldtimers) are the new Prodigy or Orbital. And it's actually a music problem of today's era. Maybe this led to "bad ratings"? Not sure.
Also i wonder if there's any magazines in stock nowadays? I bet in a year or so there will be no new printed ones and a memory of it will be gone.
I really liked your take about how, in the past, we were getting rare glimpses behind the scenes of legendary producers, and maybe that's why it felt special. There were only so many of those iconic figures, and you can't keep revisiting the same stories forever. Now, with newer producers, we can easily see their process on platforms like RUclips, so maybe it's just a natural evolution. But, as you said, there's a bit of sadness to that. I'd also be curious to know-who do you guys think could be the next big producer, like Orbital? I'm always on the lookout for cool new acts, but it feels like things are a bit more standardized these days.
@@Knightsnare i can't see nobody actually. All i can see is some hotshots that bought themselves some fancy SMM YT promotion, but none of them is THAT good (nor they are bad)... And to be fair i prefer ppl with 20-200 views now. At least hey don't think about promotion and money and fame.... some of the best music i've heard was made by the neckbeards living in their momma's basement twisting volca knobs.... Let's wait and see. I still miss those day where we were getting new Prodigy and others almost every year... i miss them so much.