First game/s you played on PC.

[Neuromancer]

But they were so expensive - the virtue of the Atari ST had been its cheapness, which had allowed relatively poor musicians to make top quality music at the time (in combo with the sampler) and prep it for the studio.

Didn't Kraftwerk also compose their songs with an Atari ST?


The midi port was quite a unique feature indeed for this computer. Some people also used it for building LANs - at at time where Ethernet was not really available yet for the general public.

There was even a game called Midi-Maze which used the midi port to support several players on different computers playing together:
https://www.mobygames.com/game/atari-st/midi-maze

This was one of the first multiplayer first person shooters for home computers!

 

[gurugeorge]

But they were so expensive - the virtue of the Atari ST had been its cheapness, which had allowed relatively poor musicians to make top quality music at the time (in combo with the sampler) and prep it for the studio.

Didn't Kraftwerk also compose their songs with an Atari ST?


The midi port was quite a unique feature indeed for this computer. Some people also used it for building LANs - at at time where Ethernet was not really available yet for the general public.

There was even a game called Midi-Maze which used the midi port to support several players on different computers playing together:
https://www.mobygames.com/game/atari-st/midi-maze

This was one of the first multiplayer first person shooters for home computers!

Very cool!

I think Kraftwerk's earliest stuff was done with cv ("control voltage") sequencers and proper analogue synths. I don't know if they used the Atari when Midi came in.

I was mildly disappointed to read a few years ago that they use the usual modern digital junk in their gigs these days - but hey, it's much easier to use, and fairly indistinguishable from the real thing unless you A/B very closely (not like when digital emulation of analogue first came out in the late 90s with early VST instruments, it sounded terrible).

Speaking of Midi and such in games, I always felt the LOTRO people missed a trick by not including some sort of software facility to tie the game's music system in to Midi and VST instruments. But the music system in LOTRO was at least there, and it's still a popular part of that now-fading MMO, making for nice social gameplay.