Well I guess making decent electronic music in those days was tough, but looked to be quite fun.
By the time I was a teenager interested in doing shit like that, it was like 1999 and I was using pirated Fruity loops. Then version 3 came out in like 2000 or 2001, pirated that also. Made the loops in FL and then tied them all together in Acid I think it was called. Taught some of the neighborhood kids how to use all this neat software to "make beats" with. Like damn, even in those days we were just completely spoiled as compared to just a decade prior, with regards to DIY music production.
Yeah the late 90s had so many cheap and easy options as well as having all the instrument samples done and easily available on CD/floppy/zip disk. This video is a good example of doing things on the cheap, This video (youtube.com) is a good example of what a $20,000 studio could do in the same era.
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