What was the first software when you went PC or Mac?

[Karlos]

Nothing really. It was more the fact that the Amiga stopped being developed. There were just too many let downs after the demise of Commodore.

The demise of phase5 was a particular downer in the post Commodore era. I had pretty high hopes for their G4 accelerator cards; they sounded like what PowerUP should have been.

In the meantime, PC hardware started to become more and more powerful and coincidental with that, linux became ever more usable and supported.

It may not be my "main" platform any more I still own several Amiga machines.

[Karlos]

For me, it was having to write assignments for University back in 1994.  I couldnt afford a good printer so I'd write my work at home and take them on floppy to be printed.  The print server couldnt read Amiga disks and my Amiga had no word processing software so it was a cheap used 386 with Word on Win3.1 for me.
Interestingly, that machine felt much faster (25Mhz) than my A500, it was a fairly painless upgrade, I kept the A500 for games and the PC for work, they were apretty good team.

When I was at Uni, I actually got away with using ShapeShifter for that problem

[Karlos]

I went totally PC in 2000 when I heard Kid A by Radiohead and decided to start writing electronic music. I built a PC so I could run Reason. Now I'm totally Mac and use Reason and Record.

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moto

For me, music sequencing reached a pinnacle with OctaMED. Stuff that has come along since has undeniably become more feature rich, better sounding and been more professional (read boring), but I just can't use any of it.

There is something fundamental about columns of note events and hex command codes adjacent scrolling up the screen that I find intuitive in a way that no piano roll or notation format has ever achieved for me.

Thankfully, OctaMED does MIDI, else I'd probably never compose anything at all. I haven't really played with the concept, but I figured using a few standalone softsynths on my PC and controlling them via OMSS within UAE might be a laugh.