Ah I remember it fonldy. In my parents basement with an Ensoniq Mirage, a Yamaha TX81Z, and most likely a Roland R8 drum machine, and finally, an Atari ST 1040 running Midisoft Studio. Golden years. I seem to remember finding a 1.0 version of Cakewalk that ran on the Atari (could be wrong on that ).The 2nd aha moment was when I got a Soundblaster AWE 64 Gold (after tearing my hair out with a Kurzweil soundcard) and I could load multiple instruments via soundfonts and it .just .WORKED. One of the final aha moments was when I could easily and simply record a live performance of a 4 piece all on separate tracks (Zoom R16) as well as record the room (Zoom Q3HD), and come home and mix the various sources together (in Sonar X1) to make a matrix mix that had the listener feeling like they were there at the gig.Currently I'm seeing this amazing shift away from desktop computers, laptops, and even notebooks and you can now run multi-track DAW's on iPads (and Android pads) and even PHONES. I mixed down a recent gig recording (used the Zoom R16 to get 8 tracks) on my little Motorola Bravo Android phone. I could see all 8 tracks, add a splash of reverb, pan, EQ, compression, the works, and render it out to a stereo master file. Truly amazing. I'm also noticing (both in other musicians as well as in my own struggle) almost a pilgrimage back to more analog sounds or analog processing (both in the studio and in live performance). I recently purchased a Line6 M5 stompbox modeler so I could run my various keyboard swiss army knife sounds (piano, Rhodes, Wurly, B3, analog synths) through it to process the sounds with chorus, phaser, flanger, analog delay, etc. It gives my sound a yummy warmth!Anyway we live in great times as musicians!