I remember once I was on a session with a producer called Ian Green at Metropolis Studios, and we were using a rack of Akai S1000 samplers so high, they were taller than Ian, although he isn’t the tallest bloke in the world! Obviously, the more samplers you have, the more outputs to plug into the desk and more importantly, in those days, the more sample time you had. Towards the mid-nineties Macs were creeping in, they were better computers, even better than the Atari ST 1040 model they had colour screens and it wasn’t long until we had the capability to record and edit audio to a degree. So back then, Cubase was my sequencer of choice and I zipped around on it like lightning as I knew it so well. I think before Notator, it was called Creator but let’s not go there! Speaking of Apple, in those days Macs were quite new on the music production scene and Atari STs were always thought of as more stable, and they were rock solid, timing-wise.
Later on Emagic changed the name from Notator to Notator Logic then finally settled at Logic, long before Apple bought them out of course.
Cubase on the other hand was a lot more intuitive, giving us the ability to drag, drop, copy and paste blocks of midi information. From what I remember, Notator looked like the event list in Logic and that was it. The two most popular sequencers were Steinberg’s Cubase and Emagic’s Notator.
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