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(…when i was in school they had it on the school computers. i never realised until now that this software was basically a full daw?? even if just for the nostalgia value of the visuals and certain samples alone it could become popular again i think)

for context this is what eJay looks like (specifically the version i have memories of)

it is the most 90's thing imaginable

oh my god they made a ps2 version of eJay? like, a literal playstation 2 uh… title… that's a version of eJay. that's so cool

@hikari tbh I didn't know it was on anything other than PS2 until you posted that screenshot

@hikari I had this, plus Dance eJay 2, Techno, and Hip Hop. spent so much time tinkering with it.

@hikari OMG THANKS i've been thinking a lot about this software the past while for nostalgia reasons but couldn't for the life of me remember the name, thank you so much

@hikari@social.noyu.me omg

@hikari what's poppin'

@hikari (by literally nobody's request, but since a disc drive was nearby: https://up.shiz.me/f/abnamro-eurostyle-ejayse-mijndagboek.iso )

@hikari That brought up memories I'd completely forgotten about - there's not much of primary school and earlier I remember, but it all came back

Sometime in year...idk, year 5 or 6 probably, we used some version of eJay (I want to say it was "Dance eJay 2 Techno Edition") for IT class one day and all the songs the class made were burned onto CDs that I think the school then sold as part of a fundraiser or to cover the CD cost (plus a little extra) or something?

I think I just made some fairly generic incredibly bland track with the pre-existing samples and didn't do anything too creative - but also, I was like 10 and hadn't developed any of my music tastes yet or even knew what techno was besides thinking the word sounded cool

@hikari I remember vaguelly disapointed that we only got to use it that one time and never again

And that it was weird how in secondary school, despite us being a Performing Arts school with mandatory Music lessons for Years 7-9, and music rooms with dedicated computers with MIDI keyboards (in addition to seperate computer labs for ICT) that I never saw any audio software beyond audacity at any point

I can presume that they must have been used for people who actually took Music as an elective in either GCSE or A Levels

@hokaze i think my school had a copy of Sibelius on the one computer that had a MIDI keyboard…