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And on MacOS to this day, VST is not needed (although it is available). So the answer to your question is that DAWs did not even become available to the home user until the mid to late 90s, and it wasn't until the early 2000s that VST started to displace DirectX on Windows as the most popular plugin format. My first DAWs in 1997 - 2002 were Cakewalk and Sony Vegas, which both relied heavily on the DirectX plugin format and were therefore Windows-only packages. As far as I know, DirectX is not used by DAWs today, but Apple Audio Units continues to be a major plugin format despite only being available on MacOS systems. Other plugin formats were OS-based, like Microsoft's DirectX and Apple's Audio Units.
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Some competing systems were proprietary, like MOTU's MAS system and Digidesign's (the makers of Pro Tools) Audio Suite and TDM systems. The first release of the Steinberg VST specification and SDK was in 1996, but the popularity of ASIO and the VST plugin format actually took a while to catch on.
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Propellerhead Reason and Sonic Foundry (later Sony) Acid and Vegas were notable software releases at the end of the millennium, with Acid and Reason being the software that popularized looping, prior to Ableton releasing Live in 2001. Also in the late 90s, Sonic Foundry's Sound Forge software, Bias Peak (released in 1996), Digital Performer, and Cubase (which added native audio processing in 1996) all could record, edit, and mix two or more tracks of audio on a regular home PC. I recall using Cakewalk as a mixdown destination for an analog 4-track recording sometime in 1996 or so. I can't find the exact date, but definitely by 1998, Cakewalk software could record and mix several tracks of simultaneous audio without requiring dedicated DSP hardware (called "native"). Other MIDI-only software in the late 80s and early 90s included MOTU Digital Performer.
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At that time, home studios mostly relied on 4 and 8 track analog cassette tape deck recording (like the Tascam Portastudio line). In 1995, I took a class on MIDI sequencing based around Cakewalk, which at the time was only a MIDI sequencer. I myself used a tracker on the Amiga 3000UX in 1992 - 1993, just to make fun little tunes. Home studios didn't generally go digital until the late 90s.
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Also in 1991, Cubase first supported audio but it required TDM hardware (created by the makers of Pro Tools) for DSP.
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Pro Tools was the first widely popular DAW in professional studios, even though the very first digital hard disk recorder system was released in 1978. By 1994, dedicated "DSP farm" cards and SCSI RAID hard drive arrays brought the maximum possible track count up to 64. In 1991, Pro Tools was released, which was a DAW that could record and playback both MIDI and audio, with up to four simultaneous audio tracks. That is because the processing power of computers was not enough to handle the digital signal processing that even a basic DAW needs, and hard drive systems were not fast enough to stream audio in real time, so DAW systems required both software and dedicated hardware.
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The first FireWire Audio Interface for Mac and Windows.Hex game for the Atari ST and Amiga computers (released in 1985).Mouse Stampede, arguably the first arcade-style game available for the Apple Macintosh (1984).Professional Composer, one of the first graphical music-notation editors.FinalWord word processor (sold and became Sprint).MINCE was also available for the Atari ST. MINCE and SCRIBBLE, an Emacs-like editor and Scribe-like text formatter for CP/M machines.It is based in Cambridge, Massachusetts and has created music software since 1984. Mark of the Unicorn ( MOTU) is a music-related computer software and hardware supplier. Computer software, music software, computer hardware