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Good source for old music creation software?
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Good source for old music creation software?
I'm planning to use my 600e for some 1998 Era digital music creation.
Something like qubase or logic but older lol
Open to any suggestions or sources!!!
Something like qubase or logic but older lol
Open to any suggestions or sources!!!
Re: Good source for old music creation software?
You may be able to find old software on the Internet Archive (archive.org).
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Re: Good source for old music creation software?
I remember the old Cakewalk Music Creator ca. 2003 that would probably run on a 600E. There's also old versions of Finale - 2005 and older are much less resource intensive than the later versions. I had no issues running 2005 on my A22m.
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Re: Good source for old music creation software?
You might try Noteworthy Composer. They have a free downloadable demo.
It's mostly aimed at composing and arranging, but you can play a keyboard into it or import existing MIDI files.
There's even an unoffical way to import music XML - search for "mxml2nwc".
As a notation editor, it has some limitations, but it's definitely light on resources. The latest download I have here (version 2.75) is only 1.7 MB.
Their website says Windows XP SP3 is the minimum. I see that they're now on version 2.75a. I've used version 2.75 successfully on Windows 2000, so this one might work too. Maybe even Win 98 - who knows. Try the demo.
V2.75 also runs under Wine on Linux with Timidity.
I'm not associated with the programmer in any way, I'm just a user of the program since 2003.
It's mostly aimed at composing and arranging, but you can play a keyboard into it or import existing MIDI files.
There's even an unoffical way to import music XML - search for "mxml2nwc".
As a notation editor, it has some limitations, but it's definitely light on resources. The latest download I have here (version 2.75) is only 1.7 MB.
Their website says Windows XP SP3 is the minimum. I see that they're now on version 2.75a. I've used version 2.75 successfully on Windows 2000, so this one might work too. Maybe even Win 98 - who knows. Try the demo.
V2.75 also runs under Wine on Linux with Timidity.
I'm not associated with the programmer in any way, I'm just a user of the program since 2003.
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Re: Good source for old music creation software?
I still use my physical copies of Sony Vegas, Sound forge and Music creation and sound editing software. Older Magix Music Maker works to for audio creation. should be able to find 99-2005 Magix Music maker software on ebay. I been getting all my physical software together from Adobe, Sony, Macromedia and Autodesk together as all the software is going subscription base. I hate it as I use my software from time to time (Like 3-5 times out of a year) and I don't want to pay for a sub for software I will barely ever use. And I don't want to pirate software, so I rather use my physical copies i paid for.
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Re: Good source for old music creation software?
I know FL Studio version 6 works on 98 (don't know the 'last' version that does but it might be something after 6).
One caveat is that a lot of that software is so CPU intensive (virtual synthesizers chew a lot of math), I remember back in the day how it taxed my Athlon64. You don't really notice it today with modern processors though.
One caveat is that a lot of that software is so CPU intensive (virtual synthesizers chew a lot of math), I remember back in the day how it taxed my Athlon64. You don't really notice it today with modern processors though.
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