Hello, I am looking for a Midi Sequencing program that will run under Windows 3.0 or 3.1, looking to use my Roland LAPC-I a bit more, and it's patches do not map to general MIDI so I would need something to rearrange the tracks. I seem to remember a program called Cakewalk that I had a demo of years ago. I was wondering if someone might have something for download or sale. Thanks in advance,
Hello Matt! Cakewalk would indeed be one of the early midi sequencers that should run under Windows 3.1. Quick googling using some sites I've poked at before: http://www.oldschooldaw.com/forums/index.php?topic=541.0 That's crazy, didn't know Cubase made it over to Windows that early! http://www.oldschooldaw.com/forums/index.php?board=13.0 There might be some links to actual software there. Archive.org is another trick to getting back to old versions of stuff -- I'm sure you're aware. Also, the LAPC-I is a MT32 on ISA card from what I remember. So I would highly recommend Lucasarts The Secret of Monkey Island and Sierra Space Quest III, and perhaps some Leisure Suit Larry (Al Lowe who wrote LSL is actually a saxophonist -- he wrote the theme afaik.) I think a big sequencer in those days is Voyetra which is DOS. There is a Windows version of it also I think, so that might be another option. I have a Yamaha C1 laptop that is dead that is meant to run it -- just got schematics but haven't been back to that project yet. I downloaded Voyetra from the internet but it was kind of a challenge to get installed as it really wants you to swap floppies. I picked up a MT32 not too long ago and it's been pretty cool. Leave it hooked into keyboards normally. I think I rebooted Space Quest 3 5 times just to hear one of my favorite game themes! Here is a video of someone killing it using Voyetra Sequencer in MS-DOS -- video is 3 years old!! I think it's some sort of 10 minute song writing competition. I don't know if the sounds are coming from the midi module on the desk or a computer running software synths off screen (he says samples so ...) He has a bunch of similar videos with different songs. Kind of shows how efficient a PC keyboard can be: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hirugsHKXcA Anyways, if you can't find sequencers on "abandonware" webpages I can dig.
-- Matt Patoray Owner, MSP Productions KD8AMG