MIDI Sequencing programs for Windows 3.0/3.1
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, -- Matt Patoray Owner, MSP Productions KD8AMG
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
On Tue, 29 Nov 2016, Ethan via vcf-midatlantic wrote:
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,
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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 still have my copy of Voyetra's Sequencer Plus Mk. III, which as you say runs under DOS 2.0 and higher. SP3 requires a hardware key which plugs into the parallel port. Back then, I also ran Dr. T's Copyist program for notation. Mike Loewen mloewen@cpumagic.scol.pa.us Old Technology http://q7.neurotica.com/Oldtech/
I still have my copy of Voyetra's Sequencer Plus Mk. III, which as you say runs under DOS 2.0 and higher. SP3 requires a hardware key which plugs into the parallel port. Back then, I also ran Dr. T's Copyist program for notation.
There was another program called Band in a Box that I remember seeing here and there as well? I always thought it was an auto-accompiament program but never looked into it farther. I think it got packed in with some of the Soundblaster clones. I remember my high school band director hitting me up for underground copies of scoring programs to play with (but I don't think I had any nor remember playing with any, this was the early Windows / MS-DOS days.) I started to mess with trackers and that is where I mostly stayed. ScreamTracker (From FutureCrew), And Composer 669 (which was from the demo group Renaissance which I believe was from New Jersey!) Interesting thing is that a lot of software can play the 669 tracker files but there is something that someone got wrong in the numbers somewhere so some of the portamento effects are just... wrong... on everything that plays the files other than the original software. I suppose everything is a derivitive work of something that wasn't 100% right. There is a really powerful modern tracker called Renoise. I keep meaning to buy a copy. I wonder if OP found Windows 3.1 sequencing software? This whole thread had me looking for something to put on my Mac SE/30 :-)
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