[vcf-midatlantic] MIDI Sequencing programs for Windows 3.0/3.1

Ethan telmnstr at 757.org
Fri Dec 2 22:15:13 EST 2016


>   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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