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October 29

Late '90s/early 2000s MIDI generator?

Hello, I'm sure I've asked this before, at least once and likely twice or more, several years ago, but I've lost track of the answer in the interim so I'm asking again.

I'm looking for a procedural MIDI generation software that existed probably by the year 2000. I do not remember what the name was; it was something similar to, but not, 'DirectMusic Composer'. It was relatively limited, but easy to use. When using it, you could pick from a selection of styles; for each style, you could select from a list of instrument sets, and a list of 'moods' that were available for that style, and you could move the instruments around on a 2D square to make them quieter, louder, or more towards the left or right side; you could set the song length, and enable or disable intro and outtro; and you could export the results to MIDI.

The program was used to create some part of the music for the turn-of-the-millennium MMO "Graal Online"; consequently, examples of what the MIDI music output could sound like can be found here (played with the default Windows soundfont) and in this playlist (played with a different soundfont).

Can you help me figure out what this program was, please?

2600:6C55:4A00:A18:A1E5:7EDB:844:C2C4 (talk) 23:49, 29 October 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Found it. Microsoft Music Producer. Thank you! 2600:6C55:4A00:A18:A1E5:7EDB:844:C2C4 (talk) 00:05, 30 October 2024 (UTC)[reply]