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There are so many wild and wonderful things that came out of 90s Microsoft. One favourite of mine is Microsoft Music Producer, I think it was called. You could

There are so many wild and wonderful things that came out of 90s Microsoft. One favourite of mine is Microsoft Music Producer, I think it was called. You could select genres, styles, tempo and a band then it would 'compose' mid files. I used them to generate royalty-free music for silly animations. Sadly even any mention of this is very hard to find online now. I recall there being an old website where one could download it along with extra music styles; that can be found here: https://web.archive.org/web/20070222062521/http://www.musicmachines.net/faqmp.htm https://web.archive.org/web/20070222062521/http://www.musicm... Edit: Changed the name to 'Microsoft Music Producer', as has been kindly identified below.

spoppy 7y ago
Do you mean SongSmith? That wasn't 1990s, more like 2009, but made quite a splash at the time with their famous video commercial. http://songsmith.ms/ http://songsmith.ms/ https://youtu.be/3oGFogwcx-E https://youtu.be/3oGFogwcx-E
- dkonofalski 7y ago
  This is what I initially thought of but that doesn't sound like what the OP is describing.
macca321 7y ago
Also see Microsoft Songsmith
thunderwow 7y ago
Microsoft Music Producer: http://ents-bbs.org/viewtopic.php?f=167&t=2346 http://ents-bbs.org/viewtopic.php?f=167&t=2346
- HeckFeck 7y ago
  That's the one. I searched the web archive and found the website I had in mind above. It has plenty of info on MMP, as well as downloads of extra music styles. https://web.archive.org/web/20070222062521/http://www.musicmachines.net/faqmp.htm https://web.archive.org/web/20070222062521/http://www.musicm...
- Moru 7y ago
  Thankyou! I have been thinging of that one for many years but didn't know the name to search for. Instructions and downloads on that page works just fine with windows 10 so far. I set it to compatible to Windows 7 but not sure that is even needed.
- Fjolsvith 7y ago
  I downloaded it but had to do the patching on my 32 bit Windows 10 computer. Once I had patched, I was able to copy the program to my 64 bit machine and run it. I've bought so many old MSDN CD sets off Ebay looking for this program. Thanks!
StavrosK 7y ago
And Microsoft 3D Movie Maker! I spent so much time making "movies" with that thing!
- 52-6F-62 7y ago
  Oh so did I. I was always stuck with the trial version, but it was loads of fun.

spoppy 7y ago

Do you mean SongSmith? That wasn't 1990s, more like 2009, but made quite a splash at the time with their famous video commercial. http://songsmith.ms/ http://songsmith.ms/ https://youtu.be/3oGFogwcx-E https://youtu.be/3oGFogwcx-E

dkonofalski 7y ago
This is what I initially thought of but that doesn't sound like what the OP is describing.

macca321 7y ago

Also see Microsoft Songsmith

thunderwow 7y ago

Microsoft Music Producer: http://ents-bbs.org/viewtopic.php?f=167&t=2346 http://ents-bbs.org/viewtopic.php?f=167&t=2346

HeckFeck 7y ago
That's the one. I searched the web archive and found the website I had in mind above. It has plenty of info on MMP, as well as downloads of extra music styles. https://web.archive.org/web/20070222062521/http://www.musicmachines.net/faqmp.htm https://web.archive.org/web/20070222062521/http://www.musicm...
Moru 7y ago
Thankyou! I have been thinging of that one for many years but didn't know the name to search for. Instructions and downloads on that page works just fine with windows 10 so far. I set it to compatible to Windows 7 but not sure that is even needed.
Fjolsvith 7y ago
I downloaded it but had to do the patching on my 32 bit Windows 10 computer. Once I had patched, I was able to copy the program to my 64 bit machine and run it. I've bought so many old MSDN CD sets off Ebay looking for this program. Thanks!

StavrosK 7y ago

And Microsoft 3D Movie Maker! I spent so much time making "movies" with that thing!

52-6F-62 7y ago
Oh so did I. I was always stuck with the trial version, but it was loads of fun.