When I was about 15, I bought a Yamaha TG100 tone generator [1]. It was a synthesizer without a keyboard, and I composed music on my Windows 3.1 system with a p

When I was about 15, I bought a Yamaha TG100 tone generator [1]. It was a synthesizer without a keyboard, and I composed music on my Windows 3.1 system with a program called Midisoft Recording Session (apparently in later versions it was renamed Midisoft Studio). Amazingly, I can still play those songs today on my Ubuntu machine using TiMidity [2] and my choice of SoundFont [3] files. (Note: I'd love to find a soundfont that reproduces the wavetable from the TG100, my copy of which no longer seems to work.) [1] http://usa.yamaha.com/products/music-production/tone-generators/tg100/?mode=model http://usa.yamaha.com/products/music-production/tone-generat... [2] http://timidity.sourceforge.net/ http://timidity.sourceforge.net/ [3] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SoundFont http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SoundFont