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May be a dead end, but help remembering the name of a simple music making program from the early 2000s?
Posted by: Torbar on 2020-12-17 08:40:42 So I'm having some memories from a music course we took in middleschool, probably around 2001-2002, where we had a lab full of iMac G3s running OS9. This is one of those weird vague memories that pop into your head randomly, it was almost 20 years ago, so my memories not great It was this fairly basic music making application that I think you would chose like, pre-made loops and put them on a multi-track timeline(almost like what you can do with Garageband, but it wasn't that), I don't know if you could like, record individual notes or not(there were MIDI keyboards hooked up, but I don't know if they were used for that program, or for more advanced stuff). And I want to say one of the loops was peoples voices saying like "hey", "yo", quick phrases like that I seem to remember that the theme of the application was like, a purple color, but that could also just be my imagination(or maybe they were purple iMacs) I took a look at the music section of Mac Garden and Mac Repository, but none of those look familiar. Anyone have any idea of what I'm talking about? I feel like it may be fun to mess around with
Posted by: jessenator on 2020-12-17 08:53:46 I first thought MixMan Studio Mac, which came with my icebook G3, but it's not timeline track based, but more like an MPC sampler setup with the samples triggered by groupings of keys. But it does have vocalizations, breaks, beats, and other sample-oriented type composition. Was it an early version of Cubase LE? Maybe this: Making More Music ? That one has a timeline-like UI (at least its predecessor did).
Posted by: Torbar on 2020-12-17 13:06:41 I first thought MixMan Studio Mac, which came with my icebook G3, but it's not timeline track based, but more like an MPC sampler setup with the samples triggered by groupings of keys. But it does have vocalizations, breaks, beats, and other sample-oriented type composition. Was it an early version of Cubase LE? Maybe this: Making More Music ? That one has a timeline-like UI (at least its predecessor did). I don't think it was any of these. It seems like it was even more simple of an interface than Making More Music
Posted by: Torbar on 2022-08-27 21:01:11 almost 2 years later, "Rock, Rap'n Roll" is what I was thinking of! By chance I came across it at a video game expo while looking through a table of big box PC & Mac games! As soon as I saw the box, I was like "wait a minute..." and looked at the screenshots on the back and was 95% sure it was it so I bought it. Just watched a video on youtube, and this was definitely it! A bit off from my description, but yeah this was like 22 years ago Also, I thought the software was from the early 2000s...but apparently 1993. So our school was a bit out of date I guess with some software 😄
Posted by: slomacuser on 2022-08-27 23:45:15 I was reading the first post and guessed right away but somehow I missed this in 2020 … so yeah thats Rock, Rap & Roll … 🙂
Posted by: Phipli on 2022-08-28 00:00:41 Was it GrooveMaker? Groove Maker 2.5 Edit, ah sorry, you worked it out 🙂
Posted by: Torbar on 2022-08-28 05:16:00 I was reading the first post and guessed right away but somehow I missed this in 2020 … so yeah thats Rock, Rap & Roll … 🙂 Thank you for uploading that video which 100% confirmed that this was it!
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