If you never heard of it, you are not born in Europe.
Never mind, I try to explain what the Philips Music Module is and why I like it so much.
The Philips Music Module was a kind of MSX-Audio music cartridge with some extras.
It had an interface for a special Philips keyboard, a midi interface, 2x mono output, a built-in microphone, a line-in input and a volume adjuster.
If you bought the original, you got 1 music-book, 1 manual and an audio-tape with some sounds to record.
The software called "Musicbox" was build-in and started automatically when the
MSX-computer was powered on.
I had plenty of fun with this "Musicbox" software. It was made for MSX-1, but all screens
had different colors and looked all very nice and easy to understand.
You could record your own voice (or someone else) and play with it on your MSX keyboard
or you could play along with lots of different music-styles while the "music box" made it sound just right. You could change instruments, drumkits, tempo...eh...
Some MSX-ers just hate to press ESC key for avoid starting "Musicbox" , removed the chip from the circuit board inside and pasted more sample-RAM on it to sample more seconds than the standard 4.6 seconds (32Kb). I let somebody else do it, to run more sample demos and sample-programs like Sampbox.
Philips made more software for the Music Module, like "Music Creator"
(sold together by the Philips keyboard) and "Drum System" (Philips Germany).
"Music Creator" was more than "Musicbox", a music arranger and composer.
It had also a kind of drum-sequencer, but much simpler than the "Drum System"
"Drum System" was a drumkit-composer and -sequencer.
I liked "Drum System", cause you could sample your own drumkit and create your own drum riffs. My coffee-cup drumkit was the best drumkit I ever made.
If you had a joystick connected you could play in realtime any drumkit you had on disk.
You just had to follow the rhythm...
I made 3 packages for each program, a program disk, and a software disk.
You can try for yourself.
To play around with Musicbox: Mediafire / Pcloud
To try to be serious with Music Creator: Mediafire / Pcloud
To make beats with Drum System: Mediafire / Pcloud
<video making with bluemsx ???>
Never mind, I try to explain what the Philips Music Module is and why I like it so much.
The Philips Music Module was a kind of MSX-Audio music cartridge with some extras.
It had an interface for a special Philips keyboard, a midi interface, 2x mono output, a built-in microphone, a line-in input and a volume adjuster.
If you bought the original, you got 1 music-book, 1 manual and an audio-tape with some sounds to record.
The software called "Musicbox" was build-in and started automatically when the
MSX-computer was powered on.
I had plenty of fun with this "Musicbox" software. It was made for MSX-1, but all screens
had different colors and looked all very nice and easy to understand.
You could record your own voice (or someone else) and play with it on your MSX keyboard
or you could play along with lots of different music-styles while the "music box" made it sound just right. You could change instruments, drumkits, tempo...eh...
Some MSX-ers just hate to press ESC key for avoid starting "Musicbox" , removed the chip from the circuit board inside and pasted more sample-RAM on it to sample more seconds than the standard 4.6 seconds (32Kb). I let somebody else do it, to run more sample demos and sample-programs like Sampbox.
Philips made more software for the Music Module, like "Music Creator"
(sold together by the Philips keyboard) and "Drum System" (Philips Germany).
"Music Creator" was more than "Musicbox", a music arranger and composer.
It had also a kind of drum-sequencer, but much simpler than the "Drum System"
"Drum System" was a drumkit-composer and -sequencer.
I liked "Drum System", cause you could sample your own drumkit and create your own drum riffs. My coffee-cup drumkit was the best drumkit I ever made.
If you had a joystick connected you could play in realtime any drumkit you had on disk.
You just had to follow the rhythm...
I made 3 packages for each program, a program disk, and a software disk.
You can try for yourself.
To play around with Musicbox: Mediafire / Pcloud
To try to be serious with Music Creator: Mediafire / Pcloud
To make beats with Drum System: Mediafire / Pcloud
<video making with bluemsx ???>
There were vids made but very raw and slow I should speed up the part before playing sounds of music. Packages were never made , but maybe the maps are still somewhere.
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