Not sure about the keyboard part, but there was also Sound Club, an early 90s sound editor by Skype founders Jaan Tallinn and Ahti Heinla: http://bluemoon.ee/history/scdos/index.html
Some music made with Sound Club: http://digitiger.byethost7.com/sclub.htm?i=1 Some more details -- apparently it did have something called "virtual keyboard": https://en-academic.com/dic.nsf/enwiki/3599781 Obviously, I'm pointing this out mostly because of the authors (I'm Estonian, and so are they). It is really cool that they still keep their old homepage available; apparently it is from the pre-Skype days: http://bluemoon.ee/history/index.html Mart On 01/09/2022, Karen Lewellen <klewel...@shellworld.net> wrote: > thanks for all those prospects. > Perhaps I should not have used the gaming concept as a framer, figuring > there were no musicians here. > My goal is to use my computer keyboard as a music one in pure DOS. > I have found a copy of cakewalk for DOS, but still appreciate your > options too. > Karen > > > > On Wed, 31 Aug 2022, Rugxulo wrote: > >> Hi, >> >> On Tue, Aug 30, 2022 at 11:45 AM Karen Lewellen >> <klewel...@shellworld.net> wrote: >>> >>> I use dos, google has removed access to YouTube for low graphics >>> browsers. >>> If you have an answer, care to share? >> >> The YouTube link just shows "Sound Blaster Pro Intelligent Organ" >> (Creative Technology, 1991). >> >> What about a so-called "tracker"? >> >> * https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Music_tracker >> >> Here's a few links that I found (off the top of my head): >> >> * https://hornet.org/music/programs/trackers/scrmt321.zip >> * https://hornet.org/music/contests/mc6/files/it214p3.zip >> * https://github.com/herrnst/impulsetracker >> * https://github.com/MobyGamer/MONOTONE/releases/tag/0.3.9 >> >> >>> On Tue, 30 Aug 2022, Björn Morell wrote: >>> >>>> https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nAt1rWF-kqE >>>> >>>> Den 2022-08-30 kl. 12:02, skrev Karen Lewellen: >>>>> with all of the vintage gaming hinted at here, was wondering if >>>>> anyone >>>>> knows of a simple pure DOS program that in theory allows one to treat >>>>> their computer keyboard like a music one? >>>>> Need not tap dance as it were, just allow for some basic work. >>>>> Ideas? >>>>> Karen >> >> >> _______________________________________________ >> Freedos-user mailing list >> Freedos-user@lists.sourceforge.net >> https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freedos-user >> _______________________________________________ Freedos-user mailing list Freedos-user@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freedos-user
