The several MIDI PIECES here were
made with a Turtle Beach Tropez sound
card using a program called Microsoft
 Music Producer (along with the occasional 
use of a MIDI keyboard). The MIDI was
edited using Studio 4. Unfortunately (or
maybe fortunately 8^), the MIDI PIECES
would sound different when using different
sound cards for playback - so I converted
them to WAV files using Syntrillium's Cool
Edit. These files were then converted to
MP3s for use on the web site...        

For those not familiar with Music Producer,
I include a 100% screen grab of it below.
It offers a large number of music styles,
playing "personalities", bands, tempo and
key choices, piece "shapes", lengths, etc., and
it includes a mixer with which the band MIDI 
instrument placement and relative loudness
can be determined. The resulting MIDI files
can be placed in a MIDI editor for modification,
mixing, and instrument changing. They can
be converted to WAV files for further work.
Unfortunately, Microsoft Music Producer is
no longer available...                                  

All Copyright David Ruether