DirectMusic Producer
From Video Game Music Preservation Foundation Wiki
DirectMusic Producer is used to create and edit songs for playback using Microsoft DirectMusic. It was once very popular: article on Microsoft's site here 'How to Use DirectMusic Producer to Create Music for a Video Game' and another guide here (Internet Archive) sample (Archive.today backup)
The most recent 9.0b version from the Microsoft download page (before it was taken down) was a file named "dx90_directmusicproducer.exe" around 30MB in size.[1]
Composers
The following composers used DirectMusic Producer:
- Bjorn Lynne
- Bjorn Pankratz
- Charles Dail Nielson
- Daniel Bernstein
- Dave Adams
- David Punshon
- Ed Lima
- Eric Brosius
- Erik Aho
- Guy Whitmore
- Jesper Kyd
- John Kenworthy Nielson
- Kai Rosenkranz
- Kyle Blondin
- Marco Rademacher
- Michael Bross
- Nathan Grigg
- Nicola Tomljanovich
- Paul Lackey
- Richard Wells
- Rod Abernethy
- Scott Morgan
- Will Loconto
- Willy Rosenkranz
Download
- From this website: File:DMP9.zip
- DirectX 9.0b SDK Extras: DirectMusic Producer (dx90_directmusicproducer.exe) (DMP9.zip) download (Internet Archive) (also Internet Archived via dropbox but dropbox retroactively forbid the timed download URL).
- DirectMusic Producer DirectX 8.1 (DMusProd) (dx81musicproducer.exe) download (Internet Archive)
