Post by zzzomboid on Mar 6, 2021 18:13:19 GMT
Hi everyone! So I have a little story to share with you all. What I'm about to talk about isn't exactly "lost media", more like old/obscure media. When I was around 5, I used to play this music maker software on my mom's PC that allows you to make music by combining prerecorded instruments together. My memory of it is very vague since I was so young at the time, but I distinctly remember it being very "kid-friendly" and simple. The name of it had escaped me for years, so I decided to do a little research. I googled "kids music maker software early 2000's" and the first result was a reddit thread from 2017 of someone trying to find a music maker software that they played as a kid. What they described sounded very similar to what I played so I wasn't the only person who played it. The few comments under that thread gave a few suggestions, but they weren't what I was looking for. Browsing around Wikipedia and other sites didn't turn up anything, so I thought I reached a dead end. Then, I came back to the reddit thread and saw someone mention a "Super Duper Music Looper". I googled it since it sounded like something aimed towards young children, and a few images popped up of the software's original packaging and some screenshots of it in action. An Amazon listing for it says that it was developed by Sonic Foundry and was released on July 21, 2001. It was around 2003 when I played it, so the dates match up. While it did look vaguely familiar and matched my description, I still wasn't entirely convinced it was it, so I showed the pics to my mom. And what do you know-she remembered it! She says that she used to play it with me and that we would make songs together. When I first started this search, I actually asked her if she recalls having a music maker software on her computer, but she didn't know what I was talking about until I showed her the pics. And now that I look at the screenshots some more, I'm about 95% positive that this is it, because I remember the instrument icons on the left and the paint & erase options. It was like half-painting and half-music making.I would know for sure if I were to get my hands on this software again and play it. Does anyone else remember playing this? And if I were to get it again, do you think it would still work on modern operating systems? So, yeah I just wanted to share this little story of how I rediscovered an obscure music maker software from my childhood.
TL;DR I rediscovered an obscure music maker software that I played when I was very young.