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| − | AdLib Visual Composer is a music composer program that was identical to the composing program in Mario Paint. The composer consisted of six voice channels and a bass, snare, tom, hihat, and cymbal channel, or a "Without Percussion" mode with three additional voice channels, totaling up to 9 channels. The program allowed you to "paint" your music on it's Piano Roll. BNK files were also associated with the program so that the voices could play in the program. The BNK files contained all the voices and the voices' information. Visual Composer also came with a program called "INSMAKER" (Instrument Maker) that lets you create or modify voices and sounds. New BNK files can also be created. Games that used Visual Composer for their music usually came with a BNK file so that other people could use the sounds from the game in their own compositions. The original BNK file (STANDARD.BNK) had lots of voices to choose from, from accordions to xylophones. The program was both, fun and simple. The program allowed you to change the tempo in-song, the voices in a channel, the volume, and the pitch accuracy. But even at that, there were some things that AdLib Visual Composer couldn't do that most other music composition programs could do like Arpeggios, Pitch Bend, Note Slide, etc. | + | AdLib Visual Composer is a music composer program that was identical to the composing program in Mario Paint. The composer consisted of six voice channels and a bass, snare, tom, hihat, and cymbal channel, or a "Without Percussion" mode with three additional voice channels, totaling up to 9 channels. The program allowed you to "paint" your music on it's Piano Roll. BNK files were also associated with the program so that the voices could play in the program. The BNK files contained all the voices and the voices' information. Visual Composer also came with a program called "INSMAKER" (Instrument Maker) that lets you create or modify voices and sounds. New BNK files can also be created. Games that used Visual Composer for their music usually came with a BNK file so that other people could use the sounds from the game in their own compositions. The original BNK file (STANDARD.BNK) had lots of voices to choose from, from accordions to xylophones. The program was both, fun and simple. The program allowed you to change the tempo in-song, the voices in a channel, the volume, and the pitch accuracy. But even at that, there were some things that AdLib Visual Composer couldn't do that most other music composition programs could do like Arpeggios, Pitch Bend, Note Slide, etc. The program also came with AdLib Jukebox, a program where it would show a CGA Jukebox with the AdLib logo and it would play [[ROL]] files created by AdLib Visual Composer when the files were selected. Like most files back then, the file was limited to 8 characters in its name. |
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| Creator | AdLib Company |
| Released | 1987 |
| Platform | {{{Platform}}} |
AdLib Visual Composer is a music composer program that was identical to the composing program in Mario Paint. The composer consisted of six voice channels and a bass, snare, tom, hihat, and cymbal channel, or a "Without Percussion" mode with three additional voice channels, totaling up to 9 channels. The program allowed you to "paint" your music on it's Piano Roll. BNK files were also associated with the program so that the voices could play in the program. The BNK files contained all the voices and the voices' information. Visual Composer also came with a program called "INSMAKER" (Instrument Maker) that lets you create or modify voices and sounds. New BNK files can also be created. Games that used Visual Composer for their music usually came with a BNK file so that other people could use the sounds from the game in their own compositions. The original BNK file (STANDARD.BNK) had lots of voices to choose from, from accordions to xylophones. The program was both, fun and simple. The program allowed you to change the tempo in-song, the voices in a channel, the volume, and the pitch accuracy. But even at that, there were some things that AdLib Visual Composer couldn't do that most other music composition programs could do like Arpeggios, Pitch Bend, Note Slide, etc. The program also came with AdLib Jukebox, a program where it would show a CGA Jukebox with the AdLib logo and it would play ROL files created by AdLib Visual Composer when the files were selected. Like most files back then, the file was limited to 8 characters in its name.
Composers
The following composers used AdLib Visual Composer.
