Creative Music System (DOS)

Creative Music System

Platform: DOS Year: 1987 Developer: Creative Music Lab Online: Download

The Creative Music System was an early sound card made by Creative. This pages is for the bundled software that came with the product. More information on the sound card itself can be found at Creative Music System.

The Creative Music System came bundled with several pieces of software including the following:

• Creative C/MS Music Player - This program plays CMS format audio files.
• Creative Music System Sing-along Program - This program plays CMS files that have been outfitted as karaoke songs.
• Creative Music System's Intelligent Organ - This functions as a musical keyboard with numerous instruments, recording, and playback.
• Animated Play - Plays animations along with CMS files that have been updated to work with the program.

There are a few other command line programs that allow you to convert Organ songs to CMS files, take screen captures for use with Animated Play, pack and unpack songs together, etc.

Screenshots

The CMS player. Creative's Intelligent Organ isn't that intelligent. The demo shows these super happy dancing bunnies. The karaoke sing-along program. The demo program is really trying to sell you this state-of-the-art product! Some more animations.

Music

The Creative Music System's bundled music does a good job of showcasing the abilities of the sound card. The songs consist mostly of traditional songs and covered pop songs. I imagine that they skirted copyright issues because the fidelity of the songs is so low. There are also a handful of custom-made songs. Most of the arrangements are attributed to "WH Sim," which refers to Sim Wong Hoo, the CEO of Creative. A couple of the unknown songs are probably covers as well.

Recording

#	Title	Composer	Arranger	Length	Size	Listen
01	1351 Theme	Sim Wong Hoo	Sim Wong Hoo	2:17	2.8 MB
02	Baby Elephant Walk	Henry Mancini	K. Ong	1:21	1.7 MB
03	Flight of the Bumblebee	Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov	Seng Kwong	1:15	1.5 MB
04	Happy Birthday to You	Patty Hill, Mildred J. Hill	Sim Wong Hoo	1:28	1.8 MB
05	Church	L.X.J., Creative Music Team	L.X.J., Creative Music Team	4:54	6.3 MB
06	Dance	Creative Music Team	Creative Music Team	0:16	305 KB
07	Les Derniers Jours d'Anastasia	Paul de Senneville, Jean Baudlot	Sim Wong Hoo	3:02	3.6 MB
08	Donna Donna	Sholom Secunda	Sim Wong Hoo	2:56	3.6 MB
09	Drum	Creative Music Team	Creative Music Team	0:15	289 KB
10	The Entertainer	Marvin Hamlisch	Sim Wong Hoo	1:44	1.9 MB
11	The Entertainer (Piano Version)	Scott Joplin	Sim Wong Hoo	1:44	2.1 MB
12	Evening In the Countryside	Z.H., Creative Music Team	Z.H., Creative Music Team	1:28	1.8 MB
13	Minuet In G	Ludwig van Beethoven	Creative Music Team	2:30	3.2 MB
14	Lovely Greensleeves	Traditional	Sim Wong Hoo	2:05	2.6 MB
15	Hungarian Dance No. 5	Johannes Brahms	Sim Wong Hoo	1:34	1.8 MB
16	Jingle Bells	James Lord Pierpont	Sim Wong Hoo	1:29	1.9 MB
17	Lightings	Z.H., Creative Music Team	Z.H., Creative Music Team	2:13	2.6 MB
18	Love Is Blue	André Popp	Sim Wong Hoo	2:28	3.2 MB
19	Love's Theme	Love Unlimited Orchestra	K. Ong	3:09	4.0 MB
20	Little Swans	Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky	Sim Wong Hoo	1:07	1.4 MB
21	Army March	Franz Schubert	An A.G., Creative Music Team	3:32	4.1 MB
22	1351 Main Demo	Sim Wong Hoo	Sim Wong Hoo	1:53	2.2 MB
23	Moon River	Henry Mancini	Sim Wong Hoo, K. Ong	2:24	3.1 MB
24	Old Folks At Home	Stephen Foster	L.X.J., Creative Music Team	1:50	2.3 MB
25	Polka	Z.H., Creative Music Team	Z.H., Creative Music Team	1:51	2.2 MB
26	Romance d'Amour	Traditional	Sim Wong Hoo	1:47	2.3 MB
27	Sabre Dance	Aram Khachaturian	Creative Music Team	2:37	3.3 MB
28	Sealed With a Kiss	Peter Udell, Gary Geld	Sim Wong Hoo	2:57	3.7 MB
29	Serenade	Franz Schubert	Sim Wong Hoo	3:11	4.0 MB
30	Song of Spring	Felix Mendelssohn	Sim Wong Hoo	1:29	1.9 MB
31	Top of the World	Richard Carpenter, John Bettis	Sim Wong Hoo	2:21	2.9 MB
32	Traumerei - Reveries	Robert Schumann	Creative Music Team	1:41	2.1 MB
33	The Trout	Franz Schubert	Sim Wong Hoo	2:12	2.5 MB
34	Creative Twinkle Variation	Traditional	Sim Wong Hoo	4:15	4.8 MB
35	Creative Twinkle Variation #2	Traditional	Sim Wong Hoo	4:05	4.9 MB
36	Voiceset	Creative Music Team	Creative Music Team	0:23	292 KB
37	Wedding March	Felix Mendelssohn	Sim Wong Hoo	2:53	3.6 MB

Credits

• Ripper: TheAlmightyGuru
• Recorder: TheAlmightyGuru
• Game Credits:
  • Arranger: Sim Wong Hoo credited as WH Sim
  • Arranger: Creative Music Team
  • Arranger: K. Ong
  • Arranger: Seng Kwong
  • Arranger: Z.H. credited as ZH
  • Arranger: L.X.J. credited as LXJ
  • Arranger: An A.G. credited as An AG
  • Composer: Aram Khachaturian credited as Khachaturian
  • Composer: Franz Schubert credited as Schubert
  • Composer: Jean Baudlot credited as J. Baudlot
  • Composer: Ludwig van Beethoven credited as L.Van Beethoven
  • Composer: Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov credited as Rimsky-Korsakov
  • Composer: Paul de Senneville credited as P. Senneville
  • Composer: Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky credited as Tchaikovsky
  • Not Credited Composer: André Popp
  • Not Credited Composer: Traditional
  • Not Credited Composer: Felix Mendelssohn
  • Not Credited Composer: Gary Geld
  • Not Credited Composer: Henry Mancini
  • Not Credited Composer: James Lord Pierpont
  • Not Credited Composer: Johannes Brahms
  • Not Credited Composer: John Bettis
  • Not Credited Composer: Love Unlimited Orchestra
  • Not Credited Composer: Marvin Hamlisch
  • Not Credited Composer: Mildred Hill
  • Not Credited Composer: Patty Hill
  • Not Credited Composer: Peter Udell
  • Not Credited Composer: Richard Carpenter
  • Not Credited Composer: Robert Schumann
  • Not Credited Composer: Scott Joplin
  • Not Credited Composer: Sholom Secunda
  • Not Credited Composer: Stephen Foster

(Source: Meta data of CMS files.)

Game Rip

Format	Download	Size
	Download	64 KB

This CMS files are found on the various disks, some of which are repeated. The songs were recorded using the Creative C/MS Music Player in DOSBox.

Audio Devices

Music
Sound

(No Source - The programs don't allow for configuration and require that you have a Creative Music System or Game Blaster.)

Releases

USA Title: Creative Music System Platform: DOS Released: 1987-08-?? Publisher: Creative Music Lab

Links

• en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Creative_Music_System#Creative_Music_System - Wikipedia.