Playstation 1 Music Making Software? MTV Music Generator For The Sony PS1 

SAM, Amazing mate. I nearly died in 1998. I was in intensive care for 70 plus days, then was moved to a surgical ward where I remained for almost a year. The nurses and staff, who I obviously got to know really well, knew I was into making electronic music, and because I had my PlayStation in my hospital room, they got me Music as a birthday gift. From that moment on my stay in hospital became a lot easier, as I was able to keep my mind occupied with making some rudimentary songs on this! When I finally returned home, a lot of the tunes I had come up with whilst in hospital became the basis of future tracks, which I was able to fashion and craft using my proper equipment at home. This PlayStation software/game may be simple, but it holds a very special place in my heart! Cool vid mate

The ps1 intro still gives me goosebumps

Playstation: starts *Chills in every bone

This was literally how I got into music production. Had this in the 90’s in college, the many days that no one had any money we’d cram into my room and make the loudest hardcore tracks. Years later I got the MTV music generator on PS2, that had quite a bit of power to it, even had a sampler, managed to remix vocal tracks, then I decided I wanted something better so bought myself a PC, found a cracked version of cubase SX 3, loved it for years, then got the wife to get me the proper Cubase 5, still use it nearly daily. And it all started from that PlayStation game over 20 years ago.

So great to see my baby (MUSIC tm) dragged out of mothballs and aired again! But what's more precious, is reading everyone's fond memories and even some deeply moving stories in this thread. That truly warms my heart... thanks for such a fun video! And a massive shout-out to everyone who has enjoyed our MUSIC/MTV products over the years. Love & light to you all - Tim Wright ( CoLD SToRAGE ) Creative Director at Jester Interactive - Designers of the MUSIC tm Products.

I just love how it has 90s euro trance vibe

Girl: You're in a band? What instrument do you play? Guy: I play the PlayStation

Just in case anyone was wondering, the disc shown is 'Music: Music Creation For The PlayStation', which only had a UK release in 1998. 'Music 2000' was the 1999 advanced followup, and the NTSC/USA version of -that- was named 'MTV Music Generator'.

The vocal samples sound a lot like they came out of some old Moby track.

I pushed my PS1 so hard with Music that I had to remove the upper case and have a room fan directly blowing on it, I use to have to run out all the time and buy more memory cards for sampling and saving projects too! Good times.

That track honestly sounds frick'n awesome at 9:00. It almost sounds like from an Amiga! Great job! I love all the melodies, beats and changes you gave it. Gotta love that awesome early 90's dance music with all the techno and house elements! Some of the best musical styles ever made right up there with new beat, Italodisco and metal!

its sounds like one of those songs you hear when you trying to installing pirated games, like from Theta, Fitgirl, Codex or something else

You d be amazed how many people actually released music with this ...

That full start up screen is insaaaaaaaaaaaaaanely nostalgic.

This and Music 2000 was my entire life for years.

MTV Music Generator 2 for the PS2 was phenomenal. I still use it. It enabled you to sample your own sounds as well and then modify them For me it is worth owning the PS2 just to be able to run it.

Music 2000 was literally how I started making music.

I remember as a child I dreamed to have the full version of this program. In Eastern Europe there was a huge problem with its availability (even as a pirate). The demo version contained a much smaller number of samples. And it did not allow to interfere in the created patern. It's nice to see this program years later. I am still making music but now on Ableton 10. :) Regards!

Dude! this track u created is dope! Got that Moby feeling!

I spent so many days making music on MTV music generator 2. Had several memory cards just for the music. Even recorded them on cassette tapes.. What a time that was..

Benga and the lads have loads of interviews on this game and how it influenced them. Benga legit started interest in Grime production from a track he plated from this game

I absolutely loved this music program for PS1 back in the 90s. It was actually quite deep and editable as a music making tool, and my first experience of using a type of ‘DAW’ to sequence loops and one shots on a ‘computer’. It was easy to create fills, risers, edit samples etc. I made loads of tracks with it and recorded them into my Sony minidisc player as backups. Still got ‘em, and the same minidisc player is still working. They brought out a sequel to this one called Music 2000, but somehow I didn’t find it as good as the original. Apart from the obvious difference in sound quality and depth, the concept is not that disimilar 20 years later working on Korg Gadget! Great episode, brings back fond memories of my PS1 days and my first venture into ‘computer-made’ music. 👍🕷

Don't ever stop making content Sam. I swear I have the RU-vid app installed just to watch your videos. Love it!

Watching this brought back so many memories. Can’t believe I forgot about this! I made so much music with this game & then went to music production college. This is what sparked my creativity for music making. Thank you so much for posting this🙏🏼 Don’t forget you can even sample from CD with this game using any CD & make remixes with it!

MUSIC 2000 is the genuinely brilliant, actually workable follow-up, and still on the PS1. It was, frankly, unbelievable at the time. The first MUSIC was a toy, MUSIC 2000 was like being given a studio to play in.

This video proves the Playstation 1 was way ahead of it's time! And capable of bring more then just games to the living room! Very well done, Amazing work!

I spend so much time on these music maker. It was amazing. Thank you for the flashback.

This was my introduction to music production, as an 8 year old I had no clue what I was doing initially but I later moved on to Music 3000 on the ps2 and eventually got into DAW'S. I still owe a lot to this cheesy PS1 game though.

CRT: **Turns on** CRT: Eeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee Me: Eeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee

All the people in the house, say "Yeah!". Fond memories of this

Those horns tho my word the depth held it all together perfect

I'm definitely digging what this guy's come up with in the way of retro gaming systems and making music

Do one with music 2000 you could sample from cds so burn your own vocals on cd

The main reason I've held on to my original PS was for Music 2000. Frustratingly limited in many ways, but all things considered a fantastic piece of software. Used it to help compose songs, especially for figuring out drums and bass. But with enough time and perseverance you could actually get some fairly impressive results out of it.

Music sounds so 90's! Love it!

That actually turned out pretty sweet lol cheers man!

My friend in college had this and he made really impressive trip hop and hip hop tracks on it!

Nice one! A whole bunch of 2000's TFT display Sony Ericsson cellphones had a very similar software built-in for polyphonic ringtones composition. It was almost the same 'icons' and pattern building capability. Mostly loops. Funny how Sony preserved certain concepts through completely different systems and eras.

yo lol a smile instantly came on my face when that started up man, right in the feels.

Banger!! This is where it all began for me. Spent countless hours on it. Thanks for the memory 👌🏾

brought me back to sega's street of rage jams

Rave eJay for me. Recorded my "album" to tape from the first family PC.

wow yes!! this got me way into music editing. it had endless plots and songs to choose from, i even at one point routed the audio cord to the computer and recorded it! i have about 6 tracks i made on there on my computer right meow. i saved it all these years since the 90s. still got it. so rad.

Actually the outcome was way better than I expected, awesome video lad

Bro, that breakdown at 9:32 is pretty dope!

This is where it all started for me with drum programming I wrote many songs using this. Easy to use and not that bad samples I moved on to fruity. Loops and audition DAW after this once I got a computer and used some of the stuff I wrote using this. Good memories

Thanks for your videos Sam! I started watching them when I was having a hard time being addicted to amphetamine, and they've inspired me to build synths and learn how to produce electronic music!

bro that track was KILLER! amazing man

Ahh, my first introduction to music software! I used to bunk off school and spend entire days recreating New Order tunes on this thing 😂

I remember reading Dizzee Rascal got started playing with this game.

You just brought back some amazing memories.. Had loads of fun with that game in the late 90's

You are a proper entertainer and lots of fun to watch ....

This has just brought back memories of being a young whipper snapper and creating tunes back in the early 2000s using Dance ejay on a Packard Bell running Windows 98.

This was actually surprisingly great software. I remember making fun of my friend for using this, and low and behold, he got a song actually signed and pressed with it in the early 2000s

Listening to that, I closed my eyes and I was back in a warehouse rave! Awesome work as always.

You done well man that song a banger

I remember when I use to play my PS1 games on a CD player just to hear the soundtracks 💿 🎮 🎶

There was an article a couple years ago about how this game was the starting point for a lot of rappers and producers. There were even a few mixtapes made with it using some kind of setup with a tape recorder and a microphone.

Just got shivers down my spine from the ps1 startup sound, so much nostalgia

Bruh, sick song, this is impresive

That would be a hit if you're living in that timeline.

I used to love this, record it to cassette tapes and pump it loud in the car lmao

Great song at the end man :)

Bless you for making this!

One of the biggest german artists used this game to produce beats for a whole hiphop album back in the days.

I loved the next version of this 'game', music 2000/MTV Music Generator It let you import very short samples off a CD. it had better samples according to my taste

ngl both tracks u made could absolutely end up in my playlist

Gosh, it remind me my childhood, I think I never played a game longer than this one, thanks for that video m8

This was my addiction, it was a really intuitive and strangely (relatively) powerful piece of software for the Playstation. Was always frustrating that there was no sampling available in this version though, it made everything sound really similar. Still, very cool and I remember buying it as soon as it came out. Later on it also made me buy Reason for the PC.

Music 2000 ps1 i started making beats on lol , the only game i needed for my ps1 , and 20 memory cards

I spent so much time on this game when I was young, so much memories!

Thank you for this. So many memories using this software. This is how I learned how to make electronic music.

I remember making a Bone Thugs remix song with this game. Memory cards would fill up so fast. GB memory was but a dream.

6:00 “Put your feet on the floor!” Lololol

Sounded pretty sick 👌🏻 great job

OMG this is the very first DAW i ever used and the reason why i got into making music. What nostalgia trip mate! Nice video.

I spent countless hours with that software from when I was 13-14 to 17 years old. I started using Cubasis VST when I was 15 but, I kept on using Music from time to time untill my Playstation developed a fault. I didn't play much with other games once I got Music, that CD was permanently into my Playstation. I cut my teeth on making music with it. By the way, at 6'50'' the note doesn't go higher because the sample is loaded at "high quality" (the number 6 before the instrument name has a green background, meaning it's at full quality) but you can load at "medium quality" (yellow background) or low quality (red background, if I recall correctly). If you lower the sound quality, you raise the pitch of the sample by one octave (and you save memory to load more samples). Another funny - albeit memory-hungry - thing to do with Music is to load a bunch of vocal samples, then use the "sampling compensation" (sample start/end point) to cut pieces of words and then sequence the different them to obtain new words. I have a lot of memories of that software, it has a special place in my heart.

Sound-Meter Video is what we want! Or Inwant. At least.

Favorite video of yours to date. Sick setup with the CRTV and the rack in the background. I would definitely watch a couple vids of you playing some old classics on this TV while you reminisce.

Dude, respect. That program was so frustrating, but I have very fond memories:)

*Rip all the vocals and upload they have so much potential*

Music was a great entry into making tracks, I spent loads of hours as a teenager using this. However, coming back to it again before selling my video game collection: using the controller to lay down notes and patterns is the most fiddliest of methods I have ever endured. Love the input from legendary musician CoLD SToRAGE / Tim Wright on the demos too. Just as an aside - I would totally recommend anyone that has the disc that you use a utility like PSound on Windows to extract all the samples from the Playstation disc as Wavs (all at 11khz, 22khz and 44khz versions)

blast from the past this, I remember first coming across this pre teens but a few years before had the pleasure of using a pc program called dance ejay and remember playing music for the first time and being amazed how they managed to get something so complex to run on a ps1

Loved this back in the day

I loved music generator when I was in high school. Shit, this takes me back.

Aww man, a friend and I used to take acid or eat mushrooms and play this so much. Digital music creation wasn't super accessible so it was amazing. Or maybe it was the second one.. Either way great times

not quite sure why yt suggested this to me but it's the best thing i've watched all day subscribed, would be great to see someone make a track from the old music arrangement things you'd find on mid 2000s sony ericsson phones

I used to be addicted to this. I think I had the second version too where you could sample from a CD and save the sample to the playstation memory card but you only got a few seconds. Very inventive use of the hardware though!

"All the People in the House" has just gone viral on soundcloud....

All the music i made in the early 2000s was with this it actually fooled some people lol and mtv music generator

Love this nostalgic video. I had the Ps1 title MTV Music Generator here in the states and logged some time making dodgy tracks which are still saved to memory cards in a box somewhere.

The follow up to this (Music 2000) was pretty good too,, it came with a little microphone that plugged into the into the PlayStation so you could take voice samples plus you could take samples from cd's too if I'm remembering it right. Cool video, brings back memories.

Studied Music tech at Uni. Unfortunately due to my health and life itself, I never managed to get a job within the field. Haven't made music for years, nearly 8 in fact. Found your channel the other day and boy has it re-sparked something good. Your use of retro kit is awesome. Love the videos man, keep it up. Earned yourself another well deserved sub.

I had Music 2000, which I found easier to use. Spent many, many hours creating all sorts of tunes throughout my teens

man that sounds awesome for a quick build, ive got an MPK mini that ive been toying with recording sounds from old tiger toys and things, and video games ,anything with music, but mostly korg and vocoder stuff, this brings me back mtv jams was my fav as a kid, i think that's the same one your playing but the UK vers.

This video has a wonderful 90's vibe

I loved messing about with this software when I was younger! Completely forgot it existed! That and the eJay series for the PC :D A friend of mine is a drum and bass producer ("Chinensis" if anyone is interested) and he credits his interest in music production to Music 2000 on the PlayStation back in the day. haha

So this is how Moby made his songs?

You are so very talented!!

Fully enjoyed this. I loved that game as a kid.