What MTV Music Generator Looked Like In 2005... 

Fun fact: FL Studio was originally developed as a game. The developer wanted to create something simple and addictive like Tetris but with a music creation angle. They kept evolving it and adding new features till it eventually became a full on DAW. Around version 3~4 is when it really got some legs...and the rest as they say, is history.👍

dat farty horn on your first beat got me 😂😂😂😂😂

Music Generator was the first time I made a beat back 99-2000 then 5 years later I was introduced to Fl studio. I haven't stopped since

That was my first DAW! Recorded the beats out from my Playstation to cassette tapes lol

I Bet That Dude Is One Of The Best Engineers In The Game Right Now.

I still have PlayStation memory cards with tracks on them from MTV studio and a few others .*. ...recording through air and through duo deck stereos was my strategy 😎😂😎

Bruh the fact that we have such similar backgrounds in music be blowing my mind. Always appreciate you sharing your story and views bro.

I know a producer who used to make bangers on the Music Generator. It was amazing watching him do his thing back then.

Man...memories of mama sayin' "turn it down", 'cause that old TV had the crib bumpin' 😂🤣

I still have the disc on PC❗️💽 I made a Hard House album still got that too. With PC version you could save and export clean quality. I even installed it on a computer at school, made a quick slap and had a crowd around me turned into a cypher 😂 every sound is pre eq’d and compressed giving you the freedom to just create. Good times 🙏🏽

Man, can I even call myself a real music beat maker/artist if I never heard or played any of these music games? The only music games I've played are: Just Dance, and Def Jam: Icon. I never got to play Def Jam: Rapstar 😢

Lol glad you did a video for this. I read your book and remember you talking about the Playstatuon Game.😂😂

I used to love this game. I had it on The OG XBOX … i used to make music on a game called “Frequency” & “Amplitude”. “Frequency” was the first game my grandfather bought me for PS2 (RIP POP POP)

I wonder if music generator stayed around and upgraded over the years what would they be like. They changed a lot of Gamers into beatmakers.

This and dj club world was my 1st times of working with a daw it's crazy how far we've made it lol

Hahahaha...the story about waiting until no one was home, then holding the microphone up to the TV to record the composition has me in tears. That's too funny!

That’s what I started with people couldn’t believe I was making beats on my PlayStation

VIbin to your beat at the end funny af lol we all have a beat like that in the vault.

its funny to see him on the Playstation playing 16bit sounding music but he has actual instruments in his room 🤣🤣🤣

Holy shit, this was my start to music 😂 I remember my uncle used to run sound from the game to our old Compaq computer into Acid Pro 5 lmao. The good ol days…

Man, I found a copy of Magix Music Studio Deluxe in the clearance bin at Ross back in 03. I had 20 dollars to choose that or a bottle of Polo Sport. 😅

Your work ethic is insane this year i see you backing up that talk about going full force on RU-vid. Keep it going!!

man, this is crazy, i was just thinking about my ongoing midlife crisis and my obsession with getting into music production and when this seed was really planted. it was absolutely this game. i only remembered it clearly about 15 minutes before i found this video. you got yourself a new subscriber, brother.

Those old television sets and tape decks were what I used as a kid in 2014. I was late to the game.

This game got me as a musician right now. Keep up the good video, pal. I love making beats on Music 2000. (MTV Music Generator)

MTV Music Generator changed my life!!!!!! I use to record my beats to vhs because it had better sound quality. And after that i upgraded to dubbing to cd burners.

I used MTV Music Generator 1 also! I got the disc resurfaced some months ago and was able to pull up all the music I made in my teens. I then recorded videos on my smartphone. It was dope hearing what I made 20 plus years ago.

Mario Paint GOATd thooo lmfaoo.. Dope content as always fam!

I had the demo version of Fruity Loops 4. Good times.

Super inspiring video🙌

I was already doing music but this was my first daw. I found out it was also on PC and I went right down the rabbit hole and next thing you know... cakewalk, acid pro, magix, fruity loops... I was hooked!

This is the same thing my homie recorded the first tracks I ever recorded over...we actually had them recorded on tape.. took it to the studio and ask our recording engineer who also make beats to recreate/ copy it some what and it was very close to the original that was like 2001-2002.... those were the days

You took me way back bro.that started My career.i got it it when it first came out instead of mortal kombat one day at a video game store.i had the I'll way to save the beats and get them to cd,with mixing board,external compressor,cd burner and studio monitors a pair of samsons active, then got the event 20/20 then krk.and was selling mad beats.and I got the MTV generator 2 and 3 especially the funk flex version then you were able to sample other cds you out in Playstation I took it to another level.you wouldn't believe the bangers I was making.them I stepped upto hardware like boss drum machines,zoom beat machines,then mpc.you brought it all back good vid pic topic bro.god bless.

My first DAW was Beaterator on PSP Shout out to Timbaland

I made so many beats on this game, even performed at a high school talent show with a beat I made on it and shut it down. I knew I was truly meant to do this from that day on. 💪🏾😁💯👑

We used to hook the tv up to a minidisc player (remember those lol) then take that to a friend who had a cd burner to burn to cd we were using music 2000 though the predecessor to music generator the first beat I ever sold was made on playstation I wish they made some sort of controller for it though that would of been dope

that TV static sound was the worst when trying to convert the beats to tape.

Remember that lazy morning beat from Beat Making Haters.

lol I still have this in my collection. It takes me back to where I started. Though I took a different fork in the road. I started here graduated to Sony Acid and then the flood gates flew open.

That was my introduction to music making 🙏🏾🙏🏾💯

we better get the MTV Music Generator cook up stream soon, curtis

I know that feeling it was psp beaterator for me

I surely did use it. Matter of fact I still have my original copy.

dawg when i tell you Fry's was my favorite place to be back in the day, i was so sad when i found out them niggas folded a couple years ago. my ass usedta dream of being able to go travel to see all the majors ones cuz they all had like a theme and that was so fire to me 😭😭🔥🔥🔥

Landon Balk looks like the dude that explained the 4th dimension in that one video 😂

🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣 Your beat is wearing me out

Definitely bringing back memories. Think about that game all the time.

This was my start too. I been looking for a bag of old ps memory cards with beats on them. 1 beat with a sample on it took up a whole memory card sometimes 😂

For me, it was Mario Paint on the super Nintendo. Curtiss you need to pick that game up and make a beat on it

you already know my love for MG2 bro.

"this shit sound like AI made it, i think the prompt was: gimme somethin funky. from the early 2000s" i HATE how accurate that is 😂😂😂

If this game didn’t come out idk if I would’ve picked up FL Studio so young! Shout out to MTV!

That’s how I got my start

i Still got the first mtv generator disc with all the beats on memory cards

Bro I had the Magix Music Maker on the PS2. Funny story: I was in the 7th grade and When i got home from school it was literally just there on my bed. My mom was Like "I went out to buy some DVDs and I got you something." I had never even spoken to her about having an interest in making music. Damn this is really trippy when I think about it.

I used to sample old songs on the Music Generator

People still use this lol. There's even a Discord server now and there used to be a discussion forum back in the late 2000's

I still have my MTV Music Generator2 on PS2 and it's STILL one of my favorite DAWs ! You can do nearly everything on there that you can do on earlier versions of FL Studio! Rip that shit onto a dual tape deck with AV cords, and plug in your mic to the stereo & rap over it too ! I still have cassette tapes of my 1st beats lol

when you doing a mtv music generator cookup mane the streets need that 👀

Would be nice to see what he is doing now in terms of music? Can you interview him? Btw, loved your book...

Lol your first beat on Playstation still sounded more musical than the AI crap I've heard.

I started off on magix music studio 5 and shortly after acid music,...then went to logic 5 and now pro tools

I started my journey with mtv genarator 1 he's using mtv g2. I still have all 3 of them and other music beat games

I made a few MTVMG in 2001. Such memories

Yep a ion mixer a psone or 2 and a Sony CD recorder. In 2004 yep I did it too. I still use mg to make beats I'm learning how to make trap beats in 2023 now

i told myself if you played your old music generator tracks i was gonna lose it

I wanted mtv music generator so bad as a kid lol I wouldn’t get my 1st shot at making a beat until Fruity loops came out!

That the game that got me into making beats 👍

I recorded mtv music thru pc on music maker and layed vocals then converted to mp3 n burned to cd all with music maker. Good times for sure

Fostex VF80 8-track digital recorder. I loved that thing. (Mine was blue.) ALSO...wasn't ACID (pro) around back in 2000??

Man... I had this in college

This was my first DAW!!! I rented it at Blockbuster and *mistakenly* never returned it...

Curtiss had "FL 0" 😆

I did a show n tell at school demonstrating how I make beats , I had music2000 for the Playstation

Same bro ! And my mom who is a producer and radio personality brought it for me because I was always on the road with her … she is the goat 🐐 and one day I’ll be able to have plaques like her she had double digits I have 2 lol

Bro u are better than me I used to record to my VCR then re record it to my CD recorder

Newest Megadeth book talks about how the producer for their album had to cut and hang tape everywhere like he was tying to solve a high level crime, just to put together the tracks for the songs. Extremely meticulous and time consuming with high margins for error. Bouncing tracks from a PlayStation is a wild concept. Its cool to see the evolution through the years.

i bought a external 2 disc cd burner plug the white/red wire & let it play & burned it to a disc live

I started with on the xbox and music generator 3 with that red fostex mr 8 he has in that video.

It would be cool if you make a video making a beat using this on a PS2 Emulator.

OMG I WAS THE KIIIIING OF THE MTV GENERATOR!! I SWEAR TO GOD. I WAS MAKING REALLL BEATS. WOW, SOOO MUCH MEMORIES SEEING THIS. THIS WAS MY LIFE THIS FN PROGRAM. 🙏🏽😎

Broooooo my highschool life!!!

I had a PC version and my Beat did not sound like that but it was a good experience

Back when loops were called riffs

Wow this was my 1st also😂

It is all how it began for me also. I wish they made more. 🤷🏽✌🏼💜

I started on this computer program called hip hop ej lol

Sir, Fry's is gone

I had this program to

I got mine still

no cap made hits on this

You could also sample on it lol

I did. Now all the programs are basically the same

MARIO PAINT iykyk

Lol I used to work at fry's

I use to have a fostec digital 8 track 😅 my boy made beats with MTV music generator

❤I got rid of the game from 1999 when I was older. In 2018, I regretted it and bought it again just for decoration.

thats where i started also

Haha great

I found mines the same way in 2000 best game ever!!!!!