Description
With MCS, the user can create musical composition using a graphical user interface, a novel concept for the era of its release. Users could drag and drop notes right onto the staff, play back their creations and print them out. The program came with a few popular songs as samples.
Most versions of this program required the users to use a joystick to create their songs, note by note.
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