Music is your life. Your body moves to the beat, any beat. You doodle on any piano and bang on any drum within reach. You compose great symphonies in your head. But up until now you’ve been too embarrassed to make music yourself. Ater all, you don’t know an octave from an ocarina.
You need CyberSound Studio 3.0, a low-cost combination hardware/software package that’s got everything you need to make very cool MIDI music (except the talent, that is) — including a 37-key MIDI keyboard and a basic MIDI adapter that plugs into your Mac’s modem or printer port, MIDI setup is extra-simple — just use the MIDI cable to plug the keyboard into the MIDI box’s IN jack, plug (he serial cable into you Mac, and launch the CyberSound Studio software.
The CyberSound Studio main window displays a time counter at top, tape-style record and playback controls, and 16 MIDI tracks to record and layer keyboard noodlings. Each track has its own MIDI instrument sound, selected from one of the included instrument banks.
To record a take, select a track, specify the bank and instrument for that track, then click record and start playing. Record additional tracks while listening to what you’ve already played. Even if you’re musically challenged, it’s not that hard to come up with something listenable, especially if you dive into CyberSound’s ready-made drum grooves and automatic chording.
The level of editing control, however, is minimal. CyberSound Studio claims to be like a word processor for music, but the analogy isn’t entirely apt: you can record right over a take or alter tracks by cutting and pasting (just as you can cut and paste paragraphs in a text document), but you can’t edit individual notes on screen. That’s like not being able to use your word processor to change a word or letter. The sequencer also lacks a timeline, making it hard to see and adjust how tracks interrelate over time. If you graduate to serious composing, you’ll want something stronger — Macromedia’s Deck II, or Steinberg North America’s CuBase, — providing finer control and a visual editing display.
The included hardware is underpowered, as well. The keyboard isn’t touch sensitive and has no audio out or MIDI in. It’s OK for fooling around, but it’s no pro tool; chances are you’ll quickly want a better MIDI keyboard. Also note that the MIDI controller lacks a pass-through or a switch for another serial device, so you’ll have to unplug your modem or AppleTalk connection before you can use the keyboard. If you don’t have a real keyboard or other MIDI instrument handy (CyberSound Studio is available without the hardware), there’s an onscreen 88-key virtual keyboard you can play with the mouse. Notes are also mapped to your QWERTY keyboard, where at least you have the option of fingering more than one note at a time.
On the other hand, the scope and quality of CyberSound’s instrument sound banks is absolutely overpowering. Forget QuickTime Musical Instruments’ rinky-dink sounds — CyberSound’s instruments are serious, full-bodied samples. And there are an awful lot of them — 1,238, to be exact, ranging from a creditable Baby Grand to such exotica as Ebony Flute, Taiko Drum, and Glockenspiel. Not to mention the percussion, techno, electronic, and ethnic sounds. You’ll spend hours just playing with instruments you’ve never heard before. For this price, there’s no easier or cheaper way to get into MIDI music.
Anzovin, Steven. (March 1998). CyberSound Studio 3.0. MacAddict. (pg. 58).
InVision Interactive, Inc.
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Emulating this? It could probably run under: 
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