Here's Opcode's Musicshop 2.0! It's the successor to EZ Vision with 32 MIDI tracks (instead of 16) and a Notation editor added. It's MIDI only and comes with OMS 2.3.1. Serial number included. Have Fun!
Musicshop brings your musical ideas to life with unprecedented ease of use and power. Musicshop 2.0 features 32 instrument tracks, punch in-out recording, automated mixdowns, notation or piano roll viewing and familiar tape deck style controls. Play it in, play it back, print it out!
Opcode Systems, Inc. (1998). Musicshop 2.0. www.opcode.com/products/musicshop/
Getting into computerized music composition can be scary. The big note-editing and sequencing suites are as complex as 3D animation programs and, with their profusion of tiny controls, seem more geared for audio engineers than for musicians. Opcode’s Musicshop 2.02 combines MIDI music recording and note editing in one easy-to-use program that’s the best available for casual songwriters and students. It also gives serious musicians adequate power while offering a streamlined interface for composition.
Once you’ve configured the hardware — you need a MIDI instrument, such as a MIDI keyboard, and a MIDI interface plugged into your Mac’s serial port — you run a MIDI setup program, then move to the main Musicshop window. Set the tape-deck-style controller to Record, play the MIDI device, see your tune transposed to the screen in standard notation (including thirty-second, sixteenth, eighth, quarter, half, and whole notes, plus dotted notes and triplets), then press Play to hear what you recorded. Slight modifications of this process can aid learning — for example, you can play parts slowly or note by note, then play back the result at a faster tempo.
Edit notes in the notation window by cutting and pasting, changing notes, and employing other teclmiques. Or edit the music graphically in the “piano-roll” view, which lets you spot and fix rhythmic errors (using quantization), wrong pitches, and other mistakes, and add expression with pitch bending and vibrato. You can print professional-looking sheet music, with title, tempo, and composer headings, in whole or in parts for ensemble playing.
New features in version 2.02 include 32-track multichannel recording — 16 each for two MIDI interfaces. (You may need both the modem and printer ports for this trick.) A 32-track mixer lets you set the parameters for each track and do auto- mated mixdowns.
The original Musicshop’s main shortcoming was its lack of support for QuickTime Musical Instruments and for a broader range of MIDI features. Opcode has built QuickTime support into Musicshop 2.02, which now also includes the full General MIDI name set. You can import and export Standard MIDI files and play MIDI compositions back on a Mac.
Unfortunately, Opcode has some bugs to fix. I set off two separate system bombs in less than three minutes by altering Musicshop’s OMS settings and MIDI track assignments. Musicshop also needs multiple levels of Undo, or at least a Revert to Saved option.
Aside from occasional instabilities. Musicshop is a great beginner-to-intermediate composition tool.
Anzovin, Raf. (July 1998). Musicshop 2.02. MacAddict. (pg. 54).
Opcode Musicshop 2.0
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Emulating this? It could probably run under: 
Basilisk II
