''Music'' is a

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developed by

Jester Interactive Jester Interactive is a video game developer based in North Wales in the United Kingdom. It was founded in 1997 as a trading arm of Morgan Computing Limited. It would later trade under the name Jester Interactive Limited, and after going into ...

and published by

Codemasters The Codemasters Software Company Limited (trade name: Codemasters) is a British video game developer based in Southam, England, which is a subsidiary of American corporation Electronic Arts. Founded by brothers Richard and David Darling in Octo ...

for the

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in November 1998. A sequel, ''

Music 2000 ''MTV Music Generator 2'' is a music video game developed by Jester Interactive and published by Codemasters for PlayStation 2 in 2001. Reception The game received "generally favourable reviews" according to the review aggregation website Me ...

'', was released in 1999.

Gameplay

''Music'' is a song creation tool. The main screen has 16 channels, where premade sounds called "riffs" can be layered together. There are different riffs, including

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s, drumbeats, samples, vocals, sound effects, and instruments. There are also tools for music video creation.

Development

''Music'' was developed by Jester Interactive, based in

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, Wales. ''Music'' had a small development team and nine months of development time which lead to extensive crunch time. After seeing a working demo, Codemasters cancelled their own similar product and published ''Music'' instead.

Reception

Computer and Video Games ''Computer and Video Games'' (also known as ''CVG'', ''Computer & Video Games'', ''C&VG'', ''Computer + Video Games'', or ''C+VG'') was a UK-based video game magazine, published in its original form between 1981 and 2004. Its offshoot website ...

'' said that it's easy to use and possible to create very impressive songs but disliked the quality of the vocal samples. ''Meristation'' liked the riffs section but wished there was more music genres in the game than just dance. ''Video Games'' said that sound quality is good but criticised that you can't include your own samples. ''Consoles +'' called it "a very, very interesting product". ''Music'' and ''

'' have sold combined over a million copies.

References

{{Music series 1998 video games Codemasters games Europe-exclusive video games Jester Interactive games Music (video game series) Music video games PlayStation (console) games PlayStation (console)-only games Single-player video games Video games developed in the United Kingdom