This obviously opens up an infinite world of samples to little song maestros, the only limit being one’s imagination. The PS2 version allows you to record music samples directly from audio CDs. The Xbox version supports creating samples from any music already ripped and stored on your Xbox hard drive. And if you still can’t find the perfect sound, you can sample in your own (up to 8 seconds in length). Who knew there were a hundred different types of snare drums? If you want to tweak your sounds, there are several different effects such as delay, echo and reverb that can be added to each track as well.
MTV Music Generator 3 has literally thousand and thousands of samples to choose from already built into the program. The true power of the program isn’t revealed until you dump the remixes and start creating your own tunes from scratch in studio mode. Plus, in remix mode you are limited to four channels. This is a good way to jump in and learn the basics of the program’s interface, however the sample choices here are limited and it’s pretty tough to actually make a bad-sounding song since all the samples are pre-snipped to the correct length. Out of the box budding musicians get ten songs to remix and/or deconstruct. These tracks are built one at a time and can then be played back, copied, stacked and looped. To build your song, all you need to do is place a sample in a track and then click on the small boxes when you want your sample to play. The speed at which the song plays (known as Beats Per Minute, or BPM) is adjustable. MTV Music Generator 3 supports 24 simultaneous tracks that appear in a large, easy-to-maneuver grid. These tracks are then all played at the same time. Sequencers have multiple tracks, with each track able to hold one sample. MTV Music Generator is a sequencer, a program that allows you to create music by putting samples (digitized recordings of sounds) in order (or, sequence). The interface is slick enough to have you rockin’ the block in no time. MTV Music Generator 3 is by far the best of the series – now that the novelty is over, developer Mix Max and publisher Codemasters have dumped all the fluff and created an honest-to-goodness music sequencer for current generation console owners. Version 2 (released in 2001 for the PS2) added tons of new samples and tools, but the program was too complex, convoluted and cumbersome to win gamers over. Without much memory or storage space to work with, the original was more frustrating than fun. MTV’s Music Generator series debuted on the original PlayStation back in 1999, and suffered due to the console’s hardware limitations. One such franchise is MTV’s Music Generator series, the latest of which (Version 3) is available for both the Xbox and PlayStation 2.
There’s a weird genre out there for home consoles, programs that aren’t really games but actually programs that stretch the limits of what videogame consoles were originally designed to do.
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