Question

Will Musicator work in Windows 10?

Answer 1

Yes, the software works on Windows 10, but you will have to install the ASIO4ALL driver first. Once it's installed, start the main program's setup package and then follow the instructions.

• Download: http://www.musicator.net/download.php
• Download ASIO4ALL: http://tippach.business.t-online.de/asio4all/downloads_11/ASIO4ALL_2_13_English.exe

Answer 2

Really? I say. NO. I bought this fantastic program in 1992 and now must I see, that my whole work (about 2000 files created because I am a music teacher) is going down with windows 8.1 64-Bit. I must take a second computer with good old windows xp, if I want to use musicator for the further years. The compatibility mode ignores musicator (no results) so that I use the right click menu from the musaud.exe - ALL versions of windows leads to no result!!! In between I red in a lot forums, that only a Virtual Machine can bring better results. I tried this, but after the program start I cannot pull down any menus without crashing the program. Iam very sad about this.

Answer 3

I am running Musicator 4 very successfully on Windows 10 32-bit. It will not run on 64-bit.

I am a music teacher with thousands of files and Musicator is simply the best notation program that used to be available. I have tried MuseScore, Finale and Sibelius 7 and all of those are far too complicated and do not give me the flexibility that Musicator does. My old Musicator 4 is intuitive and I use it every day.

I use a Roland UM-One MIDI interface to connect my PC to my Yamaha Clavinova CVP-105 and I can access hidden MIDI codes so that I can use the complete range of voices available on the Clavinova by having created my own custom *.mod text file which Mus4 uses. Owing to the way that Microsoft have set up Windows, the MIDI cable must be unplugged, then plugged in again before MIDI is available. I am using a dual-boot PC with a 1GB SSD on which I have both 32-bit and 64-bit Windows 10 running. I've had Mus4 running on various OS for about 20 years and it's simply the best that's available.

If someone brought out an updated version of Musicator I would be the first to buy it but in 2021 there's nothing which compares favourably with it.

Answer 4

If you have the original Windows 3.1 installation disks, you can run Musicator 3 for Windows within that, running within an installation of DOSBox. If you want to print your scores from Musicator, I recommend you use DOSBox-X (a business-oriented version of DOSBox), coupled with Printfil, a software package that operates as a printer "interface" with DOSBox-X (I don't know if it will work with other versions of DOSBox). The only limitation is that Printfil will only print in black and white. Nor have I tested this setup to see if DOSBox-X will output to external MIDI.

I don't know how backwards-compatible Musicator 4 is--I only went as far as version 3--but it MAY run under Windows 3.1.

Answer 5

Is it possible to open Musicator files in any other way than re-installing Musicator in DosBox etc? Can Musicator export musicXML or just midi-files?