Overall, we're not entirely sure what to make of Virtual Music Composer. This edition saves phrases and songs as WAV files, but MIDI files can be saved with an upgrade.
The songs are split into separate phrases, which can be saved individually, although you can save the entire song as well.
The result was a nice-sounding piano piece, although we have no idea if it had anything at all to do with the settings that we had selected. We chose our settings, clicked the Compose button, and waited a few minutes while Virtual Music Composer created our song. If you're not sure what any of that means, don't expect Virtual Music Composer to enlighten you the Help file may as well not even exist for all the information it provides. To create a piece of music, we used the arrows to select our desired key signature, scale, motif mode, and phrase mode. We finally realized that tiny arrows within the interface were what we were supposed to use to select our settings. The program's interface is somewhat abstruse, without any obvious menus or buttons. Although the program is fun to play with, be prepared to have very little control over the actual results. Virtual Musical Composer is a program that aims to bring the joys of musical creation to the tone-deaf masses. For people who aren't musical, the process of composing and playing music seems almost magical.
