PC Music Tool Kit

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Summary: Cannot install this on Windows XP
Review: If you use Windows XP, you should avoid this product. The installer reports that Windows 95 is required and aborts. If there's a way to make this work on XP, the Magix web site offers no help at all, and neither do the UseNet archives I've searched. The date on the CD is 1999; so most likely support is no longer available anyway.

Software that won't let you install on an unsupported platform is scandalous, in my professional opinion. You pay for it, you should be able to use it - even if that means waiving support. Hopefully, newer products are limited only by the terms of their end-user licensing agreements.

On the other hand, the bundled MIDI cable alone, if it works with other software, will have justified the low price I paid. :-) An identical cable at the local music store would have cost me a lot more.