1984

Will Harvey's Music
Construction Set

FROM: Electronic Arts

BEHIND THE MUSIC: Fifteen-year-old Will Harvey was an Apple II protégé who built this intuitive, drag-and-drop user-interface powered, if tedious to operate, song building kit while still in high school. File under Did You Know: He later went on to found popular massively multiplayer 3D online universe There.com.

WHY IT ROCKS: One of the earliest forerunners of Pro Tools, it proved there was a voracious appetite for music-themed desktop titles. The program also provided an early hit for then-nascent publisher Electronic Arts long before Madden NFL debuted, which would later generate star-powered soundtracks that got bands like Good Charlotte thousands of spins.

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