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:''For the example songs, see [[AdLib Visual Composer]].''



<div align="center"><span style="font-size: 22pt">AdLib Visual Composer</span><br />Version 1.51</div>

{{SoftwareInfobox
| Software = AdLib Visual Composer
| Image = [[Image:AdLibVisualComposer-c.png|190px]]<br />
''AdLib Visual Composer<br />''Cover
| Version = 1.51
| ReleaseDate = {{1987S}}
| Company = {{AdLibIncTool}}
| Published = {{Published}}
| Developers = {{UnknownToolDev}}
| Interface = {{GUI}}
| ProgLanguage = {{C}}
| OpenSource = {{ClosedSRC}}
| Source = {{NoSourceSW}}
| License =  {{UnknownToolLicense}}
| Type = {{MusicCompositionTool}}
| Engine = {{NAEngTool}}
| Platform = {{DOSTool}}
| Localization = {{EnglishTool}}
| Website = 
}}

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==<br /> Description ==

<blockquote>
'''''Visual Composer''''' is a music composer program created by [[w:AdLib, Inc.|AdLib, Inc.]] specifically for their [[AdLib Music Synthesizer Card]] from 1987.

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| align="center" valign="top" | ''AdLib Visual Composer back cover''
|}Just like the on-board [[OPL2]] chip, Visual Composer has two modes to choose from: Six voice channels and a bass drum, snare, tom, hi-hat, and cymbal channel, or a "Without Percussion" mode with nine channels, and on each channel, only one note can play. To insert or change a note, you "paint" it over the piano roll using your mouse or computer keyboard. The whole program has only two colors to allow a wider screen resolution. It also has a [[MIDI]] recording function, but it does not work with [[SoundBlaster]] cards, and [[Dan Froelich]] and [[Matthias Steinwachs]] confirmed on their respective website using a mouse.

At any time in-song, you can change the tempo, the instruments in a channel, the volume, and the pitch accuracy. But even at that, Visual Composer can't easily do some things that other music composition programs can do, like arpeggios, pitch bends, and note slides. Arpeggios and tuplets can be created by altering the tempo in the middle of the song.

Instruments were always stored in separate files from the composition. In early versions, one instrument was stored in one [[INS]] file, which was always 54 bytes. However, due to how floppy and hard disks work, every file costs 1 KB of real disk space, so in version 1.5, the [[BNK]] format was introduced to save that space. A bank contains the names and timbres of all instruments, and you have to choose one bank for your composition. The original bank (STANDARD.BNK) has numerous instruments to choose from, from accordions to xylophones. Visual Composer does not create or modify instruments and banks itself; for that, it came with the [[Instrument Maker]] and [[Bank Manager]] programs, and also [[AdLib Juke Box]] to play ROL files in a playlist.

Music is saved in the [[ROL]] format. Games that use Visual Composer for their music either came with the artist's original ROL and BNK files and [[AdLib Sound Driver]], or conversions in [[MUS (AdLib)]], [[MDI]], [[CMF]], or custom formats and drivers. Coming as ROL and BNK allowed other people to modify the songs and use the instruments from the game in their own compositions.
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===<br /> Screenshots ===

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| [[File:AdLibVisualComposerTitleSS.png|320px]] || [[File:AdLibVisualComposerSS1.png|320px]]||[[File:AdLibVisualComposerSS2.png|320px]]|
|- align="center" valign="top"
| The title screen<br />&nbsp; || One of the example tunes || Help on voices
|- align="center"
| [[File:AdLibVisualComposerSS3.png|320px]] || [[File:AdLibVisualComposerSS4.png|320px]]||[[File:AdLibVisualComposerSS5.png|320px]]
|- align="center" valign="top"
| Instrument maker<br />&nbsp; || Help on instruments || Playing songs on the jukebox.
|}

==<br /> Features ==

<blockquote>
'''''AdLib Visual Composer''''', was an easy to use music composer program that could be purchased to enhance an [[AdLib]] sound card. This page houses the recorded music that came with the program. For an explanation of how the program works, view the [[AdLib Visual Composer]] software page.
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==<br /> Requirements ==

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==<br /> Options ==

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==<br /> Download ==

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==<br /> Known issues ==

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==<br /> Credits ==

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==<br /> Music ==

In order to get potential users headed in the right direction, ''AdLib Visual Composer'' was released with several brief example tunes, each named after the genre of music they represented.

Though not in the recording, "Hard Blues" was used in the arcade game [[Multi Champ (ARC)]], albeit pitched up and a few instruments changed. Also, ''Classic'' is used in the game [[Puzzle (NES)]].

===<br /> Recording ===

{{TrackListBegin}}
{{TrackListEntry
 | Track       = 1
 | Title       = Ballad
 | Composer    = {{TrackListComposer|Unknown}}
 | DurationMin = 0
 | DurationSec = 10
 | Game        = AdLib Visual Composer
 | Platform    = DOS
}}
{{TrackListEntry
 | Track       = 2
 | Title       = Blues
 | Composer    = {{TrackListComposer|Unknown}}
 | DurationMin = 0
 | DurationSec = 16
 | Game        = AdLib Visual Composer
 | Platform    = DOS
}}
{{TrackListEntry
 | Track       = 3
 | Title       = Boogie
 | Composer    = {{TrackListComposer|Unknown}}
 | DurationMin = 0
 | DurationSec = 12
 | Game        = AdLib Visual Composer
 | Platform    = DOS
}}
{{TrackListEntry
 | Track       = 4
 | Title       = Bossa
 | Composer    = {{TrackListComposer|Unknown}}
 | DurationMin = 0
 | DurationSec = 12
 | Game        = AdLib Visual Composer
 | Platform    = DOS
}}
{{TrackListEntry
 | Track       = 5
 | Title       = Classic
 | Composer    = {{TrackListComposer|Unknown}}
 | DurationMin = 0
 | DurationSec = 8
 | Game        = AdLib Visual Composer
 | Platform    = DOS
}}
{{TrackListEntry
 | Track       = 6
 | Title       = Jazz
 | Composer    = {{TrackListComposer|Unknown}}
 | DurationMin = 0
 | DurationSec = 8
 | Game        = AdLib Visual Composer
 | Platform    = DOS
}}
{{TrackListEntry
 | Track       = 7
 | Title       = Ragtime
 | Composer    = {{TrackListComposer|Unknown}}
 | DurationMin = 0
 | DurationSec = 8
 | Game        = AdLib Visual Composer
 | Platform    = DOS
}}
{{TrackListEntry
 | Track       = 8
 | Title       = Slow
 | Composer    = {{TrackListComposer|Unknown}}
 | DurationMin = 0
 | DurationSec = 12
 | Game        = AdLib Visual Composer
 | Platform    = DOS
}}
{{TrackListEntry
 | Track       = 9
 | Title       = Western
 | Composer    = {{TrackListComposer|Unknown}}
 | DurationMin = 0
 | DurationSec = 10
 | Game        = AdLib Visual Composer
 | Platform    = DOS
}}
{{TrackListEnd}}

([[:File:AdLib Visual Composer - DOS - 6.png|Source]])
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===Credits===
* '''Ripper:''' [[User:TheAlmightyGuru|TheAlmightyGuru]]
* '''Recorder:''' [[User:TheAlmightyGuru|TheAlmightyGuru]]
* '''Game Credits:'''
** '''Not Credited Composer:''' {{Credits|Unknown}}

(No Source. Program lacks credits.)
[[Category: Games Without Credits]]
[[Category: Unknown Composer]]
[[Category: Unknown Arranger]]

===Game Rip===
{{Rips
| Formats = {{Format|ROL}} {{Format|BNK}}
| File    = AdLib Visual Composer (DOS).zip
}}

The example tunes are simply installed in the root folder of the program. They use AdLib's custom [[ROL]] format. They were recorded using [[AdPlug]] 1.8.2 in [[Winamp]].

===Audio Devices===
{{Table
}}
| style="background-color:#FFF0FF;" |
'''Sound'''
| {{Audio Device|AdLib|Sound}}
|-
| style="background-color:#FFF0FF;" |
'''Music'''
| {{Audio Device|AdLib|Music}}
|}

(No source - Program auto-detects an AdLib board.)
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==Composers==
The following composers used Visual Composer:

To Do: gather list of Sierra Composers that used Visual Composer.

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==<br /> References ==

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==<br /> Also See ==

* [[:Category:Music Composition Tools|Music Composition Tools]]
* [[AdLib Music Synthesizer Card]]
* [[AdLib Instrument Maker]]
* [[AdLib Jukebox Playback Program]]
* [[AdLib Personal Computer Music System Demo]]
* [[AdLib Instrument File Conversion Program]] 
* [http://www.aderack.com/game-maker/index.php?title=AdLib_Visual_Composer aderack.com/game-maker/index.php?title=AdLib_Visual_Composer The Game Maker Archive]
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