PS2 Music Software With USB Sampler Planned
Thanks to Gamespot for pointing out that there's a USB sampler/microphone forthcoming for your Playstation 2. This add-on to the Music 3000 music creation software will be retail-released in Europe in July, according to developer Jester Interactive's forums, following the European release of Music 3000 itself a few days ago. There's no word yet on a US date for either game or sampler add-on, but as Music 2000 was released in the States as MTV Music Generator 2, a release seems likely. (Incidentally, there was a rare USB sampler add-on for MTV Music Generator 2, but it was only available in very limited numbers via publisher Codemasters.)
I used to own MTV Music Generator for the PSX. I made some phat tunes on it I played at a party and everybody loved it. The only problem was that I had to lug around my PSX and had to have a TV to load the music but I connected the audio cables to the reciever for great sound quality. I was able to get the tunes onto an audio tape but the quality was worse than my mono TV speaker. After I traded in the game I found out there was a PC version. So I bought that and recreated the riffs on my PC. The PC version also had the capability of converting the file into wave format so that I can burn it onto a CD. I was able to convert one of my songs from .wav into .mp3.
I have yet to get part 2 but since part 3 will include that device I will get that instead.