I remember when I first got Tunesmith. It is a bit of a story. I used 
to visit B&C Computer Visions (Atari store and service) quite a bit 
when it was near me here is Santa Clara, CA (USA)and then decided to 
spend the money to get Tunesmith, as I read an article about it in 
one of my old keyboard magizines. At the time, I *only* had a TT030. 
Brought Tunesmith home, and it would not work. I decided to bring it 
back and Bruce (of B&C)let me trade it for Ludwig, hoping that would 
work on my TT. That did not work either.So I let a friend borrow 
Ludwig as he had a mega Ste.
Later that year, I finally got a mega, my friend returned Ludwig, and 
then I wanted Tunesmith. Bruce had already moved to Southern CA. But 
my wife arranged to pick it up at his house in Santa Clara when he 
was here fixing it up for my Birthday. It was a nice surprise to open 
up a New sealed version of Tunesmith and being able to finally work 
with it. I was not disapointed as I immeadiatly fell in love with 
the "Tunesmith" sound.

Then I posted on the alt.music newsgrp site, asking if anyone there 
ever played with algo-comp stuff and I mentioned Tunesmith. To my 
surprise, Jim Johnson, the creator of Tunesmith answered it! He was 
surprised that anyone ever used his program.Since then, I have been 
contacting Jim now and then to see if he would ever port his ideas. 
At one time he was going to send me the source code where I would 
read it on my atari and send it back to him intact (as he no longer 
has an Atari) but he did not trust the mail system. (don't blame 
him!) Then I found a "libed" version and asked him for a freeware 
release in the same fashion as M was released. But Jim did not want 
to do that. I respect his wishes.But fortunatly, we were able to find 
a version of Tunesmith without Copy protection during the time when 
CP was lifted from Dr T products(Thanks to Trond of this list), so 
Jim gave his concent to a freeware release. We also found a version 
that was 030 compatable, a special edition that was never officially 
released, but was in the possesion of Donald Skaggs (of this 
list..Thanks Donald!)So now we have two editions of Tunesmith 
available.

So it was a long journey to finally get Tunesmith released, and now 
it works on a PC thru Steem. I have created many pieces with it, 
including one I just uploaded called Celestrial. It is Part two of a 
longer "suite" based on the seven days of Creation. It is LONG as I 
would call it a "journey" peice as it ebbs and flows. It gives you an 
example of what you can do with Tunesmith.

Go here:

http://groups.yahoo.com/group/atari-midi/files/AOTM/may01.tunesmith/

and look for Celestrl.mid

Looking forward to many more journeys with Tunesmith.

Tim