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This program is supplied in the most lavish packaging seen for a Dragon program at this price. The box is a giant, beautifully illustrated custom case and comes with an excellent book of instructions. The program itself is a form of synthesiser; you enter your musical composition into the computer and then hear it played back to you.

Once completed, your masterpiece can be saved and loaded from tape, edited and even played backwards! This last feature is particularly interesting and amusing.

This program does not transform your Dragon into a real synthesiser, as the notes which make up the melody, bass etc have to be typed in using a special notation system that is reasonably easy to use considering that the program offers a number of parameters to the composer. There is a choice of four instruments which are gloriously combined on the introduction tune. After several hours of using the program, you start to get reasonable tunes, although still a long way from the standard of the introduction tune. At this price though, well worth the money.

C.G.