Instant Music is an interactive music software program released by Electronic Arts (EA) in 1986. It was developed first for the Amiga, but then ported to other platforms, such as Apple IIGS, and Commodore 64.
Instant Music allows the user to make variations on songs played by the software. The program comes with several songs of a few genres. As the software plays a song, the player, by moving the mouse up and down (or joystick with some versions), can make variations in the current tones. The software makes sure that any variations don't result in un-harmonic tunes.
Instant Music was created and developed by Robert Campbell. The prototype was created on the Commodore 64 and EA producer Stewart Bonn championed its inclusion in EA's product offerings for the (then) upcoming Amiga platform.
In December 1986, Bruce Webster's review in Byte magazine said "It's an outstanding program."
AmigaWorld called it "The best program in the history of creation".
It was mentioned in the Computer Music Journal as an example of an "intelligent instrument".[1]
