A friend of mine is using Music Studio Generation 5.0 Delux.
The files generated for all his music are .msp and he is looking to buy a new version of Magix music software for his new laptop. (Yes he is still using a Windows 98 laptop for all his gigs that has never seen the internet.)
Can we export his .msp files to midi files or anything else?
Thanks,
-A Musicians Friend.
He cannot.
Gen 5 used a 8 bit system, at the time Windows 97 was the newest OS for Windows, replacing the Windows 95 system.
Today, Windows is using a 64 bit OS, which means it can support the 32 bit system fine, but not down to the 8 bit. in fact the last OS that would support the Gen 5 would be Windows ME, I think even the NT format of Windows 2000 would be problematic for the Gen 5 software.
The only thing you can do is save out each track maybe as a individual wave file, from a computer that can run the Gen 5, then import each into a new project in the new Music Studio program. Tedious work, but at least the sounds are available again.