What is the Piano Discovery System (PDS)?
In the mid-1990’s, a company called JumpMusic (now defunct) acquired the rights to the Miracle software and hardware from Software Toolworks, the developer of the Miracle. Although JumpMusic continued to provide minimal support for the Miracle, their initial goal was an updated and augmented product called the Piano Discovery System. This product was analogous to the Miracle system, but with virtually every aspect of the system, both hardware and software, updated. The PDS software was either a native Windows 3.1 application (i.e. 16-bit Windows) or a native Macintosh operating system program. PDS was sold as both a MIDI keyboard/software package and as the software alone, which could be used with any MIDI-compatible keyboard that would work in Windows or the Macintosh operating system.
