DMCS was the first of a line of music programs for the Amiga to make use of its four voice 8-bit sample playback and MIDI synthesis.

The Mac version uses a copy protection technique preventing the application from working with System 6.

[citation needed] In 1986, a port by Randel B. Reiss[2] for the Apple IIGS was written, which uses the built-in Ensoniq wavetable sample-based synthesizer.

The port was never publicly released, but its music engine was used for producing the soundtrack for the Apple IIGS game titles Zany Golf and The Immortal, both of which were written by Will Harvey.

[3] After testing a beta of the Amiga version, Info stated that Deluxe Music "offers the most accurate standard music notation display and editing features I've ever seen ... it is a flexible, detailed composition program".