Music Software for Guitar, Piano, Midi, Tab, MP3, Audio, DVD, Video and Music Production

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Music Software: Learn, Play, Record and Publish Music

What is really exciting about new music software is when you use it in  conjunction with guitar lessons or piano lessons. With music software you can slow down music on MP3,  wav/ and many other file formats, without distortion, directly from your computer. There's other music software, with just a few clicks, that will analyze just about any favourite song or track on a CD or MP3 and separate all the guitar chords, bass tabs and other hidden tones. You can then record, make a loop or slow the music down and jam along at your speed which makes learning a new piece so much faster.

If you are a beginner or professional guitar or bass player, you can now turn your computer into a drummer who will accompany you in over 100 beats in any style you choose, The possibilities are endless and by combining the two, helps to make learning much more fun and boosts your confidence in your own playing too.

And of course there is a whole raft of other programs including music production software, music editing software, music notation software and music recording software to save your own music in many file formats. You can record music in MP3 or midi and tabs, or from midi into MP3 and other file formats. ready for uploading to the internet. making music videos for YouTube or  burning onto CDs or DVDs as well as designing and printing labels and front and back covers for the boxes.

We have specially selected and reviewed these top music software products for you to compare. Some are free, others you can buy and download online.

Guitar Software

Riff Master Pro Guitar Lesson Software
This could be the guitar software you've been looking for. This very clever piece of kit lets you instantly slow down guitar solos, played by all your favourite musicians, without changing the pitch.

It recognises music stored on your computer in many file formats including MP3,  Wav, Wma, Mp4, Ogg, Vorbis and AFF.

You can then play along with them, at your own speed. With this software you can master any guitar solo or riff or learn the lyrics, much quicker. It's the perfect learning tool which you can download immediately. The Big bonus pack  includes "Read Music" "How To Tune a Guitar" "How To Buy A Guitar" and others...
You can read what others are saying and listen to a slow down demo at
> riff master pro

 

Quick Beat  Drum Accompaniment
This is just like having a real drummer in your home to accompany you when you practice or just play your own instrument because Quick Beat is produced by real drummers. Drum machines are expensive, but you will find Quick Beat an inexpensive and easy tool to use. Just download the software on to your computer, Windows or Mac, and practice or create your own music, any time you like. And it's amazing how playing along with another instrument boosts your confidence in your own instrument.
 
Designed for beginners and professional guitar and bass players, you can now turn your computer into a drummer who will accompany you in over 100 beats in any style you choose,
Rock, Country, Blues, Folk, Hip Hop, Metal, Funk, Latin, Reggae, Dance, Punk or Jazz.

Take a look and listen to a sample beat, played by Quick Beat's drummers,
or watch the video at
> quick beat

 

Ultrawave Guitar Multi Fx  Guitar Effects + Guitar Tuner
Would you like to make your guitar sound just like some of your rock idols, or add amazing sound effects? Well this inexpensive piece of music software will do it all for you. This guitar processor has over 100 effects knobs for precise control over your sound. Also included in this powerful software is a guitar synthesizer, an analog harmonic analyser and a recorder with rewind, forward and pause buttons.

If you use the polyphonic guitar synthesizer with the “Chorus” effect, for example, it creates a doubling effect which sounds like two guitars playing instead of one. Then there’s the multiband echo, or spectral delay, which can produce unusual wah type sounds, sci-fi laser noises, echoes as well as an arpeggio effect which is a series of single notes that spell out a triad or a 7th chord. Or you can distort sound in each band separately then add a little spectral delay to thicken the sound and much more, all in real-time. You can add any combination of effects and instantly hear the results come out of the speakers. Use it at home or live on stage. 

Their latest version, the Ultrawave Guitar Multi Fx  v1.32,  was released on 23rd May 2008. You can download their Free trial and try these amazing effects for yourself at > ultawave

Ultawave Guitar Tuner
They also produce a very accurate and easy to use  guitar tuner software. You select a key and it then shows you what note each string should be tuned to. A tuning bar tells you how much your note is out of tune, and whether you need to tune the string up or down. And that’s all there is to it. There’s a built in monitor to make it easier, a note and frequency display and a tune up / down indicator all for about $10 or £5 subject to rate of exchange.  Read more at  > ultrawave
 


Piano Software

Key Board Chords
This is a neat piece of software that finds all the chords whether you play the piano, electronic keyboard, synthesizer, organ or any keyboard.
 
It works like a keyboard Chord Chart and Piano Chord computer! This keyboard chord finder shows all the chords both on the keyboard and on the bass and treble clef music staff. So you can see what each piano chord and/or keyboard chord looks like. This chord finder will help you find any kind of chord; so called "jazz chords", "Christian guitar chords", "rock chords", "praise & worship chords"- music chords of all types from augmented to diminished to 7ths to 13ths.
 
The notes in a guitar chord are exactly the same as in a piano chord, so musicians who double on both guitar and piano could find this useful too.
To find out more, and buy online, visit their site at
 > keyboard chords


MIDI Software

To get started with MIDI, AnvilStudio , by Willow Software, is a Free Windows program for recording audio and MIDI music files and there is an excellent free tutorial, Making Midi Music with Anvil, by Tommy Mc. The free version is single track but this can be upgraded to 8 track for a small fee

Read  more about MIDI then click "Close" to come back here.
 

InelliScore Ensemble MP3 to MIDI +
The IntelliScore audio to MIDI converter, by Innovative Music Systems, is the only product that lets you pick any audio recording, in CD, WAV, MP3, WMA format, or live music played on one or more different musical instruments, or you can sing as well, and convert it to MIDI (.mid) files indicating all the notes played. You can then use those MIDI files in a way that is impossible with audio files, like viewing the notation for each instrument, change individual notes, or swapping or muting selected instruments.

Its applications are endless, like find the beats in percussion tracks. Rip CD music and convert it to MIDI  file and play it in your MIDI keyboard. Sing or play a non-MIDI instrument and see the notes appear in your MIDI sequencer or in the Anvil Studio™ , and so much more.

Read all about it and buy online at
> intelliScore
 

Midi2Wav Recorder MIDI to MP3, WAV and WMA
The Midi2Wav Recorder software, for Windows, converts MIDI files by either Soundfont rendering or Soundcard recording. Soundfont is a pre-recorded computer sound file format and makes conversion to MIDI independent of the sound card, silent and a much faster conversion than real-time recording. Alternatively, Soundcard recording records sounds in real-time synthesized by your soundcard during a MIDI play back.

With Midi2Wav Recorder you can change the instruments in some tracks of a MIDI file, and the built-in mixer lets you regulate their volume and balance, switch off some tracks and experiment with the melody before you convert it.

You could, for example,
make your own play-along or accompaniment CDs by deleting the solo parts you want to play or any other variation on the arrangement you choose. This would also be invaluable for creating tutorials.

A batch mode is also included making it useful for creating musical collections on audio CD, calculating the total duration of the chosen MIDI files and estimating whether they will fit on one CD and much more…

This excellent and well established MIDI software has been developed over the past nine years.
To find out more and buy online or take a Free trial visit
> midi2wav


DVD and Video Software 

AVS4You

They supply an exciting range of software products, for Windows, by Online Media Technologies Ltd., a developer of software for digital video and multimedia processing. Although they produce over thirty audio, video, DVD and other proven software products, they offer you a completely new way of purchasing software online! You can choose to make one payment for a lifetime’s Unlimited Registration or make one payment for One Year Only, renewable yearly,  and then download any of their extensive software for free without any limitations. All upgrades and any new software will be free no matter which payment option you choose.
All their products are supported by comprehensive User Guides as well as online help and technical support, available in English, French, German, Spanish and Italian. See their full range, and register, here

There are too many products to review here but we have selected just a few which you should see.

AVS Audio Recorder in PCM, MP3, ADPCM, WMA and other music file formats
This compact audio program will record direct from the microphone, vinyl records, audio CDs,  video games, internet broadcasts, Real Player and other similar input lines on a sound card. In addition, you can also record, with the wizard-styled interface, your own music or voice or other audio work in PCM, MP3, ADPCM, WMA and other music file formats.

After recording, you can make corrections to improve the quality where required and play back the audio file to make sure that the quality as you would like.

 

AVS  Video Converter
This software will convert between almost any format:
AVI (DivX, XviD, etc.), DV AVI, MP4 (inc. Sony PSP and Apple iPod), WMV, 3GP, 3G2, QuickTime (MOV, QT), SWF, DVD, VOB, VRO,MPG, MPEG 1,2,4, MOD, DAT, VCD, SVCD, ASF, ASX, MJPEG, H.263, H.264, Real Video (RM, RMVB), DVR-MS, MKV, OGM, FLV.  

You can create movie DVDs, VCD and SVCD from video files of all supported formats with the integrated burning engine.

You can  convert video files and DVD to Sony PSP, Apple iPod, Archos, Zen Creative or any other portable media player. The software supports Memory Stick Video format with thumbnail preview. 

You can make Flash SWF, Real Video or WMV movies for your web site or convert video to small movie files ready to be streamed across the Internet.  

You can convert video to audio tracks and images and save audio streams as audio files or extract single frames and save them as image files.  

It’s the only video converter which offers timeline video editing to enhance you movies by deleting unwanted parts, add titles and credits and apply more than 50 audio and video effects.  

It has a Batch mode to convert several video files at once, merge and split them, join several video files and make one DVD. 

And above all,, it’s easy to use with a simple and friendly interface. 

AVS Video Editor
Even if you are a beginner, this video editor will help you create Hollywood-like home videos with step by step instructions and advice at every stage of the production. Its many features include:

Direct Transfer to iPod, PSP, Mobiles, Other Portables
Supports Virtually ALL Video Formats
Burn Movie DVDs
Capture and Edit Video from External Devices
Edit Video and Enhance Your Movies
Create Slide Shows
Make Perfect Audio for Your Video Editing Tasks
Scene Detection
Convenient Video Editing Tools and Interface

AVS DVD Authoring
This is an easy-to-use disc authoring and burning software that lets you do more with digital media. It has been designed to help you organize your video footage into a professional and good-looking DVD project. You can create DVD discs with personalized menus and enhance them with titles, music and effects and burn your project to DVD.

AVS Cover Editor
And when you’ve done all that, you can use the AVS Cover Editor to make the labels and front and back covers for the disk boxes for your own recorded CDs and DVDs.

See their full range, and register, here


 

Slo-Mo Director Slow Down ANY Video
Mike Herberts produces video guitar song lessons and realized there was a gap in the market for a piece of software that would let his students manipulate his videos, or any other video or DVD to suit their own level of speed and ability.
   
You can manipulate ANY video you can download from the internet. You can Rip your existing DVD's using free software that you can download. Or, capture Streaming Videos from Websites using free software, then save them as .WMV files and change them to suit SloMoDirector. It doesn't matter if the videos are for guitar, piano, sax, drums, dancing or any video lesson..
   
You can make loops or slow them down until you are 'Up To Speed'. The musical pitch is retained, so your instrument sounds like the instrument on the video. Jam along at a speed that suits you until you're ready to go faster and quickly learn pieces that were just to difficult to get right before.
   
Find out more about
the  Slo-Mo Director on Mike' site at
> 6StringVideos


Music Production Software


QuickScore Elite

This acclaimed, award winning software by Sion Software, is a comprehensive, integrated software for music composition, including notation, arranging, MIDI and audio sequencing and recording. With this software, which is not complicated, you can create publication-quality scores, musical content for the desktop, to upload to the Internet, audio CDs, MP3s and soundtracks for film, video and games.

This is only one of several music software programs on offer which you can read more about, and buy online at
> sionsoftware

 


Myriad Software

They produce a wide range of computer assisted software, for Windows and Mac, dedicated to music composition and  editing: some of which is free and others may be downloaded for an unlimited trail period. The two you should have a look at first are:-

 

Harmony Assistant
An excellent software for computer-assisted music composition and editing. Its harmonizing capabilities will enable you to quickly and efficiently build tunes that include accompaniment, multiple instruments and drum patterns.
Learn more at
< myriadsoftware

 

Melody Assistant

Join a community of thousands of people who use the Melody Assistant software to create music. This software is specifically for writing, printing and rendering music It's easy to use and has a user-friendly interface with powerful capabilities.
Learn more at
> myriadsoftware


 

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