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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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myriadsoftware
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