Those individuals hoping to create and record your own music can now do it sitting at home. Music creation programs allow you to create, record and edit music expediently. Not just this, there are programs that cater to different ages, from musically inclined youngsters to the more advanced music making software for adults.
Morton Subotnick's 'Creating Beats ' for newbies
This is a tutorial and fun software for youngsters. Created by Morton Subotnick, a prize winning composer, Creating Music permits youngsters to have a simple and delightful beats composing experience. Designed to be kid-friendly, the software has 'animal building blocks ' that permit children to make their own unique tunes. Rhythm and pitch can be altered by lining birds up on a wire, like beats notes. The software also permits children to select any of the sixteen instruments on the computer screen and listen to the sounds produced by each individually or together. Other exciting and fun games include testing youngsters ' musical sense by asking them to hear 2 tunes and judging whether they are different or similar.
For aspiring musicians
With its popularity in Europe rising, Music Maker from Magix allows expectant musicians to make music even though they do not have existing knowledge of music composing. This beats making software permits users to choose from a few thousand pre-created samples and loops from different musical instruments, digital music files and CDs. The examples, loops can be previewed, dragged and dropped on screen. The software permits users to create more than 90 different music tracks. Other vital features of Music Maker include enhanced revising tools, a high quality drum machine and a tuner that creates a complete choir from one recorded voice and also corrects recorded vocal samples automatically. The musical pieces can be exported to files and played on Windows Media Player.
Using Microsoft Songsmith, you can create songs by selecting appropriate beats to accompany your vocals. You begin by choosing a selected song style and setting a speed. You may then have to sing the tune into the microphone in harmony with the percussive beat. Once you are done recording, Songsmith will set the key, select the chords and play the tune again with musical accompaniments. You can edit the score, export it to a disk and share it.
DUBturbo is another quality music making software using which you can create hip hop, house, jungle and modern music pieces. Sonic Producer is also a magnificent music composition and creation software that offers bang for your buck.
Advanced beats creating software
Cakewalk Creator Pro and Cubase are high-end, advanced beats creation and modifying software for Windows XP, Windows Vista and Windows 7 users. They may be employed with a PC keyboard or you can attach instruments to a Midi keyboard (sound card). The programs offer more standard pattern and loop based arranging as well as advanced audio mixing. Pitch shifting and real time stretching are some engaging features offered by Cubase.
