Finale NotePad

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Finale Music

MIDI Support includes the ability to import and export Format 1 MIDI files, input notes in step time using your MIDI keyboard, and playback via any external MIDI device.

Setup Wizard lets you select the instruments or voices you need, then sets up your score automatically.

Hear it like you see it! Your music deserves to be heard with all the feeling, phrasing, and nuance you felt when you wrote it. The Human Playback feature will play your music as you would want it to be performed, even if you enter notes manually.

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MU.LAB Free Version

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MUTOOLS

NOTE: THIS IS THE ‘FREE’ VERSION, AND IS LIMITED TO 8 TRACKS.

MU.LAB is a state of the art, ultra-light music application, designed to compose & perform music of different styles and flavors.

MU.LAB does not have a complex feature set, in which you can get lost.

At the contrary, MU.LAB is an easy yet rock-solid musical tool.

MU.LAB’s core feature set:

  • Audio Recording & Playback
  • MIDI Recording & Playback
  • Flexible Composition & Sequence Editing
  • Supports Audio and MIDI VST Plugins
  • Powerful Audio and MIDI Plugin Routing (up to 100% modular if you want)
  • Integrated MuSynth: Powerful Modular Sound Engine
  • Integrated MUX: Powerful Modular Audio/MIDI Effect Engine
  • Integrated Audio Effects:
    • MuVerb: Very Nice Sounding Reverb
    • Stereo Echo: Very Versatile Stereo Echo
    • Multi Mode Filter: Very Versatile Audio Filter
    • And many more MUX patches!
  • Audio Engine using 32 bit floats, all usable samplerates
  • Sample Accurate Sequencing
  • Multi Undo/Redo
  • Available for OSX (Universal Binary) and Windows

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Ecasound

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Team Leader: Kai Vehmanen

Ecasound is a software package designed for multitrack audio processing. It can be used for simple tasks like audio playback, recording and format conversions, as well as for multitrack effect processing, mixing, recording and signal recycling. Ecasound supports a wide range of audio inputs, outputs and effect algorithms. Effects and audio objects can be combined in various ways, and their parameters can be controlled by operator objects like oscillators and MIDI-CCs. A versatile console mode user-interface is included in the package.

Key Features:

  • Novel user-interface concept

      What makes Ecasound unique is its non-graphical user-interface. The basic working principle of ecasound is similar to the widely used gdb (software debugging) and mysql (database admin) tools. Ecasound allows the user to perform most common tasks directly from the terminal console. Repeating or otherwise complicated tasks can be easily turned into shell scripts or ECI apps. Ecasound tries to follow the time-tested UNIX design practises - see for example The Art of UNIX Programming by Eric S. Raymond.

  • Highly optimized real-time engine

      Ecasound’s engine has been developed with real-time reliability as the top priority. The engine clearly separates real-time safe subsystems from non-RT subsystems such as storage access, user-interface code and memory management. This allows Ecasound to deliver reliable playback and recording in all circumstances - even under significant system load.

  • Ability to adapt to runtime environment

      Ecasound will automatically adjust buffering parameters and other performance related options based on analysis of runtime environment and the requested task. Ecasound does not require you to run it with special privileges, but if available (for example the permission to utilize real-time scheduling), Ecasound will take full advantage and choose more aggressive parameters allowing to further minimize processing latencies while at the same time not risking reliability.

  • Support for new Linux audio technology

      Ecasound has mature support for JACK audio server (including full transport support), LADSPA effect plugins and ALSA kernel sound subsystem. Ecasound developers are active members of the Linux audio development community.

  • Portability and minimal external dependencies

      Ecasound runs on various operating systems (GNU/Linux, FreeBSD, Mac OS X, Solaris, Cygwin/win32) and architectures (IA32, PowerPC, ARM, SPARC). Ecasound implements most of its core functionality without relying on external packages. Although Ecasound can utilize numerous external packages, they are all optional. As a mimimum, Ecasound needs POSIX (with 1003.1c thread support) and ANSI C++ runtimes.
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Audacity

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Dominic Mazzoni

Audacity is a free, easy-to-use audio editor and recorder for Windows, Mac OS X, GNU/Linux, and other operating systems. You can use Audacity to:

  • Record live audio.
  • Convert tapes and records into digital recordings or CDs.
  • Edit Ogg Vorbis, MP3, and WAV sound files.
  • Cut, copy, splice, and mix sounds together.
  • Change the speed or pitch of a recording.

Features:

Recording

Audacity can record live audio through a microphone or mixer, or digitize recordings from cassette tapes, vinyl records, or minidiscs. With some sound cards, it can also capture streaming audio.

  • Record from microphone, line input, or other sources.
  • Dub over existing tracks to create multi-track recordings.
  • Record up to 16 channels at once (requires multi-channel hardware).
  • Level meters can monitor volume levels before, during, and after recording.

Import and Export

Import sound files, edit them, and combine them with other files or new recordings. Export your recordings in several common file formats.

  • Import and export WAV, AIFF, AU, and Ogg Vorbis files.
  • Import MPEG audio (including MP2 and MP3 files) with libmad.
  • Export MP3s with the optional LAME encoder library.
  • Create WAV or AIFF files suitable for burning to CD.
  • Import and export all file formats supported by libsndfile.
  • Open raw (headerless) audio files using the “Import Raw” command.
  • Note: Audacity does not currently support WMA, AAC, or most other proprietary or restricted file formats.

Editing

  • Easy editing with Cut, Copy, Paste, and Delete.
  • Use unlimited Undo (and Redo) to go back any number of steps.
  • Very fast editing of large files.
  • Edit and mix an unlimited number of tracks.
  • Use the Drawing tool to alter individual sample points.
  • Fade the volume up or down smoothly with the Envelope tool.

Effects

  • Change the pitch without altering the tempo, or vice-versa.
  • Remove static, hiss, hum, or other constant background noises.
  • Alter frequencies with Equalization, FFT Filter, and Bass Boost effects.
  • Adjust volumes with Compressor, Amplify, and Normalize effects.
  • Other built-in effects include:
    • Echo
    • Phaser
    • Wahwah
    • Reverse

Sound Quality

  • Record and edit 16-bit, 24-bit, and 32-bit (floating point) samples.
  • Record at up to 96 KHz.
  • Sample rates and formats are converted using high-quality resampling and dithering.
  • Mix tracks with different sample rates or formats, and Audacity will convert them automatically in realtime.

Plug-Ins

  • Add new effects with LADSPA plugins.
  • Audacity includes some sample plugins by Steve Harris.
  • Load VST plugins for Windows and Mac, with the optional VST Enabler.
  • Write new effects with the built-in Nyquist programming language.

Analysis

  • Spectrogram mode for visualizing frequencies.
  • “Plot Spectrum” command for detailed frequency analysis.

Free and Cross-Platform

  • Licensed under the GNU General Public License (GPL).
  • Runs on Mac OS X, Windows, and GNU/Linux.

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Ardour

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Paul Davis

Ardour is a digital audio workstation. You can use it to record, edit and mix multi-track audio. You can produce your own CDs, mix video soundtracks, or just experiment with new ideas about music and sound.

Ardour capabilities include: multichannel recording, non-destructive editing with unlimited undo/redo, full automation support, a powerful mixer, unlimited tracks/busses/plugins, timecode synchronization, and hardware control from surfaces like the Mackie Control Universal. If you’ve been looking for a tool similar to ProTools, Nuendo, Pyramix, or Sequoia, you might have found it.

Above all, Ardour strives to meet the needs of professional users. This means implementing all the “hard stuff” that other DAWs ( even some leading commercial apps ) handle incorrectly or not at all. Ardour has a completely flexible “anything to anywhere” routing system, and will allow as many physical I/O ports as your system allows. Ardour supports a wide range of audio-for-video features such as video-synced playback and pullup/pulldown sample rates. You will also find powerful features such as “persistent undo”, multi-language support, and destructive track punching modes that aren’t available on other platforms.

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