FREE MUSIC SOFTWARE
Here you'll find a great collection of free music software. Some of it is for Mac, some for PC, and some is for both. Audacity (Mac, Linux, Windows)
A simple to use sound recorder with some neat tricks. Very practical!
Perfect Pitch (Mac)
Perfect Pitch is a powerful and diverse tuner application. It is simple enough for the casual instrumentalist to use, yet contains advanced features for tuning based on harmonic series, quarter tones, and any other even division of the octave.
Audio Mixer Player (Mac & Windows)
Easy to use audio mixer player. This application play 8 tracks simultaneously with loop and volume lock controls. Supports MP3, SWA, AU, AIFF, WAV, WMA, and RA.
Open Music System (Mac)
The software tools available in the Open Music System (OMS) manage the flow of MIDI information between applications and MIDI hardware. A typical MIDI studio contains multiple MIDI devices attached to one or more MIDI interfaces. Without OMS, each individual MIDI application must keep track of all interfaces, MIDI devices, and data communication. With OMS, all applications simply use the central, standardized MIDI communication offered by OMS. This is the full version of OMS, which is significantly larger than the Lite version. Version 2.3.8 fixes bugs found in previous versions of OMS.
WavePad Sound Editor (Mac & Windows)
Professional Audio Editing Software
This sound editing software is a full featured professional audio editor for Windows or Mac. It lets you make and edit music, voice and other audio recordings. When editing audio files you can cut, copy and paste parts of recordings and, if required, add effects like echo, amplification and noise reduction. WavePad works as a wav editor or mp3 editor but it also supports a number of other file formats including vox, gsm, real audio, au, aif, flac, ogg and more.
TempoPerfect (Windows)
Metronome Software for Musicians
TempoPerfect is a Metronome that runs on your PC, Pocket PC or Smartphone and can be controlled on a PC using your mouse or hotkeys. Unlike mechanical metronomes that wind down, TempoPerfect provides a clear and precise beat that can be accurately adjusted for the correct bpm. TempoPerfect is an essential tool for any musician.
Designed to help musicians play in time, this tempo software creates beat patterns using a combination of accented beats and normal beats. For example, you can have 3+2 timing, or X-x-x-X-x visually. The bars first beat can also be emphasized by a unique sound.
PitchPerfect (Windows)
Guitar Tuning Software for Musicians
PitchPerfect is a highly accurate professional guitar tuner with a very simple to use interface. PitchPerfect eliminates the need to tune an instrument to some kind of conventional tuning. Instead, PitchPerfect can automatically detect whatever note you are playing. This means you are not constrained by standard tunings, or even well known alternative tunings.
SharewareGo to the top of Free Music Software The following is free music software, but has some usage limitations. For those of you who don't know, shareware is software that is free to try, but has limited functionality, or expires after some time. I've included these programs because of their value. Transcribe! (Mac, Linux, Windows)
The Transcribe! application is an assistant for people who sometimes want to work out a piece of music from a recording, in order to write it out, or play it themselves, or both.
Conventional music players (whether hardware such as a CD player or an iPod, or software such as Windows Media Player or iTunes) are really designed for people who want to listen to whole tracks. They are very inconvenient for transcribing music as they are not designed for this purpose. If you copy the recording to your computer's hard disk as a sound file then you can use Transcribe! instead. Transcribe! offers many features aimed at making the transcription job smoother and easier, including the ability to slow down music without changing its pitch, to analyze chords and show you what notes are present, and the capability of adding markers and textual annotations so you can easily navigate around the track. Transcribe! also has a piano keyboard displayed on screen which you can click to play reference notes. MixPad Audio Production Software (Windows)
MixPad is a powerful, no-fuss multi-track music mixing program designed for audio production. Designed to have all the features you need without the clutter, MixPad lets you mix multiple audio tracks together quickly and easily.
Dr. Beototte (Mac)
Multi-divisions programmable metronome/beat-box program, create any kind of complicated rhythms for practicing your instruments. A slightly older version has no time limits, and is also extremely versatile: click here to download.
RS-16X (Mac)
Sequence & Song style stand-alone drum machine program with virtual controller pads & keyboard. Creates drum tracks without any external devices.
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