Audio and Music Software in general

I have been a musician all my life. When I was ten I started piano lessons and was classically trained then, at the age of sixteen, I taught myself to play guitar. I gigged with a few bands around local venues and got to know the local involved in the business and then ended up take over a rehearsal rooms. My plan was turn the rehearsal rooms into a recording studio so that bands could not just practise, they could record aswell. Having five fairly large rooms already with mixers, drum kits and microphones I decided to snap up a couple of pc's. The next dilemma that I was in was that I didn't know what software would be best to use. My only ...

Getting bored with your PC? Wanna make some chunes? You know, - CHUNES! Like la la de da and stuff. You need a little PC studio set-up that's what you need mate. Bet you've already got a soundcard on your PC haven't you? What you probably don't know is that your soundcard is almost certainly Midi compatible. Here's how you find out. Open search on your PC (don't know how to open search huh?). OK, right-click on start and choose search. In the 'search' box type *.mid and in the 'look-in:' box, click on the dropdown menu and choose 'Local Hard Drives'. Press Return and let it rip. Don't worry; all ...

Many people use computers to record, edit, clean up and store audio and a number of powerful (and expensive) software packages are available to achieve this. However, what can you (legally) do if you want to use your PC as a recording system but can't afford the £200 or so for the commercial software? Luckily for us, a number of programmers have written suitable software and let it loose on the Internet. These allow you to perform all of the basic recording, editing and processing tasks. I should point out that all of the software described in this article is freeware - The programmers allow you to use the software for free and pass copies on to others ...