I am looking for the easiest program (Mac OS X, Intel compatible) that will allow me to import MP3s, record from a mic, and sequence it all into a show I can export as an MP3. [more inside]
posted on Jul 21, 2008 - 6 answers
I have a gear question... what kind of software do ethereal electronic semi-improv bands use? I'm thinking, for instance, of tape... [more inside]
posted on Jul 3, 2008 - 10 answers 
I'm looking for either free software or an API that could take a wav file and parse it. [more inside]
posted on Jun 16, 2008 - 5 answers
I want to collaborate in real time (or not far off) on some music with someone who lives far away from me. [more inside]
posted on Apr 11, 2008 - 5 answers
Recommendations for inexpensive software/hardware for making those instrumental/karaoke versions of songs. [more inside]
posted on Apr 4, 2008 - 4 answers
I recently came across a program to edit the pitch of individual notes in a recording, even if they were recorded as a chord. If the technology is so advanced, it should be possible to identify the notes sung by the voice of a singer, right? Does such software exist? [more inside]
posted on Apr 3, 2008 - 12 answers
Help me automagically assemble ~1 hour of new music per day, to listen to on my commute. [more inside]
posted on Mar 20, 2008 - 9 answers
What's the best, free music editing software for Windows? [more inside]
posted on Feb 11, 2008 - 9 answers
Why is PureData so slow on Ubuntu? [more inside]
posted on Oct 29, 2007 - 2 answers
I want to clean up my iTunes library. How do I rename my music folder? How do I get rid of duplicates? and dead links? [more inside]
posted on Aug 17, 2007 - 7 answers
Effects Pedal Emulation Software? [more inside]
posted on Aug 13, 2007 - 14 answers
Looking for a sampler/looper/track recorder for OSX. [more inside]
posted on Jul 3, 2007 - 7 answers
Compu musicians: what's the best software (if there is any) to use to make continuously variable swoopy-pitch sounds using a soundcard? I'd like to control and edit the actual roller-coaster profile of the pitch changes pretty closely. [more inside]
posted on Apr 8, 2007 - 10 answers
Are there any essays or studies naming and analyzing the concept of 'freedom' as developed on the internet? [more inside]
posted on Apr 3, 2007 - 14 answers
Name that tune: I need a game for iTunes / some other MP that will quiz me on track names & artists from a specific subset of my library. (on Windows) (also, advice on music memorization is welcome) [more inside]
posted on Mar 6, 2007 - 4 answers
Can I use any Mbox device (compatible with this program of course) to run Pro Tools LE 6.0? Must you buy the Mbox and software together for proper use? [more inside]
posted on Jan 26, 2007 - 7 answers
Is there any windows software for designing labels for my mix CD's which doesn't completely suck? [more inside]
posted on Jan 19, 2007 - 5 answers
Where on god’s green earth can I find a decent media player to handle my (120gb+) MP3 collection?
I have 120 gb + of music that I can’t seem to get any media player to handle adequately. Any suggestions on one to try? Or how to make the big ones actually work quickly with this many files? [more inside]
posted on Dec 14, 2006 - 23 answers
What are some good portable music composition tools? I'm mostly looking for stuff that would work on a handheld electronic device, but anything that'd fit in a pocket or small bag is fair game. [more inside]
posted on Oct 31, 2006 - 10 answers
So, what's the state of music production software in Linux? What are people using? [more inside]
posted on Jul 27, 2006 - 6 answers
How do I convert my Palm into a guitar player's best friend? [more inside]
posted on May 20, 2006 - 2 answers
I want to get into making electronic music on my PC. What software should I purchase for ambient moody pop stuff? Any help greatly appreciated! [more inside]
posted on May 16, 2006 - 19 answers
I've never really bought albums/CDs and ripped them. Atleast not all of them, I probably have like 15-20 albums, but that's it.
The major part of my music collection happens to come from the Napster times. Where only tracks would be downloaded, which have little or no filename according to convention.
So, I have tracks like "12-Thievery Corp-Fedime's Flight.mp3". I'd like to see this track as "Thievery Corporation - Fedime's Flight.mp3" [more inside]
posted on Apr 15, 2006 - 13 answers
I'm burning a CD of a playlist in iTunes and am having trouble getting the levels to match. Even though I use the iTunes "Sound Check" setting (which supposedly evens out levels), when I play my burned CD back, the levels are all over the place.
Does anyone have any suggestions for a Mac OS X program that could help me out?
Thanks!
posted on Feb 25, 2006 - 17 answers
I'm looking for a tool similar to Noteworthy Composer in that I can open up MIDI files and extract sheet music from them, but I would like to be able to export the sheet music to an image format. Is there some sort of plugin or alternative software out there?
posted on Jan 24, 2006 - 6 answers
Audiofilter: So, I'm narrating a book and recording it digitally for someone as a Christmas present. (The individual reads AskMe, hence the anon question.) There's about 10 hours of material. Each chapter is ~ 40 minutes long. Are there programs out there that will automatically parse the chapter files I've recorded into small segments for easy indexing while listening? [more inside]
posted on Dec 14, 2005 - 3 answers
Seamless tracks in iTunes? [more inside]
posted on Nov 10, 2005 - 11 answers
I want to record my own music. I have no idea where to start.
What would be a fairly inexpensive and good beginner's setup hardware and software-wise? [more inside]
posted on Oct 14, 2005 - 23 answers
Which Apple audio format(s) should I use for the greatest flexibility? I want high quality lossless and be able to compress files as needed. [more inside]
posted on Sep 30, 2005 - 11 answers
Music mixing program needed!
Does anyone know of a freeware program I can download that lets you mix wav files together? I am creating cd's for my wedding reception and I want to mix the songs so that when one song is ending, the next will start without that second or two of silence. [more inside]
posted on Sep 19, 2005 - 8 answers
I'm looking for a piece of music visualization software that was posted on Boing Boing about a year ago. It was unique in that it used the individual elements of the windows desktop heavily in its visuals - dancing windows, icons, and scrollbars. Basically, it made Windows come alive
Anyone know what I'm talking about?
posted on Aug 29, 2005 - 3 answers
I need help finding a PC based drum machine. [more inside]
posted on Jul 18, 2005 - 7 answers
I'm looking for a freeware playlist-file generation tool for a large mp3 collection on Windows XP. [more inside]
posted on Jun 24, 2005 - 5 answers
I want to spend some of my creative currency creating music using software such as Fruity Loops. However, I would really like to have a freeware/open source option since I am not sure if I will enjoy it or not. [more inside]
posted on Apr 12, 2005 - 7 answers
Music production software: I need a beatfixer. I've got recordings of a live percussion ensemble. I've also got electronic/sequenced music that I want to mashup with the live percussion. The live ensemble recording -- what with the humans and all -- has tempo fluctuations: that's a big problem for mashing. I want a music processing tool that will "straighten out" the live recording so that the live track will stay in sync with the electronic track. [more inside]
posted on Mar 10, 2005 - 11 answers
My friend is (foolishly) trying to start up a record label. He wants to be able to schedule various bands at various venues, and optimize the bands' schedules to minimize travel cost. How would he do this? [more inside]
posted on Mar 6, 2005 - 12 answers
Is there a software that can create mp3 playlists using tags (or something like it)? MI [more inside]
posted on Feb 20, 2005 - 7 answers
ComputerMusicFilter: Is there a good piece of OS X software for learning to play the piano? I'd like to buy one of those inexpensive USB keyboards and noodle around in GarageBand, but my actualy musical skills are sorely out of practice, and I don't think they're going to just come back to me, either.
posted on Feb 16, 2005 - 3 answers
Any advice on inspecting audio CDs for errors? Ideally, via software.
posted on Feb 9, 2005 - 3 answers
In the past I've had some fun with making music using tracker programs to make .mod files (and .s3m, etc). I'm guessing this is probably a bit outdated now, so my question is really twofold...[more inside]
posted on Jan 12, 2005 - 11 answers
On my Mac OS X 10.3.5 machine, I have two user accounts. Is it possible to set up the Garageband music software so that one of the user accounts contains only the original installation of Garageband loops and effects... and the other user account contains the original installation, plus all other loops and effects I've installed from subsequent Jam Packs?
posted on Jan 2, 2005 - 3 answers
Winamp lowers the volume after every song. So, I'm constantly turning it all the way back up. How do I get it to stop that? They may be trying to save my ears, but my headphones are dying and I have a slight hearing problem. I listen to a song, and the next one is suddenly just a whisper. So frustrating.
posted on Dec 21, 2004 - 6 answers
I have been given the task of looking up the year-of-release for a large number (~8000) songs. Many of these titles are European, Latin American, and South American. Allmusic.com is okay, but slow and not as comprehensive as I require--esp. for uncommon titles. I'd bet that I have to find some specialized databases. Anyone have a suggestion?
posted on Dec 14, 2004 - 9 answers
What software/hardware do you use in creating mashups?
posted on Dec 4, 2004 - 8 answers
Music software for OSX question: A band of which I am quite fond has posted bootlegs for one of their shows on their Web site, as avi videos. I want to be able to listen to the goodness on my iPod, but I can't find any software that will convert the audio from the avi files to mp3s. VersionTracker and download.com yield various shady, non-working shareware or freeware packages.
posted on Nov 14, 2004 - 7 answers
Guitar Tablature Software: I'm looking for pro stuff I could actually use to publish with. I'm thinking PostScript or PDF output is therefore a must. It's gotta do the rhythm-notated tab. Is this pretty much Sibelius vs Finale, or are there other options?
posted on Oct 22, 2004 - 2 answers
Digital Music: Anyone know of some blinding pro-level software to remove vinyl rumble. (We're remastering old band music from vinyl for re-issue on CD; master tapes lost. Waves Renaissance software suite via Cubase takes too much of wanted bottom end out). Also: I can find software to remove vocals from a track; anyone know how I can isolate *only* vox from a wav?
posted on Oct 4, 2004 - 8 answers
In iTunes, why do songs I uncheck not play during shuffled playback? I just want to uncheck songs I don't want on the iPod and let 'em play normally in the library. It's easier than making a playlist for the iPod each time I add new albums. Alternatively, how do you manage your library when it exceeds the size of your iPod?
posted on Sep 12, 2004 - 12 answers
My Dad has a first generation iPod and a G5. What (free, preferably) software can he use to transfer songs from the iPod back to the Mac?
posted on Aug 31, 2004 - 6 answers
Home Studio Questions:
(1) opinions of Pro Tools vs GarageBand or other multitrack audio tools that run on a Mac (DP? Deck?)?
(2) What are the *most* useful home studio items you've ever bought, the ones you wouldn't want to do without?
(3) What are the *least* useful items you've ever bought -- stuff you got and then later thought "well, that was disappointing"?
posted on Jul 11, 2004 - 26 answers
Music software reccomendation needed: I'm looking for a very simple VSTi host application for Windows. All it needs to do is load a VSTi plugin and send external MIDI input to it - no sequencing, no effect chains. And, it needs to work on Windows 95. (There seem to be a few of these available for MacOSX, but Google doesn't give me any for Windows) Any suggestions?
posted on May 9, 2004 - 7 answers
I've been playing around with the idea of using a genetic algorithm for automatic music composition, but I can't seem to find a decent introduction/reference on the subject -- the best I've seen is a few relatively high-level academic papers. Could anyone direct me to a good source, or even give a brief overview? Thanks!
posted on Apr 29, 2004 - 10 answers
Are there any visualisation plugins for winamp (or other windows based mp3 players) suited for ambient music?
posted on Mar 30, 2004 - 3 answers
Any sound artists or signal processing engineers out there know of any good PC based software (ideally shareware) to convert FFT spectra into soundfiles? I can Fourier Transform waveforms to get frequency analysis easier than I can fall off a log, but doing it the other way round is not so straightforward for me. I'd ideally like to be able to import spectra as text files (or Excel or whatever) and then output them as continuous waveforms.
posted on Mar 3, 2004 - 4 answers
I'm an amateur musician and since Multiple Sclerosis ate my hands, I can't play my guitar. So want to try to make music with my computer. I've got a fast Win XP machine, a SOundblaster card with midi and a midi keyboard, CoolEdit, Cakewalk and lots of ideas.
What I want to do is find a program that'll let me play my midi keyboard and record the music, allowing me to edit/ Quantize blah blah (Cakewalk allows me this). But I want those midi notes to trigger samples that I've got as . wavs, transposing them to correct note (so it plays the real sounds, not tinny midi stuff), and obviously allow me to multi-track to layer the stuff into the songs in my head.
Anyone recommend a program that's easy to get to grips with/ a way of saving the samples so I can do this/ a book or online resource to get me started?
posted on Jan 18, 2004 - 9 answers
What windows (2K) software do you prefer to rip CDs to mp3? (Aside from iTunes, which I had to uninstall after it totally hosed my machine.)
posted on Jan 12, 2004 - 10 answers
I'm looking for a program that will catalog my music collection as a webpage. I'd like something that alphabetically lists artists, and each artist entry can be expanded to list songs. Preferably the program would work from an M3U playlist or based off my file structure (songs are in folders according to artist).
posted on Dec 30, 2003 - 8 answers
So, I've decided to start writing songs. What MIDI programs do people recommend for beginners who want to experiment with scoring multiple parts? Ease of use is more important than sound quality, but some room to grow would be nice, as well...
posted on Dec 11, 2003 - 5 answers
