Toolbench: Multimedia Sound-Audio |
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Title/Description | Demo | Available Students | Available Faculty | Tutorials | Reviews | Examples | Company | List Cost | Educ. Cost | |||||||
Input |
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Keyboards/Digital Instruments |
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ProdiKeys (Win), touch sensitive 49-key keyboard | . | . | . | . | . | . | . | $99 | . | |||||||
Casio MIDI Keyboards | ||||||||||||||||
Yamaha Keyboards & other digital instruments | ||||||||||||||||
Roland Keyboard and Synth modules | ||||||||||||||||
Musician's Friend list | ||||||||||||||||
BrookMays Casio/Yamaha pricelists | ||||||||||||||||
http://www.samedaymusic.com/ -keyboards - song list of MIDI keyboards and peripherals | ||||||||||||||||
Microphones & Related Hardware |
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www.sweetwater.com/ | ||||||||||||||||
Google
directory for music equipment
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Google Directory - Audio Home Recording studios | . | . | . | . | . | . | . | . | . | |||||||
Software |
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Google Directory - Multimedia/Computers/Internet/Searching/Search
Engines/Specialized/Multimedia Google Directory - Computers/Multimedia/Music and Audio/ Software Editors |
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Audacity (Mac/Win/Linux) audio recorder and editor | free | |||||||||||||||
ModPlug Tracker (Win) trackers are the programs used to make MODs. | freeware | . | . |
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. | see the tutorial | MOD Plug Central | . | . | |||||||
ACID Music 2.0. (Win; both composer and sequencer) "...a solution for creating original, royalty-free music quickly and easily." This uses sound loops. | demo | . | . | Getting Started | . | . | . | . | . | |||||||
Band in a Box (Win/Mac) is music accompaniment software. "It also also contains Melodist Maker which allows you to define or edit your own melodies without having to perform it. Perhaps the most powerful feature is that Melodist can compose a new song in the style of your choice complete with intro, chords, melody, arrangement and improvisations, all created by the program!" | v8 demo
v9 video demo |
. | . | . | v8 reviews | . | PG Music | $88 | . | |||||||
Easy Music Composer | shareware | $29 | ||||||||||||||
Cool Edit, shareware sound editor. | demo | . | . | . | . | . | . | . | ||||||||
Cool Edit Pro (Win) | demo (30 days) | . | . | . | . | . | . | $399 | . | |||||||
Cool Edit 2000 (Win) | demo (30 days) | . | . | . | ZDNet Review | . | . | $39-69 | . | |||||||
Koan Pro: generative interactive music creation for web sites | demo | . | . | . | Computer Music, | examples | Koan Interactive | $80? | . | |||||||
Smart Music Studio, an accompaniment system to improve performance for brass, woodwind and vocalist. You'll never have to practice alone. | demo CD | . | . | . |
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. | Coda Music Technology | $63-$120 | . | |||||||
"Practica Musica" - (win/Mac) music skill development software | . | . | . | a tutorial | . | . | . | . | . | |||||||
Music Ace (Mac/Win) is solid and entertaining music "input" software. It takes users through a series of lessons in performing and composing (see Doodle Pad)." (See more in Audio Workshop in course pickup folder) | demo |
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online example | Harmonic Vision | home $49 | School $79 | ||||||||||
Manipulation(Tools which include input features but also do much more are included here.) |
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Pro Tools "Digidesign is the world leader in computer-based digital audio for music, multimedia, film, and broadcast." | Pro Tools Free | yes | yes |
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. | . | Digidesign | under $1000 | . | |||||||
Digidesign might be a bit advanced. Look at Sound Studio, Sound Design, or Amadeus, all of which found at download.com. |
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SoundEdit 16 plus DECK II (Mac) "edit unlimited audio tracks and output to any of fourteen file formats and compression schemes. The first software-only recording studio lets users create audio for everything from multimedia to music to the Internet." | none | . | . | . | Reviews | . | Macromedia | . | . | |||||||
Metasynth (Mac) "is revolutionary synthesis software for the Mac that opens a new paradigm in sound design and music creation. It is also an algorithmic compositional tool, a self-contained music creation environment, and a stepping stone past MIDI to complex instrumental synthesis." | demo | same | . | . | . | . | U&I Software | . | . | |||||||
Sound Forge | demo | . | . | Basic Editing | . | . | Sonic Foundry | $50 | . | |||||||
Cubase VST (Mac/Win) composer and sequencer | . | . | . | . | . | . | . | $400? | . | |||||||
Logic 4 | . | . | . | . | . | . | . | $350 | . | |||||||
Cakewalk | . | . | . | . | . | . | . | $300 | . | |||||||
Mixman Studio | . | . | . | . | . | . | . | $50 | . | |||||||
Finale 2000 (Mac/Win) the "best selling music notation program in the world" | demo | . | . | . | . | . | Coda Music Technology | $545 | $275 | |||||||
Sibelius (Mac/Win) the "best selling music notation program in the world" | ||||||||||||||||
Sibelius Compass, designed to teach music composition from secondary levels upward. | ||||||||||||||||
Songworks II "Songworks II is now fully polyphonic, allowing you to notate anything from a leadsheet to a symphony." | . | . | . | . | . | . | . | . | . | |||||||
Mark of the Unicorn (MOTU), music sequencing | . | . | . | . | . | . | . | . | . | |||||||
Opcode Productions, sequencing, audio editing | . | . | . | . | . | . | . | . | . | |||||||
Infinite Sound Cafe (reading material and more) | . | demo | same | . | . | . | . | . | . | |||||||
Mixman Studio Mac | . | . | . | . | . | . | . | . | . | |||||||
Beatnik.com: makes web pages interactive by embedding sound files that respond to a user's mouse movements by playing music and sound. | . | . | . | . | . | . | . | . | . | |||||||
Output |
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CD Architect, "burn" CDs | demo | . | . | . | . | . | . | . | . | |||||||
Shoutcast and Winamp, free audio servers and support for DJing, including live microphone work and explanation of copyright issues | free | free | ||||||||||||||
Real Networks Streaming Media | . | . | . | . | . | stations | . | $69-$2000 | . | |||||||
Clipstream Java based streaming audio | . | . | . | . | . | . | . | . | . | |||||||
Quicktime Media Servers | . | . | . | . | . | . | . | . | . | |||||||
Windows Media Servers | . | . | . | . | . | . | . | . | . | |||||||
Google Directory - Karaoke | ||||||||||||||||
The MODPlug Player, (Win) a high-quality 32-bit music MODule player for Windows 95/98/NT. | freeware | . | . | . | . | . | . | . | . | |||||||
MOD Players (Mac) | freeware | . | . | . | . | . | . | . | . | |||||||
MusicMatch Jukebox (Win), converts music to digital format, then allows selection of titles. Some are moving their entire CD collections to their hard drives and taking removeable drives back and forth between office and work. Educators could build a jukebox full of children/student musical selections that students could play in their classroom. | . | . | . | . | . | . | . | $29 | . | |||||||
DJing on the Internet - See the many options below. When used by schools, this DJing will promote script writing, speaking, music and audio development and editing and leadership skills in the same way that school newspapers promote writing, word processing, desktop publishing and leadership skills. I do not have any reports of schools doing Internet radio stations. Please let me know when this is emerging. | ||||||||||||||||
Web Jockey 1.0 (Win98) Don't be mislead by the price; the company is after market share. This is professional level software. | demo | . | . | Computer Music 12/99 | . | . | $69.95 | . | ||||||||
PCDJ (Win) | freeware | . | . | . | Computer Music 12/99 | . | . | free | . | |||||||
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Radio 2000 Software - Digital Jukebox - radio broadcast digital automation allows you to record music, jingles, commercials, talk elements onto the computers hard drive for later radio host (e.g., DJ) assistance or for full automation. | . | . | . | . | . | . | . | . | . | |||||||
Pirate Radio
"For those of you who want to do more than just listen, try out our RadioDestiny Broadcaster... In a few easy steps you can have your station posted and running on our station directory complete with links to your email and web page." |
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Live365.com, a website that will serve your MP3 files from a playlist (EasyCast) of your design or streamed live if your have the right hardware settings | online application | . | . | . | . | . | . | . | . | |||||||
Radio SonicNet | online application | |||||||||||||||
Google directory for radio |
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