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Programs featured during workshop:
- • Guitar Pro (www.guitar-pro.com)
- A multitrack tablature
editor for guitar, banjo and bass. Offers options such as listening,
printing, importing and exporting MIDI and ASCII formats, transposing,
transcribing a score in standard notation. Functions include chord diagrams,
metronome, tuner, assistants, etc.
- • Guitar Tracks Pro (www.cakewalk.com)
- Multitrack "portable
studio" interface with the benefits of PC-based, digital recording
and editing. Tools include a 32-track digital recorder; a guitar amp
simulator; high-quality effects; a software-based drum loop generator;
a chromatic-tuner; and a complete drum loop library. You can get started
with any guitar or microphone and the PC you already own - no expensive
hardware required
- • Sound Forge (www.sonicfoundry.com)
- Two-track digital
audio editor. Includes a powerful set of audio processes, tools, and
effects for manipulating audio
- • Vegas (www.sonicfoundry.com)
- Digital video editing
system that was originally released as a multi-track audio editing system.
Even though it is now marketed as a video software, it can still be
used for multi-track audio-only creation and editing
- • ACID Express (www.sonicfoundry.com)
- Free, downloadable
version of ACID, a loop-based music creation tool that allows you to
produce original, royalty-free multitrack music
- • Reason (www.propellerhead.se)
- Software synthesizer, sampler, drum machine, ReCycle!-based loop player, mixer, effects, pattern sequencer, and more. As many of each as your computer can handle. Reason is an infinitely expandable MIDI studio on a CD-ROM, complete with its own realtime sequencer
If you have any post-workshop questions please contact me at jmeschi@liu.edu [JM]