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Free Music Software On The Internet
Recently, I tracked down some great music software and it's free. The producers want people to try it and pay for upgrading to versions with more capabilities but there is no obligation. Years of study might enable someone to write music fluently on a stave. Anvil Studio's software does that automatically for you and you can compose for several instruments at the same time including rhythm instruments, a very good piano and others. It plays back what you have done and shows you how it looks on the stave, which you can edit. It can be downloaded for free at www.anvilstudio.com . Their free version is 3 megabytes and downloads automatically to the folder with your programmes at C: .
There is no need to have your own music keyboard to try the programme out because typewriter keys of a computer keyboard play the notes. Also it is easy to make harmonies for backing a melody line with the layout of notes on a computer keyboard and I will try to point out how easy it is.
The keys from Qto} and from |to? represent white keys and some of the ones above them represent black keys. To begin, if you only or mostly play on the white notes then for any note you play, for example on the |to? line, a note two spaces away to the left also on the |to? line when played with the one on the Qto} line slightly further away will always give a three-note chord. Because the tuning is always perfect you can very easily produce a powerful and harmonious sound to strengthen a melody line. From a similar pair of notes on the Qto} line, one on the lower line to the right slightly further away from the first always gives three-note chord. My reason for telling you this is that if you choose an inappropriate combination of notes they may not play.
I've never been all that interested in club music but when I downloaded Sonic Syndicate's free version of their new synthesizer and drum programme, Orion, I started to think more about it. This programme is amazing to someone new to music tools over the Internet. The drum kit plays rhythm which you can modify, adding the snare drum and other rhythm instruments and varying them as you go. Immediately you can approach the quality of a real drummer's sound. Their Bazzline synthesizer, which is part of the same package, gives a sound which seems to have been designed especially for the club and rave style of music. The piano roll enables you to vary the notes the Bazzline plays. Tip: if you trace from the screen any pattern of notes on the Bazzline that you really like you can repeat them another time even with the free version.
Playing the drum kit and the Bazzline is likely to change someone's appreciation of what they can do musically. Sonic Syndicate's address is www.sonic-syndicate.com and they have a download page. Orion is available in a 2megabyte version and a 4megabyte version. and it can be downloaded at: You will need a zip programme to unzip theirs and a zip programme is available for free from ZipCentral 3.0 - http://download.cnet.com/downloads .
I got the addresses above from an information page which has a lot more on this sort of programme. The address is: http://www.users.surfaid.org/~robinv/free.htm . On the page the writer mentions what seems to be a magazine which specialises in music programmes. It's called Shareware Music Machine. Please do a Yahoo! search for that if you would like to go further.