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The Big Free Music Related Software Thread

#62
Steve said:
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my personal favorite for looping, pitch shifting and tempo changing
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Known as BestPractice.

Also does a decent vocal removal (karoake), isolates bass or treble(for backing tracks) and can loop a section of your choice and also record it "slowed down". Will speed up songs as well. Reads .wav and .mp3 files. Will read from a drive/file of your choice. Automatically loops whatever file is being played.

If you slow down the tune and raise the pitch an octave, sometimes the bass is easier to hear.

Easy to use.
 
#66
Stumbo said:
Please post some of the programs you use or know about. :help:
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Well i'm not sure which of these are compatible with windows or mac, but they are worth a look.

Hydrogen - Simple and brilliant drum machine

Audacity - Recording software

Tux Guitar - Tab editor program, very similar to guitar pro

There's so much more out there. Just search for open source programs. They're all free!
 
#67
MS Excel (or Excel viewer) 4 or 5 string fretboard note trainer. Instructions included. Easy to use.

Created by Jim Nazium, modified by Stumbo(added instant answer feature/color scheme/more fretboard diagrams) for your learning pleasure.

Also, check the links in my sig. below for links to lots of free music related software and other TB info.
 

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Stumbo said:
MS Excel (or Excel viewer) 4 or 5 string fretboard note trainer. Instructions included. Easy to use.

Created by Jim Nazium, modified by Stumbo(added instant answer feature/color scheme/more fretboard diagrams) for your learning pleasure.

Also, check the links in my sig. below for links to lots of free music related software and other TB info.
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Any chance you can modify it further to put the notes on the staff?

That would be a really cool addition for people just learning to read music. :)
 
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JMX said:
http://www.kreatives.org/kristal/
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I just stumbled across this program a couple of days ago. I wish I stumbled across this thread back in 2006 when it was originally posted.

I think it offers greater flexibility than all the other free one's I've tried.

I cut/pasted the highlights of the program to save people some reading time on the web site this way should they decide to check it out, then can just cut to the chase.

* 16 audio tracks
* 32 Bit floating point audio engine
* 44.1 to 192 kHz sample rate*
* Downmix to 16/24/32 Bit audio files
* 3-band parametric EQ &
* 2 VST insert slots per channel
* 3 VST master effect slots
* ASIO low latency audio driver support
* 4 KRISTAL Plug-In slots
* Load/Save KRISTAL project files
* Supported file formats: WAVE, AIFF, FLAC, OGG
* the sequencer Plug-In for KRISTAL
* multichannel harddisk recording via ASIO/MME
* ASIO input monitoring
* audio clip arrangement
* audio clip fade-in/fade-out/crossfade
* unlimited undo/redo
* AES31 Export

KRISTAL Effects Plug-Ins

* MultiDelay
* Chorus
* Reverb
* Kristalizer
 
#78
This is a turning out to be a useful little utility for me (freeware) and I don't think it's been posted here before.

A week or so before any gig where I need to get more familiar with the tunes, I set up a playlist on my PC in Winamp so that I can listen to them for learning purposes. Trouble is, the actual files are in different folders all over my music library and this makes copying them to another location or device a real time consuming process.

This little program will open a playlist, find all the music files referred to in the list and copy them to a new folder anywhere you like (with the playlist itself to keep the same playing order if you want). This makes the playlist and music easy to transfer to your mp3 player or whatever so you can access it anywhere you like. I can move a everything from one PC to another and it will just just play the list as intended even if drive letters are different for the file locations on the two machines. Saves me loads of time and works great!

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#79
bassybill said:
This is a turning out to be a useful little utility for me (freeware) and I don't think it's been posted here before.

A week or so before any gig where I need to get more familiar with the tunes, I set up a playlist on my PC in Winamp so that I can listen to them for learning purposes. Trouble is, the actual files are in different folders all over my music library and this makes copying them to another location or device a real time consuming process.

This little program will open a playlist, find all the music files referred to in the list and copy them to a new folder anywhere you like (with the playlist itself to keep the same playing order if you want). This makes the playlist and music easy to transfer to your mp3 player or whatever so you can access it anywhere you like. I can move a everything from one PC to another and it will just just play the list as intended even if drive letters are different for the file locations on the two machines. Saves me loads of time and works great!

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I have a program with similar functions and plenty more. It's called iTunes. :hiding:
 
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