TOP 10 Music Applications
Q2, 2009, based on Internet search requests
1. Pro Tools
2. Cubase
3. FL Studio
4. Cakewalk Sonar
5. Apple Logic
6. Adobe Audition
7. Ableton Live
8. Apple Garageband
9. Sound Forge
10. Sony Acid
[via Synthtopia]
Mixxx is free, open source DJ software for Windows, Mac OS X, and Linux
written for DJs, by DJs
it supports a bunch of controllers and vinyl controls
also works with many soundcards
it looks really really promising
grab ‘n test it!
Prosoniq ’s sonicWORX Pro uses the latest advances in Digital Signal Processing to split audio signals into their components allowing you to view and edit audio based on the actual sounds present within the mix. As the first software of its kind, sonicWORX Pro allows displaying, extracting and suppressing individual instruments and voice in a mix in a semi-automatic manner using a powerful pattern detector. Prosoniq’s novel pattern tracker automatically detects, tracks and resolves conflicts with other instruments based on hints given by the user. Selecting and extracting tracks can be accomplished in minutes using our software. This makes sonicWORX Pro an incredibly versatile tool that allows both micro-editing as well as easy suppressing, extracting or processing instruments or voice within a mix for remixing, mastering or restoration. sonicWORX Pro will be shipping in July 2009 at a recommended retail price of 1.690 Euro.
Here is a video demo after the jump.
iShred is the world’s rockingest, jamtasticest, funnest, pocket-able electric guitar ever to be squeezed into an iPhone. iShred sends the highest quality guitar sounds through a bank of crazily configurable stomp box effects, rendering the result into screaming, distorted, wailing, looping, feedback-fueled audible gold! Or in other words, your air guitaring results real music now! Check this demo vid! I wanna hear Copycat’s guitar solo ASAP ;)
Synplant is a software synthesizer developed by Sonic Charge with a genetic approach to sound creation. Instead of creating patches the conventional way by turning dials and knobs, Synplant lets you explore a world of organic sounds by planting seeds that grow into synth patches. It's fun to use and gets you some wicked sounds – get your trial at their download page and test yourself!
It's Jim… but not as we know him. Scientists at St Andrews University have used special computer software to show what Jim Morrison might have looked like at 65 years old.
Had he lived, the doors frontman would have been celebrating his 65th birthday today
AudioMulch is an interactive musician’s environment for computers running Microsoft Windows, used by great artists like Andrew Duke or Girl Talk . Bringing together the popular with what has up to now been considered experimental, AudioMulch merges the worlds of mainstream electronica and electroacoustic sound composition to create a fluid sonic environment only limited by the artist’s imagination.
While many of the processes featured within AudioMulch are not new to computer music programs, it is the software’s ability to carry out these traditionally "studio" or "non-real-time" signal processing techniques in real-time that emerges as its major asset. With AudioMulch, music that has for so long been limited to the pre & post-production practices of a studio can emerge in a new LIVE and interactive context.
Through the essentially unlimited (only by the power of the computer) combination of a network of synthesis and processing contraptions, AudioMulch allows the user to extend their current audio processing capabilities or create new music within their computer without additional expensive software or hardware systems.
If you are a Mixed in Key user, you might heard about Platinum Notes cos they both came from the same mastermind. This great software makes your tracks sound incredibly smooth. Designed by professional DJs and musicians, Platinum Notes improves your files and gives them warmth, perfect volume, and correct pitch. It removes distortion and clipped peaks.
You can sit back while Platinum Notes scans your entire music collection and generates perfect music files that will keep the dance floor bouncing. It makes and works with wavs and mp3’s both. Mixed in Key and Platinum Notes together are the winning combination for digital musicians, DJs.
This is a very useful list by Create Digital Music, not for musicians only.
Any computer – Mac, Windows, and Linux – can experience degraded audio
experience pretty fast if a background task starts stealing CPU or a
driver is misbehaving. In contrast, a fully-tweaked Windows machine,
equipped with a set of tools to diagnose potential problems, can be
rock-solid for audio performance. That’s an especially big deal for
those of us using computers for live music.
