A nice virtual drumkit on Ken’s page.
In 1787, Mozart wrote the measures and instructions for a musical composition dice game. The idea is to cut and paste pre-written measures of music together to create a Minuet.
This site is an implementation of such a game. The music and table of rules for this game appear to have been published anonymously in 1787, and interestingly, the table of rules for this Minuet is identical to Mozart’s. However, it is not clear who the composer of these measures is.
There are 176 possible Minuet measures and 96 possible Trio measures to choose from. The result of a dice roll is looked up in a table of rules to determine which measure to play.
Two six-sided dice are used to determine each of the 16 Minuet measures (i.e. 11 possibilities for each of 16 measures). One six-sided die is used to determine each of the 16 Trio measures (i.e. 6 possibilities for each of 16 measures). So in theory, there are (11^16) * (6^16) = (1.3 * (10^29)) possible compositions. Of course, many of them will be closely related. Nevertheless, there are still many interesting possibilities.
Keith Gemmell - Jazz, rock and blues saxophone player: music technology journalist and book author: composer, arranger
This website already contains a great deal of information related to saxophone playing, home studio recording and musical composition/arranging. All of it is based on first-hand experience. But it’s an on-going situation. Fresh articles and product reviews will be added on a regular basis. The links on the left will take you to the main categories. From there you can follow a site-map for each subject.
Juneberry78s is a Web-Site for Collectors of American Roots Music. We feature Old-Time Strings Bands, Ballads & Breakdowns, Early Blues & Gospel, some Early Jazz, Vintage Country Gospel, Early Bluegrass and various Ethnic Musics played by immigrants to America. Most of this material was originally recorded in the 1920s through the early 1950s and was first issued on 78 RPM Records.
Free download music from the Roots Listening Room about :
Your Roots Music Requests.
New - Rugged and Ragged Blues Piano from the 1920s
Blues from the 1920s (subset)
Gospel from the 1920s (subset)
Old-Time Country Music from the 1920s & 1930s
White Country Gospel from the 1920s-1950s
Vintage Hot Jazz from the 1920s
Louisiana Cajun Music from the 1920s - 1970s
Irish Dance Music from the 1920s - 1970s
Folk Music from Mexico 1920s - 1950s
Luther Strong’s 1937 Library of Congress Recordings
Other Library of Congress Fiddle Recordings
Cape Breton Fiddle Music from the 1930s - 1950s
Calypso Music of Trinidad from 1930s - 1940s
1940s Blues from small independent labels
Listen to Tracks from our Latest CD-Rs & DVDs
Blues & Gospel from the 1920s & 1930s (1,600 Tracks!!)
Out of consideration for others only download/listen to about 15-20 songs in one day.
A Common Sense approach to uncovering the
"Truth" about what we hear
So lets talk about studio monitors. A thorny subject to be sure, with as many opinions as is believable. As with microphones and sequencers, the debate often turns into flame-fests. Yet there has been some progress in our understanding of monitors. Nearly everyone seems to agree that one needs a "near field" monitor to accurately assess the music they are creating. A near field monitor is one that you keep pretty close to you, typically between 3-5 feet. The idea here is that the music we hear is dramatically altered by room acoustics. Go try a little experiment. Take any speaker and put it in the corner of a room. You will hear bass resonating through the room that does not exist when the speaker is in the middle of the room. ( read more ) ( by Rich the TweakMeister )
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On Voxengo, pro audio software : This page contains FREE reverb impulses available for download. All impulse files presented here come in 44.1 kHz 16 bit WAV format. They were packed into several RAR3 archives. Click here to download RAR3 archiver. All impulses presented on this page were created with Impulse Modeler. You may also download CKSDE impulses by visiting the Pristine Space web page.
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*LFX-1310 is a Free plug-in multi-effector including 24 types of algorithm and 3 serial slots. This freeware is the stand-alone version of Effecting Module of Ravity(S) & Ravity(R). Every algorithm realizes the very effect you have on your mind, and is fully optimized for low CPU load. - S’Filter 12 / S’Filter 24 / 3-band EQ
Effectors :
- Peak Compressor / RMS Compressor
- Overdrive / Distortion / Amp Distortion
- Crusher / LP Noise / Stereo Image
- Chorus / Flanger / Phaser / Auto Wah / Tremolo / Auto Pan
- Delay / Stereo Delay / Ping-pong Delay
- Gate Reverb / Room Reverb / Hall Reverb / Spring Reverb
We define orDrumbox as a software drum machine on a desktop application. A fully-featured drum machine and audio sequencer designed to a creative pattern-based way of drum programming. You can compose music and beats with this new generation of sound tracker. For more informations, see the detailled features.
Test the on-line version on your favorite browser with this applet demo . It’s a light version of the orDrumbox.
WavePad audio editing software is a full featured professional sound editor for Windows. It lets you make and edit voice and other audio recordings. When editing audio files you can cut, copy and paste parts of recordings and, if required, add effects like echo, amplification and noise reduction. WavePad works as a wav editor or mp3 editor but it also supports a number of other file formats including vox, gsm, real audio, au, aif, flac, ogg and more.
The program is designed to be a very easy and intuitive to use for audio editing. Within minutes you will be able to open or record a file and edit it. But if you take time to explore the other features you will find many powerful tools for editing audio designed with the professional sound engineer in mind.
A full list of features follow but a quick way to try it out is to download and install now. You don’t need to purchase and it only takes a couple of minutes to complete the process
LMMS aims to be a free alternative to popular (but commercial and closed- source) programs like FruityLoops, Cubase and Logic giving you the ability of producing music with your computer by creating cool loops, synthesizing and mixing sounds, arranging samples, having more fun with your MIDI-keyboard and much more…
LMMS combines the features of a tracker-/sequencer-program (pattern-/channel-/ sample-/song-/effect-management) and those of powerful synthesizers and samplers in a modern, user-friendly and easy to use graphical user-interface.
What can I do with LMMS?
Using LMMS you can produce electronic music with your computer, so you don’t have to buy expensive hardware for having great sounds and making cool music. Of course no software can replace real hardware-synths, but you’ll have still much fun with LMMS and especially users being new to music-production at all will learn things in a really easy way!
LMMS provides software-synths and other plugins, cool presets for them and also some essential samples. For getting started with LMMS you can take a look at the demo-projects.
From "Who needs to pirate software with a list like this?"
Audio Creation
Gungirl Sequencer - http://ggseq.sourceforge.net/pmwiki.php/Main/HomePage
HammerHead - http://www.threechords.com/hammerhead/introduction.shtml
Jesusonic - http://www.jesusonic.com/soft.php
KRISTAL Audio Engine - http://www.kreatives.org/kristal/index.php
orDrumbox - http://ordrumbox.sourceforge.net/
Audio Players:
Billy - http://www.sheepfriends.com/?page=billy
CoolPlayer - http://coolplayer.sourceforge.net/
DeejaySystem MK1 - http://www.deejaysystem.com/prod_mk1.asp
DeliPlayer. http://www.deliplayer.com/
Foobar 2000 - http://www.foobar2000.org/
iTunes - http://www.apple.com/itunes/
Jet Audio Basic - http://www.jetaudio.com/
Mixere - http://mixere.sourceforge.net/
Mixxx - http://mixxx.sourceforge.net/
monoRAVEik - http://www.mono211.com/monoraveik/mr1200.html
MoreAmp - http://sourceforge.net/projects/moreamp/
Musik - http://musik.berlios.de/
musikCube - http://www.musikcube.com/
QCD Player - http://www.quinnware.com/
Sonique - http://sonique.lycos.com/
Winamp - http://www.winamp.com/
XMPlay - http://www.un4seen.com/xmplay.html
Zinf - http://www.zinf.org/
Audio Tools:
Audacity - http://audacity.sourceforge.net/
AudioShell - http://www.softpointer.com/AudioShell.htm
BeSweet - http://dspguru.doom9.net/
dBpowerAMP Music Converter - http://www.dbpoweramp.com/dmc.htm
EAC - http://www.exactaudiocopy.de/
Encounter 2003 - http://www.waschbusch.com/
GermaniXEncoder - http://www.germanixsoft.de/
K-MP3 - http://www.katarncorp.com/
KraMixer - http://www.kramware.com/
MP3 Book Helper - http://mp3bookhelper.sourceforge.net/
MP3 Tag - http://www.mp3tag.de/
Mp3 Tag Tools - http://massid3lib.sourceforge.net/
mp3Trim - http://www.logiccell.com/~mp3trim/
MusicBrainz - http://musicbrainz.org/
Rarewares - http://rarewares.hydrogenaudio.org/
SoundEngine Free - http://www.cycleof5th.com/en/index.htm
The GodFather - http://users.otenet.gr/~jtcliper/tgf/
TigoTago - http://www.tigotago.com/
Before you start to seriously learn to play the harmonica, pick up your harmonica and just fool around a bit. Run your mouth up and down the harmonica blowing and drawing (sucking in) air and listen to the sounds. Even though you’re not playing music you’ll notice you do get notes…Mostly multiple notes…but notes none the less. Start at one end and blow all notes up and down, then repeat by drawing all notes. You should notice right off that you play multiple notes on each breath. You’ll also notice some holes play easily…other holes don’t. You may run out of air on blow notes and get too much air in your lungs on draw notes. Remember all these things…they’ll come up again. ( read more )
Looperman Audio Resources : Making music can be a complex and difficult thing to do well. Anyone can throw a few loops together and get something that sounds half decent but to make your tracks stand out from the rest takes a little more.
In this section of tutorials they aim to collect and produce a varied collection od hints and tips to help you on your way. If you are stuck on a certain problem then post your questions in the forums. As the answers flood in they’ll take the best threads and turn them in to tutorials. If you allready know it all then why not share your knowledge with others.
you”ll find tutorials about :
EQ
Software Mastering
The Mastering processor
Feel Your Way
Instant Mix Fixes
Mix Parameters
Panning For Gold
Its A Dynamic Moving Process
The Perfect Mix
The Role Of Compression At Mixdown
What Is Mixing ?
Production
The Importance Of Pre Production
Post Production
Compression Explained
Giving Your Recordings a Produced Sound
Key Facts
Mastering The Situation
Reduced Reverb
Vox Clever
Summing Up
The following is a mastering tutorial explaining many tips, tricks and audio mastering secrets. There are a number of methods used to accomplish harmonic balancing or spectral correction. Your tracks will sound their best when they are first processed in Har-Bal before any digital eq or multiband compression/limiting is applied. A large number of audio mastering software packages presently available have real time spectrum analyzers included in their bundle. Har-Bal allows you to instantly identify rogue resonances and correct them on the spot. You can substitute the plugins after Har-Bal with any of your favorites. This instruction manual is designed to get you up and running and hopefully give you a superior understanding of the mastering process.
We hope you enjoy it,
Har-Bal International
JAMin is the JACK Audio Connection Kit (JACK) Audio Mastering interface. JAMin is an open source application designed to perform professional audio mastering of stereo input streams. It uses LADSPA for digital signal processing (DSP). JAMin is licensed under the GPL.
JAMin features:
Linear filters
JACK I/O
30 band graphic EQ
1023 band hand drawn EQ with parametric controls
Spectrum analyser
3 band peak compressor
Lookahead brickwall limiter
Multiband stereo processing
Presets and scenes
Loudness maximiser
