Posts Tagged ‘Music’

The easy way to record, edit and enhance your sounds!
Free Audio Editor 2010
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The author says:
Edit audio files visually; Record audio from a microphone or any other available input device; Apply various effects; Burn audio CDs from MP3, WMA, WAV, and OGG; All in one program, simple and intuitive – FAE (free audio editor). Completely free!
10 fundamental reasons for using Free Audio Editor

  • Powerful audio recording feature
  • Edit audio files visually
  • Apply various effects easily
  • Powerful noise reduction tool
  • Easy to use interface will get you started editing in just minutes
  • Real-time effect preview is supported
  • Easy to use bookmark and region manager
  • Supports a number of file formats including wav (multiple codecs), mp3, wma, ogg and many more.
  • Burn your sound files to CD
  • Tools include speech synthesis (text-to-speech)
  • Completely Free!

It seems to not load 24Bits audio files. See the picture below.
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Start and stop (or pause) with blank keys, can be good, but it just start and restart.
Anyway, it’s a free program.
If you want more advanced features, they have professional version of course.

You can download Free Audio Editor 2010 from here.

It’s available for both Linux and Windows (NEW: 64 bit version).

I am using it!

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LMMS is a free cross-platform alternative to commercial programs like FL Studio, which allow you to produce music with your computer. This includes the creation of melodies and beats, the synthesis and mixing of sounds, and arranging of samples. You can have fun with your MIDI-keyboard and much more; all in a user-friendly and modern interface.

Warning!

  • The program is installed in “Programs (x86)” folder by default although you downloaded 64bit version, and you have to change the folder when you install LMMS.
  • You cannot change the language of the interface. I want English, but it’s blend of Swedish and English.

Changes in version 0.4.7:

Core:

  • AutomationEditor: thread-safe handling of AutomationPattern pointer
  • InlineAutomation: delete attached AutomationPattern immediately (fixes some random crashes when playing on virtual keyboard)
  • EnvelopeAndLfoParameters: moved global instances management into helper class (fixes crashes when importing MIDI files)
  • NotePlayHandle: fix broken note detuning feature
  • AudioJack: do not use QVector in processCallback()

GUI:

  • Themes: explicitely set background and text color for tooltips
  • ExportProjectDialog: guess file format from extension
  • Fixed cloning of BB tracks
  • When cloning BB track, indicate this fact in name of cloned BB track
  • TrackContentObject: keep position in paste()
  • Default theme: replaced background artwork with a more decent one
  • TextFloat: fixed size calculation in simple mode
  • “Save changes?” dialog: Save/Discard instead of Yes/No

Plugins:

  • CALF LADSPA plugins: resynced with Git repository
  • LadspaEffect/Controls: fixed non-working global channel link checkbox
  • Sf2Player: disable per-note-panning support for the time being
  • SpectrumAnalyzer: skip processing if UI is not visible
  • ZynAddSubFX: new background artwork
  • ZynAddSubFX: updated to version 2.4.1
  • ZynAddSubFX: allow hiding UI by closing main window
  • ZynAddSubFX: added window icon (win32 version only)
  • ZynAddSubFX: save configuration file in LMMS working directory
  • ZynAddSubFX: added knobs for MIDI controls
  • ZynAddSubFX: new QtXmlWrapper, a QtXml-based XML backend for ZASF

Misc:

  • Improved .desktop and menu file
  • Do not use -ftree-vectorize per default anymore
  • Win32/Win64 installer associate LMMS project files with LMMS

Read more about LMMS.

It took so long to upload files to the server. There are too many who use this server right now. My site has limited clients at one time that I know now – actually only 5 clients. Petty!

Current version of MidiToWav is 2.0.3.102
And Wav2X is 1.0.2.15

BASS FILE has been updated, and I update MidiToWav.
And audio components have also been updated, and I update Wav2X.

For the sake of simplicity, I have packaged them in separate files. And you can download it from here.
Note:
If you are satisfied with the previous version, you have no reason to download them.

MidiToWav (986 KB)
MD5: 60A5072FCAD8670D496F6736ACCABA87
SHA1: 6733C9E27E8283C21C28B9808AF66BC28DE7277F

Wav2X (1.74 MB)
MD5: 5187E7C7D5C906C74F59F253431733B8
SHA1: 7AF1A040B5D988D3DFAEE33423246B82FF57C026

Freeware software synthesizer “Synth1″ by Daichi has been updated to version 1.12.

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Synth1 homepage is here:
http://www.geocities.jp/daichi1969/
And you would like to read this page.
http://www.geocities.jp/daichi1969/synmanu/readmeeng.html

Important
When you install Synth1, you do the number 2 first then the number 1 – it is wrong in his manual (section with “Installation and Uninstallation”).

It says that “Fixed a bug that hangup when tempo cahnge.(DXi)”, but this bug is still there.
Difference to the older version, it’s VSTi. I was using 1.07.

Anyway, it’s an excellent SYNTHE, even for free! :)

Not splendid but pretty good sound with different sizes. They are handy!

Page owner says:

This page is now on a new server, and downloads are handled via FTP. To keep free soundfonts free, the bandwidth must be controlled. If you get an error message from your browser when you select a download, try again in a few minutes – it just means that all connections are busy. Also, please don’t try to download more than one file at a time – you are limited to only a single connection and will get that error message again. Once a file is complete, you can download another. Thanks for your understanding.

It may not call large files these days, but there are many Mega bytes SoundFont there.
I tried them with my MidiToWav, and it felt a bit odd because it sounded very different from the Sequencer’s sound, but nice tuned!

PersonalCopy (http://www.personalcopy.com/)
Follow the link SoundFont!
There are free MIDI files and stuff too.

It feels 8MB Creative Labs SoundFont sounds better to me after all.

I have uploaded “Bach02.ZIP” content to:
http://www.esnips.com/web/BachConcerto.

They are re-sequenced and re-recorded and and even a bit better sound, I think anyway.
Now you can download for each MP3 file.

Concerto for Two Harpsichords and Orchestra (BWV 1060)

  1. Allegro
  2. Largo ovvero Adagio
  3. Allegro

Concerto for Three Harpsichords, Strings and Continuo in C Major (BWV 1064)

  1. Allegro
  2. Adagio
  3. Allegro

Everything you can download here: http://www.esnips.com/web/BachConcerto

Now I have appropriate soundcard driver for Seven and tested MidiToWav on seven.
And it works!
If you use Seven, you can use any version you want.

XP users have almost the same frontend as a precursor. Only larger buttons now.
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Both images are MidiToWav running on Vista.
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PURITY – Virtual Sound Workstation

Also available for Macintosh.

PURITY is a next generation of digital musical instrument workstation and PCM sound module software. PURITY is designed to realize and surpass the hardware musical instrument workstation perfectly on computer-based music production environments offering higher sound quality and more usability.

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You must give the manufacturer your email address to download the demo. Try it! It is superb! You can download it from http://www.luxonix.com/

72.17 EUR if you are interested.

Samplelord is a sample player which can work as a VSTi plug-in or standalone application. It can load different sounds in different formats in the same Multi-Patch and play these in real-time just like a hardware sound module.
Fast and Direct Access to Formats
Can load GIG, SF2, FXP, NKI, EXB, WAV, AIFF files, plus own Native Format and play these directly from disk.
Samplelord 1.5.1
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Very useful. You can download it from http://www.samplelord.com/
120.00 EUR if you are interested.