The complete guide to making music with a computer
Digital content that accompanies Computer Music Issue 198 December 2013
Computer Music’s goal is to help its readers create great music with a PC or Mac. Each month find easy-to-follow tutorials for all sorts of music software, unbiased reviews of the latest products and answers to technical questions.
HurdyGurdy is a sample based instrument designed to closely reproduce not only the sound but also the true behaviour of the original instrument. With its detailed control options it allows you to play ethnic, traditional and historic styles and ornaments spontaneously and with ease.
The Soundbytes BagPipes is a sample based VST plugin instrument for the windows platform. Its elaborately crafted control engine makes it easy to play authentic sounding bagpipe styles and techniques. This can be done using nothing but a simple MIDI keyboard with just basic modulator input through pitch bender and modulation wheel. Use the BagPipes to play authentic parts with convincingly sounding ornaments, cuts, taps and staccato runs. A specially designed pipe filter adds yet another layer of realism to vibrato, fades and pitch slides.
OJOsoft Audio Converter is a powerful and professional tool for audio to audio or video to audio conversion. With lots of codec built in, the sound converter can convert audio files between almost any formats, including MP3, WMA, M4A, AAC, AC3, MP2, WAV, OGG. Also, as an easy-to-use video to audio converter, it allows you to extract audio tracks from all popular video files, such as AVI, MPEG, MP4, MPG, VOB, MKV, WMV, etc.
CyberLink WaveEditor – a program for recording, analysis and editing of sound, built-in audio editor allows you to cut, split and merge your recordings, add to them the sound effects and filters, etc etc. The program is also present writer drives, allowing you to create your own audio CD which may be listened to on the computer, a home player.
Real Time Scale Change!
You can change scale while the midi file is played. For example, you can load a MIDI file of pops and play it with Chinese musical scale or Okinawan musical scale.
Studio Devil is a guitar and bass tube amp emulation software technology, available as plugins for audio host recording software, and as standalone applications for live play. If you’re looking for a way to play or record your guitar directly with your computer, and to get the best coveted tube amp sounds, you have come to the right place.
