Musician Software: Disintermediating the Studios at Port 80: Boardwalk

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Brian Transeau, better-known in the dance-music world as BT, is one of the top DJs and remixers in the world. And he gets some of his best work done on a plane.

Using a laptop computer and an audio-editing program, BT can work on songs anywhere, and often does. Transeau has worked with Tori Amos, Sarah McLachlan and Peter Gabriel, among others, and released several of his own dance records. His production work on the song "Pop" from Nsync's last record is one of the projects he did while flying. ...

In another sign of the increased prominence of laptops in the recording process, as of this fall, new students at the Berklee College of Music have to buy a PowerBook, a MIDI keyboard controller and a copy of Reason, a popular software synthesis and sampling program.

For years, music students were expected to learn to play the piano as the main instrument for their education. But according to Professor Michael Bierylo of Berklee, those days are over. "People are turning to the computer as the way of learning music," said Bierylo. "That represents a very radical shift in music education."

Bierylo, who also composes scores for movies and television, knows that familiarizing Berklee students with laptops is a crucial part of their education as the technological landscape of the industry changes.

"You can take your laptop and work almost anywhere and use it to make incredible music on stage," he said. "That's pretty revolutionary. The whole idea of the studio as a single place where all the production is done has more or less flown out the window. High-end studios still have their place, of course, but more and more and more musicians are tracking in different locations."

Organize, manage, promote, book, and jumpstart your own band (or any number of bands) with Indie Band Manager... database software specifically for independent professional musicians, performers, managers, publicists, and record labels.

Indie Band Manager 3.0, is the powerful yet affordable ($39.95) database management software for musicians on Macintosh or Windows PCs. This easy to use database software will help you look more professional, reach more fans, get more press, book better gigs, sell more CDs, and be more organized. No internet connection is required and there are no monthly subscription fees.

Just type in the chords for any song using standard chord symbols (like C, Fm7 or C13b9), choose the style you'd like, and Band-in-a-Box does the rest. Band-in-a-Box automatically generates a complete professional quality arrangement of piano, bass, drums, guitar and strings in a wide variety of popular styles. (Jazz, Pop, Country, Classical and more.)

Fruityloops is a loop and song creation tool available on the Internet.

Started out as a Drum Loop Creator, it quickly moved on to a complete virtual studio. FruityLoops became a full-featured sequencer for creating wav, mp3 or midi/drum loops with internal mixing and advanced MIDI support.

With version 3.5, Fruityloops became available as a VSTi plugin, making it probably the most powerful VSTi plugin available for any VSTi Hosts (Cubase, Logic,...).

Fruityloops can play any sample file (wav), generator (Fruityloops soft- synth), Buzz generator/effect or VST/DXi instrument you feed it.

We also can assure you that the stunning, photo realistic interface will push your creative forces to new heights.

An interactive musician’s environment for computers running Microsoft Windows. 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.

Turns your Mac into an anytime, anywhere recording studio packed with hundreds of instruments and a recording engineer or two for good measure. It’s the easiest way to create, perform and record your own music whether you’re an accomplished player or just wish you were a rock star. And GarageBand is the newest member of the iLife family, so you can add your original music to your slideshows, your DVD menus, burn it to CDs or score your iMovie projects.

An online directory of songs and loops made by artists using Apple Computer's GarageBand software.

MacJams - An Apple GarageBand music community. Mac music makers central. We be jammin.

Software synths have been around for almost as long as the personal computer. But somehow, they've never really made the grade. Too demanding on computer resources. Too complex. Too limited. Indifferent sounding. Unplayable. Or simply not cool enough. But now, the first software synth to equal and surpass the power, glory, and attitude of dedicated hardware has arrived. In fact, it's a lot more than just a synth. It's a complete music system.

The heart of your digital recording studio. You can plug in microphones, instruments and external preamps into the analog inputs while monitoring them in real time without latency. Any mLAN compatible keyboard such as the Yamaha Motif or Korg Triton Studio can be seamlessly patched into the FireWire ports of the FIREstation to send audio and MIDI information to your computer.

Select audio loops from an explorer window, drag them onto the program's track view, and arrange them into multiple-track projects. This easy-to-use but powerful software automatically matches the tempo and key of each loop in real time.

A new breed of keyboard, MOTIF combines the best features of a number of recent Yamaha products into an all-in-one music production workstation that will revolutionize the way music is made.

Imagine the sonic power of the world’s most advanced synthesizer combined with the hands-on inspiration of a cutting-edge groove box. Then add a brand new concept—an Integrated Sampling Sequencer that seamlessly integrates audio sampling and MIDI in a way never achieved before. Top it off with an intuitive user interface that gives you streamlined control over all that sonic firepower and you have the ultimate music workstation—MOTIF!

digital sheet music computer tablet

Store your entire music library.
Scan your existing sheet music into the MusicPad Pro.
Annotate and make color notes directly on the music page.
Simple pull-down menus.
Large back-lit color viewing screen (12.1" TFT LCD display)

For Independent Musicians in the Business of Selling, Promoting or Doing Music on the Internet

Most audio CDs use only about 60-minutes worth of the disc's 74 available minutes of space. Enhanced CD takes advantage of the unused space to include extra data on audio CDs. Your CD will play your music when it's placed in an audio player, but when your listeners put the disc in their CD-ROM drive, they'll also be treated to all the multimedia "extras." We can add MPEG video clips, animation, screen savers, interviews, promotional materials, direct links to your web site, and more!

A fully vertical merchandising company specializing in the entertainment industry, with a proven track record in designing, manufacturing and distributing goods for a wide range of clients.

Audio processes, tools, and effects for recording and manipulating audio. This industry-standard application is the professional's choice for audio editing, audio recording, effects processing, streaming content creation, and more.

Record instruments, vocals, from your own CDs – just about anything you can hook up to your computer's sound card.

Record audio in 16-bit or 24-bit formats.

Edit, record, process, and encode audio on your PC.

Cut, paste, move, mix, delete, mute, reverse, fade, and cross fade audio.

Edit files nondestructively with extreme speed and accuracy - down to the sample level.

Analyze and view the fundamental frequencies and overtones that make up your recordings with enhanced Spectrum Analysis tools.

Internet radio

The simple and smart MP3 server for Windows, Linux, and Mac OS X. It's great as a personal net-jukebox, as part of a public Web site, or over a private network.

a non-profit site providing free peer-to-peer broadcasting software. The aim of the project is to create an easy to use, simple and reliable software client that enables anyone to broadcast streaming media on the Internet without the need for expensive servers or bandwidth.

> Become the DJ of your own radio station with our easy-to-use drag-and-drop tools.
> Stream your station to any Internet listener, anywhere in the world.

Nullsoft's Free Winamp-based distributed streaming audio system. Thousands of broadcasters around the world are waiting for you to tune in and listen.

PenguinRadio - PenguinRadio's database eliminates the confusion by providing a single address to always find the music.


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