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This week, how to be a musician. One of your home computer’s great assets is that with a little bit of software it can be made into a fairly decent replica of a recording studio. Of course it’s hard to beat industry standards like Cubase and Wavelab - they’re not industry standards for nothing – but even so there’s a lot of fun to be had with the thousands of lesser examples of freeware and software floating round on the internet.Shareware Music Machine is a great place to start. It’s a resource of shareware that can get you started and perhaps even browse something you weren’t aware you wanted. Groove-making machines, programmes that convert images to music, are available alongside more traditional samplers and FX units. Sounder is a fun programme that allows you to create ambient soundscapes on your desktop and comes with commendations galore, comparing your output to Aphex Twin or Brian Eno. Which is hardly flattering to either as you can get it up and running in a few minutes. The musically challenged might want to opt for Punk-O-Matic, a simple mess-about item where you can create your own punk rock masterpiece from a pre-list of variables. And if that’s not esoteric enough why not visit the Electro Acoustic Music Generator and create compositions with your own AIFF files or a selection of presets. It’s amazing what you can achieve with a little fiddling about. Now convinced of your own worth as a musician you can then visit propellerheads.se. Reason is a commercially available piece of complete studio software - very popular too - but you can download the complete version for free. OK, so you don’t have the ability to save your finished product, but it’s not bad for free though.
Richard Hector-Jones
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 useful linkswww.sounder.com addictinggames: punk-o-matic dartmouth: electro acoustic www,propellerheads.se
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