| Music Software for High Schools Playing
Copy Protected CD's on the Mac Extensive list from Google and from Version Tracker updated August 2003 |
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| Soundtrack | " ...the guy that originally wrote
Acid. He's a "switcher" now and working for Apple! Nice guy and
did a great demo. So, No more Acid envy, just use Soundtrack." http://www.macintouch.com/makemusic.html#aug04 $299AU (education price) |
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| Reason | "Synthesizers, samplers, drum machine, ReCycle-based loop player, mixer, effects, pattern sequencer and more. As many of each as your computer can handle. Reason is an infinitely expandable music workstation on a CD-ROM, complete with its own realtime sequencer." | |
| Digital Performer (Motu) | used by professionals; has high-quality audio plug-ins, a samples database, a very functional mixing table with plug-ins that can be applied to MIDI tracks | |
| Cubase
(Steinberg) Sequencing |
interface is attractive but difficult to use, some audio functions not practical, lack of compatibility with other solutions | |
| Logic
(Emagic) Sequencing |
very good interface and real-time MIDI tools; able to makeMIDI keyboard into a recording station; partly developed from the Notator program on the Atari; excellent compatibility with hardware (audio cards, MIDI interfaces, etc.), very stable; complex and hard to learn | |
| Finale
(Coda Music) Notation |
$600A Education price | |
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editing and recording |
$50US 14-day
Trial Period Sound Studio is a digital audio editing and recording app built for Mac OS X. (It runs under Mac OS 9 as well.) It allows you to take full advantage of your Mac's built-in sound recording and playback capabilities, to digitize your collection of vinyl and tapes, to do live recording of audio, to edit new and pre-existing digital audio, and to save your audio in several file formats. And you can try it for free during the 14-day trial period. download from Australian mirror site |
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automatic accompaniment |
$88 US Band-in-a-Box is an automatic accompaniment program for Macintosh. You type in the chord symbols to any song, using standard chord symbols like C, Fm7, Cm7b5 etc. choose a style and press PLAY. Band-in-a-Box then generates a five instrument accompaniment of bass, drums, piano, guitar and strings in over 100 styles of music. This major new upgrade to Band-in-a-Box includes over eighty new features including Automatic Songs, an on-screen guitar fretboard, an animated drum kit display, pedal bass options, an "undo" option, and much more! |
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| Amadeus II | shareware $25US; "Amadeus II lets you use your Mac OS computer for many sound-related applications, such as live audio recording, digitizing tapes and records, sampling from any external source and for editing and analyzing Mp3, Ogg Vorbis, AIFF, SoundDesigner II, QuickTime or WAVE files. Thanks to its powerful direct-to-disk abilities, you can easily and rapidly edit large sounds of sizes up to 2GB (3 hours of CD quality music!). ...suitable for transferring old vinyl records on CD. " source download from Australian mirror site |
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| Sound
Edit 16 |
SoundEdit 16 Education - Mac $450A | |
| Pro Tools free | Fully functional, track and I/O limited version of Pro
Tools¨ 5.0.1 LE
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| Micrologic AV | "MicroLogic AV is the inexpensive, multifunctional entry level program of the Logic series. With up to 16 audio tracks, easy real-time effects, the integrated stereo sample editor and virtual General MIDI mixing consoles, MicroLogic AV gets the user familiar with desktop studio technology without stress and hassle. A simple soundcard is sufficient to produce superb sounding songs. For creating soundtracks, any Quicktime or AVI movie can be played in perfect synchronization. Innovative details such as the interactive real-time windows and the unsurpassed system resolution give each user the positive feel and confidence that MicroLogic AV is a strong member of the Logic family." System Requirements Mac ¥ 604/200 MHz or higher ¥ Mac OS 8.6 or higher, Mac OS 9.0.4 or higher for USB ¥ 64 MB RAM or more |
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| Sibelius | Notate, edit, play back, and publish music to professional standards. | |
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