Tools for Creating Music
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Hardware
Software
Non-Free
Pro-grade (thus quite costly) applications:
- Cubase Mac / Windows
- Logic Studio Mac
- Sonar Windows
- ProTools Mac / Windows
Less expensive alternatives:
Free
- Ardour Linux
- Audacity - Cross platform digital audio editor
- LMMS - Linux MultiMedia Software Cross Platform (Windows+Linux) DAW
Samples
Non-Free
- Garritan Personal Orchestra $200 Full orchestral samples.
- East West Samples (Platinum, Gold, Silver) Check other websites for much lower prices than retail. One of the most expensive, but most powerful samples commercially available.
Free
- G-Town Percussion Excellent orchestral percussion sounds.
- Celtic Harp Beautiful 250MB celtic harp soundfont (d/l links are in the thread; there's also a giga version available)
- Soeren Bovbjerg's Pianos A few pianos in sf2/gig format. Sound good considering their size.
- Very good clarinet by Mats Helgesson (the site requires registration):
- Maestro Concert Grand 985MB concert grand piano by Mats Helgesson.
- Alex Glockenspiel A nice little glockenspiel.
- EmulatorXone Trumpet 60 meg solo trumpet in emulatorX format.
- Douglas Concert Timpani Very good timpani freebie from Naturalstudio.
- Project SAM A number of pro-quality freebies, among other things some really cool percussion samples. Registration required.
This page was last edited on 12 January 2010, at 21:13.