Contents tagged with [Music Composition]
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[Music Composition] SynthEdit and CSound
Lately, I have been doing a lot of research and experimentation with VST plugins, particularly synthesizers. In the near future, I will report many of the cool things I have found. It is extremely cool to be able to create your very own synthesizers.
In the Steinberg World of VST, the most fun tool I have seen yet is SynthEdit. To get a handle on synthesis at a more detailed level, though, it looks like the universal training ground is CSound. While built with a much older technology, CSound is great if you want to really understand how to go about creating sounds.
I highly recommend playing with both.
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[Music Composition] The Free OpenSource Psycle Music Creation Studio
Here some facts about Psycle:
- 32 Tracks Pattern Editor (this limitation will be removed in the future)
- Stereo Sampler unit, that supports high quality
stereo .wav files and .iff samples as well (more formats will eventually come)
- 8 internal Plugins (Sampler & Effects)
- more than 35 Native Plugins (Generators & Effects)
- VST + VSTi Host (still limited but most plugins will work fine)
- Internal .wav output
- .fxb loading for VST's
- Midi-In Support
- Configurable Keyboard Layout
- themes and skins support
- much more...
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[Music Composition] The Free Buzz SoftSynth
According to Buzzmachine.com, "Buzz is the first ever 'easy to use' free modular software based synthesizer." I have just started playing around with it and I must say that I am seriously impressed. One caveat for Windows XP users, you may need to set Compatibility for "Windows NT 4.0 (Service Pack 5)" for Buzz.exe (or in your Buzz shortcut properties) in order for Buzz to work at all. That may, in turn, cause some other problems. Unfortunately, while free, Buzz is not OpenSource.