Harmony Assistant is a all-in-one software product with digital audio capabilities. Its harmonizing capabilities enable the composer to build quickly and efficiently tunes that include accompaniment, multiple instruments and drum patterns. Its full page edit and engraver modes will ease editing and page setup of your scores.

A wide range of music symbols will enable to edit scores of great quality: notation capabilities are immense. Using the page mode, you will edit the score just as it will be printed on paper. The Engraver mode will make look it nice. Score input can be performed through the mouse, computer keyboard or an external MIDI keyboard.

Harmony Assistant comes with its own embedded software synthesizer (SoftSynth), which provides high quality output on basic sound cards, even without any external MIDI device, and includes hundreds of different instruments. Harmony Assistant can load and save in many formats (MIDI, WAV, AIFF, MP3, OGG, TAB, ABC...).

With MyrScript, the embedded programming language, you can add your own features to the program

More features:

• Complete score editor, with unlimited number of staves
• Page mode editing
• Automatic harmonizer
• Accompaniments & drum patterns in a few clicks
• Tablature calculation for miscellaneous string instrument
• Tablature calculation for Harmonica, diatonic accordion, wind instruments...
• Completely scriptable application. Many open-source scripts are available.
• Embedded softsynth : does not need any hardware other than a sound card.
• Midi, Kar, MOD, S3M... import
• Digital tracks (possible to import WAV, AIFF, MP3, OGG...)
• Wav-to-note pitch tracker, noise reduction, formant-compliant pitch change, ...
• Gregorian notation
• Chord diagram library for various instruments
• Enables to build custom instruments from digital recordings
• Lute tablatures
• Street organ card printing
• Karaoke and multi-voices lyrics are actually sung.
• Enable visitors of your Web site to view, transpose, play or print your scores

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Reading or writing music is one of the trickiest parts of being a professional musician but software like Melody Assistant can make your life considerably easier.

This program features a wide range of musical symbols that will enable you to create and tablatures including even complex scores such as Gregorian notation. You can input music through the mouse, computer keyboard or even an external MIDI keyboard. The program comes bundled with its own embedded software synthesizer (SoftSynth), which provides high quality output on basic sound cards, even without any external MIDI device, and includes hundreds of different instruments. In addition, you'll find a complete score editor, tablature calculation for miscellaneous string instruments, a chord diagram library for various instruments plus the possibility to allow visitors to view, transpose, play or print your scores. If you're completely new to composing music too, there's a host of very handy video tutorials on the developer website to help you get the most out of it.

Easy to use and with input possibilities from MIDI devices, Melody Assistant will help you write tablature and musical scores in no time.

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Text2Speech is a simple application that can read any text pasted or written into the special editor provided. There is just one voice available, 'Microsoft Sam', of which you can choose speed rate and volume.

It would have been such a useful program for many different purposes, if only it really worked properly. In fact, many people would be able to have their documents as MP3 files and listen to them while travelling, without having to carry printed papers which can be difficult to handle on the move. Even people with reading difficulties might have benefited from having a text to speech synthesizer.

Unfortunately, the voice in this application is neither natural nor clear. Its quality is the same of the artificial voice you could get on a PC in the late 80s. One would expect the general standard of synthesizers to have improved in nearly twenty years, but instead of that it's basically like having Robocop reading you a fairy tale. Not the most appealing setting I can think of.

If you can handle a rather metallic, ‘Microsoft Sam’ voice, try Text2Speech to have your written documents in vocal form and save them as either MP3 or Wave files, for a listening on the go.

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LingvoSoft Talking Dictionary 2008 German-Spanish for Windows is part of a unique suite of language learning applications for your PC. It provides bidirectional word translation and advanced synthesis of German and Spanish speech.

The dictionary is easy to install and use on your desktop computer. It translates in both directions between German and Spanish and pronounces the translation aloud! The ability to pronounce German and Spanish words is the distinguishing feature of this software translator. And it does so using the most advanced BST Text-to-Speech synthesis available anywhere! Now you never need to check transcriptions: simply select a word and with one click have the dictionary pronounce it for you.

As part of a complete suite of language solutions, this dictionary is also capable of full integration with the LingvoSoft FlashCards and LingvoSoft Talking PhraseBook applications for added effectiveness.

LingvoSoft Talking Dictionary 2008 German-Spanish for Windows features:

General features:

• English, French, German, Spanish and Russian interfaces
• Overview of all the dictionary entries in the Main Window
• All translations of the selected word displayed in the Translation Window
• Quick search function: enter a few letters and words starting with these letters (and translations) are displayed
• Search function for any sequence of characters entered in the input line
• Quick back translation for proof of correct understanding
• Customizable interface, toolbar and typefaces
• Full text-editing functions: paste, copy and cut, as well as import/export texts to/from other applications
• Full integration with LingvoSoft FlashCards and PhraseBook applications

Special features:

• Pronunciation of all listed German and Spanish words based on the latest BST Text-to-Speech technology
• User vocabulary: a personal dictionary can be created by adding and editing dictionary entries
• Instant translation
• Quick paste function: merely select a word for import from another application and it automatically displays the most relevant dictionary entry.
• Part of speech filter lets the dictionary process only translations belonging to the designated part of speech you select (i.e. verbs, adjectives, etc.)

Download LingvoSoft Talking Dictionary 2008 German-Spanish 4.1.29 in Softonic

I play the guitar a little bit and so I was glad to discover this program. The problem with my manual electronic tuner is that it's always running out of battery power so half the time I'm playing completely out of tune. However, Free Guitar Tuner totally eliminates this problem by running directly through my PC.

The principle is very simple. You've got six strings and to pluck each one you just click the mouse on them. There are three main settings - acoustic, electric and synthesized guitar. Just keep clicking the string until the tone on the program sounds exactly like the tone on your guitar. The disadvantage however is that, if you're tone deaf like me, it's hard to ascertain when you've got it right. If only the program could "hear" the guitar through the microphone, and show you how close it was to being in tune like a normal tuner, it would score much more highly.

Nevertheless, for a simple and elegant looking tuner, you need look no further.

Download Free Guitar Tuner 1.50 in Softonic

Serious music production requires serious tools. Reason provides all you need to set up your own virtual music on your computer: a synthesizer, arpeggiator, sequencer and groove mixer.

Reason's synthesizer comes with six oscillator types, four different filters, a step sequencer and a modular matrix. The monophonic arpeggiator can play in multiple modes and includes a pattern section. I was also very much impressed with Reason's sequencer, which features multiple lanes, vector automation and dedicated device types. The 32 channel mixer completes a set of powerful tools.

Reason is not for beginners, and this is obvious the moment you open up the application. However if you have some knowledge of music production, you'll welcome the wealth of tools available and the flexibility they give you when working with music and sounds.

Reason can easily be integrated with other software and hardware you already use, making it a versatile choice.

If you're seriously into music production, Reason is the tool you need.

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Awave Studio is a multi-purpose audio tool that reads a veritable host of audio carrying file formats from different platforms, synthesizers, trackers, mobile phones... you name it! It can be used in a variety of ways: as an audio file format converter, an audio editor, an audio and MIDI player, and, last but not least, as a wavetable synthesizer instrument editor and converter.

Download Awave Studio 10.1 in Softonic

Rubberduck is real-time synthesizer designed to help you produce electronic dance music. Loosely based around the TB-303 synth, the application consists of a wave oscillator with a filter for applying sweeping and resonance. Everything is packaged in an intuitive manner, meaning that it's pretty easy to start creating banging house, trance and techno music (as long as you have an ear for dance music, of course).

It incorporates many interesting characteristics such as: 24 dB filter, a totally configurable interface, support for skins, dynamic real-time resonance filters, four classic waveforms, dual generator, delay, distortion and many other effects. If you've never produced dance tracks before then you may find Rubberduck a little daunting but for production dab-hands, the program is pretty good.

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ArtWonk is a MIDI and graphics program that produces MIDI music and animation based on algorithmic processes in real time. You compose by connecting "modules" graphical objects that represent functions and processes, adjusting the parameters as you go. It is like a soft synth, but instead of producing the sound, it produces the notes that control the other synths and sound cards.

ArtWonk will drive MIDI synthesizers, soft synths and sound cards directly, effectively "playing" them in real time or optionally responding to user or environmental parameters; it will also record directly to a standard MIDI file. Real time paint graphics can be created and manipulated on the fly; and both music and paint can be created together as a synesthetic whole.

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MusicWonk produces MIDI music based on algorithmic processes in real time. You compose by connecting "modules" - graphical objects that represent functions and processes - adjusting the parameters and instantly hearing the results as you go.

Interconnecting the modules is a drag and drop operation. Making edits is easy although you can't connect signals that are incompatible. MusicWonk will drive MIDI synthesizers, soft synths and sound cards directly, effectively "playing" them in real time or optionally responding to user or environmental parameters; it will also record directly to a standard MIDI file that can play your synth or card directly or can be imported into your notation based sequencer.

If you use a modular soft synth you will instantly feel at home with MusicWonk because its modular design and interactive, real time feedback working loop is similar. But MusicWonk is not a soft synth that creates the audio; it is a MIDI generating program that drives your soft synth, sound card or MIDI sound module as if you were playing it from a keyboard.

In summary, MusciWonk means creating the flow of music and selecting the sounds on your synth becomes a fluid interactive process because you always hear each change as you make it.

Download MusicWonk 2.0.1336 in Softonic

MidiPiano is a very simple and useful application, with which you can open MIDI files and play them in a virtual piano keyboard. It also allows you to record MIDI files by the virtual keyboard or using a MIDI IN device.

Here's that MidiPiano has to offer:

• Supports MIDI IN/MIDI OUT devices
• Simple to Play and Record MIDI file
• Different color for tracks simulate hands
• Supports 128 GM Patches selection
• Supports customize keyboard layout
• Supports plugins with user message

Download MidiPiano 1.8.3 in Softonic

Create the most powerful rhythm for your musical dance, techno, house compositions and get the most plausible 303 sound in your PC. Virtual BassLine is a complete bass synthesizer very easy to install and use. Use it as a totally independent program of any other musical software or if you prefer, integrate it in your VST host program with its new module VBLVSTPlugin.dll.

With Virtual BassLine 3.0 you will get the most realistic sound without needing plugins or additional programs because it has integrated reverberation, echo and distortion effects. Also you can control your Virtual BassLine using MIDI with the rest of your synthesizers. Virtual BassLine gives you great quality samples and loops to use in other programs or samplers in real time and without any adverse effects on its performance.

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Reaktor 5 fuses all audio applications into a single, extremely versatile and powerful tool. Musicians, producers and sound designers are all catered to by the very broad range of instruments and sounds already included. Due to the open engine architecture, the potential for building your own highly individual instruments is endless.

Reaktor 5 is equipped with a vast library of more than 20 impressive and innovative instruments. Powerful samplers allow far reaching granular resynthesis and the innovative effects pave the way for profound sound manipulation. The stunning array of synthesizers delivers everything from rumbling basses to searing leads and beyond. The wide range of sequenced instruments and drum machines lets you create dynamic rhythms, melodies, chord sequences and more. From authentic emulations of classic gear to bizarre, otherworldly creations; from the conventional to the controversial – Reaktor delivers.

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Virtual Audio Cable is a Windows multimedia driver allowing you to transfer audio (wave) streams from one application to another. It creates a pair of Wave In/Out devices for each cable. Any application can send audio stream to Out device, and any other application can receive this stream from In device. All transfers are made digitally, providing NO sound quality loss. VAC is a "wave-version" of the "MIDI loopback cable" like MultiMid or Hubi's Loopback drivers. If more than one applications are sending audio to VAC, it will mix all streams together. If more than one applications are receiving audio from VAC, it will share the same audio data between all targets.

VAC is useful to record application's audio output in real time (for example - Generator, Reality or other software synth), or transfer a sound stream to another application processing it. You can, for example, use two or more software audio generators/synthesizers/sequencors to produce audio streams sending them to VAC Out, and record the mixed stream from VAC In using any recording software - Windows Sound Recorder, Sound Forge, WaveLab, Cool Edit, Gold Wave, Cakewalk, Cubase etc.

If you use an audio encoder application that encodes a stream coming from a sound card, you can use VAC to supply such encoder with a stream produced by other application. You can use VAC to "thief" an output sound stream from the application that doesn't allow to write it into WAV file directly. Unlike Total Recorder allowing you to simply save audio stream, VAC allows to route it in real time. If you are using some Voice Over IP (VoIP) and/or Internet Telephony applications like Skype, you can use VAC to record your calls and conversations.

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Storm Music Studio is music creation software, which accurately emulates the universe of a real recording studio: synthesizers, drum machines, sample players, effects, mixing table, sequencer. With the same sound quality, but for less money!

Create your studio

With Storm, you can choose the virtual instruments you wish to use: analog synthesizers, drum machines, sample sequencers, scratch decks. Drag & drop and in a few seconds your studio is ready: no more complicated connections and wires everywhere...

Compose in real time

Real time synthesis and effects, a user-friendly interface and a fully automated studio provide you with an unprecedented comfort and facility of composition.

Share your experience with other users

As an integral part of the studio, the hall is a set of interactive tools, giving the user the ability to collaborate on-line with others. The Hall offers file sharing and downloading, chat rooms, newswires, tips and tutorials.

Learn new styles of music

The composition wizard is made to help users to quickly understand the general use of the program and the different sides of creating a song. And, if you think you already have enough experience in making computer music, it can help you to learn how to compose in music styles you are not familiar with.

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The Psychedelic Screen Saver is a light synthesizer that generates an astounding variety of mesmerizing patterns. As the patterns materialize on your screen, the colors will shift, undulate, and blow your mind. Whether you're into abstract art, mathematics, or just have a history of mental illness, you'll love this screensaver.

Included with the screensaver are over 400 displays demonstrating some of the capabilities of the software. If, however, you wish to create your own displays, you can do so using the hundreds of controls that govern the animation creation process. The variety of displays that can be created is absolutely staggering.

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The MIDInight Express is a free, programmable, software wavetable MIDI player and MIDI to WAV renderer.

No wavetable card is required. Any entry-level 16 bit sound card, or even the simple sound circuits found in most laptops, will do just fine.

Since the MIDInight Express supports the same patch format as the Mellosoftron virtual sampler, you can use it with your own instrument sounds. Add the Ace of WAV sound editor and synthesizer and it's like having a complete recording studio inside your PC!

Download MIDInight Express 2.7 in Softonic