ChordWizard Gold 2.01e is a Music Composer product from chordwizard.com, get 5 Stars SoftSea Rating, The essential workshop for guitar and other fretted string instruments. If youre serious about your music, youll be amazed how ChordWizard Gold 2.0 turbo charges your knowledge and creativity, putting you in total control of your fretboard. Designed to adjust easily between Beginner, Intermediate and Advanced playing levels, ChordWizard Gold Edition is a truly unlimited musical reference which handles all chord types and scale types.
It supports over 115 different instruments and tunings, including Guitar, Bass Guitar, Banjo, Mandolin and Ukulele. Both left and right handed players are fully catered for.
More than a uniquely strong learning tool, ChordWizard is also an integrated workshop that you can apply directly to your own activities like rhythm playing, improvisation and songwriting, for every musical style.
ChordWizard Gold has an open-ended structure that grows with you, giving access to high levels of skills and understanding, and delivering years of exceptional value.
You can find out how to play any chord on your instrument with the click of a mouse. Hear and compare the sounds of chordshapes from the supplied libraries, containing up to 8000 chordshapes at Advanced level.
Designing new chordshapes using overlay labels is as easy as painting by numbers. Or you can tell ChordWizard Gold exactly what type of chordshape you are lookng for and have it search the entire fretboard, giving you access to millions of chordshape possibilities.
Gain strong insights into how chords and scales are related to each other, and how they appear on the fretboard. Relations View is a strong aid for both songwriting and improvisation.
Take the pain out of learning and practising scale positions. ChordWizard Gold shows every possible position for any scale, and gives you an animated demonstration.
ChordWizard Gold can produce full-color printed output to capture the results you have found in the workspace.
Automatic Styles
With styles, Songtrix can turn a simple chord sequence into professional arrangements for backing tracks, improvisation practice or rapid composition.
A diverse set of musical styles is supplied, and these can be mixed across tracks for literally millions of style combinations!
You can use substyles with Intro, Fill-In and Ending patterns to create rich and seamless performances of the finished work.
The process is flexible and transparent, so you can choose which parts of the song will use styles, and see the musical events that Songtrix generates.
You can progressively override and customize style events to get exactly the sound you are looking for.
Compose Yourself
Songtrix is also a blank canvas for developing your own musical themes. Use the rich palette of musical events to produce your original compositions or arrangements from scratch.
Audition and select chords from the menu, then design your own rhythms to play them with.
Tracks can split into repeating segments to automatically propagate your drum and rhythm patterns throughout the song.
Take full control of the creative process by adding and editing musical events within Songtrix, or with an attached Midi keyboard (or other instrument).
You can easily apply playing techniques - such as sustain, slide, pitch bend and vibrato - to achieve a stunningly realistic performance.
Staff Notation
Songtrix generates and displays staff notation automatically, continuously and accurately as you work. You can instantly switch between the different views of your song, even during playback.
This improves your sight-reading skills, and ensures that you can impactfully communicate your work to others, regardless of your scoring capability.
Songtrix provides many options for compilation and placement of staff symbols, so your song contains the visual layout of the music as well as the precise performance.
Staff notation can be printed for complete musical scores or for individual parts separately. Other printed formats are also available, such as lyric sheets or lead sheets with lyrics and chords.
Music Theory
A outstanding strength of Songtrix is the awareness of music theory built right into the workspace. You can mark out key centres, and call on a variety of harmony tools to interpret, inform and guide the creative process.
Songtrix can link tracks and automatically reharmonize them to accommodate the selection of a different chord or scale.
Not powerful on music theory? No problem! Whatever your background, the How Music Works multimedia tutorials included with Songtrix are an invaluable reference.
Starting with the basics of sound, the tutorials progress to the advanced topics of songwriting and improvisation, providing sample sounds throughout to clearly demonstrate each point. Each topic can be printed, or the whole set of tutorials can be printed as a book.
Publish Securely
Take your completed musical works to the world by publishing them on the integrated ChordWizard Network website!
The ChordWizard Song (CWS) file is much more secure than Midi or other file formats. It features encryption, protection and an embedded link to your publisher profile, so others can contact you without your email address being exposed.
Publishing on the ChordWizard Network is a outstanding way to make yourself known to this global community of musicians, and to meet other members for discussions and collaborations.
You can also download and enjoy the songs and styles that others have produced.
And Much More...
Midi files can be imported into Songtrix, using a process that analyzes and identifies chords (which Midi does not provide). Songs can be exported to Midi files, to WAV files (for burning to CD) or to MP3 files.
Recording from a Midi keyboard in Songtrix is outstanding fun and easy, even if you don't play the piano. Songtrix changes the chords for you, so can record outstanding sounding rhythms without lifting your fingers from the keys!
Songtrix can efficently apply a wide range of adjustments to your song, to shift, stretch, quantize, humanize or transpose events.
Songtrix Gold adjusts to suit your playing level, and extends so you never outgrow it. Advanced level is very comprehensive, with 57 chord types and 36 scale types, which you can add to without limitation.
The whole package is superbly documented with a Help file that sits side-by-side with the workspace for easy reference, as you explore the world of musical creativity that is now open to you. The license of this audio & mp3 software is Free Trial Software, the price is $68, you can free download and get a free trial before you buy. If you want to get a full or nolimited version of ChordWizard Gold, you can buy this audio & mp3 software.