Music Composer Software Reviews and Downloads

MagicScore Maestro

MagicScore is a magnificent, powerful and convenient musical editor, for those who professionally are engaged in music, seriously studies it or simply loves music and self-expression. Advantages of MagicScore: The convenient interface for a set of partitas, some variants of data input by means of the virtual keyboard, external MIDI devices and big set of musical symbols. Automatic and manual formatting of partitas. Reproduction and a seal of the partita. Preservation in format MIDI. Reading from format MIDI. Support of editing operations, copying and removal of a set of the allocated elements of the partita. A wide choice of elements of registration. An opportunity of adjustment of force of impact of each note at sound reproduction. The expanded opportunities of navigation.

MagicScore School

MagicScore School 5 is specialized notation software for music aficionados, students, teachers, schools and colleges. The program offers people interested in music a variety of notation options input, editing, printing, correctness check and much more. MagicScore School 5, as the name implies, has been specially created for folks who are learning music, but professional musicians can use it as well. Notes can be entered manually, copied from another source, added through the virtual piano, MIDI keyboard or synthesizer. If there is something incorrect with the notes, MagicScore School 5 will alert the user right away. If necessary, that person can easily add or delete notes manually as well as perform other editing operations, like transposing separated notes or selected blocks of notes. MagicScore School 5 is also capable of reading notes from MIDI and Karaoke files, as well as recording MIDI and Karaoke files. The player module is capable of playing notes for the selected instruments or the entire orchestra. Volume, balance and effects can be adjusted individually for each score instrument. Another handy feature MagicScore School 5 comes with is the notes printing option (including MIDI files) with preview. The program is also capable of printing blank staff notation sheets. The program also supports Music XML format. The program supports multiple languages.

Melody Assistant

Melody Assistant is dedicated to music writing, printing and rendering. Easy to use, Melody Assistant offers a user-friendly interface and powerful capabilities.The exhaustive list of Melody Assistant capabilities is too large to be described here in a few lines. Do not be mistaken by the unbelievably low price of this program: it is an extremely complete tool, the result of more than ten years of development. A wide range of music symbols will enable to edit scores of excellent quality, including tablatures and Gregorian notation. Score input can be performed through the mouse, computer keyboard or an external MIDI keyboard. Melody 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. Melody Assistant can load and save in many formats (MIDI, WAV, AIFF, MP3, OGG, TAB, ABC...).

Mozart

Mozart the music processor is music notation software for computers running Microsoft Windows. mozart allows you to type in music notation - as easily as entering text in a word processor - view it on the screen, hear it, edit it, and then print high quality music scores and individual parts for musicians. Mozart's in-built knowledge of music syntax lets you create scores and parts quickly and efficiently. These pages contain lots of information about mozart: lists of features; illustrated examples; what you need to run it; how to download the evaluation copy; how to buy the full Virtuoso Edition.

HS Virtual Piano

A MIDI piano which is very different from other similar softwares. You can play this piano using your keyboard. It has 36 keys, 12 drum set sound effects, 3 built-in intro musics with 128 different channel sounds. Easy to use, has lots of keyboard shortcuts to access almost every option

Musical Palette - Melody Composing Tool

Musical Palette program is a utility for the creation of melodies. The program is based on composition theory and the theory of harmony. The strong theoretical base makes the melody composing process easier. The basic features are:

FL Studio

This program lets you create your own songs and audio loops. It comes with hundreds of sound effects, tweaking instruments and automated tools. It offers a piano roll, MIDI support, multi-out VST and VSTi support, multi-out DX and DXi support and multi-out Rewire support.

SVArTracker

Create music and manage your virtual studio. Advanced music creation tool. Next generation of trackers.

Acoustic Labs Multitrack Plus

Audio loop creation, sequencing and mixing are also fully supported. The multitrack recording capabilities are perfect for producing music and a variety of other audio production needs. In addition to full support of audio loops the Acoustic Labs Multitrack Plus also includes realtime effects, highly precise editing capabilities, drag and drop technology for sequencing audio snippets and many other excellent features.

MAGIX Music Maker

Create Music! With MAGIX Music Maker 11 deluxe you can create soundtracks for CDs, presentations, and websites, or simply for the joy of making music.

Ultrawave Guitar Tuner

Accurate and easy to use software guitar tuner, that works in a similar way to a digital pocket tuner that you would find in a music shop. This tuner supports Asio v2 and has an audio monitor built in to make tuning easier. The tuner can be set to different keys, and it displays what notes each string should be tuned to for the selected key.

Sound Normalizer

The Wav normalizer, Mp3 Normalizer - Sound Normalizer is designed for improving and regain the quality of Mp3 and Wav files. This is reached by the test and normalization of the level volume of Mp3 and Wav files. The Mp3 Normalizer and Wav Normalizer allows to fulfill the test and normalization separately for each channel. The Sound Normalizer contains batch processor and it allows to fulfill the batch test and batch normalization Mp3 and Wav files. The Sound Normalizer also allows to fulfill editing ID3 tags (build-in Mp3 ID3 Tag Editor) with support for ID3v1 and ID3v2 tags, converting Wav to Mp3 files and Mp3 to Wav files (build-in Wav/Mp3 Converter) using Lame MP3 Encoder 3.97, listening Mp3 and Wav files using the build-in audio player. The program is simple to use with fast and excellent results of a qualitative sound. Here are some key features of "Sound Normalizer": -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Advanced Wav Normalizer and Mp3 Normalizer; Batch processor for Mp3 and Wav (PCM 8, 16, 24, 32 bit) files; Converting Mp3 to Wav files using Lame MP3 Encoder 3.97; Converting Wav to Mp3 files using Lame MP3 Encoder 3.97; Support various encoder quality/speed modes; Extensive encoder options; Resampling for Mp3 files; Support pre-listen audio file; Support ID3 v1 and v2 tag (Artist/Title/Genre and so on); Simple, easy-to-use and highly customizable Windows XP interface; Support Themes;

Music Trio

Groovy software three-pack for music aficionados. Music Trio, as the name indicates, is "essentialware" for a real music fan. It consists of three independent modules. One of Music Trio users called it "the Holy Trinity of digital music software" and that is probably the best short description for the product one could possible come up with. The first Music Trio component is AudioConverter Studio and it's basically an audio CD grabber and music file converter combined. AudioConverter Studio offers a one-click grabbing option, and can rip and convert an audio CD to MP3, WMA, FLAC and OGG files in well under 10 minutes even on the older and slower PCs. The conversion goes both ways for mp3, wma, ogg and wav files. CDPLAYER.INI and M3U and PLS playlists are supported. To edit MP3 tags, one can use the second component called mp3Tag. This MP3 tag editor is capable not only of editing tags for MP3, wma and other music files, but actually can automatically fill the missing tags by accessing FreeDB and Amazon.com. Internet access and one mouse click, and the program returns track1, track2, track3 files with their appropriate names. Other handy functions include batch renaming/editing, lyrics/pictures support, "unused" MP3 file deletion option and other perks. Media Catalog Studio is the name of the third component. It's a multimedia organizer that systematizes and categorizes all audio and video files stored on your hard-drive, CDs, DVDs, tapes and any other types of storage media. This media organizer is especially helpful for folks who have hundreds or thousands of media files stored on multiple CDs, DVDs and other storage devices, and need a fast way to locate a file of interest.

LvBs X

This software works as a composer, not as a utility for composing. That is a fundamental difference!

VioLet Composer

A cross-platform modular multispace desktop music composer. Features realtime wavelet processing, flexible arrangement, extensible sample types, runtime plugin development, ASIO support, out-of-order PCM processing, autosaving and much, much more.

D'Accord iChords

D'Accord iChords 1.0 is a harmony (chords) transcription software. It recognizes chords on audio files (MP3, WMA, WAV and Audio CDs) or and presents them on a virtual guitar. With iChords you will be able to see the chords of any song, without having to search for tablatures and sheet music. Experienced musicians can save time when transcribing "by ear" using iChords to make fast harmonic transcriptions. iChords is very easy to use, after opening a song file the software automatically processes and extracts the chords! iChords is based on D'Accord's unique audio processing technology. It provides the best results in terms of chord recognition. The software itself runs as a Windows Media Player plugin, offering a convenient interface for musicians and enthusiasts. Beyond the chord transcription, iChords offers other essential features for its users: * Ability to recognize chords from audio CDs, MP3, WMA* and WAV files. * Shows the chord that is been played at the moment and the next ones * For each chord it presents the fingering, notation or intervals * Users can control the tempo according to their skills, playing the song slower or faster * Four different guitar view modes, including for left-handed and one that is equal to someone playing in front of the users.

HVC Color Composer Professional

Master Colors HVC Color Composer Professional plug-in for Adobe Photoshop generates, at light speed, mathematically harmonic and proportional stunning color combinations that work perfectly together. It is an intuitive color selection tool that will save time and money. HVC stands for Hue, Value, and Chroma. Based on a method for identifying colors based on their color (hue), intensity (value), and its saturation (chroma), the HVC Color Composer plug-in makes selecting colors much more intuitive. Whether you're creating original art or designing for print or the Web, HVC Color Composer will give you an amazing array of complementary color choices. Once added to Photoshop, HVC Color Composer lets you select colors based on the contrast of a color relative to another color, you set color contrast values in the modified Color Picker and then HVC Color Composer builds a palette of colors. Its creation of palettes of complementary, adjacent, and contrasting colors is very logical, and the resulting palettes are stunning. The artist specifies the contrast parameters using your Target Color as a reference point. The HVC Color Composer generates three types of palettes: *Auto-Range palettes generates a color palette with four levels of contrast *Range lets you produce a palette of colors of any specified numerical distance from one or more Target Colors.*Proportion is based on two Target Colors, where you select a ratio, such as 1:2, 1:4, etc., to create a palette of colors with the same contrast ratio from the Target Colors. HVC Color Composer quickly generates combinations of colors that work perfectly together. Additionally, Master Colors HVC pigment-friendly color space delivers colors that are in a gamut that all printers can hit.

Awave Studio

Awave Studio is a multi-purpose audio tool that reads amore than 250 different audio file formats from different platforms, synthesizers, trackers - even mobile phones! It can be used as an audio converter, editor, a song converter, audio player, and also as a wavetable synthesizer instrument editor and converter. It can read the instrument formats of most commercial synthesizers and soundcards and supports SDS and SMDI so you can send samples over Midi or SCSI.

DoReMe Music

Easy-to-use but powerful music composer * Turn your computer into a musical instrument * Play notes using mouse or keyboard * 189 instruments and sound effects to choose from * Add automatic backing (drums, cymbals etc) * Full context-sensitive help * Designed with non-musicians in mind, but also includes full editing capabilities and multi-track recording * Suitable for all, including children and people with disabilities.

TwelveKeys Music Transcription Assistant

TwelveKeys is an aid to assist musicians in learning and transcribing music recordings. It is able to accurately detect notes in both simple single instrument recordings as well as complex polyphonic compositions.

Music Publisher

This music notation software allows you to control the score-writing process and layout. It supports a range of facilities from clefs to ending barlines, and it handles general text, lyrics, more than 160 miscellaneous symbols, headers and footers, transposition, playback and MIDI file production.

Wusikstation VSTi

Hybrid Vector & Wavesequencer Sampler for VST Hosts * Wusikstation is one of the most popular Sampler/Rompler out there. Since it started, if got more and more features asked by users, a new interface, easier way to load presets and much more. Its been rated by users the number one choice when creating songs. It can cover pretty much any style of music. From NewAge to SoundTracks, from Dance to Techno. Thanks to the big selection of extra SoundSets provided by 3rd party companies, you will never get bored with it. Add this to our new Monthly Wusik Sound Magazine, and you will have an one-for-all solution. Try the Demo version today, before anything else. Check the user reviews. The list of specs. The comparison charts. Check the menu on the left for more information. Join the Wusik revolution today!

Harmony Assistant

Harmony Assistant is an unbeatable software for computer-assisted music composition and editing. 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.

Advanced Shortcuts Composer

- With Advanced Shortcuts Composer you can create shortcuts to run programs with a pre-defined destination, priority and keyboard hotkeys to activate.

Audials Complete Best-of-music

Entertainment Software Best-of Toolbox featuring Radiotracker Platinum, Tunebite Platinum +MPEG4, Tagrunner, Podspider and Ringhero MP3 music for free wish, record all done! RS Audials Complete searches with the help of the with the Radiotracker network on over 14.000 web radios for specific hits that you wish to have and records them as mp3 files. You can also listen to web radio stations or download from the internet, with full bandwidth, thousands of music tracks. Legally remove copy protection from purchased music and video RS Audials Complete legally removes copy protection from DRM protected WMA and M4P music files, M4B, AA and AAC audio books and WMV, M4V video files with the help of the approved Tunebite technology by recording them while they are being played and saving the new audio files as MP3, WMA, OGG or WAV and the video files as WMV, MP4 or for mobile devices as MPEG-4 format with the help of the integrated 3vix encoder. Entertainment Bonus: Podcasts& ringtones for cell phones RS Audials Complete does not deliver only free MP3 music but also entertainment as podcatcher with free of charge audio- and video podcasts from an always up to date, integrated database with thousands of international podcasts. Summary and Overview: Free MP3 music webradio & internet radio recorder with live listening and wishlist, DRM audio and video copy protection converter, ID3-tag editor, lyrics & cover artwork search agent, podcatcher podcast client, cell phone ringtones generator, CD burner, mobile device synchronisation.

FlexiMusic Composer

This software is a music composing software. Produce complete song by composing your samples and voice. Make your own song at home on your PC. Arrange your samples and add effects. Sequence them on unlimited number of tracks.

Anvil Studio

Record, compose, edit and mix music with MIDI, digital audio, loops and samples. Editors include staff, lyrics, piano roll and drums. Audio effects include delay, EQ, filtering, and VST and Direct X plug-ins.

Virtins Sound Card MultiInstrument

Virtins Sound Card MultiInstrument is a powerful PC based virtual instrument software. It consists of a sound card real time oscilloscope, a sound card real time spectrum analyzer and a sound card signal generator, and can run them simultaneously. It supports sophisticated triggering method including pre-trigger and post-trigger which are generally missing from other sound card based instruments. Visit www.virtins.com for further details.

Dirk's Metronome

Free metronome plays tick tack sounds accurately indicating the measure and its accents in the desired tempo. The tempo is configurable from 40 to 160 beats per minute. The following measure types are supported: 2/4, 3/4, 4/4, 5/4 en 6/8.

Fine Metronome

Are you a music performer or educator? Fine Metronome is designed just for you.

Audacity

Audacity is a free audio editor. You can record sounds, play sounds, import and export WAV, AIFF, and MP3 files, and more. Use it to edit your sounds using Cut, Copy and Paste (with unlimited Undo), mix tracks together, or apply effects to your recordings. It also has a built-in amplitude envelope editor, a customizable spectrogram mode and a frequency analysis window for audio analysis applications. Built-in effects include Bass Boost, Wahwah, and Noise Removal, and it also supports VST plug-in effects.

energyXT

Create music today, rather than tomorrow... With features such as no loading-time, all-in-one synth, fx and sequencer, drum machine track, high quality time-stretching/pitch-shifting, REX2 and VST plugin support...you just can't go wrong with energyXT2. Run as standalone ASIO or load it into you favorte DAW as a plugin. 1. 100% re-worked workflow 2. elastique time-stretching and pitch-shifting 3. drag & drop REX2 groove support, with slice editing 4. non-destructive audio reverse 5. shuffle/swing on midi, audio and drum tracks 6. clip based automation embedded into midi, audio and drum clips 7. warm and clean sounding phase modulation synthesizer with sample support 8. multi-fx processor 9.drum track with sample support 10. main mixer with unlimited sends, inserts and group channels 11. searchable browser with sample preview ?midi, audio and drum clips can be saved as self-containing library clips 12. enhanced controller maps 13. Works out-of-the box on Linux

Muzik Maker

Lvbsx Pro

The software works as a composer instead of a utility for composing. Users can create the basic part of a song by developing the motive which allows a key shift in the phrase. In other words, the program will bring the inspiration to the user. The software is available in three versions: Basic (free), Standard and Professional, for Windows OS.

Fret Fun

Looking for a simple and fun way to learn how to read music for the guitar? Fret Fun is the interactive flash card game that helps you learn the note names for the guitar. Each game presents a random selection of 20 notes, displayed one at a time, and you will be asked to identify where it lives on the fingerboard by selecting its name, string number and fret number. Three challenge levels, review of missed notes at end of every game.

TurboBass Express

TurboBass Express is a precise tool, developed to specifically design a cabinet to perform in the confines of a car boot tuned to cope with road noise And internal pressure. No other program will perform this specific task. All you need is a technical data sheet from the manufacturer of The mid range, woofer or sub woofer. You only need three of the parameters to Calculate the desired cabinet needed.

Beatcraft drum machine

This drum machine program provides a library of drum sounds, sequencing and loop generation tools, and audio effects.

Keyboard Music

This program allows you to use your computer keyboard to play musical instruments. It's so easy to use that everybody can play the instrument he or she likes. Keyboard Music is the easiest musical instrument in the world designed for you and your kids! You and your kids can play the piano, violin, guitar, saxophone and more than 100 kinds of musical instruments with it!

The Palette - Melody Composing Tool

Compose melodies with The Palette - Melody Composing Tool. The program understands the logic of functional motion and voice-leading rules and allows the composer to create the correct harmonic progressions. The program keeps the music within the limits of harmony and composition theory. The full version of the program can export the created melody to a MIDI file consisting of three tracks: melody, chords and bass.

MadTracker

Compose any style song, with control over every parameter. You can work with single samples, use real instruments or sequence your loops.

MidiNotate Composer

Create or arrange your own music. Produce customized notation. Listen to your composition while you follow the notes on your screen, then edit the notation and the sound of the music. Find music on the Internet and arrange it to suit you.

Guitar Pro

Guitar Pro is a multitrack tablature editor for guitar, banjo and bass. Besides writing scores, Guitar Pro is a complete tool for young and accomplished guitarists alike to progress, compose, or simply accompany themselves.

PianoFX STUDIO

This software is a piano and music keyboard synthesizer for the personal computer. You can play and record live music using your PC keyboard or mouse without the requirement of a conventional piano. The program offers 127 different realistic musical and percussion instruments, four-note polyphonic sounds, a drum-synthesizer machine, multiple sample melodies, and has a recording option to save your musical compositions in file format.

DrumTools Performance Designer

This software is a VSTi allowing for instant creation of one- to eight-measure drum performances, including drum/percussion loops, fills, intros, endings, solo, and then trigger them by MIDI notes from your sequencer to turn separate performances into complete drum tracks matching your song. It offers two components:

Rhyme & Verse

This songwriting program provides a 120,000 word rhyming dictionary. Compose and edit song lyrics, and arrange and edit your lyrics into polished songs with a full featured word processor. It includes spell check and search-and-replace. Also provides Karaoke style recording. Record your songs directly to your hard drive, and then adjust the sound dynamics of your voice using 5 effects and an 8 band EQ. Export your final mix to MP3 to share with anyone with a MP3 compatible player. Dictate your lyrics directly into Rhyme & Verse with enhanced voice recognition technology. SwiftRip CD Ripper allows you to convert digital audio tracks directly from your compact discs to CD quality MP3, OGG Vorbis and WAV files.

Click MusicalKEYS

This software is an onscreen musical keyboard with 127 different instruments. Using this program, you can save, load and share piano music. You can also convert the tunes to MIDI using the MIDI Converter add in from www.bapuli.co.nr.

Making Waves Audio: Music Creation Software

This contains everything you need to make original, professional, quality music. It has a 1,000 track note, loop, percussion and effects sequencer with auto time stretching and pitch correction. There are stereo and level mixers, real-time wave editing with EQ and digital effects. It also has audio sampling plus real-time and step MIDI keyboard recording.

Rhinoceros Polyphonic

This analog synthesizer does not require a MIDI keyboard or sequencer; it responds perfectly to your PC keyboard, but if you have MIDI controllers you can use with the synth. The program is equipped with distortion, echo and reverberation modules and several samples.

Korg EM-1 Editor

This software is a pattern editor and manager for the Korg Electribe EM-1 Groovebox. It comes with a full step sequencer emulation, a motion sequence editor, piano roll editor, pattern matrix and fader automation.

MusiGenesis

This program lets you create studio-quality music on an ordinary PC. It adds randomly-generated patterns of notes to a song. As each pattern is added, you play the role of natural selection by keeping the patterns that sound good and deleting the ones that don't. Each song is divided into tracks with their own synthesized instruments. Each track contains as many patterns as you want to add, and each pattern consists of as many notes as you like.

Rhythm Rascal

This software is a virtual drum machine that can be programmed to play any style of music. It allows you to create unlimited patterns within a song, and each pattern may have its own meter and tempo. Drum samples are included, and you can import your own sound samples from WAV files. The samples may be further configured by adjusting their volume and pan. The final song can be mixed down to a standard WAV file for playback in an audio player, or for import into a multi-track recording software package.

KB Piano

This program turns your computer into a piano. Just press the keyboard's keys, and the sound will play through your speakers. You can configure the program to play chords by pressing a single key. The program supports 15 channels and real-time mixing, so you can create MIDI files.

Musette

Helps you create, edit, play and print scores and songs, even if you are not familiar with music notation. You can load music from MIDI files and paste lyrics. Musette automatically aligns the words with the music. You can change the pitch and tempo, and Musette highlights each word as it plays.

Mobile Music Polyphonic

Write your own music and save it to polyphonic ringtone format. Also convert MP3, WAV and MIDI files to mobile phone ringtone format. Export standard MIDI, SP MIDI and MMF formats. Convert MID to MMF, MMF to MID, standard MIDI to SP MIDI, WAV to MMF, MP3 to MMF and MP3 to WAV.

Mamba

This software is a multi-track MIDI file generator. You enter the chords you want to play and select the play pattern to be applied, either to the whole track or to individual chords. You can then choose instruments and effect levels for each track, press play and listen to the results.

MuseBook MidiMic

This program receives monophonic sound from the microphone and determines the pitch, dynamics and timing, converting each note to MIDI data in real time. While you are singing, you can hear your voice change into an instrument of your choosing, and any monophonic instrument can be used as input. You can save the MIDI data-out and interface with other MIDI instruments.

WaveBox

This software is an integrated software synthesizer workstation. All the common elements of electronic music production studios are provided. This includes an enhanced TB303-like bass synth, polyphonic synthesisers, a digital drum machine with loadable drum kits, a dual FX processor, a digital sampler, sequencer and direct to disk recorder. It offers a tutorial complete with graphics and an example workspace.

GrooveMaker

GrooveMaker is the definitive remix platform for editing and mixing your favorite beats and effects. It allows the user to create and arrange imported files in just about any format, including WAV, AIFF and MP3.

Orion Pro

Orion Pro produces accurate, high-quality simulations of samplers, synthesizers, effects and mixers. It comes with a flexible sequencer, so you don't need any other software to get started.

Samplisizer

Loop-based music tool to produce club music. Includes 3,500 loops that can be mixed in the workspace. Supports WAV and MP3 formats.