# Music/Software/Creating music with your PC

Welcome to the Creating music with your PC learning project.

## Content summary

Participants make music using their personal computer.

## Learning materials

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* Ableton Live - Participants start creating, editing and manipulating music, in a unique software environment.
* Ardour - Ardour Digital Audio Workstation (Open Source).
* Audacity - Participants start using a free, cross-platform sound editor for recording and editing sounds (Open Source).
* Hydrogen Drum track generator (Open Source)
* Impro-Visor is an Open Source improvisation generator for generating monophonic lead sheets and music notation tool, specifically intended to help the improviser to create improvisation in different Jazz styles. MIDI export of improvisation can be used in a Digital Audio Workstation as track.
* JJazzLab (with double "J") is an Open Source to create dynamic backing tracks based on chord progressions arranged in pattern, which can be arranged in complete song.
* Cubase SX 3 - Participants start using Cubase the sequencing software to make music.
* FL Studio 7 - Participants start using FL Studio 7 to sequence and create music.
* Introduction to GarageBand - Participants start using GarageBand to make music.
* Logic Studio - Participants start using Logic Studio to sequence and create music.
* Pro Tools - Participants start using Pro Tools to sequence and create music.
* Reason - Participants start using Reason to sequence and create music.
* Rosegarden - Rosegarden musical composition environment (Open Source).
* Software Libre in Media Production - Multimedia production workflow using Software Libre (Free Software).

## Lessons

* Lesson 1: ...

## Activities

* Peruse the Audacity wiki . It looks extremely promising from standpoint of being able to integrate or use sound files and music from Wikimedia because while the source and executables are downloadable from SourceForge the home web site is driven by wikimedia software or an extremely fine user interface clone! 8) Mirwin 23:27, 3 November 2006 (UTC)
** Clone? - It's just another wiki :-) Cormaggio 11:33, 7 November 2006 (UTC)
** I'm putting some guitar lessons together by learning Audio Engineering for showing how I play (Very) Basic Blues & Rock. I'm Getting started with sound recording using Audacity and an acoustic six-string. CQ 19:22, 12 February 2007 (UTC)

## Readings

Wikipedia - Computer-generated music
The links below have bunch of stuff that needs screening and evaluation:
* http://www.hitsquad.com/smm/freeware/XP/ Extensive list of links of open source or freeware utilities to create Music/Audio via an XP based pc.
* http://linux-sound.org/
    Personally I am looking for a sheet music editor which can be plugged into a inexpensive keyboard via midi combined with a recording and mixing capability. If anyone else has information applicable leave it hear or nearby and lets do some system block diagrams, bill of materials, assembly instructions and a user's guide so I can finally make my own royalty audio tracks/music for java applets. Mirwin 23:11, 3 November 2006 (UTC)
* Introduction to Midi
* Vnunet guide to making music on your PC, by Tim Smith
* Short compendium of links from PC Publishing

## Reference texts

* Stephen Bennett: Making music with your computer
* William Lloyd: Music In Sequence

## Active participants

Active participants in this Learning Group
* Cormaggio 11:04, 7 November 2006 (UTC) - interested in the subject - though I am pretty much a novice. Have Reason and Audacity.
* CQ 21:22, 14 February 2007 (UTC) - ...using Audacity working on Wiki Campus Radio (wikiversity web radio), Guitar/Lessons, Blues basics, etc.

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