Hi, I'm John Sirwinski, one of the contributing reviewers for Recording Magazine. And today we're taking a look at Master Rider, a great program designed to help songwriters and lyric writers express themselves in more unique and meaningful ways and stay organized in the process. Let's take a look, shall we? The list page is Master Rider's main screen, and it's where songs are created and organized. Master Rider allows for an artist to search for their songs utilizing keywords, either in the title or within the lyric itself. Songs can be organized within folders so that artists can group their songs by genre, style, meter, or in any manner of choosing. Song titles can even reside in multiple folders for categorization purposes. Master Rider is a web-based application and projects are saved automatically and accessible on any device or platform. That being said, individual songs or entire groups of songs can be stored locally if a local backup is required using Master Rider's export function. And for collaboration purposes, songs can be shared directly from the list page. Master Rider's powerful dictionary and reference tools can be accessed in full screen mode, which displays only the reference tools results, or in split screen mode, which displays the lyrics on the left with the reference tool on the right. Calling up a new song institutes the split screen mode automatically. The screens can be resized or minimized in order to provide more real estate for writing or research. And all of the program's tools are directly available within the work area to provide a more efficient environment for writing. Tabs along the bottom of the lyric page permit an artist to share their work, create alternate versions of their lyrics without disturbing the original, as well as capture melodies using a simple audio recorder. The tabs also provide detailed writer, copyright, and song information. One of Master Rider's foundational tools is the rhyming dictionary. Riders can search for words that are perfect rhymes, or choose from near rhymes using the wider and widest options. Once some suitable options are found, simply double-click the word to add it to a collected list for later use. And speaking of the collected list, it may very well be when a Master Rider's most unique and important features. The collected list serves as a repository of collected entries from Master Rider's dictionaries. And collected entries can be viewed alongside lyrics so that the best combinations of words and phrases can be explored when making lyric choices. Another one of Master Rider's foundational tools is the phrase dictionary. Enter a word into the search bar, and the phrase dictionary will provide every use of that word within known phrases. In many ways, it's a veritable hook factory. One noted user says he spends a few minutes each day perusing the various dictionaries and collecting potential words and phrases for later use, which saves him an inordinate amount of time and jumps starts the creative process. Finally, word families is a distinctively powerful dictionary tool that helps one find descriptive alternatives based on the usage of a particular word. For instance, if I enter the word level, the search bar displays a number of different usages of that word. From there, a user can employ a number of different filtering tools to focus on primary choices, which will provide synonyms or extended choices, which will provide words not technically synonyms, but which could replace the search word in a more descriptive fashion. Suppose you'd like to find a more interesting way to describe a hot sun. For the primary results, yields choices like blazing and blistering. Extended results, however, yields options such as angry, punishing, glaring, unforgiving. This is an incredibly potent tool for finding creative descriptors. Master Rider also contains a comprehensive dictionary of various speech types, such as alliterations, illusions, idioms, intensifiers, metaphors, anomatopoeia, oxymorons, and similes. All designed to help one find the perfect descriptor. Lastly, Master Rider thoughtfully included a simple audio recorder, which enables an artist to capture riffs and hooks or melodies when the inspiration strikes. And as with lyrical content, audio can be exported for local storage or shared directly with others. Master Rider is a powerful piece of software for anyone who writes creatively. It's a proven program used by a number of industry-leading songwriters and creative writers. A subscription is simply $10 a month, $100 for the year, or $150 for two years. And of course, there are upgrade options for existing license users. 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