Music+making

= Music making =

**What is a digital music making?** The process of making original soundtrakes or music scores. Any work presented or uploaded in an online spave must comply with copyright standards, as susch, students should be reminded the importance of creating their own music or acknowledging and seeking permission from sources.
 * How can I use digital music making in my classroom?**


 * Students can create a soundtrack for their movie or podcasts
 * Students can compose a music piece / poem as part of their presentation


 * How can I get started?**

Mac users will enjoy using software included in its operating system- Garageband = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = PC users could purchase from Sony- ACID Xpress & Jam traxs It's easy to create original music-even if you're new to loop-based music software. Download and install ACID XPress. Then, get loops from [|Loops & Samples] or from [|ACIDplanet.com] to create your own music. Other options from the SONY range include: // __Some online alternatives__ //
 * [[image:http://www.sonycreativesoftware.com/images/acidxpress.gif width="120" height="82" link="http://www.sonycreativesoftware.com/download/step2.asp?DID=551"]] ||  || [|**ACID XPress**]
 * [|American Idol Jam Trax]**: Music creation software for kids 10 and up. **[|Jam Trax]**: Music creation software for kids 10 and up. ||

[|Myna - Free Online Audio Mixer]
Apple's Garage Band is one of the few pieces of proprietary software to which I honestly couldn't offer a comparable web-based alternative. That could change very soon if [|Aviary's] new [|Myna] service continues to perform as well as it did in my short test drive this evening.

[|Myna] is a free web-based audio track mixer created by Aviary. Using [|Myna] you can mix together up to ten tracks to create your own audio files. The sounds you mix can come from the [|Myna] library, your vocal recordings made with Myna's recorder, or audio tracks that you upload to your Myna account.

**Applications for Education** [|Myna] could eliminate the need for installing any kind of audio mixing software on your school's computers. Myna is completely web-based which means your students can start a project on a school computer and finish it on their home computers. media type="youtube" key="_3-VWMKpQiI" height="340" width="560"

= = Looking for music to complement your movie or podcast? Try the [|podsafe] network.

MEET Find musicians from all around the globe. MIX Make music with the world's most advanced online sequencer, complete with real-time synths and DSP sound effects.

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On [|Jamendo] artists allow anyone to download and share their music. It's [|free, legal and unlimited].

http://www.zisman.ca/files/fonts.html [] Really cool music maker [] Great for Primary school students []. Great music, terrific search engine. License is good for student projects in school
 * Be sure to check out [|**Jake Ludington's List of 15 Great Free Audio Applications**]
 * **[|JazzWare]** is a free Midi (music) sequencer.
 * **[|Anvil Studio] **is a very nice free Midi music composition program... users can enter music from a Midi keyboard, and edit/multitrack it... or enter it using an on-screen keyboard, etc.
 * **[|Le Pianographique] **turns your computer keyboard into a playable rap/techno synthesizer, online-- in English or French.
 * * [| Treble and Bass Clef] ** is a game that teaches reading music. **
 * [|Play It By Ear] **is a game that teaches kids to recognize music notes. **[|Note ID] **teaches reading music notation and key signatures (Windows). [|**Chords & Keys**] (Mac) offers drills in music fundamentals**
 * [|Guitar Sidekick] **includes a comprehensive tablature editor, chords and scales generator, tune-by-ear tuner, metronome, and gig diary! **
 * [|Advanced FretPro] **describes itself as "is the best fretboard training program in the world (our humble opinion!) and also has a massive chord and scale library showing exactly how to play chords and scales on a real guitar neck instead of from a chord or scale diagram".**
 * [|Meet the Beatles] **You'll need Shockwave and Quicktime to access this site. **
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica;">[|Africmusic] **offers an introduction to African music, with samples of different styles and three African radio stations.**
 * <span style="color: #ff0000; font-family: Arial,Helvetica;">* <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica;">**[|Audacity]** is a very nice, free sound recorder and editor... works with Wav, MP3, etc. Windows, Mac, Mac OSX and Linux versions. [|**Wavosaur**] is another free sound recorder/editor (Win only)-- nicest feature is the vocal remover.
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica;">**[|Audio-to-Midi]** converts big WAV files to small-sized MIDI files.
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica;">**[|Silent-Bob]** lets you record any audio passing through your computer's sound card. Good for saving Real Audio or other streaming broadcasts for later listening.
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica;">**[|SampleTank Free]** is a free music sample player-- Mac only!
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica;">**[|Windows Media Recorder]**lets you record anything you can play through Windows Media Player: streaming audio or video
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica;">**[|Harmony Central]** has tons of links for downloadable music and sound software... PC, Mac, Amiga, and more.
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica;">**[|Hammerhead Rhythm Station]** is a virtual drum machine to create complex rhythm tracks. Or check out [|**Battery**]
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica;">**[|Virtual Drummer]** is a free Mac-based drum machine (Mac OS 8.1 or later). [|**MrDrum**] is a free Mac OS X drum machine
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica;">**[|PlayerPro]** is a free Midi music editing program that will run on virtually any Mac (OS 8 or later).
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica;">**[|Finale Notepad]** is virtual composition software for Win and Mac; write music, define instruments, add lyrics
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica;">[|**Quartz Studio**]is a free multitrack digital audio recorder..
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica;">**[|Create Your Own Band]** is a very cool on-line site where you pick musicians, and end up with an animated band playing a looped customized groove.
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica;">**[|Power Tab Editor]** lets you write music for guitar or bass with guitar tablature, and play it back on your computer's sound card.
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica;">**[|NoteID]** is a free program to learn pitch notation and keyboard note names.
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica;">[|**Chords and Keys**]is a free Mac music theory program.
 * **<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica;">[|AquaAllegro] ** <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica;">is free music theory teaching software for Mac OS X
 * **<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica;">[|Wiretap] ** <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica;">is a free OS X program that records any audio playing on your Mac, from streaming audio/video to the soundtrack of a DVD movie (but not from music through a mike or line-in connection).
 * **<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica;">[|CDEx] ** <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica;">is a free, fast, lightweight CD 'ripper'... convert an audio CD to music files you can store and run on your computer.
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica;">**[|Max]** is a high-quality CD ripper for Mac OS X that supports multiple output formats.
 * **<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica;">[|Happy Note!] **<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica;"> sing and learn treble clef ABCs
 * **<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica;">[|Making Music] **<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica;"> is an Mac OS X musical instrument encyclopedia with descriptions, photos, and sound clips
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica;">[|**Buzzer**] is a Mac OS X synthesizer... [|**Automat**] is its new version...
 * **<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica;">[|Perfect Pitch] **<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica;"> is a Mac OSX instrument tuner; [|**SimpleChord**] is an OS X reference to musical chords, showing them on an on-screen keyboard.
 * **<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica;">[|ZeroBeat] ** <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica;">is a Windows guitar tuner
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica;">Apple's GarageBand is a great (OS X only) music application. Here are tutorials (in PDF format):
 * **<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica;">[|GarageBand at a Glance] **
 * **<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica;">[|Building a Basic Arrangement] **
 * **<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica;">[|Working with Real Instruments] **
 * **<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica;">[|Working with Software Instruments] **


 * <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica;">Here are 40 MB of free **[|GarageBand loops]**. And [|**Bandmates Loop Pack**] offers free 'electronica' drum loops.
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica;">[|**Garage Band Mechanics**] is a book on using Apple's Garage Band in a classroom; you can download a sample exercise: creating the 10 Second Theme Song.
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica;">[|**EvilLyrics**] goes online to display the lyrics of whatever song is playing in WinAmp, Windows Media Player, RealPlayer, iTunes for Windows (etc). Very cool!
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica;">[|**PlaySound**] is a simple music player (MP3, AIFF, etc) for Mac OS 9.1+ or OS X 10.2+
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica;">[|**Blues Music**] - Just plain fun for music - turn the band on/off, add guitar riffs. You can't save a file of the music but it is neat to create a blues tune. Mac (//DI)//
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica;">**[|Video MP3 Extractor]** extracts the audio track from Video AVI, ASF, and WMV files, creating MP3 audio tracks.
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica;">[|**All That Chords!**]will provide visually, the chord you want to play on your keyboard.
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 * <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica;">[|**Freecorder**] records any sounds that play on your computer and saves the files as MP3-- good for capturing web radio, for instance. Or try [|**Xstream Radio**] or **Streamripper** (for [|shoutcast/live365 streams]) or for [|streaming MP3]
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica;">[|**Notecoder**] is a small utility to help with chord transposing.
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica;">[|**Ninjam**] is designed to allow real-time jamming across the Internet-- at least after a fashion. Versions for Windows and Mac OS X.
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica;">[|**Babya Logic**] is a 'powerful suite of pro-quality audio production software'
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica;">[|**Rosoft Audio Recorder**] is free (Windows) recording software- if you are recording from an LP or tape, it can automatically find the silences between tracks and split the recording. (//Note: the free version of this software automatically installs the// //Ask Jeeves 'My Search' toolbar into Internet Explorer-- which can be uninstalled using Add/Remove Software if unwanted).//
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica;">[|**Multitrack Studio Lite**] combines a multitrack recorder, a mixer, lots of effects and a MIDI sequencer in one package: everything that's needed to turn your computer into a digital multitrack sound recording studio.
 * [|**Guitar Machine**] is an online site to play guitar online. It also has links to other online music games.
 * [|**Reaper**] lets you record, edit, render and arrange multi-track waveform audio.
 * [|**MuvAudio**] lets you record the audio from any item in Windows Media Player such as streaming radio, digital video clips, DVD movies, etc.
 * [|**Media Player Classic**] is a small, low-resource media player with many functions: supports Quicktime, Real formats, plays DVDs, and more
 * Despite the name, [|**Guitar and Drum Trainer**] is not just for guitar players or drummers; any musician can benefit from using it slow down digital recordings to help learn the parts, make transcriptions, etc.
 * [|**VoxReducer**] reduces the amount of vocal in recorded music-- helpful for learning the instrumental parts. (Mac OS X)
 * [|**LilyPond**] "makes beautiful sheet music" for Windows, Mac OS X, Linux, etc)
 * **Music Assistant (**[|**Mac OS X**] or **[|Windows])** is a combination metronome and tuner
 * **[|Music Math]** (Mac OS X) "convertsvalues for musical use. You can calculate the time stretching to use on a sample if you change the tempo for another, or the number of semi-tone to transpose, the time stretching to apply if you transpose a sample and you don't want to change the duration, the delay in ms to synchronise with BPM, and a tap delay fonction."
 * * [|Streamripper] **is a handy application "that lets you record streaming mp3 to your hardrive."**

**[|Free Music Archive]**

 * [[image:http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_TkhlSyyP58U/SesKouwX-TI/AAAAAAAADu8/G90YOtCoco4/s320/Picture+20.png width="213" height="93" link="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_TkhlSyyP58U/SesKouwX-TI/AAAAAAAADu8/G90YOtCoco4/s1600-h/Picture+20.png"]]The [|Free Music Archive] provides free, high-quality, music in a wide range of genres. The content on [|Free Music Archive] is used under various creative commons licenses. The New York State Music Fund provided initial funding for FMA. [|FMA] seeks to maintain a high-quality resource through the use of selected curators who approve or deny all submissions to the collection.

Anyone can download music from [|FMA] for use in podcasts, videos, and other digital presentation formats. The music collections can be searched by genre or by curator.

**Applications for Education** [|FMA] could be a good resource for high school students looking for music tracks to use in podcasts and videos. There is an audio/visual/broadcast communications course taught at my school. [|FMA] is the type of resource for which those students are often seeking.

I would be hesitant to use [|FMA] in middle school or elementary school because of some of the language that students might find in some of the audio clips.

Here are some related resources that may be of interest to you: [|Free Podcasting Solutions] [|Free Music and Pictures for Schools] [|The Oldies Come to Animoto's Music Library]