Software to Compose Music

azlan · Post by **azlan** » April 6th, 2005, 11:23 pm

Yes.. If you want it the legal way.. hehe

Xeirxes · Post by **Xeirxes** » May 13th, 2005, 9:16 am

I use FL Studio as of now but it's really getting on my nerves because it was tailored for dance music.

Matt · Post by **Matt** » May 27th, 2005, 12:45 pm

EnergyXT, Traktion, ... Those are like Cubase, FL, Live, ... They are made to create wavs.
Sobelius, Finale, ... are score editors, and make only .mid files.

martenzo · Post by **martenzo** » May 27th, 2005, 2:47 pm

Can anyone reccommend me a freeware, simple, music changing program (that can change .ogg files)

ryn · Post by **ryn** » May 27th, 2005, 11:58 pm

audacity. Google it.

anurag · Post by **anurag** » June 6th, 2005, 2:34 am

can anyone recommend a good music maker, to compose music on computer, disregarding the money it costs to buy it?

i am bad at playing instrument

PS: not too advance, but better than finale notepad, yet not taking more than...100 mb disk space?

Roel · Post by **Roel** » June 8th, 2005, 8:29 pm

I made my wesnoth music thingy with sibelius 2.

http://roelthijs.sin.khk.be/muziek/MarchOfTheUndead.ogg

That's the file i recorded, I just pushed play in sibelius and recorded it with something called soundpad or something. I think sibelius is easier and faster than finale.

anurag · Post by **anurag** » June 8th, 2005, 10:53 pm

hm...

"recorded it with something called soundpad "

does that mean i have to have two separate pieces of software?

Lindir The Green · Post by **Lindir The Green** » June 9th, 2005, 3:02 am

But they are both free

...I think

Post by **Taurus** » June 9th, 2005, 4:45 am

martenzo wrote:Can anyone reccommend me a freeware, simple, music changing program (that can change .ogg files)

I just downloaded one today that works really good. It's called "Ogg Drop" I am using a mac but I think there is a version for windows too.

Post by **Taurus** » June 9th, 2005, 4:54 am

anurag wrote:can anyone recommend a good music maker, to compose music on computer, disregarding the money it costs to buy it?

i am bad at playing instrument

PS: not too advance, but better than finale notepad, yet not taking more than...100 mb disk space?

The all time best program for making music for Mac OS X anyway, (in my opinoin) is Garage Band. It records from a live instrumant, and it comes with a whole band of different intsturmints that you can "play" using just your keybord (I recomeond also getting a program called MidiKeys for that) and there is a whole library of prerecorded "clips" (for lack of a better word) that you can mix together and create these really groovy tracks. If you see check out my Campaign, "Northern Rebirth" the music I made on that is just mixing togother those clips. There is only one track right now but there will soon be more.

olof · Post by **olof** » June 9th, 2005, 8:00 am

take a look at this realy low cost program :

http://www.magix.com/select.html

(music studio)

it's a clone of logic audio (logic audio now only on mac), one of the best programs with cubase, AND a clone of samplitude ! i think you couldn't find so good for such low price (~50Ã¢â€šÂ¬)

Benanov · Post by **Benanov** » November 3rd, 2005, 6:44 pm

I used to use Modplug Tracker on Windows. Check for it in SourceForge.net.

When the original guy (Olivier) discontinued work on it he GPL'd it.

Miles · Post by **Miles** » November 16th, 2005, 10:33 pm

I use Buzz. It's quite old, but its succesor BuzzLE should be released soon.

For more information about music software:
http://www.gamedev.net/community/forums ... _id=336486

edit:

I forgot to mention that both Buzz and BuzzLE are completely free with full functionality.

Post by **zookeeper** » November 16th, 2005, 10:38 pm

I didn't see anyone mentioning Renoise, so I decided to. It's a very good tracker in the spirit on good old FT2, but with all the modern luxuries like vst support. Full version costs something like 50 euros, and the demo version has full functionality minus rendering to wav.