Wednesday, August 13, 2008

PC Music Studio - Music Instrument Training Software









Hi Friends,

Welcome to Music World With Love...Hopes you will enjoy with this......Here To turn your PC to a music recording studio...ere Introduces some of the tools and some of the websites that is useful to those who loves music and some one trying to find their own way of practicing with music...May be you are not a violinist, guitarist or may be you don't know how to play Piano and may be don't know ABC of Music, I think these tools and websites will be useful to you to explore the musician in you...

Now peoples are shy to say I don't know...because he or she is fine with Google...Then why to afraid of say I knows it...That is this is the age of "knowledge in your fingers", it can be accessed through a mouse click or Key hit or a touch...The technology made it possible it may be a Linux, Windows, Mac, Palm, Symbian, Android based devices, all that makes you fit to this age...

I just described above things to lead you to the world of music too...You can say it in case of music too...Sure...and even not require to buy an instrument...Softwares will Play it for you...And even the recording and mixing doesn't require a recording studio...You can turn your PC to a recording studio...Why not? If your PC configuration permits you to record your sound in a good quality using quality recording softwares...Then your room can be changed to recording studio...

The PC must have good configuration...And a good quality sound card, Mic, Surround Speakers etc...If you have a music system with you that will be a plus...The music system may support multiple Microphones and bass, trouble echo adjustments or sometimes to play karaoke too...

If all that hardware requirements are ready then you can setup software for your recording or to use the software music instrument...A few of the software are listed here...

Microsoft Windows
Voice Recording and adding effects
  • Audacity - Vocal Remover plug-in. Edit Ogg Vorbis, MP3, WAV or AIFF sound files. Cut, copy, splice or mix sounds together. Change the speed or pitch of a recording. Above all it is an open source project.
  • Microsoft Sound Recorder- It allows you to record sound as wave file and allows to add some effects like echo, increase speed, volume adjustments etc. The important feature it provides is the echo. It is default in windows installations.
  • Super MP3 Recorder- Super Mp3 Recorder can record any signal played through your sound card into Mp3, Wma, Vqf, Ogg or Wav files and provides cut,paste,edit options and some dsp effects.
  • GoldWave- It contains so many great features like apply special effects, such as fade, equalizer, doppler, mechanize, echo, reverse, flanger etc. Also Edit music for dance programs, figure skating, gymnastics and analyze human speech, bird song, whale song etc.
  • Sound Forge Audio Studio- Software provides to record, edit, encode, and master audio on your PC. Includes vinyl recording and restoration. Supports karaoke building.
There are sound recording softwares available for all platforms...You can find one which you need that may be for Linux, Windows, Symbian or any other...

Linux
There are a lot of other softwares that you can find on Googling. You can choose one which is best to work with for you.

These softwares can also be used for recording the instrumentals from your sound sources and mixing, GoldWave and SoundForge provides the better interface and mixing support. You can use your MIDI port or you can record using microphone if you are playing the real instrument.

Software Music Instruments
There are softwares available that simulates some musical instruments...Few of them are here...
  • Microsoft Playit - Is a simulation of a number of instruments including Guitar, Piano, Flute, Drum and more. Allows you to record your play with instruments.
  • KbPiano- It allows you to practice and record playing piano.
  • Guitar Pro- Is a multitrack tablature editor for guitar, banjo and bass. Besides writing scores, Guitar Pro is a useful resource for guitarists from beginner to experienced levels to progress , compose , or simply accompany themselves. Here you will get some software simulators for guitar.
  • BeatBox- is allows you to set beats for different drums in a loop.Here you can find a flash drum machine.
Another useful software for you is AV Voice changer that will adjust your voice to different levels...So that you can hear and record your voice in a female or male voice or an old or child voice etc.

There are some websites that allows you to online training for different instruments...And also there are tutorials and online practices available for instruments and ear training.

You should record the instrumentals first and then your voice and mix them well to result a great music. Ofcourse it needs to mix it properly...For proper mix it should be in proper proportion...That is upon you...How much you practices for it...So try it and record your instrumentals, voice, mix and upload to myspace or like that...If you do proper animation and made it into flv upload to youtube, and make it available to your friends and to the entire world... Sure the world will understand the musician in you...

So Start now and show the world, the musician in you...You can use Flash, movie maker etc and make your own video representation for your music, and upload to youtube to be viewed by millions of youtube users...how many will see it?and is on your advertisement...There are software available to convert to flv format to upload into youtube...Here Watch this one for a fun...How the animation matches to the music...
Now start to explore music in you...

Find your softwares and online instrument training websites in your favorite search engines google, cuil, yahoo, live etc...
Visit here for more about turn your PC to music recording studio...The future versions will be more specific on tools and websites...Here you can find Some karaoke tools that let you to build karaoke for your favorite songs...That will let you to improve your singing skills...

  • LearnPiano.tv will introduce some websites training you Piano...
  • Hey Watch Nora...A cute, playing piano...
  • Here is a video on How to make your instrumental using KB Piano...