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Make Music with your Computer: An Introduction by: Calab Coleman Intro Well guys, I've decided to write a short article on how to make music with your computer. When I started out, I couldn't find anything to help me. I didn't know what to buy, or where to start. Hopefully this short article will help you in your quest to making music a fun and productive hobby or future profession. Loops and SONY ACID Software When I first started to create music I used SONIC FOUNDRY'S ACID MUSIC 3.0. It's a piece of software that enables you to create music with loops. Loops are small pieces of music, like a drum line or synth line. These loops are only a few seconds long, but, obviously, they loop. This means that you can draw the loop in for 30 seconds, 60 seconds, whatever length you'd like with no distortion or other strange noises when the loop starts over at the beginning. There are many websites and companies that create loops for production use. A lot of them are Royalty Free; this means that you can use them in commercial (for-profit) songs. Each of the companies that create these loops has their own license, which you'll want to read if you're going to release an album. The license is usually just a set of rules or terms that say what you can and can't do with a loop. Most the time you can use these Royalty Free loops in commercial recordings, but you can't, for example, resell the loops by themselves. You have to abide by the license. As far as I know SONIC FOUNDRY was bought out by SONY, so if you're looking for this software'¦. - Do a search for ACID PRO, or visit the link at the bottom of the article - There are different versions of the software; one of the versions is absolutely FREE The Reason to create The piece of software I'd like to talk about in this section is PROPELLERHEADS REASON. This piece of software is much different than ACID. REASON is focused less on loops, and more on programming. When I say programming, I mean using individual sounds, for example, a kick drum, snare, or piano sound. You then use the awesome devices to create patterns. REASON includes a powerful list of devices. Some of the more important are the ReDrum Drum Machine, Synthesizers, and all new in 2.'5
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