Music Transcription Software

Music transcription software is essentially used by people who wish to transcribe the music from a musical recording and commit that music to writing in note form in order to keep a written note of the music on the recording or to play it in the future themselves.
One of the most popular music transcribing software packages is the Transcribe! Software from Seventh String which allows you to transcribe music quite easily. It does this by allowing you to change the speed and pitch of the musical recording and then to store the music in loops. Unlike most common music players which are not great for transcribing music, the Transcribe! Software allows you to copy the recording to your computer’s hard disk and then slow it down, see what notes are in the music, analyze chords and to add textual annotations and marks to the music to make it easier to analyze and transcribe.

See music writing software also.

Music Composing Software

Music composing software allows you to compose your own musical scores and one of the worlds leading music composing software packages is called Sibelius 6 which features many benefits to allow you to compose your own music including-
The ability to track changes in your scores and compare different versions; it also assists with the layout of your score through “magnetic layout” which ensures that your music is crystal clear even though you use rehearsal marks, dynamics, lyrics and chord symbols; you can conduct your own scores by following your beat once you use a midi keyboard, foot pedal or key on your computer keyboard; the ability to use sample sounds with high quality playback; sync with daws and sequencers and many more features that would appeal to any music love who wishes to compose their own music.

Free Music Composing software

Free music composing software is available on the internet although I can’t vouch for the quality of free music composing software products and I guess the old adage that you get what you pay for probably holds.

Music Recording Software

Audacity is a good music recording software product which is a free and open source music recording software and is also a cross platform sound editor.It is multi-lingual and can convert tapes into digital recordings or cds, cut and splice or mix sounds, record live audio and edit vorbis, mp3, wav, aiff or vorbis sound files.

When recording music you can do so from line output, microphone or other sources, dub over existing tracks and create multi track recordings and record up to 16 channels at the same time. You can also import and export sound files, edit and add effects by changing pitch, remove static and hiss, analyze your music and many other features.