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    Music editing/creating software

    Discussion in 'Windows OS and Software' started by Audiophil92, Feb 14, 2011.

  1. Audiophil92

    Audiophil92 Notebook Evangelist

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    Hey guys,

    When I still lived in Latvia (6-7 years ago), I remember going to a society/club where we would make music with computers. Was a pretty program, in simple terms an excel sheet where you filled out the boxes to play various notes. You would have a "sheet" for each instrument, and then only one page for the drum/beat part (since you don't have different notes for beats, just different types of beats). Then you would combine these different "sheets" together and end up with a song. In its basis the program was pretty simple but I'm pretty sure you could even make something like a Deadmau5 song with it. So I was wondering if anyone could tell me what this program was called..

    tl;dr easy to use software for creating music
     
  2. MidnightSun

    MidnightSun Emodicon

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    Maybe Sibelius? Or if you're talking Mac, maybe the simpler GarageBand? There's many different such programs.
     
  3. Audiophil92

    Audiophil92 Notebook Evangelist

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    Hmm no this looks more like a program for creating/editing sheet music for classical composition. The program I'm thinking of, you more or less literally used "excel sheet" layout for making music, as in you filled in the empty "squares" to play notes
     
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    I looked around, and FL studio seems to vaguely resemble the program I used. Gonna give that a shot :) anyway, thanks Midnight for trying to help :p
     
  5. davepermen

    davepermen Notebook Nobel Laureate

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    while i think it's fruity loops you mean, based on your avatar you might be interested in ableton live, too. it's what the mau5 uses on stage, and for quite some of the productions.