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Questions tagged [software]

For questions about musical computer programs used by musicians for practice, performance, or composition. More popular software will have a specific tag for it. Do not use for software recommendation questions as they are off topic.

The most important software categories concerning music are:

  1. DAW (digital audio workstation), typically a multi-track recorder with vast editing capabilities, where each track may be modified separately, muted, transposed, filtered, etc.
  2. Music typesetting program. This may also produce a MIDI representation, separate voices as well as full score, also applicable to generate sheet music for a transposing instrument
  3. Utility apps like metronome or tuner (available for all types of mobile phones)
  4. VSTs (Virtual Studio Technology) supply either instruments or filter to another program. The former have drastically cut in the market of hardware synthesizers.
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Switching between ASIO4ALL ON/OFF without having to shut down browser

So we know that if you run ASIO4ALL while you have some other program running a sound output, ASIO4ALL shows audio output as unavailable, since it is locked for it, until you quit all the apps that are using the sound output, be it a browser, media…
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Is there any notation software that supports unconvential notation like Schenker graphs?

What is the best free or cheap music editing software available? I am looking for something to write and edit scores with. I know that Finale and Sibelius are the best on the market, but I wouldn't use them enough to justify the price. I don't need…
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Does REAPER support a 4K display?

I am trying to get into music production, and REAPER has been highly recommended to me. My only concern is that my laptop has a 4K display, and I am worried that like many other apps it will not scale properly for the higher resolution. Does REAPER…
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How to read and write music scores if I am a blind musician?

I am a fully blind person, now beginning to learn violin with Western classics. I am presently preparing for Trinity grade 3 practical. I am just looking for a sheet music reader and writer software solution to find out if such software…
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Supercollider: Include additional source code file

Is there a way in a Supercollider source code file to include another source code file from disk, like the "include"-statement does in C++? I assume there must be a way to do it, but I haven't managed to find any example by googling.
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Is it possible to turn my surface pro into a midi input device for my mac book pro

I have surface pro and I use GarageBand on osx. I was wondering if there is anything I could do to input MIDI from the device (maybe some sort of software that would turn my touch screen surface pro into a midi device) I've tried searching google…
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Hardware emulation vs Software emulation during guitar recording

I've tried to emulate guitar amps and pedals on Line 6 Pod Farm, Amplitube and Guitar Rig but I've never heard the sound I desired. Days ago a friend of mine told me about hardware emulators as Line 6 Pod X3, Line 6 Pod HD Pro X that should perform…
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How to get time labels of silence periods in a file

Can someone advise a way how to automatically (with a script) get a list of time labels for periods of silence in an audio file? Such a list can be obtained with the help of Audacity, but it seems there is no way to easily automate this task. The…
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How do you use Kontakt Player with Sibelius - program?

There are some questions about Sibelius 7 which have been approved, so I dare to ask this question on relationship between Kontakt player( trial version) and Sibelius 7: How do you use Kontakt Player with Sibelius - program? I have Kontakt Player (…
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Unwanted silence in LMMS

There's a pause at the end of a segment of music, in the piano roll, in LMMS. How do I get rid of that pause? Do I use a loop point? If so, how do I set a loop point? Thank you. Editor's note: LMMS is free, cross-platform music production software.
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Is there a guitar amp simulator for windows that doesn't block other apps sounds?

I have Guitar Rig 5 that am using it with the Rocksmith cable, had to install something called "ASIO" to make it work because the other one (WASAPI) doesn't work with Rocksmith usb cable. Guitar Rig, Asio and rocksmith cable work just fine until i…
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Music software. Simultaneous start

I am running cool edit pro 2 (oldskool) and fruity loops pro 12 WITH WINDOWS 10 . How do I get the two programs to start to play simultaneously? I'd like to be able to put fruity loops into a line of the cool edit pro mixer, so it runs as a line of…
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Explain relation between EWQL,Vienna Symphonic Library and FL Studio

I'm a noob at music software conventions , So can someone tell me what are East west QL , FL Studio and vienna symphonic library. And how are they different and related? I saw somebody using FL studio by linking it to EWQL . IS FL Studio just a…
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NEWBIE question here, do i need an audio interface to use an amp simulator

As the title says I 'm looking to buy an electric guitar. And I was wondering instead of buying an amp I could connect my guitar to my pc and use an amp simulator like guitar rig 6 for example. After some research i am still not certain that i need…
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Color coded spectrum analyzer

Does anyone know of any software that will overlay a waveform with color coded frequencies? i.e. Low frequency is colored as red, mids as yellow and highs as green (or something like that) and the colors are stacked as to form a color coded…
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