Help out a bit?

[Dreams Rock]

I'm looking for a good computer program (preferably free) that I can use to create and edit music with. Anyone know of any? Maybe someone who makes LD songs...?

[Man of Steel]

For editing, Audacity is generally regarded as the best free option. Creating... How do you mean? There are a multitude of MIDI music creation freeware programs out there, and for percussion I quite like Hydrogen, which I think is available for Windows now. Try searching for music creation software on SoftPedia.

[Ynot]

Ubuntu Studio http://ubuntustudio.org/ It's a Linux distro focused toward audio, graphics & video production take a look at the packages https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UbuntuStudio/PackageList Sound editing and recording audacity - Swiss army audio editor timemachine - JACK audio recorder for spontaneous and conservatory use Digital Audio Workstation software ardour - Digital audio workstation (graphical gtk interface) beast - music synthesis and composition framework Synthesizers fluidsynth - Real-time MIDI software synthesizer bristol - vintage synthesizer emulator freebirth - Bass synthesizer/sample player/sequencer similar to Rebirth qsynth - fluidsynth MIDI sound synthesiser front-end zynaddsubfx - Realtime software synthesizer for Linux csound - powerful and versatile sound synthesis software swami - SoundFont editor Sampling linuxsampler - software audio sampler sooperlooper - Looping Sampler LADSPA plugin Sequencing aconnectgui - graphical ALSA sequencer connection manager rosegarden4 - music editor and MIDI/audio sequencer hydrogen - Simple drum machine/step sequencer seq24 - Real time MIDI sequencer jackbeat - audio sequencer muse - Qt-based midi/audio sequencer tk707 - drum sequencer for a sound card or MIDI device shaketracker - MIDI sequencer with tracker GUI Effects and signal processing jack-rack - LADSPA effects "rack" for JACK tapiir - A tool for real time audio delay and feedback effects freqtweak - Realtime audio frequency spectral manipulation jamin - Audio mastering from a mixed down multitrack source with JACK creox - real-time guitar effects jackeq - routes and manipulates audio from/to multiple sources DJ tools terminatorx - A realtime audio synthesizer mixxx - A digital DJ interface (for beat-mixing) MIDI Utilities timidity - Software sound renderer (MIDI sequencer, MOD player) vkeybd - Virtual Keyboard program Musical typesetting denemo - A gtk+ frontend to GNU Lilypond lilypond-data - LilyPond music typesetter (data files) lilypond - A program for typesetting sheet music Miscellaneous / uncategorized gtick - Metronome application puredata - realtime computer music and graphics system audatious If you don't want to change OS's I'm sure some of them have Windows ports (just google them)

[ninja9578]

I use Audacity for the LD audio.

[[SomeGuy]]

What kind of computer? MAC- Garageband(Included)/Finale Notepad (Free Download) PC- ???/Finale Notepad (Free download) Finale requires knowledge of music. search some up in google, i'm sure you will find something. What do you need it for? Recording live music, or what?

[Out of the Blue]

Audacity, rep!

[Man of Steel]

Wow, I had no idea all that was included in Ubuntu Studio! I'm getting those programs the next opportunity I have.

[Ynot]

using plain *buntu installing the 'ubuntustudio-audio' package from the repos will give you all the audio apps You may want to install the real-time kernel (Again, it's in the ubuntu repos - linux-2.6.xx-RT if memory serves me) has much lower latency than the generic kernel, which is important if you're using midi to control external devices or doing real-time processing on audio files

[Dreams Rock]

I have Windows, so... yeah. =/ And by create, I mean make music directly on the computer and edit it. Sort of like Guitar Pro or something, but with a lot better sounds and stuff.

[Ynot]

well, you can't win 'em all

[Man of Steel]

using plain *buntu installing the 'ubuntustudio-audio' package from the repos will give you all the audio apps You may want to install the real-time kernel (Again, it's in the ubuntu repos - linux-2.6.xx-RT if memory serves me) has much lower latency than the generic kernel, which is important if you're using midi to control external devices or doing real-time processing on audio files Awesome, I'll get that either tonight or tomorrow. Been wanting to mess around with some of this type of stuff for awhile.

[humanism]

Audacity, plus a good music studio. There are free ones, Anvil Studio is one I think.

[Replicon]

using plain *buntu installing the 'ubuntustudio-audio' package from the repos will give you all the audio apps Would this fix my MIDI playback? I'm finding if I just do this: timidity filename.mid on the command line, it works great... However, if I correctly configure any other midi player (kmid, pmidi, etc.) to connect to my running timidity daemon, it basically plays just the first note. Very annoying.

[Dreams Rock]

Actually, I'm more focused on the creating part. I already have Audacity, and my friend can use it pretty well, so I just need something that lets me make music directly on the computer.

[Elite]

For editing, Audacity is generally regarded as the best free option. I use that and it is extremely awesome =]