Features

• Live arranger and multitrack arranger and mixer, plus Song Maker tools for arranging a song with a click
• New Robota analog drum machine, one-click looping, vocoder and vocal tuner
• Features 96 tracks for music in stereo, video clips, MIDI, text and images
• Add video fx for animated text blending, rolling credits, transitions and beat-controlled animation
• Create your own musical emails, or Webpages with music embedded into them

Features

• Resources and activities to support composition classes
• Designed for use by teachers and students
• Use at the computer or create handouts and worksheets
• Special IT activities that link to Sibelius or a sequencer
• Hundreds of exercises; high school and college levels

Features

• PC musical game based on popular musical masterpiece and designed for children and adults of all ages.

Reviews (1)

Fantastic educational game. Kept all my kids riveted!
This game was a last minute impulse buy for Christmas for my 6 year old son. Little did I know that it was to be the most popular gift out of all those I purchased all year! As a classical music fan, I am thrilled with the understanding of music that it has given my children. While the game is intended to be played by children, I would also recommend it for adults who want to train their ears to hear individual orchestral instruments or gain a better understanding of musical composition.

The product description promises musical jigsaw games, musical trivia, an instrument encylopaedia, and more, but it does not even come close to doing justice to the hours of fun this game has provided my kids. Even my four and two year old sons play with this game. I do recommend that you find or buy a cd of The Magic Flut or excerpts from it prior to introducing the game to your children as they won't be able to get enough of the music once they start playing it! My kids now listen to a cd of the Magic Flute every night before bed. I tried to replace it the other night with a traditional lullaby cd and was met with a collective hue and cry to "puhleeeeeeeeeze put back Mozart..."

A couple of neat items in the game...

1.) There is a game where a sound clip of Mozart's Magic Flute is played. The player then listens to other clips from various sections of the opera which have been sped up or slowed down and chooses the match for the original clip. This is fantastic for training the ear to recognize tempo and chord progression.

2.) There is a section where the children can read a child-friendly description of the libretto of the opera while they listen to the music.

3.) There is a game in the program that allows the children to "mute" certain instruments while a piece is playing so that they can hear how the instruments sound together or separate and what parts they play.

4.) There is also an instrument encyclopaedia which not only plays a sample of each instrument but also speaks the definition aloud for children who have not yet learned to read well.

5.) The narration in the program is NOT, I repeat, NOT smarmy, annoyingly brash, condescending, or overly peppy as are many children's programs. It is done very tastefully but still very engagingly.

This program should be at the top of your list of educational games to purchase for any kids you know or any adults who love classical music. I cannot wait for my other Music Games International items to arrive. I hope they keep producing more and more- and if someone from their company happens upon this review, I'd like to request that they do something with Beethoven's Ninth Symphony!!! ... Read more

Features

• Interactive Keyboard gives you all you need to know to play like a pro
• Fully MIDI compatible
• System Requirements -Windows 95/98/ME/NT/2000/XP, Minimum Hardware -Pentium Processor, 16 MB RAM, 2x CD-ROM, 16-Bit Sound, 256 Color Display, 20 MB Hard Disk Space

Product Description

Get GuitarPort RiffTracker and record those killer riffs before they?re gone forever. With its GuitarPort hardware/software, RiffWorks recording software, unique InstantDrummer and super simple automatic setup, it?s the easiest, most toneful guitar recording rig ever. Guitar Tone RigLine 6 is the world leader in direct guitar recording, and invented POD and digital modeling guitar amps and stompboxes. We created the magic guitar tones used by top guitarists and engineers on countless platinum albums, so we know how to team up record-ready tone with high technology in a way that keeps guitarists free to concentrate on the music instead of technical details.Thanks to the GuitarPort hardware/software included with GuitarPort RiffTracker, you'll have a simple, pro-quality setup that gives great feel, dynamics and tone. This virtual guitar amp, stompbox and effects rig is ready to rock with tone directly from the world-standard PODxt. You get 16 Classic and Modern Amp Models and more than 20 quality effects including digital and tape delays, choruses, tremolos, flanger, phaser, reverb, and more. And you'll have our free online library of thousands of tones matched to the greatest guitarists, songs, bands and gear of all time.The whole setup is as easy to operate as your old favorite amp, with familiar knobs and switches ? and drop dead amazing tone only Line 6 can deliver. Just jack your guitar cable into GuitarPort?s input, and you're all set to record your kill... ... Read more

Features

• USB hardware with computer software
• Line 6 guitar amp models and effects for your computer
• Multi-track recording with mixing and editing
• InstantDrummer virtual drum machine
• 20 classic amps and tons of killer effects

Features

• Playback of internet radios in MP3, OGG, or any other format commonly used Records internet radio shows
• Separates the received stream into individual songs automatically
• Names the individual songs automatically
• Belated recording of the currently playing song
• Comes with a broad selection of internet radios

Features

• PC musical game based on popular musical masterpiece and designed for children and adults of all ages.

Features

• Comprehensive software for ear training and aural tests
• Hundreds of interactive lessons in 26 topic areas
• Provides instant feedback; monitors student progress
• Play or sing answers using a MIDI keyboard or microphone
• Saves hours of preparation time; suitable for all ages and levels

Features

• Beginners of all ages will learn the essentials of the guitar, and begin playing in no time
• Easy-to-follow lessons introduce reading guitar tablatures
• Learn all the chords and scales, and some cool licks for acoustic or electric guitars
• Several different types of guitar playing are introduced, from country picking to Spanish flamenco
• Multiple exercises reinforce skills, as you play along with the on-screen lessons

Features

• Slow Speed Audition lets you slow down the CD tempo by 8%, 16%, 32% or half-speed without changing the pitch
• Flash start seamlessly locates and plays from the cue point
• Multiple loop choices -Single Loop, All Loop and Seamless IN-OUT Loop
• Single and continuous play mode
• Headphone jack for practicing and Line Out for recording your performance

Features

• Scan printed music into Sibelius
• Edit, transpose, playback, extract parts, and print
• Reads 32 staves per page, 2 polyphonic voices, different clefs
• Also reads articulations, hairpins, slurs, and much more
• Scan lyrics, chord symbols, and text

Features

• PC musical game based on popular musical masterpiece and designed for children and adults of all ages.

Features

• Select from 4,000 brand new studio-quality sounds or use the 5 virtual instruments
• CD grabbing function and Recording Studio to create your own unique samples.
• Fine-tune your music using the new editing tools in the Arranger or simply create a mix on the fly in Live Jam mode.
• Finally, add visuals in the 3D VJ Box!

Features

• Interactive program for learning to play piano or keyboard instrument
• 2 CDs, one to help learn to read and play music, one to play by ear
• 10 interactive learning and activity areas; 14 interactive music games
• Learn to play melodies, rhythms, and entire songs by ear
• 120 music pieces at 3 skill levels; illustrated "learn to play" library

Amazon.com Review

Music Creator 2003 may be one of the most impressive midrange digital audio solutions currently available. Published by respected music software publisher Cakewalk, Music Creator is a powerful and affordable application that comes packed with a surprising number of high-end amenities.

Indeed, Music Creator is essentially a less capable adaptation of Cakewalk's celebrated professional-level music system, the considerably more pricey Sonar. Certainly anyone familiar with Sonar will instantly recognize the program's presentation. Even those who don't will have little trouble becoming acclimatized, as Cakewalk has furnished a large and detailed set of tutorials designed to guide newcomers through the procedures and pitfalls of PC music making.

Supporting traditional instruments such as guitars and drum kits, and MIDI-based devices such as computerized keyboards, Music Creator is extremely versatile. You'll need to supply the equipment to transfer your sounds into the computer at first, but the program is ready to handle everything thereafter.

Through its graphic waveform-based interface, Music Creator allows you to fine-tune and reposition your audio and MIDI files, apply multiple effects to both single and multiple tracks, and take advantage of an expansive range of synthesized virtual instrument sounds. With a little practice, you can add fades and crossfades, rip samples from your favorite CDs, and concoct any number of ACID-type loops. Of course, one of the great advantages of digital recording is the ease with which you can remove unwanted background noises and wayward notes, and the program allows you to do just that with just a few mouse clicks.

The package also features a stripped down version of Cakewalk's reasonably respected CD burning utility Pyro, and an extremely valuable search tool that automatically checks your drive(s) for those easily misplaced bits and bytes of seemingly lost tracks.

Despite its relatively friendly nature, Music Creator sports a wealth of rather complex concepts, and thus shouldn't be taken lightly. PC music rookies and hobbyists may well find that Music Creator 2003 is the only application they'll ever need. --Gordon Goble ... Read more

Reviews (16)

Not what I was hoping for at all...
I just wanted something I could write music with.I can't read music but I can lay down tracks with a computer that sound almost as good as anything commercially available.The interface on this is not intuitive, it's not easy to use, and I'm sorry I got it.

If you run XP, stay away...
There seems to be a serious problem with the installation procedure for Music Creator 2003 under Windows XP/Home Edition. As always with XP, it's necessary to be an Administrator in order to install the software, and the program works just fine when you start it from an Admin account. No surprizes there.

HOWEVER, if you log in under a non-privileged account, Music Creator dies with a message about "unable to create Staff view music font." Then, rather than exiting, the program hangs with its initial splash screen displayed. It just sits there, frozen, until you kill it with the Task Manager. (Very lame...)

From this behavior, I have to assume that no one at Cake Walk ever tested this software under a non-privileged account. (I probably shouldn't be surprized by this, given that no one ever tested it with DirectX 9.0 either...)

Of course, one workaround is simply to run the program from Admin all the time, but this is a TERRIBLE security risk. Admin-enabled accounts should be used ONLY for system maintenance -- NEVER for day-to-day work. (Unless of course, you really like giving viruses the run of your machine.)

In my case, I think the correct workaround for this problem is to return the software and get a refund...

Great Value
I was planning on using Christmas money to buy one of much more expensive Sonar programs but my brother bought me this because he knew I wanted to set up a home studio. I've really enjoyed this program so far. If you are a beginner to computer recording you might want to consider Music Creator 2003. I used the extra money I was planning to spend the Cakewalk Sonar software to get a quality soundcard(M-Audio Delta 44), condenser microphone(AT3035), and preamp. The results have been great so far. I use a Dell computer with Windows 2000XP and haven't had any of the problems others user claim to have had. I just downloaded DirectX version 8.1 from Cakewalk's website and downloaded the updated drivers for my Delta soundcard from M-audio's website. Everything has worked like a charm. Soundwise, the results have been very impressive. I've spent lots of money to record in studio's and the results have not come out nearly as good as the results I'm getting on my computer right now. I put $40.00 aside in order to get the 'Music Creator 2003 Pro' upgrade from Cakewalk's website. I've been so pleased with this program I decided to forget the upgrade and put the forty bucks toward getting an extra microphone. So if you want to get started recording music on your computer and are on a budget I suggest getting this program and using the money you will save to buy other recording equipment. This will keep you plenty busy for a while.
Just to note: I don't use, or plan on using, the sheet music maker included in this program so I have no idea how good that part of it is. I just use it to record vocals and guitar.

Great Product
This is the best program I have ever seen for music.Not only can I create sheet music of songs I have written I can also create accompanyment CDs for any song I have sheet music for.It is well worth the cost of it.

Not what I was told it would be
I had asked the salesman at the Best Buys what software would let me record LP's and cassette tapes into my computer for playback and burning to CD's. He sold me this Music Creator 2003 and when I tried to use it it turned out to be a complete waste of my thirty bucks! I kept getting asked to specify a MIDI output and found out it wouldnt accept the one on my VAIO with XP. I was also rudely informed I would have to buy yet another software from 12Tones to get closer to my purpose of buying this in the first place.
I am forced to rate it as one star when it actualy earns a minus one.
If you want to record your LP's and cassettes into your computer and play them on it or put them on a CD, FORGET this "stuff"!
Buy a stand-alone CD recorder! ... Read more