This is a third tool like Garageband that creates layered tracks. The feature that makes this tool unique is "the revolutionary Session View: a unique sketchpad for improvising, playing and performing with musical ideas, without the constraints of the timeline. Freely and independently start and stop any number of audio or MIDI loops - everything stays in sync."
In Brass/Woodwinds Methods Lab, Dr. Mantie recommended this as a good backtrack creator to use in the classroom. It's not too expensive and would be a useful tool.
In a mobile classroom - basically a trailer outfitted with a desk and some chairs - music teacher Chris Miller works with a group of active kindergartners dressed in green and khaki school uniforms. He teaches them the basics: musical concepts, artists and styles of music. "Everybody repeat after me," he says.
A language arts reference tool and comprehensive search engine for words. Includes the functions of a rhyming dictionary, thesaurus, and spelling checker, as well as an integrated full-text search engine for all of Shakespeare's works and thousands of quotations and poems.
We're writing a song for our performance project, and I've used this extensively. I've found it to be quite helpful. At first, I thought it would be dumb to post it, but after some thought I disagreed with my original notion. This tool is an example of how technology is helping songwriters network, through the use of a thesaurus and rhyming. It made the song writing process much more efficient and smoother.
I found a great article that covers music copyright issues in the classroom. Check this article out -
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Automatic tuning is synonymous with many things, good and bad. We take a look at Logic's Pitch Correction and then examine what Auto-Tune can add. Here's a quick guide on how to use Logic's pitch-correction plug-in. Step one: insert it onto the audio track playing back the recording whose pitch you want to correct.
The M-Audio M-Track along with Apple's Logic Pro is a easy to use yet versatile music production system. This guide walks through configuring the M-Track with Logic and recording audio.
8 ways to think about tech in ways that actually improve the classroom. Bringing technology into the classroom often winds up an awkward mash-up between the laws of Murphy and Moore: What can go wrong, will - only faster. It's a multi-headed challenge: Teachers need to connect with classrooms filled with distinct individuals.
This is pretty interesting. A 5 year old kid created a hip-hop song in a 60 seconds that already has almost 700,000 hits. It's a great example of how technology is changing means of music creation.
