MS/HS Music

What is Songsmith? Songsmith generates musical accompaniment to match a singer's voice. Just choose a musical style, sing into your PC's microphone, and Songsmith will create backing music for you. Then share your songs with your friends and family, post your songs online, or create your own music videos.

Audacity® is free, open source software for recording and editing sounds. It is available for Mac OS X, Microsoft Windows, GNU/Linux, and other operating systems. Learn more about Audacity... Also check our Wiki and Forum for more information.

Below is a bunch of free programs that may be of interest to anyone who uses his/her computer to create music and HammerHead users in particular. All apps are for Windows 95/98 unless noted.

WHAT IS HAMMERHEAD? HammerHead is a simple TR-909-like drum computer program aiming at the dance-scene. You can use it to create perfect Techno loops, Jungle patterns or House beats, but it's also suitable for Hip Hop, Triphop, Rap, Industrial and almost any other music you can think of. HammerHead features six separate channels, 29 built-in drum sounds, six complete breakbeats and the possibility to import six samples of your own. You can save your patterns to completely noise-free CD-quality wave files to use them with your sampler, tracker or sequencer program.

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ACID Xpress is a free, 10-track version of ACID software for music recording, editing and mixing. It's easy to use, even if you've never tried loop-based music creation before. Just pick some loops, paint them into a track and play them back. Any loops you choose work together because ACID Xpress matches the tempo and pitch automatically. When you're ready, publish your song to ACIDplanet.com.

FlexiMusic Kids Composer is a fun, easy way for kids to learn the basics of music-making and recording. FlexiMusic Kids Composer software can be used at home for furthering your child's musical experiences, or by schools for exploring the fundamental basics behind music creation. FlexiMusic Kids Composer software is packed with many "Tunes". Kids can record live vocals, email songs to friends and family. Wake up your child's creative talents by giving them FlexiMusic Kids Composer.

Free music creation software, from techno to classical to rap beats and sound creation tools

Audio Sequencers, Windows Audio Sequencers - Software that allows you to record, playback, edit and arrange sequences of audio in a multitrack environment.

Noteflight is a new online service that lets written music take full advantage of the web. The Noteflight Score Editor is a full-featured application that displays, edits, prints and plays back music notation in any standard web browser. You can create your own scores, choose to share them with others, or publish them to Noteflight's browsable, searchable online library of music. And it doesn't cost a thing: Noteflight.com is free for individual use.

Try before you buy with a 30-day trial version of Finale NotePad 2009 available for both Macintosh® OS X and Windows® platforms. * You can try out all of NotePad's features for 30 days, including printing and saving. * Each time you open NotePad, it will prompt you to register the software, which you can do after purchasing NotePad and obtaining your serial number. * After 30 days, you will be unable to print or save until the program is registered with your NotePad 2009 serial number.

Make Music Finale Notepad Finale NotePad is the free version of the famous music notation software Finale. NotePad allows you to make simple scores, with a number of basic features borrowed from its sibling Finale. It's also critical to compatibility, since users who don't own Finale can open any file made with a Finale-family program in NotePad.

Links to find songs and song lyrics, royalty free music, music editors