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Pro Tools is a professional level digital audio workstation. It is used in many professional recording studios and music production facilities. Pro Tools is often praised for its near-limitless capabilities, but its high cost and memory and processing requirements may make it difficult to use for teachers or hobbyists with lesser computer systems. Avid offers different versions of the software that ranges from the free, limited capability Pro Tools "First" to the full-featured Pro Tools Ultimate, which is designed for professional recording and processing. The free version, Pro Tools First is an excellent way for new users to try out professional DAW software without making a large financial commitment.

Also known as Practica Musica, this is a well rounded course in music education and composition.

Ars Nova is a music software publisher that offers a number of excellent resources to sharpen one's proficiency in theory, part-writing, and counterpoint. Their software can be useful tools to recommend to advanced high school/undergrad students.

This software is shareware and a great alternative to using the pricer competition. It can allow the student to create music at home on their personal computers. It also has great value as a teaching tool and teaching student how to compose or arrange.

This website is a web-based music notation program which creates and stores professional-looking scores which can be accessed on the computer or mobile devices. The basic program is free, but the upgrades are very affordable. This is an invaluable and easy-to-use resource for musicians.

The purpose of this website is to create compositions using standard musical notation. Noteflight saves scores and allows instant playback. Composers can share their work with others easily.

More and more free music software for personal and educational use.

Free Improvisation software tool for beginning to intermediate jazz musicians.

The software has its occasional glitches (it is free after all) and does not allow for audio input like many paid doppelgangers, but this allows students to understand chord progressions, work out solo lines (and notate them using colorized notes for feedback), play along with auto-accompaniment and utilizes the brick chord layout for easy form understanding.

Excellent FREE ear-training software, as part of the GNU project. While there is little/no support from the website admin anymore, it provides a smooth and easy way to: -Recognize, compare and sing intervals -Identify & sing chords and specific chord tones -Rhythmic and melodic dictation (The "basics" of Auralia and other paid ear-training software, without the pretty interface).

This blog is written by Tom Rudolph, an adjunct professor at Berklee College of Music in Boston. The blog consists of his thoughts and opinion of Music Notation Software.

This blog is written by Tom Rudolph, an adjunct professor at Berklee College of Music in Boston. The blog consists of his thoughts and opinion of Music Notation Software.

This free downloadable version of Finale NotePad is great for basic composition projects. The software boasts its "Human Playback" feature which is designed to demonstrate expressive musical nuances, giving it a more realistic sound rather than being merely computer generated. NotePad has excellent sound quality and includes over 128 built-in instrument voices. 

This free downloadable version of Finale NotePad is great for basic composition projects. The software boasts its "Human Playback" feature which is designed to demonstrate expressive musical nuances, giving it a more realistic sound rather than being merely computer generated. NotePad has excellent sound quality and includes over 128 built-in instrument voices. 

A free download for basic music notation. You have the ability to make simple scores and compose exercises or any music really for several different instruments. A great introduction into the full Finale product and an easy tool for students to use on simple composition projects.  

Sing&See is vocal training software that helps you sing better by showing real-time visual feedback on your voice!

SmartMusic: music education software for educators and students. Make practicing and tracking student progress easy and fun. Smart Music is similar in features to Band in a Box. It allows teachers to create recordings for their student to practice with!

A great piece of software geared toward engaging private rehearsal times. This is a must have for band & orchestra teachers. 

Smart music is a great for students and teachers. This also helps the helps students with their practice. It also helps teachers understand the problems that students have during practice. The assessment is also great for students and teachers.

Pizzicato Music Education software has something for everyone.  Prices range from $69 euros to $899 euros depending on individual purchase to the number of students in your population.

This project is committed with providing children of underserved populations with computers that include a series of open software, including Csound (a powerful audio software for algorithmic composition).

Noteflight provides music notation software from the ease of a web browser. The program is free to use, and although there is a premium version, the free version has all the tools needed for learning and creating notated music. All works are saved in the cloud and can be accessed at anytime from any device that can access the website, making music composition easier than ever.

Noteflight is a free browser-based music notation tool. The software has cloud storage allowing you to work on creative musical products from any computer with an internet connection. It also connects to MIDI instruments. Noteflight has a paid subscription which allows you to store unlimited compositions, full access to all sounds, transposition, and the ability to print individual parts. Student accounts can be purchased which you to create "closed" classrooms allowing for creative musical products and collaboration amongst peers.

This website contains a free download of a very basic version of the Notation software, Finale.

A software tool to create visual 'bubble' maps representing the musical form of user provided audio files in mp3, wav, or m4a formats. This is the software that I reviewed for Module 5, and it just works for the purpose it was created. Educational and at the same time just plain fun to play around with!

This software is a easy way for students to make, create, compose, their own music. The purpose of this source would be to help student come up with creative ways to make music, using a famous interface call Ableton push. It makes it easy for the composer to create loops, and other things using this software. It comes with many features, like effects, vocals, built in instruments, and loops. There is more than enough tools for the composer to use, to create different types of music.

This is an excellent piece of software that introduces students to the field of DJing and producing. A virtual interface shows users exactly how to manipulate and seamlessly play track to track to track in a playlist.

Audacity is a free online, cross platform program that can be used for editing and recording. Educators can use this program to work with students on composition and sound recording technology. Also, educators can make good use of this program for preparing materials for the classroom It is easy to use and fun!

Free, downloadable software that can be used to edit and remix recordings.

Ron Hess talks about choosing the best notation software for your projects.

Ron Hess talks about choosing the best notation software for your projects.

An outstanding resource for music educators categorized and tagged based on topic. Fantastic!

This website is a blog focusing on music technology in our classroom. It includes different reviews and information about software and other technologies in our classroom. This will be very useful in staying up to date with the newest programs and ideas.

This website is a blog focusing on music technology in our classroom. It includes different reviews and information about software and other technologies in our classroom. This will be very useful in staying up to date with the newest programs and ideas.