Music Composition
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Commercial Software Packages
- FLStudio (http://www.flstudio.com/) (Formerly known as Fruity Loops) is a complex yet fairly easy to use package
- CakeWalk (http://www.cakewalk.com/)
- Steinberg Cubase (http://www.steinberg.de/)
- Sound Forge (http://www.sonymediasoftware.com/products/soundforgefamily.asp) audio editor
- ACID (http://www.sonymediasoftware.com/products/acidfamily.asp) loop-based production
- Adobe Audition (http://www.adobe.com/products/audition/) Record, Mix, Edit and Master Program
- Reason (http://www.propellerheads.se/)
- Finale (http://www.makemusic.com/)
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Shareware and Freeware Software Package
- Audacity (http://audacity.sourceforge.net/about/?lang=en) audio editor for PC, Mac, and Linux
- Goldwave (http://www.goldwave.com/) audio editing
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Links of Interest
- KVRaudio (http://www.kvraudio.com/) large forum dedicated to open standard audio plugins.
- http://www.synthzone.com/
- Large list of software synthesizers (http://www.hitsquad.com/smm/win95/SOFTWARE_SYNTHESIZERS/) (shareware, free and demo)
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Example Music
Here is a short music bit (http://www.orst.edu/~holtt/CrateBarrelLoop2.mp3) created from just HL2 metal and wood impact sounds plus the Combine Wall move sounds. Composed in Fruity Loops --Holtt 16:20, 15 Feb 2006 (PST)
