MIDI (Musical Instrument Digital Interface) files enable musicians to notate music electronically. But aside from their compact sizes, MIDI files and their synthetic instruments are generally less ...

You can do a lot with free open-source software, also known as FOSS. Musicians with a yen for Linux are in luck; the array of choices for creating, editing, producing, and publishing music using ...

Pro Tools 8 was officially unveiled at the AES convention in San Francisco a few months ago and hit the shelves just last week. With the promise of a fully-integrated MIDI editor, a redesigned ...

Digital audio workstations (DAWs) have to do a lot: they typically record, mix, and edit audio, host instruments and effects, record and edit MIDI, arrange music, score videos, print notation, slice ...

Live’s clean interface and clever workflow minimize interference with the creative process and performance. New for version 11 is comping and linked track editing which make it more appealing for ...