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Best Computer Recording Synthesizers Software

Spectrasonics Stylus RMX Xpanded Realtime Groove Module Virtual Instrument Software
New Core library The massive new 7.4GB core library in Stylus RMX has thousands of cutting-edge grooves and sounds that were created by Spectrasonics' international sound design team, and produced by Eric Persing. Xpanders" libraries, Retro Funk (authentic vintage sound, feel, and classic grooves), BackBeat (live acoustic "straight-ahead" drum grooves), Metamorphosis (21st Century remix grooves), Burning Grooves (maximum impact, aggressive live drum grooves), and Liquid Grooves (unique acoustic drum. technology (Spectrasonics Advanced Groove Engine) Realtime auto-sync to the beat so grooves are always in time, even when performed live Groove Control is always active for optimum sound quality at virtually any tempo Massive, cutting-edge 7.4GB core library, with nearly triple the sounds of the original Stylus (the original Stylus core library also included) Includes "S.A.G.E.
Reviews
"If you need an immense repository of great drum sounds and grooves, RMX is your ticket. The core library mainly focuses on electronic drums and percussive elements. Liquid Grooves gives you laid back drum and percussion sounds."
"Spectrasonics understands the needs of ambitious musicians and follows through in quality, inspiration and technical support."
"This product was such a big deal to me that when I moved from pro tools on imac with tiger to logic on macbookpro with snow leopard the first thing I installed was RMX and when upgrading support directed me to the proper place with no hassle and quickly allowing me to get rolling with my music right away."
"(one of the very few times that I've found it beneficial to me, the customer, to register a product, vs. simply providing the manufacturer with customer data) Spectrasonics customer service is terrific (and they were back then also, with general questions I had). However, it is neither of these extremes - it truly is a 'rhythm module', playable like an instrument."
"I'm not so good at writing reviews but I must say Stylus RMX is one top notch product! Even without using all the features I have done tracks used for library music used on tv and radio."
"But it's now 2015 and Stylus' grooves, sounds, and sonic quality are not top notch anymore."
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Native Instruments Komplete 10 Ultimate Crossgrade
Comprehensive range of production tools, featuring KINETIC METAL, ACTION STRINGS, and RISE&HIT.
Reviews
"Komplete is a premier instrument and effects suite that gives you so much bang for your buck it's insane. Two ROMplers (samplers) with 14 additional plugins, four software synths with seven additional plugins for one of them, plus an already packed effects suite with an additional 11 effects plugs. Each kit contains a configurable number of cells (24 to 48 standard, but can go all the way up to 128 if you want), which you can assign any drum or instrument sample you wish on each cell. Battery already comes with a massive amount of drum samples set to more than 200 kits. There is even a cool sample engine option to switch from the default sampling mode to a classic MP-60 or SP-1200 sample rate. Kontakt has its own internal effects that sound nice. Moving from instrument to instrument can be a bit annoying as you have to load instrument sets separately. Kontakt comes with 43GB of samples on its own (more than 1000 instruments). ORCHESTRAL - These samples come from the Vienna Symphonic Library, both new instruments and legacy instruments from previous Kontakt versions. SYNTH - This is the bulk of the instruments and samples. Lots and lots of sounds to choose from to cover every genre. style drums machines and sound effects. The interface has a look like a vintage beat box like the Drummulator or Overheim DMX drum machines with volume and tone controls for each sound and more. This is a nice collection of low-fi samples of vocals, hits and sound effects as well as analog style drums. Excellent samples of instruments around the world... with one exception. So those are the sounds that come stock with Kontakt 5 if you purchased it alone, since this is the Komplete collection you get over a dozen additional instrument sets: THE GIANT - This is one of four acoustic piano plug ins you get in Komplete. With over 2500 samples on this one too, and also can have tone and color adjustments to the sound (including raising/lowering the piano's lid). THE GRANDEUR - Like all of the piano add-ons you have over 2500 samples to make up this instrument and a good deal of parameters to change tone and such. This instrument was sampled from a 9ft Hamburg Steinway D concert grand. DrumLab is combing electronic and acoustic drums sounds together into a hybrid sound that has all the nuances of real drums with the punch and savvy of electronic. 30 acoustic drums and 80 electronic make up the instrument palette. These are lots of drum loops sampled from a studio drummer that you can use to give you that live drummer sound on your tracks when you don't have one. Only two instruments to work with, but if you want to try that 70's Chicago band sound this is going to do it. RETRO MACHINES MK II - Over 16 vintage instruments are sampled on this set. Definitely that classic analog sound with some very useful instruments that can be mixed into newer songs (with outside processing). Some of them you can already find in the Kontakt 5 instrument set like the old Roland Electric Pianos, RMI and the Minimoog. Instruments I found sampled were the ARP Quadra, Crumar Orchestrator, Crumar Roady, MiniKorg 700, Korg Poly 6, Memory Moog, MiniMoog, Oberheim Four voice, Oberheim Matrix 12, Rhodes Chroma, RMI (Rocky Mountain instruments) 368 Electra Piano, Roland EP10, Roland EP20, Roland MKS-80 Super JP, Sequential Circuits Pro 1, Logan String Melody II, Yamaha CP11, Yamaha DX7. Onboard effects are "vintage" too with a simple reverb and echo (that sounds like the old amplifier spring reverbs). SCARBEE A200 - Thomas Skarbye does some awesome sampling by focusing on a single instrument and taking it to the highest level. I'm not really much a fan of these instruments, but I won't deny how much it sounds like the classic instruments. WEST AFRICA - It's a small set of instruments, but they sound fabulous. It includes over 70 instruments and effects to build your synth from. For people like me who do not design software synths luckily Komplete comes with an array of instruments. Now imagine creating a palette of four different sounds or sound variations on a single note (cell). It sounds super thick, full and the way a Minimoog should sound considering how much this classic synth is worshipped. While it's weird they spent time sampling the minimoog on the Retromachines when they have this baby, I guess it does round our your options between a sample of the original or a very impressive sounding emulation. One for synth sounds and one for using as an effect processor. Sounds more like the real think and less like a modelling synth (I do notice a difference with the cheaper ones out there). Along with Reaktor 5 and all of the software synths that are in that platform there are also three independend software synths in this package: ABSYNTH. This is a stand alone software synth that has some really sweet aural and tonal qualities. This synth can mix in surround sound right out of the box. The sounds are more synthetic than what I'm used to in regards to using this for anything other than pads and effects. You get sound sets ranging from Absynth Version 5 all the way down to sounds from its original inception back in 2000 (Absynth 5, 4, Absynth Legacy, Spectral Expansion, and Absynth Twilights). Wavetable uses sampled waveforms in generate the sounds as opposed to analog modelling synths that use computer algorythms to simulate analog waveforms. Of all the soft synths in this package this is quickly becoming my go to instrument. It's not just an armada of sounds and sound building tools that you get with Komplete. For the guitarist you get things like 17 ammplifier and 27 speaker cabinet emulations along with 54 effects that are right at home with instruments and vocals as well as guitars. Guitar Rig also comes with 11 reverb and delay units covering a wide variety of emulations, eight modulation units that go from vintage 70's phaser effects to chorus/flanger and more, eight filters from various wah-wahs to filtered EQ, seven dymanic processors for compression and noise gate effects, five "modifiers" like Low Frequency Oscillator and analog sequenecers, a loop machine that syncs to a host tempto, two tape deck emulators for quick recordings, a chomatic tuner and metronome. TRAKTOR'S 12 - Traktor is the DJ tool Native Instruments sells, and this is a set of effects that are most popular with it. Much of what you get seems to be more for the real professional sound designer that works in movie scoring, or the studio engineer who wants wider variety of instruments and effect emulations."
"I can't really improve on the detailed review of the products that is already posted, but I'll say this: the inclusion of Massive, FM8, Battery 4 AND Kontakt 5 makes this purchase worth far more than what I spent."
"This gave me the ability to cash in some Southwest points for Amazon gift cards and get this basically for free."
"I'm pretty sure it's a good piece of software."
"Definitely worth it!"
"Sorry only the individual who received can write this one."
"Came with about 10 discs to install haha luckily I have a 1TB SSD hard drive so my data transfer speed is crazy fast... still took me about 5 hours to install everything."
"Though it is a bit on the expensive side the sheer quantity of VIs and samples that you get more than justifies the price."
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Native Instrument Komplete 10 Ultimate
75 products, over 17,000 sounds, over 440 GB of instruments and effects.
Reviews
"Komplete is a premier instrument and effects suite that gives you so much bang for your buck it's insane. Two ROMplers (samplers) with 14 additional plugins, four software synths with seven additional plugins for one of them, plus an already packed effects suite with an additional 11 effects plugs. Each kit contains a configurable number of cells (24 to 48 standard, but can go all the way up to 128 if you want), which you can assign any drum or instrument sample you wish on each cell. Battery already comes with a massive amount of drum samples set to more than 200 kits. There is even a cool sample engine option to switch from the default sampling mode to a classic MP-60 or SP-1200 sample rate. Kontakt has its own internal effects that sound nice. Moving from instrument to instrument can be a bit annoying as you have to load instrument sets separately. Kontakt comes with 43GB of samples on its own (more than 1000 instruments). ORCHESTRAL - These samples come from the Vienna Symphonic Library, both new instruments and legacy instruments from previous Kontakt versions. SYNTH - This is the bulk of the instruments and samples. Lots and lots of sounds to choose from to cover every genre. style drums machines and sound effects. The interface has a look like a vintage beat box like the Drummulator or Overheim DMX drum machines with volume and tone controls for each sound and more. This is a nice collection of low-fi samples of vocals, hits and sound effects as well as analog style drums. Excellent samples of instruments around the world... with one exception. So those are the sounds that come stock with Kontakt 5 if you purchased it alone, since this is the Komplete collection you get over a dozen additional instrument sets: THE GIANT - This is one of four acoustic piano plug ins you get in Komplete. With over 2500 samples on this one too, and also can have tone and color adjustments to the sound (including raising/lowering the piano's lid). THE GRANDEUR - Like all of the piano add-ons you have over 2500 samples to make up this instrument and a good deal of parameters to change tone and such. This instrument was sampled from a 9ft Hamburg Steinway D concert grand. DrumLab is combing electronic and acoustic drums sounds together into a hybrid sound that has all the nuances of real drums with the punch and savvy of electronic. 30 acoustic drums and 80 electronic make up the instrument palette. These are lots of drum loops sampled from a studio drummer that you can use to give you that live drummer sound on your tracks when you don't have one. Only two instruments to work with, but if you want to try that 70's Chicago band sound this is going to do it. RETRO MACHINES MK II - Over 16 vintage instruments are sampled on this set. Definitely that classic analog sound with some very useful instruments that can be mixed into newer songs (with outside processing). Some of them you can already find in the Kontakt 5 instrument set like the old Roland Electric Pianos, RMI and the Minimoog. Instruments I found sampled were the ARP Quadra, Crumar Orchestrator, Crumar Roady, MiniKorg 700, Korg Poly 6, Memory Moog, MiniMoog, Oberheim Four voice, Oberheim Matrix 12, Rhodes Chroma, RMI (Rocky Mountain instruments) 368 Electra Piano, Roland EP10, Roland EP20, Roland MKS-80 Super JP, Sequential Circuits Pro 1, Logan String Melody II, Yamaha CP11, Yamaha DX7. Onboard effects are "vintage" too with a simple reverb and echo (that sounds like the old amplifier spring reverbs). SCARBEE A200 - Thomas Skarbye does some awesome sampling by focusing on a single instrument and taking it to the highest level. I'm not really much a fan of these instruments, but I won't deny how much it sounds like the classic instruments. WEST AFRICA - It's a small set of instruments, but they sound fabulous. It includes over 70 instruments and effects to build your synth from. For people like me who do not design software synths luckily Komplete comes with an array of instruments. Now imagine creating a palette of four different sounds or sound variations on a single note (cell). It sounds super thick, full and the way a Minimoog should sound considering how much this classic synth is worshipped. While it's weird they spent time sampling the minimoog on the Retromachines when they have this baby, I guess it does round our your options between a sample of the original or a very impressive sounding emulation. One for synth sounds and one for using as an effect processor. Sounds more like the real think and less like a modelling synth (I do notice a difference with the cheaper ones out there). Along with Reaktor 5 and all of the software synths that are in that platform there are also three independend software synths in this package: ABSYNTH. This is a stand alone software synth that has some really sweet aural and tonal qualities. This synth can mix in surround sound right out of the box. The sounds are more synthetic than what I'm used to in regards to using this for anything other than pads and effects. You get sound sets ranging from Absynth Version 5 all the way down to sounds from its original inception back in 2000 (Absynth 5, 4, Absynth Legacy, Spectral Expansion, and Absynth Twilights). Wavetable uses sampled waveforms in generate the sounds as opposed to analog modelling synths that use computer algorythms to simulate analog waveforms. Of all the soft synths in this package this is quickly becoming my go to instrument. It's not just an armada of sounds and sound building tools that you get with Komplete. For the guitarist you get things like 17 ammplifier and 27 speaker cabinet emulations along with 54 effects that are right at home with instruments and vocals as well as guitars. Guitar Rig also comes with 11 reverb and delay units covering a wide variety of emulations, eight modulation units that go from vintage 70's phaser effects to chorus/flanger and more, eight filters from various wah-wahs to filtered EQ, seven dymanic processors for compression and noise gate effects, five "modifiers" like Low Frequency Oscillator and analog sequenecers, a loop machine that syncs to a host tempto, two tape deck emulators for quick recordings, a chomatic tuner and metronome. TRAKTOR'S 12 - Traktor is the DJ tool Native Instruments sells, and this is a set of effects that are most popular with it. Much of what you get seems to be more for the real professional sound designer that works in movie scoring, or the studio engineer who wants wider variety of instruments and effect emulations."
"I can't really improve on the detailed review of the products that is already posted, but I'll say this: the inclusion of Massive, FM8, Battery 4 AND Kontakt 5 makes this purchase worth far more than what I spent."
"This gave me the ability to cash in some Southwest points for Amazon gift cards and get this basically for free."
"I'm pretty sure it's a good piece of software."
"Definitely worth it!"
"Sorry only the individual who received can write this one."
"Came with about 10 discs to install haha luckily I have a 1TB SSD hard drive so my data transfer speed is crazy fast... still took me about 5 hours to install everything."
"Though it is a bit on the expensive side the sheer quantity of VIs and samples that you get more than justifies the price."
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Best Computer Recording Sampling Software

Steinberg Halion 5
For version 5, Steinberg has added amazing new instruments, a new granular synth engine, stunning effects, a wicked slicing mode, and more. Wide range of high-end audio effects, including Reverence convolution reverb, VST Amp simulation and many more.
Reviews
"As far as programming new synth sounds, I'll leave that to all the techie synth sound programmers."
"However, they sound just like my Yamaha Motif XF(which are close, but not good enough). Sample slice options are easy to understand, as usual, with more editing tools. Halion 5 commands most of my projects at home, and I am getting ready to use it on stage using Cantabile."
"I have been using Steinberg products for a long time."
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Best Recording Software

Steinberg Cubase Pro 9 Recording Software, Professional
Designed to meet the requirements of professional producers, composers and mixing engineers, Cubase Pro stands for cutting-edge technology, highly efficient workflows and unlimited possibilities. Unlimited audio, instrument and MIDI tracks and up to 256 physical inputs and outputs.Full Control Room integration, including talkback and four different cue mixes.
Reviews
"Thankfully, I was able to get a free upgrade to 9.5 after activating the product, as part of the Steinberg grace period program."
"Good item."
"It works seemlessly and relatively easily."
"Great Software for Prosumers."
"Installation was easy, though I should point out that downloading the application took nearly an hour. After installing this application on my HP Desktop, it took me less than twenty minutes to produce an nice, workable guitar track."
"As a voice actor I do a fair amount of recording from home, though nothing on the scale of a fully produced piece. I wanted to try something new to see if I'm missing out on features, and Steinberg's Cubase Elements 9 is definitely a different DAW all together."
"I'm a long-time Cubase user and was interested to look at Elements to see if it's a worthy subset of the full-fledged Cubase, and it is. This is Cubase "light", so you can't expect to get all the bells and whistles as with the complete Cubase, but it's powerful enough to give you basic tracking and mix-down functions."
"It will almost download all the way and it will stop, giving you a damaged zip file. If you search this online you will see a lot of bad reviews because of this."
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Best Recording Audio Plug-Ins Software

Universal Audio UAD-2 Satellite Thunderbolt - OCTO Core DSP Accelerator
Run UAD Powered Plug-Ins via Thunderbolt or Thunderbolt 2 connection on new Macs, Dual Thunderbolt ports for convenient daisy-chaining of Thunderbolt peripherals.
Reviews
"My mixes have so much more flexibility now that I don't have to commit the plugins so early on in the process."
"Wish I knew it came with free UAD SSL and Neve plug-ins before I bought them the week before!!"
"Great quality product, nice durable build."
"The UAD emulations are far superior to Waves and require serious horsepower to function."
"Super performance from this unit."
"I can use tons of plugins without feeling troubled that I do not have enough DSP to spare."
"CHEAP CHEAP CHEAP!!!"
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Best Recording Looping & Remixing Software

Mixcraft Pro Studio 7
Mixcraft Pro Studio 7 is a powerful music production and multi-track recording workstation with over 8900 music loops and dozens of audio effects and virtual instruments. Combining 250 MB of high quality Steinway Model D piano samples with advanced physical modeling, Pianissimo recreates the warmth, response, and playability of a real grand piano. Burn directly to an audio CD!
Reviews
"It has all the bells and whistles one would need to do professional work with; and right now it's on the brink of taking on the professional market. I come from Hollywood, and I have no problem using this in a professional setting."
"After using it for a week, I have to say that I am really impressed with this software."
"[UPDATE(1/23/17): Mixcraft Pro Studio 8 is now available with some great upgrades; this review applies pretty much equally to this new version.]. I am a professional music producer and Mixcraft Pro Studio 7 is my go-to DAW. In particular, there is only one feature not included which forces me to occasionally resort to Ableton: continuous transposition of audio files. They might be referring to the number of underlying synths that are used to create various virtual instruments, but there are many, many virtual instruments from kotos, dulcimers, Irish bagpipes, pianos, guitars, banjos, timpani, glockenspiels, glass harmonicas, accordions, bassoons, oboes, and pretty much everything else!"
"Comes with a lot extras including completed projects and thousands of loops and sound effects."
"I was a bit skeptical at first about purchasing Mixcraft Pro Studio 7, mainly because of the large price difference in comparison to high-end DAW's such as Pro Tools or Cubase."
"Excellent home studio software!"
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Best Recording Virtual Instruments Software

Native Instruments Maschine Mikro MK2 Groove Production Studio, Black
Maschine Mikro gives you the entire Maschine software environment, including ALL of the included content that comes with the full version of Maschine, plus a compact hardware controller that's perfect for smaller setups and on-the-go music creation. The software is downloaded and managed via Native Access, which also maintains all NI softwares and plugins with serial numbers in one location. An Internet connection and a graphics card which supports OpenGL 2.1 or higher are required to download and activate MASCHINE software.
Reviews
"Boyfriend bought this to make beats for personal music projects."
"my son luvs his pre birthday gift."
"Excellent buying experience, from beggining through end, brand new, latest model, and manufacturer direct access, with added bonus, 110% satisfied!!!"
"An incredible instrument that is as extremely deep or as shallow as you'd like to explore Very well made."
"Awesome tool, especially if making beats is more of a hobby for you."
"Perfect gift for my teenager son!!"
"Software supposed to be included but wasn’t."
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Best Recording Production Stations Software

Ableton Live 9 Intro Ableton Live 9 Intro DJ and Mixing Software with Sound Library
Powerful time-stretching, arranging and sequencing capabilities let you quickly create and capture musical ideas, turn them into finished productions, and take them to the stage. Powerful and creative MIDI sequencing of software and hardware instruments.
Reviews
"It is exactly what i expected it to be and the serial number works perfectly allowing you to download the 64-bit version from their website."
"It's an amazing program."
"use this for music backgrounds for animations."
"It was just as stated and works perfectly."
"I used to use adobe audition for mixing and propeller heads reason for music making, but this is an all in one software."
"I love it for music production."
"Its great for making dubstep and other types of EDM, and I thoroughly enjoy it."
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Best Sound Editing

Avid Pro Tools 12 Academic (Download Card + iLok)
Avid Pro Tools Academic Edition is for sale to college students, and faculty, teachers, and administrators at K12 Schools and Higher Education institutions only.
Reviews
"Great price and works great!"
"Excellant product at a great price."
"Full version, academic pricing."
"Good product, very recommendable."
"Download procedures almost caused me to just cancel the order."
"really good product."
"I’ve been using pro tools le 8 since 2010 but with all the latest updates pro tools made with 12, it was definitely worth the upgrade since I wasn’t impressed with 9, 10, & 11."
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Best Sound Libraries

Garritan Personal Orchestra 4
More than 150 orchestral instruments-lush strings, intimate woodwinds, joyous brass, powerful percussion, a Steinway virtual concert piano, Stradivari violin, a glorious concert organ, heavenly harps, select Program SAM brass, and more. The entire orchestral collection is integrated with the ARIA Instrument Player and works as a virtual instrument. More than 150 orchestral instruments-lush strings, intimate woodwinds, joyous brass, powerful percussion, a Steinway virtual concert piano, Stradivari violin, a glorious concert organ, heavenly harps, select Program SAM brass, and more.
Reviews
"There are many software instrument players on the market, but few dedicated orchestral instrument units."
"This also has an instrument package to add to the other players (such as a group of Horns) that will add extra depth and can increase the volume of the group."
"The sound quality and control of the orchestral instruments are unequaled."
"It's great for a writer to hear their work done by an orchestra, and that is hard too arrange that many people."
"although the sound is great for orchestration mockups or backing tracks, if you are looking for a super realistic orchestral sound, you'll have to shell out for a more advanced program like VSL SE or EastWest Gold."
"Great addition to repertoir of instruments to supplement current musical software."
"In fact, this one was so good, I bought "Instant Orchestra" and "Harps" by Garritan as well."
"Brass, particularly trumpets sounded very fake."
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Best Music Creation & Sequencing

ACID Pro 7
Sony ACID Pro 7 software is a DAW (digital audio workstation) powerhouse that combines full multitrack recording and mixing, complete MIDI sequencing, and legendary loop manipulation for seamless music creation and post production. Other new features include a dedicated mixing console, MIDI track freeze, input busses, tempo curves, and enhanced format support. With its Transparent Technology design, ACID Pro 7 software removes typical barriers to the creative workflow so you can effortlessly transform ideas into real results. Professional multitrack recording For uncompromising 24-bit, 192 kHz sound quality production live or in the studio, ACID Pro 7 software has an expanded set of features for maximum audio performance. Version 7 retains all the classic ACID Pro features including real-time pitch/tempo transposition during playback and preview, unlimited tracks, and our signature pick/paint/play interface. Simultaneously record MIDI on multiple tracks, apply real time quantization, perform filtering and processing, create and edit drum patterns, and more. Professional workflow features Maximize efficiency with folder tracks and cluster editing to drag, pitch-shift, cut, copy, and paste whole sections of your arrangements. Requirements Microsoft Windows Vista 32-bit or 64-bit SP2, Windows 7 32-bit or 64-bit, Windows 8 32-bit or 64-bit operating system 2 GHz processor (multicore or multiprocessor CPU recommended for HD or stereoscopic 3D) 500 MB hard-disk space for program installation 2 GB RAM (4 GB recommended) IEEE-1394DV card (for DV capture and print-to-tape) USB 2.0 connection (for importing from AVCHD, XDCAM EX, NXCAM, or DVD camcorders) 512 MB GPU memory Windows-compatible sound card DVD-ROM drive (for installation from a DVD only) Supported CD-recordable drive (for CD burning only) Supported DVD-R/-RW/+R/+RW (for DVD burning only) Supported BD-R/-RE drive (for Blu-ray Disc burning only) Microsoft .NET Framework 3.5 SP1 (included on application disc) Apple QuickTime 7.1.6 or later for reading and writing QuickTime files Internet Connection (for Gracenote MusicID Service). The new Audio and MIDI mixing console allow users to visually represent audio signals in a project and provides additional routing options, Allowing for a much more flexible and efficient in-studio recording environment.
Reviews
"Even at first I got no sound and started watching youtube videos and searching forums, nothing. I was frustrated and I turned off the MPKmini editor, hit the keys on the virtual keyboard (that pops up after you load the MPKmini into Acid 7 for Input and Output) and then hit the keys on the MPKmini and whalah, sound to my ears."
"I have always used Acid music studios to edit music."
"I had to get this because I couldn't get my ACID Pro 6 registered with Magix (very long story)!"
"This is the only software to consider in this price range (100-150$). If you are a musician looking to start formulating ideas, look no further."
"I love this software."
"I believe I need to uninstall the original but can't seem to find help from Amazon or Sony on how to do this."
"THIS PROGRAM DOESN"T WORK!!!"
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Best Instrument Instruction

Image Line FL Studio Signature Edition
FL Studio Signature Edition. Fully reworked scalable interface to fit any screen size or resolution Multi-touch capability extends to the Mixer New category Browser tabs and the ability to delete content on right-click Channel Options Menu has moved from the Toolbar Menus to the Channel rack Channel settings have been integrated into the Plugin Pattern Menu moved from the Channel rack to the Toolbar Menu and Pattern Selector Piano roll Auto-zoom can now be deselected.
Reviews
"I've been using FL Studio since it was Fruity Loops...Thanks Pirate Bay...but I decided to man up and purchase myself a legit copy so that my music making experience can be hassle free and legal."
"Great product."
"Great product."
"My boyfriend very like it."
"Super fast delivery with Prime!"
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Best Music Notation

Arobas Music Guitar Pro 6.0 Deluxe Soundbank Edition
The Guitar Pro 6 Deluxe Soundbank Edition includes Guitar Pro 6.0 plus 6 realistic sound libraries featuring vintage electric guitar, modern electric guitar, acoustic/exotic guitars, basses, keyboards/synths, and drums sounds. The newest version, Guitar Pro 6.0, includes over 40 new features while improving on those that have made it the most popular guitar tablature editor available. The WAVE Export allows you to convert a Guitar Pro file into an audio file which is playable without Guitar Pro and can be burned onto an audio CD. Includes Guitar Pro 6.0 plus 6 realistic sound libraries featuring vintage electric guitar, modern electric guitar, acoustic/exotic guitars, basses, keyboards/synths, and drums sounds.
Reviews
"1/1/2015 (12 hours later) Update: BE AWARE: after the THIRD update, my "Guitar Pro 6\Data\Soundbanks" folder decreased in size by about 500 MB's, down to 1.2 GB's, and I now notice an audible "click" when I start playing my score. Amazon, after Cyber Monday, gave me an excellent deal and I thank them for it. I have a Windows 7-64 system, Intel i7, SanDisk SSD, 16 GB RAM, and multi-monitors. I bought the Hotel California Full Score for a dollar. You must first create a mysongbook account, confirm it through your email, buy the score, start GP6, log on to your mysongbook account inside GP6, then you can open the score inside GP6. One thing I don't like about the mysongbook account is that you cannot actually save the purchased score on your local computer drive. I am currently running a THIRD update which involves improved Soundbanks, about 1 GB in downloads. Regarding using GP6 as a tool to learn how to play Hotel California, I will probably have to buy additional printed material."
"All in all if you're looking for tablature software this is a nice product."
"So if you are looking to learn a particular song, it is really easy to find the TAB, run it through GP 6, and start learning."
"With Mixcraft you can drag a WAV or MP3 file into a project and slow it down to 1/2 speed or any speed you want so you can figure out what the heck someone like Eric Johnson or Steve Morse is playing. Otherwise, it is almost impossible for the average learner to transcribe ridiculously fast solos."
"This software package pleasantly surprised me."
"This is the best....not only for learning tunes but for learning the theory behind the tune....but DEFINITELY get the enhanced instrument version.....or you'll basically be listening to bland click tracks....but, that said...it's only."
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