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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.
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Find Best Price at Amazon"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."
"This software package pleasantly surprised me."
"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 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."
Magnetic Layout and other time-saving tools make it easy to get professional results fast-and the premium sound library plays back your compositions in stunning detail. Intuitive music notation software makes it easy to get great results without prior experience.
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Find Best Price at Amazon"Don't even bother with the users manual on this product, go straight to the Internet and u-tube for help."
"I was able to get up and running right away after doing a quick look through the manual."
"Product did not ship. After re-verifying my address, product was 'shipped' w/o a tracking #. After asking again, product was shipped with a tracking # & arrived."
"The quality of the sheet music is Awesome, there're many templates available with which you can start writing your sheet music."
"I like this software for entering notes in step time but I bought it with the intention of playing notes in real time on a midi keyboard."
"The sounds are fantastic and realistic (the exception being electric guitar, as there are so many human variables on the instrument it would be impossible to reproduce electronically)."
"Does not do well on measures where 8th note rests are required."
"I tried this out with the trial version before buying, and it worked fine."
With its integrated Annotate feature, multi-touch gestures, Surface Pro 3 pen support, and more, Sibelius 8 lets you unleash your creativity in brand new ways, whether you're composing for film, television, multimedia, live performance, or in the classroom. Sibelius 8 is the most current version of Sibelius.
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Find Best Price at Amazon"I my gosh!"
"The supplier (East Coast Music) shipped me the "Student" version which I returned (after waiting another week) when the "Professional" arrived."
"Have you tried to contact support?"
Best Instrument Instruction
Everything you need in one package to compose, arrange, record, edit, mix and master professional quality music. Make virtually any sound - FL12 includes over 32 software synthesizers covering acoustic/synthetic bass, electric guitar, multi-sampler tools including piano & strings, general sample playback and beat-slicing (With Rex 1 & 2 support). All customers who purchase FL Studio 12 Producer Edition receive Lifetime Updates, installer is included on the USB Flash Drive.
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Find Best Price at Amazon"Addicted to this software."
"My son loves his new set up and software."
"Excellent price and quality."
"And I love the fact that the software came on a USB stick."
"my sons father loves this item he did a lot of reviews on it and is still learning how everything works but he is very happy with it."
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Perform full PQ code editing, trim events from full-length media and add as new tracks, import regions from Sound Forge software as tracks, read and write CD text, master audio by applying over 20 real-time DirextX effects to events and the master output, and perform disc-at-once CD burning. Powerful CD creation tools.
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Find Best Price at Amazon"The interface is a bit dated, but CD Architect does exactly what it's designed to do and does it better than anything else."
"An inexpensive program for creating CDs when preparing them for mastering."
"Does the trick for me and I don't use a quarter of the functionality of this venerable software, so if you are still about the CD medium this is the software for you and all of your authoring needs."
"This program is gotta be by far the simplest program to use to split your Dj mix up,once you upload the mix then you just split'em up, really that's it!"
"If you are looking for software to create audio CDs that are more than just the standard "simple" CDs that you get with standard burning software, this is what you are looking for."
"There is free software that will do some of what this will do and I didn't see it until after I bought it."
"Works as expected."
"This is the best CD construction software I have used."
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SUIT FOR LONG PERIOD WEARING: Cushioned Foam Ear Pads Cup Entire Ear for Up to 10 Hours of Comfortable, can be really comfortable to wear over long periods of time. CONVENIENT USE WITH CONTROL BUTTON: Built-In Volume Control Offers Hands-Free Convenience, the controls are big, easy to understand and to see or feel for when on your head. SLEEK CLASSIC ELEGANT LOOK: The 70% metal construction which is flexible to adjust for the size of your head , and the aluminum shell is been polished by CNC Technology, features solid, lightweight, smooth touch feeling and good looking to work out in public.
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Find Best Price at Amazon"Good customer service: I tried this headphone at first, no found noise cancelling at all? The Awesome thing is, the seller sent me an email reminding me that I needed to press on/off button twice to switch on/off the noise cancelling function. Compared to the Sony set I have and also the skull candy my daughter has.. these are fantastic! But either way, I could always hear my audio clearly, it blessedly shut out the kid's noise, and others in the house couldn't hear what I was listening too either- the sound didn't leak out... which is good.. when you're listening to old school rap, or romance books. They helped block all the noise of 2 small kids screaming in the house and were comfortable to sleep with on!"
"The noise cancelling feature is controlled by a button that can be turned on even if the headphones are not plugged into a device, so the noise cancelling works even if you don't want to plug the headphones into anything."
"1.Appearance - I like general design, and it looks like high quality and robust - 5/5. 2.Sound quality - sound is excellent with noise canceling, bass is excellent, with noise canceling it's little bit more shallow, with so much bass - 5/5. 3.noise cancelling function - The noise cancelling is good."
"I absolutely love these headphones. My first impression on these headphones is that the construction material is metal for the most part which I think actually helps to make these headphones extremely lightweight, works great for me. I often use this traveling time for getting work done on my laptop and I like listening to music when I do this as it helps me to concentrate. Plane - silence. The E6 headphones successfully blocked most of the engine and cabin noises without giving me a headache,I often use this traveling time."
Best Computer Recording Software
Everything you need in one package to compose, arrange, record, edit, mix and master professional quality music. Make virtually any sound - FL12 includes over 32 software synthesizers covering acoustic/synthetic bass, electric guitar, multi-sampler tools including piano & strings, general sample playback and beat-slicing (With Rex 1 & 2 support). All customers who purchase FL Studio 12 Producer Edition receive Lifetime Updates, installer is included on the USB Flash Drive.
Reviews
Find Best Price at Amazon"I’ve used FL Studio before and it rocks, I can’t wait to see what new fixtures the upgrade has in store for me."
"Addicted to this software."
"My son loves his new set up and software."
"Excellent price and quality."
"And I love the fact that the software came on a USB stick."
"my sons father loves this item he did a lot of reviews on it and is still learning how everything works but he is very happy with it."