Freeware: Instrument

	Guitar and Drum Trainer 2  License: Freeware
	Easily learn your favorite songs and music on guitar or any instrument. * Slow down music between 5% and 200% of normal speed * Changing speed does not change pitch * Pitch shift music to match your instrument * 16 band equalizer to filter unwanted parts and boost what you want to learn * Loop music to listen to the same part again and again * Stereo panning to listen to solos in either channel * ID3 tag, OGG tag, file info displayed * Precise time info accurate to 1000th of a second * Precise position info to the sample * Sample rate info displayed * Easy controls you can click, scroll, type, or use your mouse wheel * Large buttons for easy clicking while learning new songs * High-quality sound * Play MP3, OGG Vorbis, and WAV files Guitar and Drum Trainer 2 lets you easily slow down songs and music without changing the pitch so that you can learn new songs and music on your guitar or any other instrument. Convenient looping features let you listen to the same part over and over. You can even skip to the start or end of a loop instantly. You can pitch shift your MP3 music to match your instrument, so you never need to tune your guitar to match the song. Time and position information is given for elapsed time, remaining time, and total playing length. The superior time and position also displays time in HH:MM:SS, SSS.sss, and in samples. Even the sampling rate is displayed for you. You can easily seek and skip around inside of a song with convenient skip buttons and a seek bar. While other similar programs cost $40 or more, and hardware versions are over $250, Guitar and Drum Trainer 2 is free to use, but you can kindly donate if you find it useful. No matter what you choose to do, you can always email Renegade Minds for support or to offer suggestions. Visit http://renegademinds.com/Default.aspx?tabid=46 for more information or support. Author: Renegade Minds| Date: 21-08-2004 | Size: 1040 KB
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	Notation Player  License: Freeware
	Watch the notes and lyrics as you listen to your favorite music. Notation Player helps you find MIDI files on the Internet and converts them to printable music notation with amazing accuracy, exceeding that of even very expensive music software. For example, Notation Player automatically detects and displays grace notes, trills and tremolos that are used in a wide variety of music styles. It correctly notates paired eighth note swing rhythms used in jazz. Sing along or practice your instrument while following the notes on the screen. Notation Player automatically turns the pages for you. Enhance your enjoyment and understanding of music by studying the score as it plays. See the notes that each instrument is playing, just as the conductor does. Learn more about how music is composed and arranged by studying the melodies and harmonies. Also, use Notation Player to view, print, and play Notation (.not) files created by Notation Composer and Musician. All of the original author's notations are preserved, such as accent marks, dynamic marks, and slurs. If the author prepared individual parts for instruments or voices, then view and print just the part you need. You can change the printed page size, and Notation Player will automatically reformat the pages. If you read music, be sure to check out Notation Player. Since you will probably become addicted to it, you'll be pleased that it has no time limits. Author: Notation Software, Inc.| Date: 23-04-2007 | Size: 8424 KB
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	MidiNotate Player  License: Freeware
	Watch the notes and lyrics as you listen to your favorite music. MidiNotate Player helps you find MIDI files on the Internet and converts them to printable music notation with amazing accuracy, exceeding that of even very expensive music software. For example, MidiNotate automatically detects and displays grace notes, trills and tremolos that are used in a wide variety of music styles. It correctly notates paired eighth note swing rhythms used in jazz. Sing along or practice your instrument while following the notes on the screen. MidiNotate Player automatically turns the pages for you. Enhance your enjoyment and understanding of music by studying the score as it plays. See the notes that each instrument is playing, just as the conductor does. Learn more about how music is composed and arranged by studying the melodies and harmonies. Also, use MidiNotate Player to view, print, and play NoteSoft (.not) files created by MidiNotate Composer and Musician. All of the original author's notations are preserved, such as accent marks, dynamic marks, and slurs. If the author prepared individual parts for instruments or voices, then view and print just the part you need. You can change the printed page size, and MidiNotate Player will automatically reformat the pages. If you read music, be sure to check out MidiNotate Player. Since you will probably become addicted to it, you’ll be pleased that it has no time limits. Author: Notation Software, Inc.| Date: 07-05-2005 | Size: 4106 KB
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	PitchPerfect Guitar Tuner  License: Freeware
	PitchPerfect is a highly accurate professional guitar tuner with a very simple to use interface. PitchPerfect eliminates the need to tune an instrument to some kind of conventional tuning. Instead, PitchPerfect can automatically detect whatever note you are playing. This means you are not constrained by standard tunings, or even well known alternative tunings. You can simply tune your strings quickly and easily to any note you want! Features:  ~ Tune to absolutely any note you want.  ~ None of the constraints of conventional tuning patterns.  ~ Highly accurate pitch detection.  ~ Simple and intuitive interface.  ~ Tune your guitar through any available sound input device including Microphone or Line In.  ~ Excellent tool for checking fret board intonation. Author: NCH Software| Date: 09-06-2007 | Size: 169 KB
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	Virtual Piano  License: Freeware
	"Virtual piano" will be useful to the musician in the most various situations (for example to tune musical instrument, to find the key of the heard music, to sound lessons of the musical school, etc.). This program in aggregate with a video projector will allow to explain effectively something for the big audience of pupils of musical schools, colleges and conservatories. The program allows to create and store a collection of the favourite timbres based on possibilities of a midi-synthesizer of a sound card as file collection. Each timbre can be set from one or several various on loudness and transposition timbres (all can be involved from 1 to 16 midi-channels). The virtual piano in aggregate with the external midi-keyboard is like program sound module. The program is free nowadays. In the future versions more difficult management of timbres (division of the keyboard into zones, management of dynamic characteristics of various layers of a sound, etc.) is planned. Author of this program is professional musician Mourat Djoussoupov from Novosibirsk (Russia). Author: Yellow Gold Software| Date: 16-06-2008 | Size: 458 KB
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	Guitar and Drum Trainer  License: Freeware
	Slow down music in 18+ file formats to learn guitar and drums. Big buttons and space bar repeat help to easily work with the Guitar and Drum Trainer while playing your guitar, drums or other instrument. Play from 50% to 200% normal speed. Author: Renegade Minds| Date: 26-05-2004 | Size: 1044 KB
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	MIDInight Express  License: Freeware
	The MIDInight Express II is a free, real time, emulated wavetable MIDI jukebox and renderer. No wavetable cardis required. It can also copy its output to a WAV file for fast MID to WAV rendering. Author: Polyhedric Software| Date: 24-04-2002 | Size: 3800 KB
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	Mallet Mania  License: Freeware
	Mallet Mania is a game of logic and skill. The interface has been designed to resemble the popular Windows game Minesweeper, but the game itself is a brand-new concept. The aim of the game is to flatten every grey square on the grid as fast as possible - the numbers tell you how many times each square needs to be hit before it's flattened. The problem is that the mallet you use to hit them with isn't a very precise instrument, and it will hit 4 squares (in a 2x2 block) at the same time. What's more, hitting areas that are already flat would cause a dent and is not allowed, so completing the grid isn't as easy as it looks... This game needs a quick eye and a fair amount of thought to win, but when you've got the knack, you can upload your best times to see how you rank against other players around the world! Author: Simplism Games| Date: 15-01-2005 | Size: 430 KB
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	Drag music player  License: Freeware
	Drag music game.Some people think to read music is hard and difficult. The following game will introduce the most important topics in reading music in a very easy to understand way. As with anything new, it'll appear complicated and complex but as you study it will make sense. This software helps you understand music and play instrument better. It's easy to use, requires no previous musical background, and provides unlimited hours of enjoyable practice. Author: Music games| Date: 02-02-2006 | Size: 30 KB
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	Mallet Mania Freeware  License: Freeware
	Mallet Mania is a game of logic and skill. The interface has been designed to resemble the popular Windows game Minesweeper, but the game itself is a brand-new concept. The aim of the game is to flatten every grey square on the grid as fast as possible - the numbers tell you how many times each square needs to be hit before it's flattened. The problem is that the mallet you use to hit them with isn't a very precise instrument, and it will hit 4 squares (in a 2x2 block) at the same time. What's more, hitting areas that are already flat would cause a dent and is not allowed, so completing the grid isn't as easy as it looks... This game needs a quick eye and a fair amount of thought to win, but when you've got the knack, you can upload your best times to see how you rank against other players around the world! Author: Simplism Games| Date: 29-01-2005 | Size: 430 KB
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	Bio2MIDI  License: Freeware
	Bio2Midi converts the text of a DNA or protein sequence to a MIDI file, which you may immediately audition, or import into any MIDI sequencer for further compositional processing. Choose to listen to the sequences as 4-note DNA bases, or as 20-note protein amino acids, or both at once. You can select specific data sections to be translated, called exons and introns, and mark areas of interest to be played in a different instrument. In order to provide a fast, easy sketchpad for converting and listening to the sequences Bio2MIDI translations are kept simple, giving only direct pitch translation of the DNA and protein sequences. For more detailed composing, any files you edit with Bio2MIDI can be read by our BioEditor and sequenced by our more powerful composing programs, ArtWonk and MusicWonk. Author: Algorithmic Arts| Date: 02-02-2006 | Size: 1138 KB
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	SVArTracker  License: Freeware
	Advanced music creation tool. Next generation of trackers. Modular virtual studio. * Compatibility with thousands of virtual instruments - can load VST, VSTi and DirectX DMO plugins. * Integrated sampler. Up to 15 typical tracker effects support. * Can import next types of song modules: IT, Impulse Tracker module XM, Fast Tracker 2 module S3M, Scream Tracker module MOD, ProTracker module MID, MIDI file and others: rmi,amf,ams,669,dbm,dmf,dsm,far,mdl, med,mt2,mtm,okt,psm,ptm,ult,umx * All internal operations are 32-bit floating point, except calculations requiring 64-bit floating-point precision. * DirectX wave and MIDI driver output. * Midi input * Asio output driver support (experimental mode) * Renders wave file (PCM16 PCM32 FLOAT32 at 22100-196000 Hz). * Standard windows interface Author: SVAr software| Date: 14-01-2007 | Size: 6448 KB
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	Halftone Search for Google Desktop  License: Freeware
	Google Desktop is a free tool available for download from the Google web site. This powerful instrument is intended as a cross-platform solution that allows you to make searches on your local PC the same way as you search the WEB with Google. But what is good in general cannot be absolutely perfect for every particular case. Halftone Search from Trietech is a free Google Desktop add-on that offers some advanced Google Desktop functionality to MS Windows users. Google Desktop uses an HTML interface. It's fine for the net, but on your local desktop you would certainly prefer an application that uses native Windows controls. Halftone Search solves this problem by offering you an alternative Google Toolbar UI. With the Halftone Search, you can highlight search terms in the results, customize fonts, etc. The program can extract compressed files on-the-fly and show their contents. It also provides several ways to make searches. You can choose from a pop-up menu in your Windows tray, a form or a dockable toolbar in the main program window. In addition to the interface enhancements, Halftone Search also extends the Google Desktop search engine itself. As you may know, Google Desktop uses "drivers" to collect searchable data from your local files. "Drivers" are plugins that allow it to understand specific file formats. Halftone Search installs drivers for compressed file archives (rar, zip, arj, tar, gz, bz2, etc.), MS Help v.2 files (just imagine a searchable index of all the help files on your disks), plain-text files with unicode support, web archives (mht) plus all the drivers you may have installed by MSN Desktop Search. With Halftone Search you can also manage all the installed drivers. With all of the above in mind, we are quickly driven to the conclusion that Halftone Search is a must-have add-on for every Google Desktop user with a Windows powered PC. Author: TrieTech| Date: 30-10-2005 | Size: 2115 KB
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