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 ...

The feature-rich update introduces powerful new immersive audio capabilities with Sony’s 360 Reality Audio, integrated ...

When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works. We continue our week-long journey through the new features of Ableton Live 9 with a look at the ...

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 ...

I have always been fascinated by optical character recognition (OCR) systems. Taking a page of text or a chart full of numbers and converting it into an editable file seems to take more than a bit of ...

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 ...

It’s kind of adorable when a music software powerhouse like Propellerhead crams all the ballyhoo about the newest version of its digital audio workstation, Reason 7, into a few sparse paragraphs.

Two months ago, I began what I thought would be a two-part summary of MIDI software for Linux. That plan has changed somewhat, and this installment actually is Part 2 of what will be at least a ...

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 ...

If you’re exploring an AI music generator for videos, podcasts, indie games, or songwriting, the landscape has matured fast. Today’s tools can turn plain text into instrumentals, expand full lyrics ...

The latest Pro Tools introduces powerful new immersive audio capabilities with Sony’s 360 Reality Audio, integrated SoundFlow ...