Tools and Software

Music and Editing

A collection of audio tools for mixing and editing music. We hope you will find these links useful.

• Musician's CD-Player for Windows from Roni Music in Sweden - speed up or slow down wave files, and CD music without changing pitch. Excellent for practicing along, or for learning or teaching dances. They also have other nice shareware audio and midi software for Windoze and Atari.
• Syntrillum Software - the makers of CoolEdit - a Windoze software package for editing all types of wave files, signal processing abilities include noise removal, speed up/slowdown waveforms with or without changing pitch, FFT filtering, cue lists, play lists, crossfade splicing, plus more. Shareware. Ver 2000 is $69, upgrade from Ver 96 is $29
• Metronome by Nick Baciu is shareware $9, it will do irregular rhythms (9/16, 11/16, etc.)
• CDex is a is utility which can record Digital Audio (DA) tracks from CD into files. The recorded audio tracks can be stored as WAV or MP3 (MPEG-1 Audio Layer-3) files. Freeware
• NoteCard is a Freeware music-reading drill utility for Windows. Comes in 16 and 32 bit versions. It's an ideal tool for anyone in the first stages of learning to read music. It can significantly shorten the time it takes to learn to recognize the notes instantly, an absolutely necessary ability for fluent reading. Practice the bass staff, the treble staff, or both at once, Three input modes, including piano keyboard style, Detailed on-line help. If you are new to downloading they have a short tutorial to help you.
• WinAmp - I got it from TUCOWS - "An outstanding MP3 (Mpeg Layer-3) audio player. Includes spectrum analyzer, graphic equalizer, playlists, and more! You can rewind and fast-forward the files by its handy bar at the bottom. Great user-interface!" Freeware.
• Shareware Music Machine - "The World's Biggest Music Software Site" - Definitely check this out if you are into music or audio. Plenty of tools here.
• ClipMate is a powerful clipboard replacement - it puts items that you clipped onto a stack that you can recall at a later time. No more switching between applications to transfer stuff, just copy everything you need from one application, switch to the next application and you can "power paste" the items into it. It does more - too much to describe here. Very useful! Shareware $20. Winner of numerous awards.