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Best Music Software



M-Audio Software:

Musicians and Composer like to use software to increase their productivity. By the market analysis Avid produces M-Audio. M-Audio is a business unit of Avid Technology manufacturer of a variety of digital audio workstation interfaces, keyboard MIDI controllers, condenser microphones, and studio monitors, among other products. M-Audio founded in 1988, the Company now has independent offices in the US, Canada, UK, Germany, France and Japan.

M-Audio Software mission is to redefine the studio delivers new levels of control, virtualization and mobility that transform the way computer-centric musicians compose, perform and live their creative lives. In addition to manufacturing our own product lines like the popular Delta audio cards, Studiophile reference monitors and USB MIDI controllers, M-Audio also distributes best-of-class products such as Ableton Live. The M-Audio product line brings professional-quality audio to the consumer electronics market.

The music software era has truly arrived and M-Audio is proud to bring you the best of the breed from around the world. The great selection of M-Audio musical products at Active Musician and save as compared to the suggested retail listings! From keyboard controllers and audio interfaces to recording sound cards, guitar amp modelers and multi-effects, mics, monitors, software and many more professional items for your computer, Active Musician covers all of your M-Audio needs. Now M-Audio digital audio and MIDI solutions are the natural choice for musicians and audio professionals



Avid Academic Software:



Now a day students need access to industry-standard tools at the earliest possible point in their academic career to best prepare themselves for a career in the digital arts. Avid digital media creation tools are perfect for media professionals as well as home video – audio enthusiasts

Avid Technology recognized and committed to developing the next generation of digital artists – from video and audio editors to broadcast journalists and 3D animators. Academic Editions are for sale to students, teachers, schools, churches & other religious organizations, and non-profit organizations.

Avid Academic Software introduces new ways for industry professionals to access and share tips and tricks, demonstrations, tutorials and media content; as well as opportunities to connect with both Avid and industry peers. First phase of multi-tiered campaign includes simplification of product line, new software pricing, updated support services and new online community resources for Academic Software.

Sibelius Software:



Today Sibelius is the world’s best selling music notation software, offering easy, fast and smart solutions for audio enthusiasts worldwide. Sibelius: is music notation software that is as intuitive to use as a pen, yet so powerful that it does most things in less than the blink of an eye. Created by musicians for musicians, Sibelius gives you the freedom to do whatever you want, the way you want to. Sibelius also publishes a range of software for the education market – all targeted to facilitate the teaching of music to students at all levels and abilities.

Sibelius Software provides fastest, smartest, easiest way to write music. You can write beautiful scores, inspire spellbinding performances and print pieces that look as professional as published sheet music. Professional used this software the world wide. You also write and refine music easily

Sibelius software is so easy to learn and in use. You can start writing your first piece within minutes – not days! Discover the joys of writing music with a program that’s simple and intuitive.

Shine Music asked:


8eva – an octave higher

A tempo – resume the normal speed after a diversion

Accelerando (accel.) – gradually becoming faster

Adagio – slowly, leisurely

Ad libitum – at pleasure, quite freely

Agitato – with agitation

Allargando – broadening out, often with an increase of tone

Allegretto – moderately fast; slightly slower than allegro

Allegro – lively and reasonably fast

Andante – at an easy walking pace

Andantino – a little slower (or a little faster than Andante)

Animato – with animation

Arco – (for string players) with the bow

Attacca – go on at once

Ben marcato – well marked

Brilliante – sparkling, brilliant

Brio – vigour

Calando – getting softer and slower

Cantabile – in a singing style

Capo – the beginning

Con anima – with feeling

Con brio – with spirit

Con forza – with forza

Con grazia – with grace

Con moto – with movement

Con sordini – with the mutes

Crescendo (cresc.) – gradually becoming louder

Da Capo (D.C) – from the beginning

Dal capo al fine or D.C. al fine written under the last bar of apiece of section – the music is to be repeated right from the beginning until it reaches the word ‘fine (the end).

Dal Segno – from the sign ; the music is to be repeated from where the sign occurs earlier in the piece, then carrying on to the end.

Decrescendo (decresc.) – gradually becoming softer

Diminuendo (dim.) – gradually becoming softer

Dolce – soft and sweet

Forte (f) – loud

Forte-piano (fp) – loud then immediately soft

Fortissimo (ff) – very loud

Forzando (fz or sfz) – with a strong accent

Giocoso – gay, merry

Grave – very slowly

Grazioso – gracefully

Largo – slowly and stately, broad

Larghetto – slower than Largo

Legato – smoothly

Leggiero – lightly

Lento – slowly

Loco – at the normal pitch (generally after playing an octave higher)

Maestoso – majestically

Main droite (M.D.) – right hand

Main gauche (M.G) – left hand

Marcato – marked, accented

Meno mosso – slower, less movement

Mezzo forte (mf) – moderately loud

Mezzo piano (mp) – moderately soft

Mezzo staccato – moderately short and detached; shown by dots covered with a slur

Misterioso – mysteriously

Moderato –at a moderate speed

Molto – very, much

Morendo – dying away

M.M – Maelzel’s metronome

Opus – a work or group of works

Ossia – or (an alternative version)

Ped. – depress the sustaining pedal of the pianoforte

Perdendosi – dying away

Pesante – heavily

Piacevole – pleasing

Piano (p) – soft

Pianissimo (pp) – very soft

Piu mosso – quicker

Pizzicato (pizz.) – plucked (in string music)

Poco – a little

Poco a poco – little by little (gradually)

Presto – very fast

Prestissimo – extremely fast, or as fast as possible

Rallentando (rall.) – gradually becoming slower

Risoluto – with resolution, boldly

Ritardando (retard.) – gradually becoming slower

Ritenuto (riten. or rit.) – immediately slower or hold back

Ritmico – rhythmically

Scherzando – playfully

Sempre – always

Senza – without

Sforzando (sf) – a strong (sudden) accent

Simile – in a similar manner

Sostenuto – sustained

Staccato – detached, short; note sustained for half the written length (shown by a dot above or below each note)

Stringendo – gradually faster

Subito – suddenly

Tempo – the speed of the music

Tenuto (ten.) – hold

Tranquillo –quietly, calmly

Tre corde – release the left, soft pedal of the pianoforte (with three strings)

Troppo – too much

Une corda – depress the left, soft pedal of the pianoforte (with one string)

Vivace – lively

Vivo – lively

Signs:

- accent; give prominence, play with force

[Respectively, strong accent marcato, normal accent, and tenuto]

- the music or passage between the dots is to be played again

(fermata) – musical symbol placed over a note or rest to be extended beyond its normal duration

- tie or bind, indicating that the note being played or sung sustained, unbroken, through the total time value of the notes

- slur; a group of notes are played under a single bow stroke (string), or without retonguing (wind), or in one breath (singing), so that the notes move smoothly with no perceptible break

- metronome mark, indicating the speed at which a piece is to be played; 60 crotchets to the minute

- up-bow (bowed instrument – bow is pushed across the string); up-stroke (guitar – the string is plucked with the hand moving upwards)

- down-bow (bowed instrument – bow is pulled across the string); down-stroke (guitar – the string is plucked with the hand moving downwards)

- a less strong accent placed above or below the note meaning that it is to be stressed but not as strongly as when marked as > or

written by Janet Yun from www.shinemusic.com.au teachers of piano, saxophone, violin, singing, drums, electric guitar, acoustic guitar, flute and clarinet

DC Music asked:


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D.c. Music offers the best rates for: Large clean acoustically treated rooms, brand new gear, heat/AC, cable TV and media lounge area, showers and more. Excellent creative environment and great friendly service at every jam.

All rooms and gear are very well kept. Tama, Yamaha, Mapex, Premier, D Drum, Sabian, Zyldjian, Messa, Marshall, Crate, Rivera, Peavey, SWR, Trace Eliot, Gallien Krueger, Traynor, Beringer, EV, Elite, Yorkville, Sure and AKG.

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Record your jams and get a CD the same day!

D.C. Music’s RECORDING STUDIO is a NEWLY CONSTRUCTED digitally integrated facility that can accommodate any project. Whether its an album, demo or live off the floor pre production, producing, music editing, mixing and mastering, beat production, voice overs (ADR), foley, music for film and television, digital transferring, D.C. Music can take care of it all! They provide you with a wide range of options to suit your budget and purpose for recording. Record your next project for as low as 20 dollars an hour in a clean comfortable environment with experienced producer/engineers and up to date professional gear. Studio musicians and any equipment are available at your disposal.

D.C Music can take any project to the next level. Being Toronto’s only community environment and artist friendly resource center they are able to develop any artist in any aspect of their career…

REHEARSAL AND RECORDING STUDIOS, CONCERTS, ARTIST DEVELOPMENT, ARTIST MANAGEMENT AND LABEL. D.C. Music can give you the guidance and the right tools to get your music exposed. At D.C. Music you can expect the best quality for the best price. For more information visit

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Amber Smith asked:


The music generation has changed. New heights are attained by music industry in the twenty first century. The introduction of mobiles, iPods, and numerous other music gadgets has breathed a new life into music industry. Today’s youth is in synch with new music trends and every other youth you will find carrying iPod! No wonder these are the people who keep searching for new music albums and DVDs to download on their iPods or mobiles, or on their home pc. Though the style of hearing music has changed, there is hardly any change in the taste of music and it remains evergreen since decades.

However, the problem this generation faces is about downloading their favorite music albums. Well, they need not venture through music galleries of their area like their elder music lovers. They get different genres of music at the click of the mouse. But still this youth faces problems with the authenticity of the music download sites. Many people complain that the music download takes hell of their time and they cannot devote that much time to fulfill their hobby of listening to music. Quite right, isn’t it?

Especially today many of us want to download full length DVDs or CDs which take really too long time from many sites. This is troublesome. What can we do to avoid time consuming music downloading websites?

Do research! Yes, doing quality research about various music download sites helps us achieve a good perspective of different features of the site and also its authenticity. The music download site reviews help a lot in this regard. Search for the reviews that are authentically written on different music download review sites. Here they also mention about – 1) the download speed

2) Price for download,

3) limit of access to the site,

4) Number of songs available

5) Compatibility with operating system

These things help you gain little knowledge about the site from where you will download your album.

What are the top cheap music download sites?

Obviously you are concerned about the downloading charges of the site. Many sites offer free download but the quality may be very poor if you opt for it. If you have already tried this, you know what I mean. But still, you do not want to spend hefty sum for downloading the album. Here are some top cheap music download sites that will help you realize your music dream-

1)    Flickr: This is the topmost music download site that promises many things and keeps all those promises without fail. Here you will get unlimited download access with best music quality, fast download capacity, and reasonable price. You can opt for lifelong membership for as less as $29.4. Isn’t it wonderful to have all the features in so less money?

2)    Music Platinum: Here too you will get unlimited download access with good quality of music, and reasonably fast download. For lifetime membership, you need to pay $34.95.

3)    MP3 Download Net: this is also one of the premium music download sites where you get unlimited access and fast download for as low as $34.95(lifetime).

Now that you know how easy it is to download whole albums to your iPod or pc, your work is much easier. The music downloads require some research on your part to enable them uninterrupted. The cheap music downloads sites are plenty. Just beware of fraud sites and opt only for legitimate after thorough search.

Jim Olenbush asked:


Austin, the “Live Music Capital of the World”, is a slogan based on the very essence of this city that is supported by residents and local government alike. There are virtually hundreds of venues where locals and visitors can enjoy every type of live music imaginable.

In 1991, blues musician Lillian Standfield approached the City’s Music Commission to propose Austin be labeled the “Music Capital of the USA”. After extensive research, city officials discovered that Austin had more live music venues per capita than any of the major cities including Nashville, New York City or Las Vegas. It was suggested the city slogan be upgraded to the “Live Music Capital of the Universe”, but the council compromised, and on August 29, 1991, the “Live Music Capital of the World” became Austin’s official slogan.

Since that day, Austin has more than ‘walked its talk’. Not only do they organize a number of regular musical events, they have integrated music into the day to day running of the local government. City officials have also developed various programs to assist up-and-coming musicians with the promotion of their music. Here are just a few of the events and programs supported by this city.

Events



Live from the Plaza provides a series of free concerts on the plaza at City Hall.

Parks and Recreation provides an extensive calendar of events that have musical performances. They sponsor annual events such as the Trail of Lights (a holiday music venue) and a number of summer concerts.

South by Southwest is a major annual film and music festival.

The Austin City Limits Music Festival is a three-day music and art festival held in the fall.

In the summer, local businesses support a series of free blues shows in Zilker Park



Memorials:



Austin Music Memorial at the Joe R. and Teresa Lozano Long Center for the Performing Arts honors deceased individuals who have contributed to the music community in some way.

Stevie Ray Vaughan has a striking life size memorial at Lady Bird Lake.



Local Promotion:



Music on Hold is a program where local music is played in the City’s telephone hold music system.

Austin Music Channel is a local station devoted to showcasing local talent.

Austin-Bergstrom International Airport has live music throughout three different venues in the terminal.

City council meetings include live music in their weekly sessions.

Austin Convention and Visitors Bureau actively promote “Live Music Capital of the World” as a travel destination and also provide assistance in booking local musicians.

Texas Music Office – Texas Talent Registry provides a listing of over 1700 bands and their contact information.



Local Government Support:



Creative Industries Loan Guarantee Program provides loans to individuals or companies involved in music, film, art and technology.

The Austin Music Economic Impact Study describes how music affects the economy and discusses various ideas to promote the music community.

Austin Energy is a rebate program that provides energy savings incentives to over 220 of Austin’s live music venues.

Master0119 asked:

Unlike the other fanmade trailers, this one contains the full package including live action scenes and cinematics. This is, by far, the best it can get. Take this as a reminder, that it’s coming.

John Parks asked:


c has always had its critics and those that wish that rock and pop music would just go away. But over the years rock has proven to be pretty resilient and has withstood the test of time. Pop music is a bit of a different animal than rock music although the two genres do tend to cross over a great deal. Rock music is usually classified as music driven by electric guitar and all the various sub-genres of rock are usually identified with electric guitar driven music. Rock usually has a certain angst or message to it and many in the rock music industry take their music and their message very seriously. Pop music is usually a little more encompassing than rock music. Pop music is used to identify music that seems to be universally popular with a large audience and can cross over from genre to genre. Pop is usually accepted as being short for popular so what we are really dealing with here is what the music industry considers to be popular music which translates into music that has greater potential to sell a lot of records. Pop music is music that is designed to be catchy to the ear and grab a large audience right away. Many newer country artists are starting to write songs that are country but are also being classified as pop because of their universally catchy hooks. Sometimes pop can create other genres of music due to the growing popularity of the music within the pop genre. Disco was pop music until it evolved into its own music genre and became very popular in the 1970′s. Hip Hop is a mixing of rap and pop music that has become an extremely popular sub-genre of pop and stands today as one of the most popular genres of music in the industry. But rock music always seems to be there whether it is in the background as it was in the 1980′s or in the foreground as it was in the 1960′s and seems to be again today. Rock music seems to work in cycles and those cycles are definitely influenced by the popularity of pop music at the time. It seems that there is a large audience within the music industry that likes to jump from one genre to the next and that audience is the one that creates the pop music crazes that rule from year to year and that audience also dictates when rock music is at its peak and when rock music seems to be in decline. In the days when Britney Spears and Christine Aguilera were at the peak of their popularity pop music was at its peak which cause people to lose interest in rock music. Artists such as Pearl Jam and Metallica seemed to lose their luster and their record sales shifted to those acts offering a more pop music sound. Today acts like The White Stripes and The Killers are starting to bring rock music back to the forefront and it won’t be long before rock music is giving hip hop and other forms of pop music a run for their money. For more information on music, visit http://concertsmicroblog.com and http://djmicroblog.com

John Bickerton asked:


Too often choosing the right track from a music library is like hacking your way through overgrown jungle with no map and no sense of direction. It’s a time-intensive, hit-or-miss process that requires listening to multitudes of the wrong selections.

After a while your brain becomes numb and everything blends together and sounds the same. To further complicate things, you’re often searching for music right at the project deadline so there is pressure to find tracks fast.

The fastest way to find the right soundtrack for your work is to first identify the underlying feeling – the emotional thrust – of your production.

Many project creators only think about what STYLE of music they want (i.e. rock, Techno). A better way to proceed is to look for music based on the emotional character of your work.

When you know your project’s emotional themes, you will cut an incredible amount of time from your search.

DISTILL YOUR PROJECT DOWN TO ITS EMOTIONAL BASE

This is what film composers do. After meeting with the director to discuss the film’s meaning and concept, the composer immerses him/herself into the film and begins to investigate its emotional essence.You can do the same thing. Here is a simple exercise to try with your own work.

• See yourself in each scene as an eyewitness

to what is happening

• Become emotionally open to the events that occur.

• Freewrite your reactions. (Freewriting is writing that’s done quickly without any self-editing – you just want to get your ideas on paper in a way that you’ll remember)

• After the production is over, take your

freewriting and look for 1-5 keyword phrases that best describe the emotion(s) of what you’ve experienced.

This technique will work just as well for a 15 second Flash animation as an hour-length video documentary. In each case you want to understand the emotion at the heart of your project so you can choose music that elevates your viewer’s experience.

Here’s an example of the process…

Let’s say you’re giving a 2 hour talk on “Better Time Management” and you want some background music to use in your PowerPoint at the beginning, end, and during the break.

You do the exercise above and here is a sample of your freewriting…

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…better time management = organization,

productivity, structure…getting things done

a sense of being in control,- order – stress free

living, flow, mind like water…

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To derive your emotional keywords from this, look at the benefits of features like productivity and organization.

Benefit of productivity – accomplishment

Getting things done – satisfaction, freedom, liberation

Benefit of Organization/Order – peace, harmony, well-being

Now begin searching the music libraries listening for music that highlights feelings of satisfaction, freedom, that gives a sense of peace, harmony, accomplishment.

Remember, you’re still not locked into any specific musical style, you’re searching for music that will adequately speak to the emotional content of your work.

On the UniqueTracks web site we have sorted every track in our library by its corresponding emotional keywords. If you need a track to underscore the feeling of “satisfaction” or “peace”, all you have to do is click a link and you’ll be presented with a listing of all the tracks in our library that correspond to those feelings.

Once you know the feeling you are looking for,

finding the right track becomes much easier because through the process of drilling down to the emotional core of your work you have already filtered out most of the music choices that don’t apply. You have narrowed your search, created a map, and a way to avoid getting lost in the production music jungle.

It’s always amazing to see how much people can get riled up over Naruto’s love life. Indeed, Naruto’s love life is the subject of many debates and flame wars in the internet. Either way, we can’t deny the fact that the whole ‘romance’ aspect of the anime makes it more interesting. And, since Naruto’s the main character he has to end up with someone, right?

There are two girls in the series who posses the possibility of ending up with Naruto. Unless, the author Kishimoto throws in a new female character onto the mix.

Haruno Sakura

Sakura is and has always been Naruto’s crush, even from the beginning of the series. Although she is Naruto’s teammate but she wasn’t not necessarily his friend at the beginning of team Kakashi. In fact, Sakura displayed a lot of hostility towards Naruto in the beginning of the series, owing perhaps to Naruto’s reputation as the academy’s ‘deadlast’. However, she warms up to him as the series progresses and starts to care for him as a friend. Sure, if you look at it this way, these two seem like they’re headed for the holy matrimony. Naruto’s the main male character and Sakura’s the main female character and they would probably end up together, right? Wrong. Things aren’t that simple.

Ir’a given fact that Naruto has a crush on Sakura, but Sakura is in love with Sasuke instead; Naruto’s direct rival. He is everything he is not since start. As a genius, Sasuke is also good looking, and powerful without even trying. Sasuke does not blatantly return her affections but there are little clues in the series where you’ll see that these two; Sakura and Sasuke definitely have something together. In fact, Sakura and Sasuke’s relationship is one of the most romantically developed in the anime what with the hug in the forest of death where it is only through Sakura’s hug that Sasuke, possessed by the cursed seal, comes to his senses. There’s also Sasuke’s acknowledgement that Sakura is one of his ‘precious persons’. And then there’s this huge matter of Sakura’s confession of love, true ‘I’ll-sacrifice-everything-for-you’ love. And though Sasuke knocked her out, he does leave her with a thank you which is enigmatic and poignant.

Until now, even with Sasuke’s defection, he is still the biggest hindrance to any possibility of Naruto and Sakura getting together since Sakura obviously still loves Sasuke and there are always these tiny clues that he might love her back. All it takes for them to get together is for Sasuke to finish with his goals and have time to ‘restore his clan’.

And though Sakura is warming up to Naruto, it mostly seems like friendship and not ‘romance’. Sakura loves Naruto but only as a friend it seems like moving forth even at Naruto Shippuden. All of Naruto’s advances seems to fail as Sakura rejected him softly without much emotion.

Hyuuga Hinata

Then there’s Hinata. Hinata is a shy girl who, unlike all the other academy girls, had a crush on Naruto since the very beginning. She never looked down on Naruto although she is way smarter then Naruto. On the contrary, the crush she has on Naruto is so huge that she faints whenever she’s on a close proximity to Naruto.

Unbeknownst to Naruto, she is one of the first people who have ever acknowledged him besides Sasuke. Hinata admires him for his courage, strength, determination, and confidence. These are qualities completely opposite of her that she lacks greatly of. Naruto inspires her to be more than she is and it always pushes Hinata to be a better person

Naruto and Hinata have their moments. The most important one is probably the ‘blood oath’. And all throughout the anime, Kishimoto inserts fluffy Naruhina scenes, especially in Shippuden. In my opinion, all it takes for them to get together is a confession of some sort such as Hinata finally gathering enough courage (which fits well with her theme) to walk up to Naruto and tell him she loves him.

We’ll have to watch Naruto to see what happens essentially but my verdict would be that Naruto will probably end up with Hinata and Sasuke will end up with Sakura.



By: Henry Hsieh

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fifaworldcuphero asked:

Coverage of the second half and post match celebration of Brazil vs Germany. Comments by Ronaldo, Rivaldo, Ronaldinho, and Scolari. Thank you for watching the Official movie of the 2002 FIFA World Cup Korea/Japan.