Accompaniment software

2. JAMMER Professional
256 track multiport MIDI sequencer with built in studio musicians, musician style editors, graphic style arranger, graphic mixer, graphic editing, harmony composers, MIDI file chord recognition, 200 assorted band style grooves, intros, breaks, stops, holds and endings in a wide variety of styles, 50 drum styles and more.
Type: Demo
Version: 4.0

Audio format converter

2. Audio Conversion Wizard
Audio Conversion Wizard is "All to All" converter of digital audio formats with friendly wizard-style interface, which helps you easily convert: WMA to MP3, OGG Vorbis, WAV PCM. WMA to WMA (resampling). MP3 to WMA 8, OGG Vorbis, WAV PCM. MP3 to MP3 (resampling). OGG Vorbis to WMA 8, MP3, WAV PCM. OGG Vorbis to OGG Vorbis. And with ID3 Tag v2 copying and creation.
Type: Trial
Version: 1.4

3. Awave Studio
Awave Studio is a multi-purpose audio tool that reads a veritable host of audio carrying file formats from different platforms, synthesizers and trackers. It can be used in a variety of ways: as an audio file format converter, an audio editor, an audio and MIDI player, and, last but not least, as a wavetable synthesizer instrument editor and converter. Awave Studio can read almost any imaginable audio or instrument file format - over 200 of them in fact! And it can also write to about 100 of them!
Type: Shareware
Version: 8.5

Audio measurement software

2. Sonoscope
SEK'D's Sonoscope is a collection of several measurement tools for digital audio in one Windows program. The main application is the real time spectrum analyser. Additionally, a sample signal display, a level (peak) meter, a stereo meter and a correlation degree meter have been integrated. Sonoscope works with any Windows audio card, preferred are digital interfaces, such as Prodif Plus or Prodif 96 Pro. But an internal compensation setup allows to use analogue cards as well.
Type: Demo
Version: 1.03

3. SpectraLAB432
If you require a super ultra-high resolution spectral analysis tool designed for research, engineering, technical, design, or high-definition multimedia/audio test applications up to 24/192K, capable of performing complex signal analysis and advanced post-processing with real-time fractional octave (up to 1/96), narrow-band (up to 1M FFT), zoom and dynamic signal analysis, multicolor 3D perspectives ¿C color intensity maps, with a wide array of utility instruments and advanced 2D/3D transformations and Right Click Action Menus for the ultimate in mission critical joint-time and frequency analysis, data acquisition, dynamic data linking, data logging, and parallel test; check out LAB432 software.
Type: Demo
Version: 4.32.17

Audio sequencer and mixer

2. BPM Studio Pro
BPM Studio Pro has all features you ever need to exhaust your creative potential as a DJ. No more CDs needed, thousands of titles are at your disposal for immediate play. Efficient search of title, artist, year, genre, or BPM range. Comfortable, freely editable title archive. Realtime BPM counter, master tempo, pitch and pitch bend make beat-matching a breeze. Realtime loop sampler and sample player. Streaming module enabling operation as an Internet radio frontend software and more...
Type: Demo
Version: 4.2

3. eJay Music Director Pro
eJay Music Director Pro heralds a new era in music creation and production! The new eJay user interface allows you to produce your own music tracks and videos simply, clearly and very quickly. The new expanded eJay audio engine with even more options guarantees the best possible sound quality. Alongside state of the art tools for professional audio editing, eJay Music Director offers unique control of all parameters. At the same time eJay Music Director Pro remains just as easy to enjoy.
Type: Demo

4. Traktor DJ Studio
Traktor DJ Studio brings professional DJ mixing to the digital domain, unifying listening, interaction, mixing and composition. The modular concept of Traktor DJ Studio integrates two high-quality players with a convenient playlist section, DJ mixer, beat matcher, digital scratcher, cue section and filters. The innovative parametric control of the software makes it possible to record all control movements and export a mix in a dedicated file format. Five cue points for setting loops or triggering the next track can be set and saved for each audio file. The unique interactive waveform display, full MIDI control, mix automation and audio file export make Traktor DJ Studio a superior music player.
Type: Demo
Version: 1.1.0

Audio tool

2. EZtimeStretch
EZtimeStretch is the future generation of time scaling software on your PC. It allows time stretching or time compressing a complete musical piece by up to one third its original length without the artifacts of common time scaling software. It works with 8 or 16bit wave files of 44.1 or 48kHz sampling rate and has an easy to use user interface with batch processing capabilities.
Type: Demo
Version: 1.1

3. Transcribe!
The Transcribe! application is an assistant for people who sometimes want to work out a piece of music from a recording, in order to write it out, or play it themselves, or both. Transcribe! offers many features aimed at making the transcription job smoother and easier, including the ability to slow the music down without changing its pitch, and to analyse chords and show you what notes are present.
Type: Shareware
Version: 5.20

4. WaveWarp
Now with DirectX plugin capability, WaveWarp 2.0 is the most versatile audio manipulation and effects software available for the Windows platform. With over 260 modular components, WaveWarp provides the flexibility for creating a vast range of signal processing and audio effects algorithms. With fully native real-time processing, requiring no expensive peripheral DSP hardware, WaveWarp transforms your PC into an advanced audio processor at a totally affordable price. Moreover, with its powerful new DirectX interface offering seamless integration with many popular PC audio software programs, WaveWarp 2.0 represents the ultimate in plugin technology: giving you the power to create, in effect, an infinite number of DirectX plugins for a fixed and unbeatably low price.
Type: Demo
Version: 2.0.4

Digital audio recorder and editor

2. DC-Art Live
DC-Art Live removes hiss, pops, tics, crackle, buzzes, surface noise and just about any other kind of defect from your recordings. With DC-Art you can record you old records through your sound card, clean them with filters, then prepare them for writing to CD with the CD mastering features. All of the filters have real-time preview so you can hear the effects of your changes instantly. Live mode is the ability to do all processing in real time without first recording the signal onto your harddrive. This turns your PC into a real time audio restoration system. Instead of buying expensive dedicated boxes to do audio restoration and processing work, you can use you PC and have the flexibility to perform hundreds of different functions without spending an extra nickel. Live mode, in combination with the multifilter allow for complex processing functions to be set up an run quickly.
Type: Demo
Version: 4.74

3. GoldWave
GoldWave contains so many great features, you will be amazed by all the things it can do: play, edit, mix, and analyze audio, apply special effects, such as fade, equalizer, doppler, mechanize, echo, reverse, and more, digitally remaster and restore old recordings with noise reduction and pop/click filters, record audio from cassettes, records, radio, etc. through your computer's line-in, make digital copies of audio CD tracks using the CD audio extraction tool, view a variety of real-time graphs and VU meters, and convert files to/from different formats, such as wav, mp3, ogg, aiff, au, vox and even raw binary data.
Type: Demo
Version: 4.26

4. MAGIX Samplitude
Samplitude covers all working steps of a sound studio, including MIDI-sequencing, audio, and video in a single tool. Convenient and intuitive, samplitude's new features include its new personalized interface, full mix and edit functions for single objects, and CD-mastering capabilities directly from multi-track projects. With 999 stereo or mono tracks including 5.1 surround panning and surround export, samplitude producer 2496 is the complete professional studio for PCs.
Type: Trial
Version: 6.0

5. Pristine Sounds 2000
Pristine Sounds 2000 is a tool for restoring sounds, for example when you transfer vinyl LP's to CD. The program can also be used for applying effects to your own musical recordings. Pristine Sounds can handle up to 64 waveforms at a time. These waveforms are independent from each other as this is not a multi-track tool.
Type: Evaluation
Version: 00.07.26

6. Pro Tools Free
Now you can enjoy a fully functional version of the world's most popular digital audio production environment absolutely free. Pro Tools® FREE software provides superb recording, editing and processing in the digital domain, utilizing the same award winning interface and technologies that characterize high-end Pro Tools workstations. With only an audio-enabled computer and Pro Tools FREE software (based on version 5.0.1 software), you can quickly and easily do your creativity justice. Hook up a mic or other input source to the A/V interface or audio card on your system, and capture inspiration play-by-play. Then edit to your heart's content non-destructively and instantly.
Type: Freeware
Version: 5.0.1.R2

7. Sound Forge
Sound Forge is an award-winning digital audio editor that includes a powerful set of audio processes, tools, and effects for recording and manipulating audio. This industry-standard application is perfect for audio editing, audio recording, effects processing, and rich media encoding. Version 6.0 continues to improve on its decade-long legacy by adding features that make it faster and more powerful than ever. Edit files nondestructively down to the sample level with extreme speed and accuracy. Choose from over 35 real-time audio effects and processes with more than 200 presets. Sound Forge 6.0 puts the power of an audio production studio on your PC!
Type: Demo
Version: 6.0d.219

8. SoundEdit Pro
SoundEdit Pro is the perfect program for home studio recording and for people who are just getting started with audio editing. SoundEdit Pro provides an intuitive, easy-to-use interface and is designed for the everyday user. It has dozens of amazing audio effects and tools for converting audio files into different formats, including MP3, WMA, WAV, Ogg Vorbis and many others. It even includes the possibility to directly load audio tracks! And that's just the beginning of what you can do with SoundEdit Pro. If you're using audio for anything ¿C websites, PowerPoint presentations, Flash animations, SoundEdit Pro will take your creations to the next level.
Type: Trial
Version: 1.2.800

9. Soundprobe
Soundprobe is the perfect creative tool not only for manipulating and mixing multiple tracks of music but also to make outstanding and diverse sounds for use in multimedia and application development. Soundprobe has been designed to enable complex editing of sounds in an intuitive and powerful environment. The interface uses all the standard Windows features such as toolbars, pop-up menus and keyboard shortcuts, giving you a friendly and uncluttered interface with power at your fingertips. Everyone from dabblers to DJs will find Soundprobe to be the sound editor of their dreams. No slouch on low-spec machines, its ability to load and record sounds directly to hard disk or memory makes it lightning fast on high-end systems.
Type: Trial
Version: 2.51

10. Vegas Audio
Vegas Audio is a multitrack recording and editing system that turns any PC into a professional audio production studio. It allows you to quickly construct and edit professional audio projects. Vegas Audio is perfect for music composition, song remixing, film scoring, hotmixing, broadcast editing, and streaming media.
Type: Demo
Version: 2.0h.434

11. WAVE FLOW
Wave Flow is a very complete audio editor that can play, record, filter and modify a waveform, using lots of different functions, following the WAV standard. Besides, as it has been designed for a Windows 95 environment, it is done visually, easily and intuitively.
Type: Shareware
Version: 4.5

12. WaveLab
WaveLab 4.0 is the quickest professional audio editing and mastering software for Windows PCs. Combining easy-to-use stereo editors with a wealth of mastering features, WaveLab 4.0 offers powerful editing tools and an array of new, high-quality virtual effect processors. Comprehensive CD burning capabilities, real-time audio file analysis and batch processors further add to the functional depth of WaveLab 4.0. Steinberg's latest version also supports samplers, ASIO, WDM, a vast range of file formats as well as file resolutions of up to 32 Bit IEEE/192 kHz. Also new in WaveLab 4.0: real-time input and output monitoring. With its unique Audio Montage window, WaveLab 4.0 offers a revolutionary, non-destructive editing concept whose flexibility and performance no other software solution can match.
Type: Demo
Version: 4.0f

13. Xtrack Audio Suite
This unique digital audio multitrack editing software is intuitive, full-featured, and flexible for broadcast editing, video post-production, dubbing, CD authoring, and other applications. Xtrack features an unlimited number of virtual audio tracks that are dynamically assigned to inputs and outputs, with unassigned tracks serving as work tracks. Comprehensive, nondestructive editing and processing functions include cut, copy, insert, replace, drag and drop, fill with pattern, adjust to marker, time-stretching, pitch-shifting, and track merging. Video and audio autolocation functions allow rapid marking and recall of edit points. A key feature of Xtrack is its ability to create a single sound file in PCM or MPEG format from a multitrack mix, including edits, level automation, and track levels.
Type: Demo
Version: 4.40a

Ear training software

2. Personal Ear Trainer
Ear training for musicians: intervals, triads, chords, scales, melody, rhythm. Accelerate your musical development, hone your skills, take your playing to the next level. Work by yourself at your own pace, using your computer as an instructor. Good aural skills benefit all musicians: become a better soloist, sight read more fluently, transcribe music, learn from recordings etc. Suitable for all instruments and all levels - beginners to advanced.
Type: Trial
Version: 1.10

Electronic music software

2. Orion Platinum
It recreates all parts of a traditional studio including sequencing, the emulation of a mixing desk and all wired rackmount hardware (synthesizers, samplers, drums, effects etc). All calculations inside Orion, are done in 32-bit resolution - twice the resolution of normal CD-Audio. You can export your songs as WAV files, in 16-bit resolution, ready for CD - or in 32-bit resolution, ready for subsequent editing in a different program. If you want to record your music on DAT, exporting at 48 kHz is also possible. Orion supports all major interfaces - VST and DX instruments as well as VST and DX effects are supported. Full automation is available for VST synthesizers so knob movements can be recorded and played back in realtime. The supported audio output interfaces include standard MME drivers, DirectX and ASIO.
Type: Trial
Version: 3.5.1

3. Reason
Reason is a complete studio package with synths, samplers, drum machines, loop players, a sequencer, mixing, effects and much much more. Analog synth, sampler, drum machine, ReCycle!-based loop player, mixer, effects, pattern sequencer, and more. As many of each as your computer can handle. Reason is an infinitely expandable MIDI studio on a CD-ROM, complete with its own realtime sequencer.All the power of hardware, but without the hassle. Forget tripping on cables. Reason doesn't need dusting. Picking up where you left off is as simple as turning the power on. When you save your work, your whole studio setup is stored along with your music. You can even include actual samples, loops and drum kits in the file, for easy web publishing or email distribution to other Reason users. For once, total recall is truly total. And so is the sound. The audio quality is everything you would expect from the people behind ReCycle! and ReBirth. But more importantly, the instruments and effects are loaded with character and attitude. Reason will not just impress, but inspire you.
Type: Demo
Version: 2.0

4. ReBirth
ReBirth 2.0.1 is the software reincarnation of two analog bassline synths and two classic drum machines. We've also thrown in a digital delay, a quad-input distortion unit, a compressor and an analog filter emulation unit, the PCF (Pattern Controlled Filter). All the quirks and subtle qualities of analog, combined with the convenience of modern computers (a minimum of cables, integration with your sequencer software, complete front panel automation, real-time audio streaming and much more).
Type: Demo
Version: 2.0.1

5. Storm
With Storm, you can choose the virtual instruments you wish to use: analog synthesizers, drum machines, sample sequencers, scratch decks... Drag & drop and in a few seconds your studio is ready: no more complicated connections and wires everywhere...
Type: Demo
Version: 2.0

Groove creation tool

2. BeatCreator
A powerful program for editing and processing rhythmic loops and grooves such as drum loops, break beats etc. It can also be used for creating rhythmic loops and arpeggios.
Type: Demo
Version: 1.7

3. DeeSampler
The DeeSampler is a powerful software drum and percussion "sampler" for musicians, audio engineers, and sound designers. With the DeeSampler you can create copyright free drum loops and sound effects using ordinary wave files as source sounds. You can also playback up to 2048 Wave files/drum loops by assigning them to a MIDI key range, just as in a hardware sampler. Each wave "sample" can have up to 24 voices, allowing many thousands of sounds to be performed at once, even on an inexpensive computer.
Type: Freeware
Version: 2.0.1.2

4. EZ-Editor
EZ-Editor covers all basic wav editing tasks (cut, copy, paste, paste to stereo, truncate, ...) and DSP (stereo2mono, mix, normalize, fade in/out, invert phase, multi filter and EZ EQ). It features Wav editing and DSP seamless looping tools, loop crossfade sample editing & DSP formula editor.
Type: Demo
Version: 1.0c

5. ReCycle
Loopists, groovists, samplists! A new world is about to open up before your very ears! New and improved ReCycle 2.0 solves all your groove related problems ¿C and lets you get truly creative in the process. Loops, grooves and breakbeats, powerful sonic building blocks, and great inspirational triggers. No matter what style of music you're into, you can be sure there's a loop out there that can spice your track up a little, or lift it to completely new heights. But handling loops and grooves equals hard work. Hours of pitching and stretching just to get a loop to fit your song's tempo and timing. And if you need to change the key, you're in for even more work. In the end, your loops are controlling you, instead of vice versa. Lucky for you though, help is on its way. From Propellerhead software comes a program that gives you full creative control over your looped material! Welcome to ReCycle ¿C The ultimate tool for sampled grooves.
Type: Demo
Version: 2.0

6. WaveSurgeon
WaveSurgeon, a breakbeat (drum loop) tool, designed to automate the process of editing samples. WaveSurgeon automatically detects segments and loop points within a sample, and will save a MIDI timing template of the sample to a standard MIDI file. Save segments into a SoundFont, DLS, Gigasampler, or Pinnacle bank file, and also transmit via SDS and SMIDI (full support for the Yamaha A3000 / EX, Akai S2000 series, and E-Mu ESI samplers included). Slow down and speed up a loop without changing its pitch,and transpose / pitch bend a loop without changing its speed in real time.
Type: Trial
Version: 2.56

Guitar software

2. Guitar Studio
You can use it to edit and play multritracks tablatures (MIDI importation and exportation, ASCII importation and exportation), view and play all chords, view and play more than 1300 chords, scales and modes all over the neck, tune an instrument, play with a metronome, harmonize and identify chords, scales and modes, and play common multimedia files.
Type: Evaluation
Version: 4.8

3. Guitar Synth
Guitar Synth allows you to control either the synthesizer built into your soundcard or an external synthesizer, by playing your electric guitar in real-time. Unlike a hardware guitar synthesizer, Guitar Synth does not require special pickups to be attached to your guitar. You simply attach the guitar to the microphone input of your soundcard using a simple 0.25" to 5.25mm audio adapter available from electronic and audio shops. Play the guitar and Guitar Synth will convert the audio signal from your guitar into polyphonic MIDI. Hear beautiful synth chords and lead lines. You can even control the synthesizer using your voice, a CD or other audio input. You can also use Guitar Synth to tune your guitar.
Type: Shareware
Version: 2.1

4. Power Tab
It allows for the creation of tablature scores that can be printed out and played back via MIDI. Features standard music notation and symbols as well as all of the popular tablature symbols. Can import MIDI tracks, and can export to ASCII text, HTML and MIDI format 1 files.
Type: Freeware
Version: 1.02

5. ReValver
ReValver is a guitar amplifier simulator in the form of a DirectX compatible plugin and will run in any DirectX compatible host system like Cakewalk, Pristine Sounds, Cool Edit etc... You can build your own system in seconds by simply combining your favorite set of effects and amp-types. The possibilities are endless! And it sounds like a real amp!
Type: Trial
Version: 01.05.24

6. RT Player LE
RT Player LE, a stand-alone application, is an easy-to-use host application for chaining DSound's VST plug-ins, which allows control of all chained VST plug-in parameters from any MIDI controller. RT Player LE has an ASIO-compatible in/out interface, which means that PCI audio cards, USB audio interfaces and FireWire audio interfaces with low latency ASIO drivers (less than 10 ms) can be used for realtime performance (on stage or in the studio).
Type: Freeware
Version: 1.1

MIDI editor and librarian management

2. SoundDiver
SoundDiver 3.0 is Emagic's universal, cross-platform MIDI device editor and librarian program. With its unsurpassed list of supported devices, a newly-designed user interface, and seamless integration with Logic Audio, SoundDiver 3.0 is simply the most advanced Editor/Librarian for both the Mac OS and Windows platforms. SoundDiver 3.0. includes editors and librarians for over 500 MIDI devices!
Type: Demo
Version: 3.0.2

MIDI tool

2. FixedLength
Do you need to quickly set the appropriate length of the notes in your MIDI track in Cakewalk while auditioning the other tracks? Are you having a hard time doing all this in real-time? We know your problems all too well, and we've created a solution. Be sure to try FixedLength, a free MIDI FX Plug-in for Cakewalk. With FixedLength your note length problems are a breeze to solve.
Type: Freeware
Version: 1.0

3. Looper
Would you like to create a MIDI loop in a Cakewalk track by performing a single action? How would you like to easily create your own MIDI loop libraries and use them in your future work? Would you then want to easily manipulate those libraries and have lightning fast access to any of them from within any song? Do you want to select and audition your loops on the fly? If you want all this and more, try Looper. You can assign Looper to any MIDI track in Cakewalk. Simply select a part of the track you want to loop, drag & drop it into the Looper window, and just like that you're done. OK, do you like your creation? Looper allows you to create your own MIDI loop libraries and sort them any way you want. More importantly, Looper lets you select any MIDI loop from your library and immediately audition it.
Type: Freeware
Version: 1.03

4. MIDImage
Computer graphics consist of pixels (picture elements) having a red, green, and blue color component. MIDImage maps one of the RGB values to a MIDI note. Each note is further mapped to a chosen musical scale. The color-values can also be used to set the note's volume and duration.
Type: Demo
Version: 2.3.3.1

5. MIDI-OX
MIDI-OX is both a diagnostic tool and a system exclusive librarian. It can perform filtering and mapping of MIDI data streams. It displays incoming MIDI streams, and passes the data to a MIDI output driver or the MIDI Mapper. You can generate MIDI data using the computer keyboard or the built-in control panel. You can even record and log MIDI data and then convert it to a standard MIDI file for playback by a sequencer.
Type: Freeware
Version: 6.2

6. Rhythm'n'Chords Lite
Rhythm'n'Chords offers musicians the easiest possible method for creating rhythm guitar parts in MIDI format. Simply enter chord symbols into your measures and select a rhythm pattern and your guitar part is ready. Even beginners can quickly create professional quality rhythm guitar parts.
Type: Freeware
Version: 2.04

7. SlicyDrummer Lite
SlicyDrummer is a simple, but powerful tool for instant creation of drum loops by combining individual drum instrument patterns. It provides user with a unique way to quickly construct drum loops by selecting the appropriate prerecorded pattern for each individual drum instrument.
Type: Freeware
Version: 1.0

8. Style Enhancer
Style Enhancer 3.0 (SE3.0) - is the stand-alone software for powerful, intelligent transformation of MIDI-sequences (Standard MIDI Files). With the help of the special algorithms-rules organized as Styles SE3.0 analyzes MIDI-sequences and inserts or changes the commands to the following controls, Tempo, Start Time, Duration, Velocity, Volume, Pitch Wheel, Modulation, Panning etc. The result of this transformation is a MIDI file that sounds like a live musician performing on a real instrument. Using other settings you can achieve unreal sounding MIDI files. These would be interesting from a musical point of view, and fully controllable using SE3.0.
Type: Demo
Version: 3.0

9. VeloMaster Lite
VeloMaster is a real time MIDI dynamics processor with interactive graph. The plug-in works with note velocity and lets you drastically modify the dynamics of your MIDI track or MIDI keyboard, similarly to using enhancer, compressor, limiter, expander, gate or velocity curve. Its convenient interface with real-time indicators and mouse adjustable curve lets you quickly and easily achieve the desired sound.
Type: Freeware
Version: 1.13

MIDI-to-Wave render

2. MIDInight Express
The MIDInight Express is a FREE, programmable, software wavetable MIDI player and MIDI to WAV renderer. No wavetable card is required. Any entry-level 16 bit sound card, or even the simple sound circuits found in most laptops, will do just fine. Since the MIDInight Express supports the same patch format as the Mellosoftron virtual sampler, you can use it with your own instrument sounds! Add the Ace of WAV sound editor and synthesizer and it's like having a complete recording studio inside your PC!
Type: Freeware
Version: 2.7

3. WAVmaker
Unlike sound cards and soft synths constrained by the requirements of real time operation within a limited memory and CPU footprint, WAVmaker can turn MIDI files of virtually unlimited polyphony and complexity into CD-quality WAVs with perfect timing precision, using fully editable instrument patches, multiple, programmable effect chains and samples of virtually unlimited size, without any of the noise and distortion introduced by conventional recording.
Type: Evaluation
Version: 3.6

MP3 tool

2. MP3 Juicer
Spice up your MP3 collection with this awesome utility that does it all. MP3 Juicer encodes an entire CD or one or more tracks to MP3 format at the click of a button. MP3 Juicer can also decodes MP3 files to WAV format. MP3 Juicer has a playlist for your MP3 files with these features: playlist editor lets you add, remove, rename files, read MP3 header information, add, edit and read MP3 tags.
Type: Demo
Version: 2.0

3. MP3Ocx
This control allows developers to create their own MP3 Player, Tag Editor or Mixer in Visual Basic. It has advanced playback controls (like: Play, Pause, Stop, Seek, Speed and Volume). MP3Ocx can also view the MPEG information and view/edit and remove tags. This version has the ability to play multiple MP3 files at the same time using more controls. It includes a VB 5 and 6 example and a Documentation.
Type: Evaluation
Version: 2.0

4. MPEG Audio Scissors
With MPEG Audio Scissors,you can cut and join MP3 files at frame, process multiple files, save all selected frames in one MP3 file.
Type: Freeware
Version: 1.4

5. Tag Edit Pro
This Tag editor was created for real converting file name to ID3 Tag (and ID3 Tag to file name). It can read artist, album, title, year and comment from the file names. It uses macros and separators of any length and characters when parsing the file name and extract what you define as "Artist", "Title"... from file name. Supports multiple conversions on any direction (File Name -> ID3 Tag -> File Name) and preview of modifications.
Type: Freeware
Version: 3.1.7

6. Winamp
A powerful player with base skin design ,built-in spectrum analyzer and oscilloscope ,ID3 tag editor and many other additional controls and functions.
Type: Freeware
Version: 3.0

Music workstation

2. Cubasis InWired
Cubasis InWired turns your PC into a professional recording studio. With up to 48 audio (Wave & MP3) and 64 MIDI channels, you can create sophisticated arrangements with ease. All the tools you need to make music are on board - a virtual synthesizer, a totally unique bass, and a ready-to-groove drum machine. Compose songs, process sounds and save your tracks on CD or in MP3 format in pro CD quality.
Type: Freeware
Version: 2.04

3. Harmony Assistant
Harmony Assistant is a useful software for computer-assisted tunes writing and composition. Its harmonizing capabilities enable the composer to build quickly and efficiently accompanied tunes, with multiple instruments and drum background.
Type: Demo
Version: 8.1.3

4. n-Track Studio
n-Track Studio is an audio & MIDI digital multitrack recorder that transforms your PC into a powerful audio recording studio. You can record, playback, overdub just like with a tape multitrack recorder, but you can exploit the flexibility and power of today's PCs for applying effects, realtime input processing, automated aux channels sends and returns, destructive and non-destructive wave editing. The program supports 24bit-96 khz recording, multiple channels soundcards, live input processing, mp3 encoding and much more.
Type: Evaluation
Version: 3.1.7

5. PowerTracks Pro Audio
A professional, fully featured digital audio and MIDI workstation, packed with features for musicians, students and songwriters. With seamlessly integrated digital audio / MIDI recording, and built-in music notation, PowerTracks turns a typical soundcard equipped Windows PC into a music production powerhouse!
Type: Demo
Version: 8.0

6. Sonar
The Sonar digital multitrack recording system is a new generation of professional audio technology from Cakewalk, the leading developer of music and sound software for Windows. Sonar is the musician's choice for recording, editing, mixing, and delivering music and sound projects for CDs, film and video scores, the Internet, or any multimedia project. Sonar offers you speed, precision, elegance, and stability, providing the complete software-based production environment.
Type: Demo
Version: 2.0

Sample converter

2. Osmosis
Osmosis is an easy to use application for converting Akai and Roland format CD-ROM sample libraries to Unity DS-1 or SampleCell format, using any Macintosh or PC with a CD-ROM drive. Samples can be auditioned directly from the CD, then transferred to hard disk in AIFF, Sound Designer II, WAVE, or Unity DS-1 format.
Type: Demo
Version: 1.1.3

3. Translator
Translator converts most popular sampler formats between each other. For example, take any E-mu CD-ROM, and Translator can convert one of it's samples, or presets, or banks - or the entire CD-ROM - into Akai format, and then write it directly to an Akai-formatted hard drive for playback on an AKai sampler (or any Akai-compatible sampler).
Type: Demo
Version: 2.5

Scoring software

2. Finale 2003
Easiest to use. Easiest to Learn. Most powerful and most popular music notation software!
Type: Demo
Version: 2003

3. PhotoScore
PhotoScore scans and reads printed music, and plays back scanned music with astonishing realism using the Espressivo™ feature. Results can be used in MIDI sequencing and editing software. Useing the latest technology available, it can read a wide range of musical markings. It is fast and accurate!
Type: Demo
Version: 2.09

4. SharpEye
You can use SharpEye to convert printed sheet music into a MIDI file or music notation file which can then be imported into a MIDI sequencer or music notation program. This process is called music OCR by analogy with the more common text OCR.
Type: Trial
Version: 2.29

5. Sibelius 2
Sibelius helps you write, play, scan, edit and print scores, and even publish them on the Internet. Whatever kind of music you write, at whatever level, Sibelius will help you work more quickly and effectively.
Type: Demo
Version: 2.1.1.17

Software sound module

2. CrusherX-Live
Crusher-X is a shareware program whose powerful vapor synthesis algorithm enables you to synthesize very complex and cool waves. Crusher-X does distill and transform sounds quite radically. Based on traditional granular synthesis, Crusher-X can be used as a synthesizer or as a versatile effects unit. You can create sounds with the internal oscillators or samplers as well as real-time stereo input sound (e.g. a microphone). Internal feedback loops allows self-oscillation within Crusher-X! Multichannel ASIO Outputs allows extreme impressive sound installations and multichannel compositions up to 10 independent channels.
Type: Shareware
Version: 2.40

3. Infinity
With Infinity, you can now create synthesizers, samplers, digital audio effects, MIDI effects, and multimedia presentations which are as simple or as complex as you need them to be. Its potential is virtually limitless. Imagine creating your own synth using 4, 8, 12 or16 oscillators instead of just 2 that a typical hardware synthesizer usually gives you. Infinity is a powerful and intuitive real-time audio development platform. An extensive set of modules ¿C there are over 370 of them ¿C provide the building blocks you use to create your own audio tools. Building your instrument is as easy as clicking, pointing and linking up each of the necessary elements together. You will quickly be able to build virtually any audio effect, synth, or sampler you can imagine. With Infinity, you can connect any module to any other module. This gives you the freedom to create your own collection of completely original sounds from the unusual and unexpected, to the extreme ¿C all of the things you can't do with your traditional instrument hardwired to the standard oscillator-filter-amplifier audio path. This "no boundaries" approach will make Infinity an indispensable part of your studio. Infinity gives you all of the standard synth and sampler sounds when you need them but now you will also have the tools to undertake any audio exploration you can imagine ¿C from twisted FM, to mutated samples, to frequency domain processed sounds. Infinity isn't just a self-contained sound creation studio. It also includes support for all major Windows audio and MIDI plug-in formats: DXi, VSTi, VST, DirectX 8.0 and MFX.
Type: Demo
Version: 2.0

4. MASS
Mass is a software synthesizer for the serious desktop musician. If you use a Windows 95/98 PC and produce dance music, this beasty is for you.
Type: Shareware
Version: 1.51

5. Reaktor
Reaktor features: native modular real-time software for synthesis, sampling and effects processing, superb sound quality due to state-of-the-art algorithms with 32-bit floating point precision, sample rates up to 96kHz with compatible hardware, hundreds of instruments and thousands of presets included, completely modular structure allows easily editing of existing instruments and intuitive construction of unique creations, improved audio engine for increased performance (Pentium®III/ Pentium®4 and G4 optimized), enhanced user interface with drag & drop and floating properties palette, reads Akai samples directly from disc, reads and writes audio files from hard disk, and powerful array module allows graphical waveform, envelope, and MIDI editing.
Type: Demo
Version: 3.05

6. SimSynth
SimSynth is a standalone application that generates wav-files and/or presets that can be used in Fruityloops or any other application capable of handling wav-files.
Type: Demo
Version: 2.7

7. SynthMaker
Synthmaker is a virtual synthesizer editor to be used with host applications that support DXi plug-ins. Most virtual synthesizers are based on a fixed configuration and present to the user a predefined front-panel where it is not always obvious how the different blocks interact with each other. With Synthmaker you can design your own virtual synthesizers or at least look behind the front control panel in order to understand what is happening in the background.
Type: Freeware
Version: 0.4.alpha3

8. Tassman
The Tassman is a truly modular software synthesizer based on physical modeling.Whether you are new to the world of synths and sound design, or a seasoned industry professional, the Tassman offers virtually endless creative possibilities, in an intuitive, easy to use environment.
Type: Demo
Version: 2.1

9. VAZ Modular
Vaz is a real-time model of a modular analogue synthesizer.
Type: Demo
Version: 2.1

10. VSampler
VSampler emulates a hardware sample-player on a Windows-PC and turns every DirectX- or ASIO-soundcard into a powerful 24bit/96kHz sampler and synthesizer with up to 64 stereo-voices and 16 individual outputs, controlled through an easy to use interface. The native VST instrument offers sample accurate timing and seamless integration into a VST-environment, the DXi version integrates directly into Cakewalk's Sonar, the standalone-version can be driven by any MIDI-sequencer through a virtual MIDI port.
Type: Demo
Version: 3beta1

Wave-to-MIDI converter

2. Intelliscore Polyphonic
IntelliScore is a WAV to MIDI converter for live performance, making MIDI files, transcribing music, and finding chord names from polyphonic wave and MP3 files. Use your voice or analog instrument as a realtime MIDI controller or record directly into a sequencer. No need for expensive MIDI pickups! IntelliScore listens to polyphonic WAV and MP3 music and helps figure out the notes, chord names, and key for you. Spend more time making music...Spend less time picking out the notes. IntelliScore faithfully recreates effects such as pitch bend, vibrato, tremolo, and portamento when the WAV or MP3 audio is monophonic.
Type: Trial
Version: 4.0

3. Wav-2-Midi
This version of Wav-2-Midi is capable of monotonic note detection, as well as an auto-velocity detection feature (which can be turned off, if the user wishes). Also the sensitivity of the note detection algorithm is adjustable, allowing you to configure the conversion to your own playing style. The appearance of the application is also user-specific, allowing you to adjust the colors and appearance of all text and buttons. Other options for display incorporate skins which you can make yourself to make the application look like you want it to, with a personal touch. Also included is a Wav editor for playing and recording wave files, as well as a Midi file player for listening to the Midi files produced by the conversion.
Type: Evaluation
Version: 1.0