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 :Also, I think I need an e-mail that plainly says that you agree to be an adviser. --[[User:En Passant|<font color="666666">En</font>]] [[User talk:En Passant|<font color="666666">Passant</font>]] 11:13, 18 September 2015 (EDT)
+::I use Notion (with some plug-ins from Kontakt), Studio One, Sibelius, Garageband, and Audacity. Notion is a sequencing software in which you create notes on a score (although not really of professional quality) and it plays back the sound with samples from the London Philharmonic Orchestra. It is not free, but you can get it on the Presonus website for around 100 US dollars. Presonus also made Studio One (I have the version Studio One Artist 2), which allows for layering of recorded tracks and a collection of synthesized instruments and audio effects. I believe it is also 100 US dollars. I really recommend Notion for making test tracks; its samples can work very nicely together.
+::Kontakt is a company dedicated to replicating real instrument sounds in computer programs. They have very little that is free that can be used without software like Notion or Studio One.
+::For this project, I wouldn't recommend Sibelius; it's top-of-the-line notation software designed to build scores for live performances, not computer playback. Plus it's quite expensive, even the student discount version.
+::Now we get to the free stuff. If you have access to a Mac, Garageband is actually a powerful tool; they've recently added some great synthesizer programs and plenty of loops to make music fast. Outside of a Mac, I have heard good things about and from FruityLoops, a free open-source music production software: I think you should definitely look that up, although I need to get some more experience with it. I also used to use MuseScore, which is a free scoring program that plays back through your computer's MIDI (all modern computers have MIDI, which is essentially very simple instrument sounds used for the playback of music data). Lastly, there's Audacity for raw recording and sound editing. If you play an instrument or know someone who plays an instrument (or sings), Audacity can record that (or really any video service, like QuickTime).
+::You can look up all sorts of free music software (LMMS is also a good one, I just haven't used it), but they do get pretty complicated and some are not available for every system. I'm just letting you know the programs with which I have experience. If you can teach me how to use a particular program I can learn it quickly and help out. Thanks for asking, and I'm happy to go into detail about any of these! [[User:Scruffy|Scruffy]] ([[User talk:Scruffy|talk]]) 12:43, 18 September 2015 (EDT)