Music Software Weekly - January 13 2006

Music Software Weekly - January 13 2006
Vol. 10, No. 2
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In This Issue

- Music Software Weekly is now available in HTML
- News Headlines & Features
- Recent Music Software Discussion
- Weekly Editor's Choice Award: athenaCL v1.4.3
- Windows users section
* Highlights of New Windows Downloads
- Tom's Music Thing
- Macintosh users section
* Highlights of New Macintosh Downloads
- Linux users section
* Highlights of New Linux Downloads
- Send us your Feedback
- Unsubscribing Information

o You can get help deciding what software to get, how to solve particular computer problems, and just about
anything else involved in making music on computers from our Music Software Discussion and Help page
http://jam.hitsquad.com/vocal/?nl02

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This edition of Music Software Weekly is proudly brought to you by...

Line 6 have a range of great offers with ToneCore pedals, Bass PODxt Live, Variax Workbench, and more - click here: http://www.hitsquad.com/rd/line6/?nl02

The New Yamaha AW1600 The Mobile Musicians Recording Studio Let it take you all the way from Inspiration to Finished CD. http://www.hitsquad.com/rd/yamaha/?nl02

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News Headlines and Features

Hitsquad adds RSS Notification for updated software
http://jam.hitsquad.com/vocal/about1200.html?nl02

Kjaerhus Audio Launches Spectra
http://jam.hitsquad.com/vocal/about1352.html?nl02

Digidesign Adds the Factory Software Bundle to Digi Systems
http://jam.hitsquad.com/vocal/about1353.html?nl02

Realmac Software to preview RapidWeaver 3.5 at Macworld
http://jam.hitsquad.com/vocal/about1354.html?nl02

Recording School Online reaches 100 hours of online material
http://jam.hitsquad.com/vocal/about1355.html?nl02

HaRdDiSkLiFe.com Streams FREE Mixing Movie
http://jam.hitsquad.com/vocal/about1356.html?nl02
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Recent Music Software Discussion

Need help with music software? Head to the SMM discussion forums at
http://jam.hitsquad.com/vocal/?nl02

Recent and popular threads:

MIDI driver for "Soul Drum"???
http://jam.hitsquad.com/vocal/about1343.html?nl02

Copying cdg files
http://jam.hitsquad.com/vocal/about1341.html?nl02

Help! Yamaha AW-1600 w error - Wrong Word Clock
http://jam.hitsquad.com/vocal/about1351.html?nl02

Need good audio editing program
http://jam.hitsquad.com/vocal/about1359.html?nl02
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Weekly Editor's Choice Award: athenaCL v1.4.3

The athenaCL system is an open-source, cross-platform, object-oriented composition tool written in Python;
it can be...... Check it out.

Read more: http://jam.hitsquad.com/vocal/about1362.html?nl02

Looking for more csound and midi utilities software?
Head to http://www.hitsquad.com/smm/cat/CSOUND/?nl02
Head to http://www.hitsquad.com/smm/cat/MIDI_UTILITIES/?nl02

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Windows users section

Current Top 5 PC Downloads
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1. CloneCD
2. Creative Labs Sound Blaster 16/32/AWE Drivers
3. Windows Media Player 9
4. DirectX 8.1 Runtime
5. dBpowerAMP Music Converter

You can find the top 50 downloads via
http://www.hitsquad.com/smm/top50/?nl02

Highlights Of New Windows Downloads
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o Voxengo Audio Delay v1.2 - 568 KB - Freeware
http://www.hitsquad.com/smm/programs/VoxAudioDelay/?nl02
Stereo audio delay plug-in. [VST]

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o Mp3tag v2.35 - 1.49 MB - Freeware
http://www.hitsquad.com/smm/programs/MP3_TAG/?nl02
Multi-format tag editor.

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o 2-2-SiX v1.01 - 2.72 MB - Demo
http://www.hitsquad.com/smm/programs/22Six/?nl02
Stereo to 5.1 Surround upmixer. [VST]

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o Midi Pattern Generator v1.0 - 932 KB - Freeware
http://www.hitsquad.com/smm/programs/MIDIPattGen/?nl02
64-step analogue style midi sequencer.

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o Voxengo Boogex v1.3.1 - 1.51 MB - Freeware
http://www.hitsquad.com/smm/programs/VoxBoogex/?nl02
Guitar amplifier PC VST plug-in.

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o megaCeloX v1.1 - 2.66 MB - Freeware
http://www.hitsquad.com/smm/programs/megaCeloX/?nl02
Polyphonic stereo synth. [VST]

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o Songsheet Generator v2.3.2.1 - 1.20 MB - Donationware
http://www.hitsquad.com/smm/programs/SongsheetGenerator/?nl02
A free program for printing song sheets.

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o YamiPod v0.90 - 3.22 MB - Freeware
http://www.hitsquad.com/smm/programs/YamiPodWin/?nl02
Free iPod manager.

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o WinMPG Video Convert v6.1 - 2.93 MB - Shareware
http://www.hitsquad.com/smm/programs/WinMPG/?nl02
Video Converter to convert avi and mpeg.

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o Cheetah CD Burner v3.36 - 7 MB - Demo
http://www.hitsquad.com/smm/programs/CheetahCDBurner/?nl02
Burn Audio, Data, and ISO CDs.

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o VST Pulse Editor v1.2 - 2.02 MB - Shareware
http://www.hitsquad.com/smm/programs/PulseEditor/?nl02
MIDI synth editor. [VST]

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o SynthEdit v1.008 Beta - 3.29 MB- Shareware
http://www.hitsquad.com/smm/programs/SynthEditBeta/?nl02
Modular Synthesiser - Make your own VST plug-in synths.

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o J. River Media Center v11.1.091 Beta - 12.2 MB - Shareware
http://www.hitsquad.com/smm/programs/JR_mediacenter/?nl02
Organizes and plays music, photo and video files. Rips, burns and encodes and much more.

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o TagTuner v1.1 - 2.30 MB - Shareware
http://www.hitsquad.com/smm/programs/TagTuner/?nl02
Audio tag editor, unknown album recognizer and cover finder with built-in player.

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o Arial Audio Converter v2.3.30 - 2.08 MB - Shareware
http://www.hitsquad.com/smm/programs/ArialAudioConverter/?nl02
Audio conversion tool.

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o athenaCL v1.4.3 - 7.71 MB - Open Source
http://www.hitsquad.com/smm/programs/athenaCL_win/?nl02
Polyphonic, poly-paradigm algorithmic music composition in an interactive command-line environment.

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o FL Studio v6.0.5 - 46 MB - Demo
http://www.hitsquad.com/smm/programs/FruityLoops_win95/?nl02
Loop and Song creation tool.

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o iPod Media Studio Build 007 - 77.6 KB - Shareware
http://www.hitsquad.com/smm/programs/iPodMediaStudio/?nl02
iPod Media Studio.

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o ChordME v1.1 - 654 KB - Freeware
http://www.hitsquad.com/smm/programs/ChordME/?nl02
Converts incoming midi notes into full chords. [VST]

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o iTunes v6.0.2 - 34.7 MB - Freeware
http://www.hitsquad.com/smm/programs/ItunesWin/?nl02
Jukebox - Buy and download from iTunes Store - Burn CDs - Transfer to iPod.
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Tom's Music Thing

Atari's excellent forgotten music gear

This is the Atari Hotz Box, designed by Jimmy Hotz. If you're thinking he sounds like some crazy '80s dude with terrible hair, who used to ...

See pic: http://jam.hitsquad.com/vocal/about1361.html?nl02

Tom's Music Thing is brought to you by Music Thing, the London-based website about music gadgets.
http://www.musicthing.co.uk/ 

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Macintosh users section

Current Top 5 Mac Downloads
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1. Pro Tools FREE
2. Winamp for Mac .71 Alpha
3. Acquisition
4. DSP-Quattro
5. EasyWMA

You can find the top 50 downloads via
http://www.hitsquad.com/smm/mac/top50/?nl02


Highlights Of New Macintosh Downloads
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o Amadeus II v3.8.6 X - 2.92 MB - Shareware
http://www.hitsquad.com/smm/programs/Amadeus/?nl02
Direct-to-disk sound editor and analyzer with MP3 support.
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o Disco v2.9 X - 2.16 MB - Shareware
http://www.hitsquad.com/smm/programs/discomac/?nl02
Complete DJ Mixing setup.
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o iTunes v6.0.2  X - 19.7 MB - Freeware
http://www.hitsquad.com/smm/programs/AppleiTunesOSX/?nl02
Jukebox - Buy and download from iTunes Store - Burn CDs
- Transfer to iPod.
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o athenaCL v1.4.3 X - 8.46 MB - Open Source
http://www.hitsquad.com/smm/programs/athenaCLX/?nl02
Polyphonic, poly-paradigm algorithmic music composition in an interactive command-line environment.
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o Amazing Slow Downer v2.8.1 X - 585 KB - Shareware
http://www.hitsquad.com/smm/programs/AmazingSlowDownerOSX/?nl02
Slows down music without changing the pitch.
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o BurnX Free v1.5 X - 1.08 MB - Freeware
http://www.hitsquad.com/smm/programs/BurnXFree/?nl02
CD burner with multi-session and hybrid format support.
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o WIDI Audio To MIDI v1.04 VST - 1.04 MB - Shareware
http://www.hitsquad.com/smm/programs/WIDImac/?nl02
Realtime Audio to MIDI conversion plug-in.
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o iTuneMyWalkman v0.92 X - 222 KB - Freeware
http://www.hitsquad.com/smm/programs/iTuneMyWalkman/?nl02
Sync iTunes with your Sony Ericsson Walkman phone.
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o Mopis v1.1 X - 13.6 MB - Demo
http://www.hitsquad.com/smm/programs/MopisMAC/?nl02
Software synthesizer that combines traditional subtractive synthesis with reconstructive synthesis. [VST]
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o Radio Days v3.0.5 - 372 KB - Freeware
http://www.hitsquad.com/smm/programs/RadioDays/?nl02
Announce iTunes song titles & exports to iPod shuffles.
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o PolyPhontics GB v1.1 X - 7.90 MB - Shareware
http://www.hitsquad.com/smm/programs/PolyPhonticsGB/?nl02
Builds Software Instruments for GarageBand.

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Linux users section

You can find more Linux downloads via
http://www.hitsquad.com/smm/linux/?nl02

Highlights Of New Linux Downloads
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o athenaCL v1.4.3 -7.46 MB - Open Source
http://www.hitsquad.com/smm/programs/athenaCL_linux/?nl02
Polyphonic, poly-paradigm algorithmic music composition in an interactive command-line environment.
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o Jajuk v0.3.4 - 7.89 MB - Open Source
http://www.hitsquad.com/smm/programs/JajukLinux/?nl02
Java music organizer/jukebox.
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o GuitarTeX v2.8.2 - 400 KB - Open Source
http://www.hitsquad.com/smm/programs/GuitarTeX/?nl02
Create guitar song sheets or song books.
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o Brahms v1.02 - 2.52 MB - Freeware
http://www.hitsquad.com/smm/programs/Brahms/?nl02
Brahms is a sequencer and music notaion program.
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o MidiMountain v0.3.0 - 307 KB - Open Source
http://www.hitsquad.com/smm/programs/MidiMountain/?nl02
MIDI sequencer for Linux.
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o Domo v3.0 beta1 - 622 KB - Open Source
http://www.hitsquad.com/smm/programs/Domo/?nl02
A Qt/MySQL based Music Organizer.
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o YamiPod v0.90 - 3.56 MB - Freeware
http://www.hitsquad.com/smm/programs/YamiPodLinux/?nl02
Free iPod manager.

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This edition of Music Software Weekly was proudly brought to you by...

Line 6 have a range of great offers with ToneCore pedals, Bass PODxt Live, Variax Workbench, and more - click here:
http://www.hitsquad.com/rd/line6/?nl02

The New Yamaha AW1600 The Mobile Musicians Recording Studio Let it take you all the way from Inspiration to Finished CD.
http://www.hitsquad.com/rd/yamaha/?nl02

Check out the new look zZounds where we guarantee we will beat ANY price!
http://www.hitsquad.com/rd/zzmsw/?nl02

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