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iPhone Applications for Music

Tuesday, March 31st, 2009

Have you got an iPhone or an iPod touch yet? If so maybe you are aware of the amazing amount of applications (programs) that are available through the iTunes app store. There has been an explosion of the development of these applications in the last year, and there are a great many related to music. [...]

make beats on computer

Friday, May 2nd, 2008

Do you want to go to all the hassle of making beats on your computer? Did you know that you can get pre-made beats already on the internet. I’ve just found the most amazing site – if you are seriously into beats and want to be able to make beats on your own computer, you’ll [...]

Did you know you can do basic notation WITHOUT a music notation program?

Friday, April 18th, 2008

This is a little gem which I wish had been around a few years ago – It probably was but I didn’t know it existed until recently! You can get MUSIC FONTS which accurately depict musical notation in any computer program, like a word processor or similar. For example this notation: Was created in my [...]

Speeding up Sibelius on slower computers

Wednesday, April 16th, 2008

Unfortunately we don’t all have the luxury of a super fast up to date computer with terabytes worth of Ram… If I did then I’m sure my copy of sibelius would run much faster! I found it most frustrating at first waiting for sibelius to start because it would load loads of sample banks into [...]