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Music Making With Your PC  by: Robert Fischer Up until a few years ago, making music meant a massive investment in time and money. Those days are fortunately gone now, you can use your computer to record and edit your vocals or instruments, and burn a CD of your work afterwards, ready to be played on your CD player. In order to make music with your computer, the minimum you need is a soundcard and good software. Modern computers usually ship with a built-in soundcard already, which is sufficient to start with - just connect an amplifier or headphones to it. Nearly all soundcards have Mic In/Line in connectors as well, so if you wish to record vocals or instruments, you only need to purchase a microphone and connect that. Although some soundcards come bundled with a microphone already, those are usually of poor quality and not suitable for decent music production. Thus a good idea here is to seek advice in your local music store. Next you need to find good music software. Fortunately there is a lot of applications available for all common computer platforms, no matter if you are using Windows, Linux or Mac OS X. To find good applications for your platform, type something like "Music Software for PC" into your favourite search engine. A good idea is to start with free software, then move on to commercial software once you got the hang of it and your requirements grow. You might also want to look at the applications that are given away for free on cover CDs of music magazines, or those that come bundled with your soundcard. Some music software developers give away older, discontinued or feature-limited versions of their software for free. Often such software is a lot more capable than software which has always been distributed freely. About The Author Robert Fischer is a music composer and writer. He occasionally works as a freelancer for Synapse Audio Software, creating demonstration material for their music software. This article was posted on March 05, 2006   View More Videos from the "Music and Movies" category: Q & Erik: Lenses, Lighting and Dead Cats Young Love - Discotech - Live at The Bowery Ballroom 2/28/2007 An Interview with Audrye Sessions's Ryan Karazija How to Use Pro Tools: Edit Modes   Read More Articles from the "Music and Movies" Category: Paul Simon Surprise Rock Music CD Review by Clyde Lee Dennis Million Dollar Baby (DVD) Review by Britt Gillette Daler Mehndi – Halla Bol (Dhan Dhana Dhan Goal) Song Review by Ramesh Kumar Koyaanisqatsi a nonverbal film by Godfrey Reggio and Ron Fricke by Darren Lambert The Art of Buying Used Music Equipment by William Hauselberg Music; An Enjoyable Necessity by Jackie Gee The Incredibles (DVD) Review by Britt Gillette Make Your Own Beats Right Now by James Jackson Katherine Heigl: Most Desirable Woman of 2008 by Debi Javier The Man With One Red Shoe (DVD) Review by Britt Gillette << Back to "Music And Movies" Index

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