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There are a whole bunch of ways to make chiptune music in modern environments.
The "classic" approach to this is to use tracker software to sequence chip samples. Most trackers use samples, and there's a lot of history to using chip samples in tracker music. There are a few traditional trackers available for modern OS's, such as MilkyTracker or Modplug ...
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NINJAM
The only thing I know of for live collaboration in music is NINJAM.
If you're talking about asynchronous collaboration (where people are working on the project at different times), you could still use Dropbox (or any similar service - Amazon's Clouddrive might be more cost effective for large media file sharing) and share the DAW project files as ...
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Apple's Logic software can accomplish this. From their manual:
Automatic Tempo Matching
The following audio files automatically match
the project tempo and will follow any tempo changes made in the global
Tempo track.
Audio recordings made in Logic Pro (7.0 and later)
For example, if you record a bass solo at 100 bpm, you can change ...
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Pretty much any "tracker" program (Impulse Tracker, CheeseTracker, etc.) can be used to make chiptunes, given fundamental waveforms as samples. There are also a lot of chip-style softsynths available for sequencers such as Cubase, Logic, Ardour, Reaper, etc.; Logic even comes with a whole bunch of them with different wonderful bleepy-blorpy characteristics.
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I have never filmed a wedding, but here are some tips on shooting video in general.
1. Get a good tripod. This is critical if you are doing panning shots. I use a 3-way fluid pan head.
2. Don't zoom or pan too fast. If you feel like you are panning too slow, that is about the right speed. Even though it feels really slow, it won't be when you are watching it ...
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I don't know anyone who actually writes music in a DAW. DAW's are good for moving your basic tune to a more finished piece.
Typically you'll get your concept from strumming a guitar, playing on a piano, singing a melody etc. or just jamming with the band.
A simple next step is to pop a basic click track into a DAW and lay down a version, which you can then ...
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I realize this question is old, but it's still relevant, so I'll add that Sibelius supports the Rewire protocol which lets you use it in conjunction with a sequencer like Logic or Digital Performer where you can run your samples in more of a user-friendly way.
Also, if you have the Symphonic Orchestra samples from East West, then you can download a ...
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Doesn't Sibelius support MIDI playback? Just connect a fancy synthesizer or keyboard. ;-) Possibly, it will have to be put in General MIDI mode.
According to the Sibelius 5 VST info page, it also supports the VST standard for playing back music with Software Synthesizers that you'd install on your OS (only Windows and Mac I'm afraid). There are surely a lot ...
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The easiest way would be to score as usual and set the transposition offset in the track parameters, or if you want to be more specific, in the region parameters. These are both edited in the inspector area. See this page from the Logic Pro 9 manual.
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Blender, which is free and open-source, can do difference matte keying.
I don't know if it's better or worse than After Effects' keyer because I haven't used it before.
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I know 2:
Kompoz: http://www.kompoz.com
Digital Musician: http://www.digitalmusician.net
Via Kompoz I found a vocalist. DM is a bit weird, but I had contacts here too.
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For the various modes it is customary to use the signature of the corresponding Ionian (major).
In other words, all the following scale share the same signature (i.e. without any sharp or flat):
C major
D dorian
E phrygian
F lydian
G mixolydian
A minor
B locrian
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It has been a long time since I've used Sony's Acid. From what I recall, Acid was particularly good for loop based music.
Given that, Ableton Live is probably the closest thing to Acid, though the user interface is quite different.
Traditional DAWs (Logic, Reaper, Cubase, ProTools, etc.) lay out music as a series of parallel horizontal rows, with time ...
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Josh's recommendation about Apple's Logic is quite good since it is the only in-house pro audio software developed by Apple. Its essentially just an amped up version of GarageBand which comes with all new Macs.
Since no one has listed any of the others I will list all of the notable ones by a few categories and will explain the common pros and cons ...
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I would seriously recommend StudioOne by Presonus. It's really good and very intuitive. Download the trial and read more here.
I find the workflow incredibly fast, it's very easy to use and comes with a decent amount of plugins, effects and sounds. The pro version also comes with melodyne :-). It hasn't got any 'bloat' so it's really quick and the shortcuts ...
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In addition to using the DAW to mimic traditional songwriting steps -- doodling on a VST piano, or jamming with drum loop and arpeggiated bass -- you could use the DAW's features to seed the creative process. How about
try the different preset sounds (as you suggested) and try them with different effects too: a flanged piano will lead to you playing ...
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Couldn't Garageband's 'Magic' feature do this for you? (Assuming you have access to a Mac)
There's a guide to Automatic Composition with Magic Garageband
here.
There was also (back in the deep recesses of time) a program available for the Amiga, called Super Jam, which produced MIDI compositions.
-EDIT-
There appears to be a free, Windows version of ...
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There is no single right answer for this - writing music, using a DAW or otherwise, is an open-ended process and anything that works for you is legitimate.
I personally use both approaches - starting with an idea, and starting with nothing and seeing what comes up - and have found success with both. For my purposes, the second one seems to be more ...
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Are you looking to generate typeset notation, a synthesized waveform, or both? I ask because the reason not many of these systems exist is because they would have to be incredibly complex to do the work of any common sequencer or notation program.
LilyPond exists; its primary purpose is generating beautiful typesetting of music input in a TeX-like manner. ...
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I don't have any experience with it, so this isn't a recommendation, but I've heard of one that might be worth checking out: Scratch Audio
Edit - I just noticed that your initial question mentioned native daw files, so this isn't going to be a great answer, but I'll leave it around as it hits the question's title at least, so might be of interest to some.
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If you want to use native VSTi under Linux, you have only two options:
http://renoise.com - excellent tracker, with great community, fast, stable as crazy, fully featured, rich in internal plugins.
http://www.energy-xt.com/ - not tracker, but offers typical horizontal timeline. Pretty fast and stable, but without multicore support and without 64bit ...
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From a quick search over at KVR, I could recommend the following:
Jost - http://www.anticore.org/jucetice/?page_id=4
Ardour - http://ardour.org/
MusE - http://www.muse-sequencer.org/
Out of the three, I've only used Ardour and played around with Muse. Jost looks good though considering it's a JACK application.
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I think Renoise might fit the bill, which is a tracker-style sequencer that does support VST. However, VST plugins don't run on Linux natively (they're compiled for OSX or Windows), so unless there's some kind of wrapper software, you can't use them in Linux. However, Renoise supports LADSPA and DSSI plugins which I believe run on Linux.
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The Reaper website says it will work in WINE. I have had good luck running Windows apps in WINE in the past, but I have not tried Reaper on it.
It is a great inexpensive DAW with VST support. The demo is fully functional and they do have some instructions in their forums on how to install in WINE.
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The piano roll in Fruit Loops Studio has the option to change your left click action from adding a single note to adding a chord. As well as all kind of variations of major, minor, diminished etc. it gives you 9th/11th chords to keep adding notes up and up the scale for a big sound.
It won't change any notes automatically as you change your song, but it ...
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In addition to the first answer, Sibelius supports among other things (and also sells) the Garritan line of instruments samples and there are multiple other choices. I use the Garritan Personal Orchestra package.
Note that apart from "realtime" playback, you can produce enhanced "recorded" playback from Sibelius as a sound file in several formats.
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