Anvil Studio
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Anvil Studio is a free Windows XP/2000/ME/98/95 program designed for people who want to:
- record music with MIDI and Audio equipment
- compose music for MIDI and Audio equipment
- Sequence music with MIDI equipment
- play with music using a computer and sound card
General Features :
- Editors: Staff, Lyrics, Piano Roll, Drum, Loops, Audio, Events.
- File formats: standard .MID and .WAV files.
- Includes extensive integrated help.
- Piano Roll / Rhythm editor with:
- multi-level loops
- loops can refer to notes, other loops, samples, or Riffs.
- Import, record and edit audio samples and play them like drums.
- any note duration down to 1/128th notes.
- dynamic editing while the song is playing, making it easier to experiment with rhythms.
- duplet, pentuplet, and septuplet notes.
- Enter notes from external MIDI device, on-screen guitar fret board, on-screen piano keyboard, or by dragging notes to the staff.
- Per-track On/Mute/Solo, device, instrument, channel, fader, pan, and effects controls.
- For screens larger than 800 x 600, it shows:
- up to 25 tracks of information displayed at the same time.
- zoomed-out view of notes and wave data for all tracks at the same time.
- option to play notes as mouse moves over them, making it easier to quickly locate a spot in the song.
- Dynamically change track volumes, mutes, instruments, and effects properties while a song continues to play.
- Fast loading and scrolling of large MIDI files.
- Time and Duration fields display time in Minute:Second:Frame(SMPTE), or Measure:Beat:Ticks, or sample format.
- Metronome includes tempo, lead-in, and accent beat attributes.
- Add Cue points for quickly positioning to a desired spot in the song.
- Play list for playing hours of different song files.
- File/Truncate menu to shorten the duration of .MID files.
- File/Merge Song menu for copying tracks between .MID files.
- Add standard music notation including: slur, crescendo, decrescendo, fermata, trill, repeat, D.C., D.S., segno, coda, prima volta, seconda volta, pp, p, mp, mf, f, ff
- User-defined keyboard shortcuts.
- Control Record/Play/Stop functions remotely using any MIDI controllers such as a Foot Switch, Modulation wheel.
- Free version has built-in patch-library support for SoundFont®-compatible sound cards.
- Supports the Tascam US-428 External Mixing console.
- Runs on Windows 95, 98, ME, NT 4.0, 2000, XP
- ASIO, VST, VST-Instrument, and Automation support with optional Pro-Mix accessory.
Anvil Studio requires:
- A 100 mHz Pentium or faster running any of:
- Windows 95, Windows 98, Windows ME, Windows NT 4.0 with Service-Pack 3 or later, Windows 2000, or Windows XP
- At least 64 megabytes of RAM,
- A Windows-compatible sound card and/or MIDI controller.
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