Re: Software

Bijan Pesaran (bijan@cco.caltech.edu)
Thu, 23 Jan 1997 18:21:47 -0800 (PST)

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> I am going to finally take the plunge and buy a HOME computer so I don't have to rely on my workstation. It's going to be an IBM, and my question is-
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> Can anyone recommend a good music program for the IBM? I mostly want to sample, loop, etc. from existing sources, maybe add some MIDI keyboard. I'm no computer whizz, so a nice user-friendly but powerful program is what I'm after. Suggestions?
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My advisor has just sprung for a pentium pro machine with built in
cd-writer for me and i had the thought that now I could press up some
"mixed" cd's. Nothing too extravagant. It would be enough to load up
some tunes and then have a program that allows you to adjust pitches and
splice the songs together. Any ideas for that kind of software? I don't
have any music making equipment so I am just looking to manipulate sound
files.

Thanks,
bijan