| Music Software | Details |
| WinAmp | This is a popular Freeware MP3 player. |
| RealAudio Player | This is where to go to download the Real Audio player. It's something you should definitely get hold of to hear all those streaming sounds now available on the internet. |
| TablEdit | This is the best Tab Editor I've found, and I've tried out quite a few. You can download an evaluation version, but I found that the registered version was loads better. It's only $55 US, and you can display and print your music in tab and in standard notation. It will play the tab you enter as a midi file. In fact, it does tons of stuff - nip across to the web page and take a look. |
| Sibelius | Probably the best music notation software in the world. At £595 UK it's pretty expensive, so I don't have a copy, but it's there on my wish list. For a professional musician, though, or an accomplished amateur, it represents great value. You can download an evaluation copy from the web site and drool... |
| SlowGold | This is a great programme for slowing down sound files in order to tab them out. I do this often with CDs - it's fun, and a good way to develop a good ear. SlowGold ($49.95 US) slows down the file without changing the pitch, and the sound quality is very good indeed. There's also SlowBlast ($19.95 US) |
| CoolEdit 2000 | This is a digital audio software package. I started with the evaluation version, but now I'm using the registered version with the Studio Plugin. It's now possible to order it online. Cool Edit 2000 costs $69 US. |
| AudioGrabber | This program "grabs" digital audio from CDs, producing perfect copies in WAV or MP3 format. It's Shareware, and great! |
| Alternate Guitar Tuning Applet | This is a great little program for help with alternate tunings. |
| Chord Diagram Maker | Over on RMMGA recently, someone commented that it would be very useful to have a little program to make clear chord diagrams. So David Moss just wrote one! Thanks very much indeed, David :-) It's available on David'd Website. (Download chords.exe, notes.ini, ctones.ini and readme.txt, and start by reading the readme file.) |
| Other Software | Details |
| Paint Shop Pro | A great graphics programme by JASC. Easy to use, sophisticated and great value: download a trial version and try it out. Also see Mardi Wetmore's excellent tutorials right here. |
| Winzip | Just in case there's anyone who wants it but hasn't yet got it. Excellent programme! |
| Cute FTP | A great little FTP client. |
| Free Agent | Just follow the links there to download a copy of Forte's Free Agent, IMO the best Offline Newsreader around. Except for Agent, of course...which, for a small fee, also does email. |
| Time & Chaos | This is a great shareware Personal Information Manager (!) from iSBiSTER. I've used it for several years now, and it shows you all the information on the one page. Inexpensive too. Highly recommended. |
| Partition Magic | This isn't shareware, so you can't download a copy, but I've included it because it's a truly wonderful programme. Anyone with a disk larger than 1gig should definitely check it out. Partition and recover loads of space, reorganise your disk, play to your heart's content :-) |
| ACD See | This is a great image viewer. You can download and try out an evaluation copy. |