Chris, its a year or two since I was working with Teacher trainees
here in NZ on this but there are a number of options. In order of
cost, you can use Garageband 2.0 which has the ability to write music
directly using the keyboard or through plugging in instruments
through USB or adaptors, e.g. electric guitar / bass.
You can also edit each note after writing but it is a long process in
the little play I have had with it.
Band in a Box is available for X - go to http://www.pgmusic.com/
band.htm
Band in a Box can also be used with MIDI instruments and has a huge
number of preset sounds / styles to add accompaniments to your
compositions.
The most creative 'open ended' music composition software is probably
Sibelius which is what our Music Dept used. It is true compositional
software so takes a good understanding in music theory. It does allow
instant transposition to other keys etc - very powerful. Compositions
can be exported as MIDI files to iTunes and burnt to CD which always
pleased the students. You can download a demo of Sibelius for Mac at,
http://www.sibelius.com/
Hope this helps
Howard Pettigrew
Rangiora
New Zealand
On 22/10/2005, at 2:11 AM, Chris Placzek wrote:
I don't know if anyone here is familiar with fruity loops. Its a
program for PC only for creating music. You choose from
instruments and
pick the notes and duration of the notes. So you are essentially
writing and creating music entirely on the computer. Is there a
program
like this for Mac OS X?
Thanks
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