A Look At Music Composition Software

By Somoda Sotua


If you had to write the score for an entire orchestra to perform, it would be a lot easier, and go much faster, if you had some music composition software. You could push a few buttons to assign the instruments to each section and choose a rhythm and then start adding in the notes that will finish out the set.

After your first effort, you realize it might be nice to make a key change, at a specific point. You load the file back into edit window and push some more buttons and suddenly you're listening to what you were only thinking would sound good. This sure is easier than using the pencil erasure to rub out all the notes and start from the beginning, again.

Just because there are other songs that make a change in the timing then back again, doesn't mean it's an old tired act. New songs are being done that could have lent themselves to an interesting change from one time signature to another.

Creativity doesn't know a schedule, and it suddenly appears with an idea about changing a whole section to a different type of note. With the advent of computer programming it is possible to place a couple of marks and then change that long rift to staccato. In seconds you hear the results.

The section for strings is where the violins and cellos are usually providing their mysterious charms, but in a stroke of brilliance you realize they could be shifted an octave higher. It doesn't take but a matter of seconds and they are there, but now playing counter-point to the trombones and brass.

Working out four part harmony can be automated for immediate results, then use your mouse to click a few spots and make some changes that are unique. The world of electronics technology made it possible to write programs that make life easier, and you might enjoy having the features of music composition software.




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