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In my personal effort to overcome the use of illegal software, I have found many free or low cost software programs that will help with audio editing and production. I have also found a few free online musical education sites. This page contains links to various tools I have found useful, all are free, or very cheap, and hopefully will be useful to you as well. I'm confident you can find more by searching for yourself, however, these are a start in the right direction. Remember, there are plenty of free resources online to help with your music. I will add more as I come across them.
Audio Recording/Editing
Reaper is free /low cost and highly advanced software DAW, with features comparable to or exceeding those found in cubase, protools, sonar, logic, ableton live, and others. Very good recording software, I love it.
Wavosaur - free wav editor
Audacity - great free audio editor, similar to sound forge, bias peak, and wavelab.
Wavpad - free wav/audio editor
Ubuntu Studio - audio/multimedia version of linux, complete with all the tools you need to setup a basic audio/multimedia workstation. (this is a complete operating system)
CD Burning/Imaging
Alcohol 52% - free cd emulation/backup software
CDBurnerXP - free cd burning software, many features, comparable to nero.
Music Education
Berkleeshares - online music training from berklee school of music
Piano lessons - free piano lessons
Free Piano Lesson - more free lessons
Piano Nanny - more free lessons
Software Instruments (vst)
Chainer - free standalone vst host, turn your computer into a vst rack, controllable by hardware or software
Arturia Analog Factory demo - non expiring demo version of classic synthesizer sounds (synth)
Yellow Tools Independence Free - high quality sampler/workstaion basd on the pro instrument from Yellow Tools (sampler/workstaion)
reFX Vangaurd demo - free demo of vanguard a powerful synth (synth)
Mr. Ray, Mr. Tramp, Mr. Ray Seventy-three - classic EP instruments (Electric Piano)
Oxytocin - very capable and tweakable synthesizer (synth)
Dream Vortex Studio - nanotron, transcender2, Phatbass and other free synths (synth/instruments)
Protoplasm21 free -great for astmospheric and evolving sounds (synth)
STS-26 - great for pads and evolving textures (synth)
Superwave P8 - great VA emulation of old school synths like the Roland JP8000
FX Plugins (vst)
Kjaerhus Classic - high quality suite of fx
SSL LMC-1 - free classic compressor from Solid State Logic
George Wong's W1 Limiter - freeware clone of Waves L1 limiter
Digitalfishphones - free high quality compressors and such
A0audio - free classic fx
LFX-1310 - free multi-effects processor from Luxonics
Ag-works - free chorus fx
Gvst - nice free suite of multiple essential fx plugins
Smartelectronix - another free suite of fx plugins
Sweetboy - nice compressors and other plugins
TLS - nice limiter plugin
SIR-1 - nice impulse response reverb
Glaceverb - Residual Vector Modulation reverb
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