Music software for the computer: listen, edit and convert music files without problems.

At the moment, created a great variety of computer music programs that are used everywhere, day after day.

Someone, through such programs, creates music, someone uses them to edit it, and some simply listen to music on a computer using special programs that were created for this purpose. So, in this article we will consider music programs for the computer, dividing them into several categories.

Listen and enjoy

The first category we consider is programs created for listening to music. Naturally, this category is the most widespread, since there are much more music listeners than its creators. So, here are some popular programs for quality music listening:

• Winamp - to play music and video is a very suitable, popular product. In 1997, the first free version of Winamp appeared and since then, developing and improving, has gained immense popularity among users.
• AIMP - Another free program created exclusively for listening to music. Developed by Russian programmers and supporting all popular audio formats, it has the ability to convert various audio files to any formats.
• Foobar2000 - The program is very popular despite the interface unusual for audio players. Player created by a programmer who participated in the development of Winamp. It supports all known audio files, as well as very rare and exotic.

Creating and editing music

On the computer, you can also create your own music, for this creative process, a sufficient number of useful programs are created and produced. We will consider the most popular products in this direction.

• Cubase - the high-quality and most powerful tool for creating music, used mainly by professional musicians, arrangers and sound engineers. The program has everything you need for the full and professional information tracks.
• FLStudio - to create music is one of the most popular products. The program first appeared in 1997 in the form of a four-channel drum machine. But thanks to the programmer D. Dembrenu, turned into a full-fledged virtual music studio. FL Studio in parallel can be used as a plug-in by connecting to the leader of the programs for creating music CUBASE.
• Reaktor - a virtual synthesizer professionally used by famous musicians in their compositions. Thanks to this program for synthesizing you can create absolutely any sounds.
• SoundForge - one of the well-known sound editors that allows you to process and edit a variety of sounds, including music. With this editor, you can decently improve the sound quality of the video, filmed on the phone. Also thanks to SOUND FORGE it is possible to record sound from a microphone. The program can be useful to many users, not only professional musicians.
• GuitarPro - one of the best products for guitarists, both beginners and professional. The program allows you to edit notes and tablature for the guitar, as well as other instruments: keyboards, classical and percussion, which will be useful in the work of the composer.

Conversion software

Music programs for the computer, and in particular for creating and listening to music, you can fill up with another category. This is a category of programs for changing or converting music file formats for various players and devices.

• FormatFactory - the undisputed leader among the software converters, combining fine-tuned conversion mode - for non-standard devices, and the usual conversion of audio and video files, as well as images.
• Super - Another representative of the category of programs for conversion. It supports a lot of various formats, has quality settings, optimization, and many other converter settings allow you to get the desired result. The disadvantages of this product include the absence of the Russian language and a temporary bewilderment from just a huge number of options and settings, which over time become a big plus of the program.
• Media coder - also a worthy representative among free converters, has no equal among similar converters in difficult-to-custom file encodings. In advanced mode, the options of the converter are almost limitless.

All of the above computer music programs are just the tip of the iceberg, the most common among users. In fact, in each category you can put about a hundred or even more programs, both paid and free in distribution. Each user chooses a program, guided by personal preferences and needs, and, therefore, one of you can offer better quality software - welcome in the comments to share who uses what programs and for what purposes.

The author - Stanislav Kolesnik

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