Anvil Studio 2013.05.02

Multi-track record, compose, edit, and mix music using MIDI, digital audio, and sampled loops. Audio effects include delay, EQ, filtering, DirectX, VST, VSTI effects pluggins and ASIO support. Editors include: staff, lyrics, piano roll, loops, audio, and events.

Key Features:

- Editors: Staff, Lyrics, Piano Roll, Drum, Loops, Audio, Events.

- File formats: standard .MID and .WAV files.

- Includes extensive integrated help.

- Piano Roll / Rhythm editor

- Enter notes from external MIDI device, on-screen guitar fret board, on-screen piano keyboard, or by dragging notes to the staff.

- Per-track On/Mute/Solo, device, instrument, channel, fader, pan, and effects controls.

- Dynamically change track volumes, mutes, instruments, and effects properties while a song continues to play.

- Fast loading and scrolling of large MIDI files.

- Time and Duration fields display time in Minute:Second:Frame(SMPTE), or Measure:Beat:Ticks, or sample format.

- Metronome includes tempo, lead-in, and accent beat attributes.

- Add Cue points for quickly positioning to a desired spot in the song.

- Play list for playing hours of different song files.

- File/Truncate menu to shorten the duration of .MID files.

- File/Merge Song menu for copying tracks between .MID files.

- Add standard music notation including: slur, crescendo, decrescendo, fermata, trill, repeat, D.C., D.S., segno, coda, prima volta, seconda volta, pp, p, mp, mf, f, ff

- User-defined keyboard shortcuts.

- Control Record/Play/Stop functions remotely using any MIDI controllers such as a Foot Switch, Modulation wheel.

- Free version has built-in patch-library support for SoundFont®-compatible sound cards.

- Supports the Tascam US-428 External Mixing console.

- Runs on Windows 98, ME, NT 4.0, 2000, XP, Vista (32-bit versions)

- ASIO, VST, VST-Instrument, and Automation support with optional Pro-Mix accessory.

- Free version allows you to record and edit a single, stereo or mono, one minute audio track. Optional $19 Multi-Audio 1/8 accessory allows you to record and mix up to 8 stereo/mono audio tracks, where recording time is limited by available free disk space.

- Uses Windows Audio Format Converters to import/export WMA and other audio formats.

- Mix audio files with different formats (bits per sample, samples per second).

- Controls for sound-card configuration.

- Mix all tracks down to a single .WAV file.

- Set record and play start and end times to control which range get recorded for Punch-in to re-record over mistakes.

- Record audio tracks from any sound card's Mono, Left, Right or Stereo channels, from any soundcard source including Microphone, Line-In, CD-Audio, etc.

- Audio effects: native reverb, native EQ, third-party DirectX effects.

- Audio filters: zero-range, pitch change, volume change, pan, filtering, reverse, normalize (to maximize a track's head-room), low-pass, high-pass, band-pass, and band-stop.

- VU meters

- Zoom in to the sample level

- Per-sample Volume, Pan and Reverb controls

- Record an Audio device's Left or Right channel to a track by itself.

- Mix stereo and mono Audio tracks in the same song to a stereo or mono mix.

- Split a stereo audio track into two mono tracks.

- Change audio tracks between Mono and Stereo without erasing the track.

- Paste Stereo to Mono and Mono to Stereo.

- Import .WAV files to audio tracks or sampled rhythms.

- Sequencing as MIDI Master or Slave

- Unlimited number of MIDI Tracks.

- When moving the mouse over notes on the staff, the equivalent keys on the piano keyboard are highlighted.

- Record notes from an external MIDI keyboard.

- Enter notes from Computer keyboard while real-time recording or manually composing.

- Select, Copy, Edit, Paste notes.

- Button that lets you sing the note to be inserted on the staff.

- Staff style control to display 1 or 2 treble or bass clefs.

- Quantize.

- Transpose diatonic or chromatic.

- Auto-harmonize.

- Triplets.

- Automatic layout of bars and staves.

- MIDI Master and Slave Synchronization modes for synchronizing with MIDI drum machines and sequencers.

- Perform page lets you wire together on-screen modules for real-time manipulation of MIDI sounds.

- Repair Song menu fixes problems in badly-formatted MIDI files.

- Option to echo to SoundCard while recording MIDI, even when recording from external keyboard.

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