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[Daniel Worth]

On Wed, May 30, 2012 at 9:53 AM, Dave Woyciesjes
<woyciesjes at sbcglobal.net>wrote:

>    I'm getting the itch to start attempting to compose music. I'm looking
> for recommendations on a decent, fairly easy to use program(s).
>    I'll start with just using the mouse and computer keyboard to layout
> the notes. Eventually I'll probably connect my MIDI/USB Casio to lay down
> the music.
>    Needs to be multi track (drums, guitar, bass, etc..). Once I get the
> tracks laid down, I may even hook my 5 string bass to the line in. If there
> is an application to apply effects to that, even more fun. But that's later
> on...
>
>  I guess what I'm looking to do is compose & record to wav (the
> compress/convert to mp3) all on the computer. Eventually I'd try using the
> MIDI/USB keyboard to "write" some parts into the program.
>    I'm geussing I'd probably need a different application, if I want to
> add a line-in source to the song during mixing.
>

All of this is possible using Ardour.
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