# Help Me Make Some Digital Music,,,,

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/help-me-make-some-digital-music/62417>\
**Category:** In My Humble Opinion\
**Created:** [April 18, 2001, 1:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/help-me-make-some-digital-music/62417 "2001-04-18T13:35:28Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 3\
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**Author:** ![DougC](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/7feea3/32.png) [@DougC](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DougC)\
**Post date:** [April 18, 2001, 1:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/help-me-make-some-digital-music/62417/1 "2001-04-18T13:35:28Z")

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, -and I _promise_ I won’t make you listen to it.

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    - I wanna sample some sounds and be able to mix them as an MP3. I need to be able to capture them from wavs (the PC mic) and synthesize them up and down the musical scale, like a sampling keyboard does. I don’t have a CD-RW, so I don’t need that conversion support. I can’t seem to find any shareware/cheap programs that do this: both the synthesizing and the mixing. I’m making something stupid, so I want something cheap; Cakewalk is out of the price range here.

- I don’t even know what “category” of software this would be. I didn’t find anything under “synthesizers”. I found a few examples under “mixers”, but the only shareware one was save-disabled (Digital Sound Planet) and it didn’t _seem_ to say it did the tonal synthesis, just the mixing. Searching for “music software”, almost all that I found was the usual MP3 music-managing stuff. I know there are a lot of relatively cheap [electronics store] keyboards that can do this. What software should I be looking for? - MC

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**Author:** ![mack](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/b19c9b/32.png) [@mack](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/mack)\
**Post date:** [April 19, 2001, 2:31am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/help-me-make-some-digital-music/62417/2 "2001-04-19T02:31:50Z")

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you might want to check out ‘protools free’ from digidesign. as far as keyboard mapping (the synthesize up and down the musical scale part)goes I don’t know how much luck you’ll have.

There’s also a beta of acid pro 3.0 at sonic foundry.

for creating mp3s there’s a multitude of rippers you can download.

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**Author:** ![KneadToKnow](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kneadtoknow/32/3999_2.png) [@KneadToKnow](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/KneadToKnow)\
**Post date:** [April 19, 2001, 12:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/help-me-make-some-digital-music/62417/3 "2001-04-19T12:02:44Z")

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Sorry, I thought this was a cybersex thread.  
😃