Guitar Software
For Recording, a lot will depend on your hardware and budget, however there's TONS of free software out there. With regards to issues of when to buy software and when to torrent.... I think a good rule of thumb is that you can evaluate any software that way, but if you have a studio and are making money from other people, then you should license that software you use. - That being said, if you are writing and album and need to download different tools.. there's many ways to do this. Here we will simply discuss all the tools we come across: i.e. GUITAR PRO for MAC/PC - this program is awesome for writing out the song in tablature and structuring the drums, which later can be exported to midi, helps with writing guitar parts, multiple guitars, keyboards, structuring the songs and having somewhere to start with working on melodies either with piano or vocals. You can also subdivide the drum beats pretty far, and even export this into FruitLoops if you desire and trigger real drum sounds from wav samples in fruit loops. - may or may not be necessary - this is a good technique if you don't EVER plan to record real drums. I always do a mix of real and electronic, so I generally skip the fruitloops part at this point (@KRONiS).
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There's tons of software out there, our goal at GuitarTechnician.com is to post the most useful information as possible to aid in your decisions as to what to use.
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