what is a good FREE or cheap music production/sampling software for me to use with my laptop? (win XP)
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http://www.limewire.com/\nhttp://www.garageband.com\nhttp://www.soundclick.com\nhttp://www.mp3.com.au\nhttp://www.iuma.org\nhttp://www.downloadsforever.com\nhttp://www.emp3world.com\nhttp://www.maxalbums.com\nhttp://www.cooltoad.com\nhttp://www.mp3dimension.com\n\nabsolutely free
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This isn't really a wonderfully helpful answer, but there is a free program called Psycle that lets you use your computer as a virtual bank of synthesizers to create whatever music you want. Should be fairly easy to google it up.
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Have u tried Pro Tools Free ?  I've heard it exports MIDI files, dont know about other formats. hopefully, it'll work with .wav files, which are easily convertible to .mp3
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use any of the free music converters available
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Audacity is a good choice for this sort of thing -- it's free and works on just about any operating system. You also need a microphone if you don't have one. I'm using the Samson C01U at the moment, but any mic will do. If you are going to send your samples as MP3 files, you'll also need LameLib. Audacity's website provides instructions on how to get LameLib and how to make Audacity talk to it (it's not difficult). Good luck!
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Audacity is free and very good: http://audacity.sourceforge.net/ \n\nI use this for editing MP3s and making podcasts etc.
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garageband is much more user friendly, it's incredibly powerful for the price. It's not what a pro would use, but it's a great place to start. Definately buy a mac.
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No, you need NERO. These programs are for music, not data.
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you can download Fruity Loops to make beats\n\ntry download.com then search FL studio
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You can get AcidMusic Xpress (it's a light version of Acid Music Studio that's free).  You can use it to remix contests at http://www.acidplanet.com\n\nTo download AcidMusic Xpress click:\nhttp://download.acidplanet.com/acidxpress.exe\n\nIt's the only one I know that's absolutely free.  It has limitations, but it will at least show you what Acid Music is capable of.  \n\nYou can also download Fruity Loops:\nhttp://www.tucows.com/get/209204_156965\n\nFruityLoops is a fully functional demo.  I don't know exactly what you can't do in the demo, but you can at least play with it to see if you would like it.
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Try audacity.  It's a free program.  \nDon't bother paying for a program to edit audio, when you can easily find quality freeware that will do the job just as well as a program that you pay $30 for.\nhttp://audacity.sourceforge.net/
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USE YOUR LAPTOP. There are a lot of software options (some free others not) that let you not only rip the track but also clean it so that there are no more crackles, pops, hisses and other breakfast cereal sounds on your music. The best thing is that you could get it all for free. I recommend using Audacity. It's a free (and open source) audio editor with all you need built in. It's really easy to use and did I mention FREE?\nJust one thing. If you remove the noise you remove some of the music so be carefull and keep a backup of the originals.\n\nPS: here's the link to audacity if you want to check it out.\nhttp://audacity.sourceforge.net/\nPPS: if you want to export to mp3 you'll need to install an encoder like lame
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I have a powerbook which is really good for that.  GarageBand, which comes with the Mac, is useful.  If it's not enough, you can buy more software.  I would recommend a laptop, though, especially for music so you can move it to the instruments rather than vice versa.
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Sorry! I don't know about some DJ mixing software that is free, but you could search it in limewire...Who knows, what you could get...\n\nIf you know what I mean, then go give it a try in limewire. If not then try searching for DSSDJ in google or limewire ;-)!\n\nCheers!
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Nope, though you'll probably like http://audacity.sourceforge.net just as well.  It's a lot less resource intensive also, and cross-platform.  You can google and find lots of free plug-ins and effects to add onto it.
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try http://download.com\nand select the software choice and type in music mix\n\ntry it out ^^
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in windows XP you can try movie maker, it's fairly simple and you do not have to download any programs, just look around, however this will be saved as a video file, you cannot put music in a normal picture file