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Freeware - Home and Hobby - Toolchest Music

The Song Database is a program to show lyrics on a beamer for worship in a congregation, it runs on nearly all systems because it is a Java application. Features - Dual Head (which means two graphic cards are required, or one with two outputs); this enables the user to have one control monitor to display the database and the presentation control while the seperate beamer screen shows only the text the congregation has to see - no confusion, very professional. More than one foil per song is possible, show/hide the song title on foils, guitar chords can be included in the database, but will not be shown when presenting songs - they are useful when printing song sheets for the band. Single songs can be printed or exported to PDF files (including chords if available). German and English user interface and more.

TH Metronome is a free simple metronome program, you can adjust the tempo from 1 Bpm (Beats per minute) up to 400 Bpm. You can select a 4/4 or 3/4 time signature and adjust the volume of each beat indepedently. There are two built-in sounds: Click and Hat. You can use the buttons on the form to control start/stop or use the spacebar.

Easy Music Composer Free is an automatic composer that makes wonderful songs easily. Compose your songs using automatic composition functions, select a pattern (Rhythm, Bass, Drum), select a tone and a volume on each bar. You can compose a song of 7 channels - 1 channel is used for the melody, 4 channels are used for chords, 1 channel is used for bass, 1 channel is used for drums.

Click MusicalKEYS will change your computer into a virtual music lab. With 128 musical instruments, you can play the best music of your choice. You can also save your favorites in the MIDI file format for free using the MIDI Converter utility. Updates to Click MusicalKEYS are available on monthly basis, optionally download the Intelligent Updater and run it after you install Click MusicalKEYS.

Guitar players can increase their fretboard awareness and harmonic knowledge by using "Interval Trainer" for a few minutes each day. It is a visual guitar teaching tool based upon a popular guitar drill in use by guitar teachers all over the world. You see a guitar on the screen and you simply follow the notes as it teaches you to navigate the fretboard in an intervallic manner. Interval Trainer features real time vocal narration, full support for left handed guitarists, top/bottom fretboard views, a professional quality "Quickstart" video tutorial, variable speed control, multiple skill levels, and much more! Master arpeggios, gain confidence, and turbocharge your fretboard knowledge with Interval Trainer 1.0 by Alberta Design.

EuroSinging is a database program dedicated to the Eurovision Song Contest, it contains details of all contestants from 1956 until today, countries, songs, lyrics and more. The main package of the program doesn't contain multimedia files but you can find many multimedia packages by searching over the Internet.

EvilLyrics automatically searches and displays lyrics to the current song playing. Searches over 16,700,000 lyrics, can store lyrics for later viewing, allows searching for guitar chords, AMG profiles, album covers, posters etc. Compatible with Winamp, Windows Media Player, Foobar, iTunes, Real Player, MusicMatch or QCD, XMPlay, JetAudio, Meedio, Yahoo! Music Engine, AlbumPlayer and more.

koZong is a simple, random chord generator, designed to help musicians and songwriters with writer's block. With a single click it randomly creates chord progressions, you can choose which key to write the song in. Please note, the program does not create finished songs, nor does it output audio files. It merely creates random chord progressions, which may be helpful when writing new songs.

Tonecache is a utility that allows you to capture any sound that comes through your speakers and save it to a WAV file. Its unique "session" based design allows you to capture sound without having to worry about filenames or overwriting files, which allows you to concentrate on capturing, not file management. System requirements: Microsoft .NET Framework 1.1, DirectX 9.0 SDK Update - (June 2005)

Guitar Toolbar is packed with 444 scale patterns and 84 mode patterns in all 12 keys. In the chord section there are 23 of the most common chords in all keys featuring different shapes and inversions. The tools menu features an easy to use online guitar tuner, a fretboard diagram with the notes of the guitar mapped out, diagrams of the intervals (pitch) between different notes plus more.

Lyrics toolbar makes finding lyrics quick and easy on the Internet. Search for an artist, album title or song title, the lyrics toolbar also includes a popup blocker to stop annoying popup windows while surfing the Internet. The lyrics search engine is connected to the best lyrics search engine on the Internet with over 400,000 titles!

The STS Transition Synthesizer featuring the Wave-Transition method for absolute unique Soundscapes & Textures. A very simple user interface with 3 "Lazy" Buttons for randomizing different sets of parameters so programming this synthesizer is incredibly easy. The Transition method adds a stunning new dimension and motion for an evolving sound changing completely it's characteristics. Fully functional free version with 128 patches & two voices. Attention! Requires VST-Host (e.g. Cubase, Sonar or SaviHost/free)

MP3+G to ZIP pairs the MP3 and CDG files created when you rip a CD+G and creates a single ZIP file from them, saving a considerable amount of space while making your karaoke collection more organizable.

Guitar Trainer is a music program to help you to learn to play the guitar, 103 Chords are included in the program, also a guitar tuner & a chord quiz.

Select the chord you want to play (from Cm to Bb7(b5) all the jazz chords are there, triads to 13th, majors and minors, altered or not) and the program will tell you which keys create the chord. You can also "draw" the notes on the virtual keyboard, or play your MIDI keyboard, it will tell you what chord it is. A great utility for jazz pianists!

Zetronome is a PC metronome that encompasses a wide array of rhythm timing and programmable drum sounds. You can make your own beat style and there is an easy user interface. It is my hope that, in using this metronome, you will be able to practice and prepare your skill to play with others. The name ZETRONOME(c) comes from the Greek word "Zamar", meaning "Praise the Lord with instruments". I hope you enjoy it.

As a hobbyist singer/songwriter I find that ideas for new songs tend to drift away if I don't write them down somewhere, aMuse is a very simple program that provides the means to collect and store these "orphan lyrics". The program features: Orphan Lyric collector; Orphan chord progressions; Field for Additional notes; Simple "piano" for playing single notes; Simple (manual) transposer.

KaraFun offers a complete solution for home karaoke, this software is based on a powerful 3D animation engine. KaraFun contains an easy to use editor which can import many existing karaoke songs. KaraFun uses KAR files (midi) but it is also designed to work with MP3 files or other digital formats. KaraFun also introduces the new KFN file format and the editor allows you to build unique and funny karaoke files.

This tab editor is a great utillity for beginners at guitar and bass as well as professionals. easily create a new tablature with only one click. If you have never made a tab before, take a look at the faqs, it even has a hint box with the most common tablature marks. When you're done creating your tab, save or print it, you can quickly reload your previous work the next time you use the program and easily update it. Read the enclosed "ReadMe" file first.

TyMusicDB is a database program that can be "taught" to recognize up to 10,000 musical pieces. It is capable of identifying partial recordings of songs from "samples" which can be as short as 5 seconds and may come from a random position in the song. It can be used to help maintain a personal music libraray. The software is able to differentiate various versions of the same song (such as remixes, live recordings, unplugged versions, etc). It could also be used to monitor a radio or TV channel to find out when and how often songs or commercials are broadcast.
Program MAY run on Win9x/ME but has not been tested on them - author would appreciate feedback on these versions of Windows.