Cakewalk Guitar Studio Software - DVD

 Cakewalk Guitar Studio is a MIDI and digital audio recording software package designed for guitarists. It provides all of the tools a guitar player needs to record, edit and mix projects from start to finish. Features Produce guitar-based music with full accompaniment Record, edit and mix up to 16 tracks of audio along with up to 256 MIDI tracks Apply up to 16 real-time audio effects, like chorus, reverb, echo/delay and any other DirectX plug-in effect. Compose and arrange MIDI tracks with the Virtual Fretboard Create sheet music with guitar chord grids and lyrics Seamless integration with the optional Roland-Ready Strat and the Roland GR-30 guitar synthesizer Works with any guitar

Features

    * Produce guitar-based music with full accompaniment
    * Record, edit and mix up to 16 tracks of audio along with up to 256 MIDI tracks
    * Apply up to 16 real-time audio effects, like chorus, reverb, echo/delay and any other DirectX plug-in effect.
    * Compose and arrange MIDI tracks with the Virtual Fretboard
    * Create sheet music with guitar chord grids and lyrics
    * Seamless integration with the optional Roland-Ready Strat and the Roland GR-30 guitar synthesizer
    * Works with any guitar

Requirements

    * Windows 95/98/NT 4.0 SP3
    * Pentium 166 or higher (Pentium 200 recommended for 9x, required for NT)
    * 16 MB RAM (32 MB recommended for 9x, required for NT)
    * CD-ROM drive
    * Windows compatible sound card and/or MIDI interface (sound card required for digital audio record/playback)


Guitar Studio offers a few special touches. First is a chromatic tuner that lets one tune on-screen. A stable, accurate tuner, it makes getting in tune quite painless.

The Song Wizard gives the user prefab accompaniment tracks to flesh out a song. Enter your chords into a basic chart, pick one of nearly 50 musical styles, and the software generates a backing band right into the MIDI tracks. You can change styles or variations on every beat of the song, if desired. Then edit, quantize or rearrange the data to your heart's content.

Guitar Studio adds a guitar fretboard to the staff view mode. This lets the user poke notes into the staff off the virtual guitar neck, and also shows where notes fall on the neck during playback (though only in open position).

The software has a control panel designed for the Roland GR-30 guitar synth. Cakewalk and Roland make up two-thirds of the Guitar Technology Alliance (the other third is Fender). The GR-30 console allows the user to control most aspects of the synth engine from the computer screen. Guitar Studio offers other control panels as well, for other popular guitar synths and tone modules.

A nice feature from other Cakewalk products appears in Guitar Studio - a guitar chord library, which makes it a point-and-click affair to place chord grids over staff notation. The chord library is reasonably comprehensive, and you can create and save your own chords or import them from other libraries. Being able to audition chords note-by-note from the library menu is a nice touch.