Anvil Studio allows you to create songs with extensive MIDI and Audio editing capabilities.
Anvil Studio is a free Program for Windows, designed for people who want to:
Record music with MIDI and Audio equipment
Compose music for MIDI and Audio equipment
Sequence music with MIDI equipment
Play with music using a computer, and print sheet music from standard MIDI files with the optional Print-Sheet accessory...
General Anvil Studio Feature List:
Editors: staff, lyrics, piano roll, percussions, loops, audio, events.
File formats: standard .MID and .WAV files.
Includes extensive integrated help.
Piano Roll / Rhythm editor.
Enter notes from external MIDI device, on-screen guitar fret board, on-screen piano keyboard, or by dragging notes to the staff.
Lyrics, track names, and comments can be in Chinese, Japanese, Korean and other languages.
Percussion editor employs standard percussion notation
Copy and paste between 2 song files by starting two copies of Anvil Studio with different songs loaded.
Align notes with beats and measures.
Stretch / compress notes over time.
Compensation for MIDI and Audio device latency and working with low-latency ASIO and Virtual Instruments.
Per-track On/Mute/Solo, device, instrument, channel, fader, pan, and effects controls.
Shows up to 25 tracks of information displayed at the same time.
Zoomed-out view of notes and wave data for all tracks at the same time.
Option to play notes as mouse moves over them, making it easier to quickly locate a spot in the song.
Dynamically change track volumes, mutes, instruments, and effects properties while a song continues to play.
Fast loading and scrolling of large MIDI files.
Time and Duration fields display time in Minute:Second:Frame(SMPTE), or Measure:Beat:Ticks, or sample format.
Metronome includes tempo, lead-in, and accent beat attributes.
Add Cue points for quickly positioning to a desired spot in the song.
Play list for playing hours of different song files.
File/Truncate menu to shorten the duration of .MID files.
File/Merge Song menu for copying tracks between .MID files.
Add standard music notation including: slur, crescendo, decrescendo, fermata, trill, repeat, D.C., D.S.,segno, coda, prima volta, seconda volta,pp, p, mp, mf, f, ff
User-defined keyboard shortcuts.
Control Record/Play/Stop functions remotely using any MIDI controllers such as a Foot Switch, Modulation wheel.
Free version has built-in patch-library support for SoundFont®-compatible sound cards.
Supports the Tascam US-428 External Mixing console.
Runs on Windows 8, Windows 7, Vista, XP.
ASIO, VST, VST-Instrument, and Automation support with optional Pro-Mix accessory.
Anvil Studio - ChangeLog:
Added the menu Track / Map Notes for non-General-MIDI Drum Device...
Added the ability to save a percussion map by right-clicking the percussion display on rhythm tracks.
Fixed other miscellaneous bugs.
For windows 32 bit:
Size: 3.73 MB - Download
For windows 64 bit:
Size: 3.72 MB - Download
For windows xp and windows vista:
Size: 3.55 MB - Download