Computer Music Starter Kit

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Summary: Great Value for Beginners
Review: For a little extra money, you get some very powerful software that allows you to easily write music, save to MIDI file, edit your existing MIDI's and provides a MIDI cable to connect your music keyboard. If you have some downloaded MIDI files, you'll get a kick out of turning on and off tracks or making your own remix. Pumping the MIDI files through an external MIDI source via the included cable (I used a Yamaha EZ-30) produced incredible results. It even takes MIDI files and converts them to sheet music which you can print out and save! For getting your feet wet in digital music, there's nothing I've found that's better or more robust. However, if you don't have an external MIDI source, then you won't get the maximum benefit from this bundle.

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Summary: Misleads on included cable
Review: I agree with the Jan. 3rd 2003 reviewer. The enclosed cable will not work with my 2002 Dell laptop.[] This is double the price of the Software, which, by the way is OK. If the correct cable(s) were included, the package as a whole gets 4 stars...

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Summary: Good, bargain for those with floppy-drive keyboards.
Review: I used voyetra orchestrator for over 5 years. I think it was a great learning tool for both digital audio and midi. I record 100% digital and wanted to replace my older version with a newer one. I found this starter kit and thought that it was basically the same as I had before because I looked all over the box and couldn't find anything that said it only includes 4 digital audio tracks. (how can anyone get started with two stereo channels?). I wouldn't have purchased it if I would have known that. Now I am stuck with it. If all a person does is midi, I guess this will work, but if you want to "start" incorporating digital audio, you should buy something else. I don't enjoy it when companies try to slide one by it's customers by not listing important info that should be disclosed even if it ends up hindering sales. shame on those Marketing people!

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Summary: Software company not upfront with marketing package.
Review: I used voyetra orchestrator for over 5 years. I think it was a great learning tool for both digital audio and midi. I record 100% digital and wanted to replace my older version with a newer one. I found this starter kit and thought that it was basically the same as I had before because I looked all over the box and couldn't find anything that said it only includes 4 digital audio tracks. (how can anyone get started with two stereo channels?). I wouldn't have purchased it if I would have known that. Now I am stuck with it. If all a person does is midi, I guess this will work, but if you want to "start" incorporating digital audio, you should buy something else. I don't enjoy it when companies try to slide one by it's customers by not listing important info that should be disclosed even if it ends up hindering sales. shame on those Marketing people!

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Summary: Disappointed with this product
Review: If you have a newer computer using USB connections, don't buy this kit. The cable they supply won't work, and you have to find a USB to MIDI adapter somewhere else. I got fooled when I saw it was designed for use with Windows XP, and didn't realize that they meant it could be used by older computers that have upgraded to XP.
So, I've got to spend more money. ... The software is useless without the right cable connection.
I was also disappointed to learn from the manual that their software won't convert the MIDI files to .WAV format for creating my own CDs. Voyetra recommends you buy some more of their software ("AudioView") to do that job.
This product may have some value if you have an older computer, but it is not what they claim to be. It does not include "everything you need to create great sounding music..."

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Summary: Good, bargain for those with floppy-drive keyboards.
Review: The cable didn't work, but if you have a floppy-drive on the keyboard, it's not necessary. I have already made a bunch of tracks. I really like this product. Its easy to use if you are thorough with music and notation. This is the best MIDI software I can find cheap. I also got jamgrid with this kit. I like the MIDI Orchestrator, but not JamGrid.

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Summary: Disappointed with this product
Review: The Computer Music Starter software is a very nice product. You can create music using your PC or by attaching a MIDI keyboard. Several tracks of different instruments and effects can be added. You can preview your creation, record it, and even print out the sheet music. For the price, this software offers some great features. My only dissapointment is the scarcity of documentation. This is a fairly complex product that could stand better manuals.

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Summary: Great for Creating Your Own Music
Review: The Computer Music Starter software is a very nice product. You can create music using your PC or by attaching a MIDI keyboard. Several tracks of different instruments and effects can be added. You can preview your creation, record it, and even print out the sheet music. For the price, this software offers some great features. My only dissapointment is the scarcity of documentation. This is a fairly complex product that could stand better manuals.

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Summary: nice but, no printed manual.........
Review: This is a great software program to, get started in realisation of all the components of your computer and, the relationship of midi to it. The features are vast but, ah there is no printed manual. You have to download it from the software itself.I like being able to read the information from text and, also manipulate the screen. I would have given the software five stars except for the fact that, there is no manual included with the product bundling.If you don't mind shuttleing back and forth on your screen, you will love this software. Otherwise, a word of caution. This may take a while to understand.