Tutorials and advice for using GarageBand including links and listings of published tutorials.

O'Reilly's publisher website for their published GarageBand tutorial text.

This series of movies starts by taking you through the basics of using the GarageBand interface, and then shows you how to work with Apple Loops, Software Instruments, and Real Instruments.

Peachpit's tutorial text for iLife software suite.

The CD-Rom companion to O'Reilly's tutorial text for GarageBand.

Updates, loops, and plug-ins for GarageBand.

This site is the online companion to my book, The Macintosh iLife '06, published by Peachpit Press and Avondale Media.

Amadeus II is a very powerful sound editor for Macintosh. It runs on MacOS 9.2 and up, as well as natively on MacOS X.

Scribe 4 is an optimally flexible data analysis program that permits users to label events in live observations or in QuickTime movies, summarize event timings, and play back labeled events in customized configurations.

With djay you can control and mix your whole digital music

Tuneblocks is an innovative group of musicians and computer software designers whose mission is to build computer-based and hands-on products that will help you develop your creative intuitions while having fun with music.

Transcriva is transcription software for the Mac. Whether it's your meeting minutes, interviews, lectures, home movies, dictation, speeches, or your favorite TV show, Transcriva can help you transcribe them all. You do the typing, Transcriva takes care of

Mario Paint Composer is a remake of the music system from the original Mario Paint for the Super NES. It is made by unFun Games. The game is completely free.

MuseScore is a free cross platform WYSIWYG music notation program, licenced under GNU GPL. Some highlights include (a) WYSIWYG, notes are entered on a "virtual note sheet," (b) Unlimited number of staves, (c) Up to four voices per staff, (d) Easy and fas

Interactive Classics music games bring the work of great composers to children as young as five years old - in a way that's both fun and accessible.

Scratch is a new programming language that makes it easy to create your own interactive stories, animations, games, music, and art -- and share your creations on the web.Scratch is designed to help young people (ages 8 and up) develop 21st century learni

List of free educational music software.

OSWINS DVD is a collection of Free and Open Source software for educational use that run on Windows. The educational software varies from mathematics to music, from science to graphics, from programming to educational gamesi and includes office tools, b

A virtual tour of Groovy Music Jungle.

DrumStepsDrumSteps is a great way to compose music. You don't need to know notation, you just need an imagination and best of all it's FREE.

LilyPond is an automated engraving system. It formats music beautifully and automatically, and has a friendly syntax for its input files. It is Free Software (‘open source’).

Qualitative data analysis software for the Macintosh platform.

jam2jam is an application that generates music that you can control while it plays. Even better, you can connect via a network with your friends who have jam2jam to jointly control the music. Jam just like a band, but without the need for complex instrume

Capo is a musician's best friend. It lets you slow down your favorite songs, so you can hear the notes and learn how they are played.

Free video tutorials on Sibelius 6.

Impromptu has been designed as a teaching tool to help you interrogate and develop your own musical intuitions. It is intended to be used in conjunction with the text Developing Musical Intuitions, and the accompanying music audio CD. Please remember that

The Music Software Guide is published by The Fun Music Companyhttp://www.funmusicco.comThe Fun Music Company independent review team reviews each piece of software they can.

Practice reading music with quizzes tailored to suit your needs. See every wrong answer drawn on a staff next to the correct answer.

8 Free, Cross-Platform Apps for Musicians

Impro-Visor ("Improvisation Advisor") is a software tool designed by musician and computer scientist Bob Keller to help jazz musicians work out, hear, and record solo ideas, including studying the work of others. It provides a notation capability for lead