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If you like music and you can sing, I’m sure that you may have a dream of possessing a recording studio of your own so that you can record your singing and produce your CD. However, such dream, in general, costs you a lot. Besides the facilities like production studio construction… you are also required a bunch of expensive recording system.

But thing has changed with AV Music Morpher Gold. With this compact, easy-to-use software now you can really enjoy an in-home recording studio.

First step is recording, AV MM Gold can help you to record your voice in high quality. Click record button under the morpher tab and sing. Then, you can replay to check and redo the recording until feeling content.

The next step is editing your work. Now you can see the differences of AV MM Gold. You can add as many effects as you like to make your song funky simply by click on the wished ones. There are many options for you, single effects or special effects or group of effects as well. And if you don’t like the ready-made ones you can create something new. The funniest thing is voice morpher, you can change your voice pitch, voice timbre and the tempo of the song.

More than that you can cut a part of any music song and insert it in to your song. It will be very useful to make funny things and it will stimulate your creativeness a lot.

After the postproduction, it’s time you make your beloved CD with burner. But don’t forget to make your CD look funky by creating a cover with your favorite pics.

Now you have in hand a complete CD, why don’t you make it a special gift for your beloved in this Valentine?

If you like music and you can sing, I’m sure that you may have a dream of possessing a recording studio of your own so that you can record your singing and produce your CD. However, such dream, in general, costs you a lot. Besides the facilities like production studio construction… you are also required a bunch of expensive recording system.

But thing has changed with AV Music Morpher Gold. With this compact, easy-to-use software now you can really enjoy an in-home recording studio.

First step is recording, AV MM Gold can help you to record your voice in high quality. Click record button under the morpher tab and sing. Then, you can replay to check and redo the recording until feeling content.

The next step is editing your work. Now you can see the differences of AV MM Gold. You can add as many effects as you like to make your song funky simply by click on the wished ones. There are many options for you, single effects or special effects or group of effects as well. And if you don’t like the ready-made ones you can create something new. The funniest thing is voice morpher, you can change your voice pitch, voice timbre and the tempo of the song.

More than that you can cut a part of any music song and insert it in to your song. It will be very useful to make funny things and it will stimulate your creativeness a lot.

After the postproduction, it’s time you make your beloved CD with burner. But don’t forget to make your CD look funky by creating a cover with your favorite pics.

Now you have in hand a complete CD, why don’t you make it a special gift for your beloved in this Valentine?

If you like music and you can sing, I’m sure that you may have a dream of possessing a recording studio of your own so that you can record your singing and produce your CD. However, such dream, in general, costs you a lot. Besides the facilities like production studio construction… you are also required a bunch of expensive recording system.

But thing has changed with AV Music Morpher Gold. With this compact, easy-to-use software now you can really enjoy an in-home recording studio.

First step is recording, AV MM Gold can help you to record your voice in high quality. Click record button under the morpher tab and sing. Then, you can replay to check and redo the recording until feeling content.

The next step is editing your work. Now you can see the differences of AV MM Gold. You can add as many effects as you like to make your song funky simply by click on the wished ones. There are many options for you, single effects or special effects or group of effects as well. And if you don’t like the ready-made ones you can create something new. The funniest thing is voice morpher, you can change your voice pitch, voice timbre and the tempo of the song.

More than that you can cut a part of any music song and insert it in to your song. It will be very useful to make funny things and it will stimulate your creativeness a lot.

After the postproduction, it’s time you make your beloved CD with burner. But don’t forget to make your CD look funky by creating a cover with your favorite pics.

Now you have in hand a complete CD, why don’t you make it a special gift for your beloved in this Valentine?

Before I left Singapore, my aspired DJ-to-be Malaysian buddy, Chee Kiang, burnt for me my favorite Ministry of Sound &ndash The Annual 2005 Deluxe CD. He attempted some modifications to the hits, not without the Zouk influence, the club everyone talks about in Singapore where he is a frequenter.

I didn’t quite feel any distinction from the original record.

Perhaps he is not too familiar with music editing yet (after all, Chee Kiang only has a laptop equipped with a Windows Media Player burner). What negligence, when music morphing features are already so comprehensive, covering almost all there could be to audio morphing!

And the developing music editing softwares are making the list even longer. Not long ago, mixers used to be limited to only 5 file extensions (.wav, .mp2, .mp3, .ogg and .wma). Now, the products of Audio4Fun and Sony support almost all the extensions there are (up to 14). Conversion of songs under different formats into as many types is no longer an edge, but a norm with these music editor-players.

Not only in quantity, but the quality of the output is also enhanced, with special attention to the pitch and timbre of the sound effects. And don’t be surprised getting to know that some music morphers now allow you unlimited freestyle mix-and-match of customized extractions of songs (yes, you can extract all the best verses of your favorite songs to create your own mega-hit). This defining feature is perhaps best demonstrated in the AV Music Morpher Gold.

A hip mixer is one who plays not only good music, but his own good music as well. These music juke boxes take as good care of specific wants of the demanding DJ as that of his above-mentioned special needs. He could drive clubbers hysterically spinning by mixing his voice into any hip-hop favorites, and further adding built-in juke effects or any of his pre-mixed sounds. That is how far the music editors have been developed, to help DJs keep clubbers screaming for more.

Perhaps what distinguishes the music editing concept from other high-end digital streams (DVD morphing for instance) is that the technology is so user-friendly and complete that any average home DJ now can produce his own CDs, fully personalized, from music to CD cover. All Music Morphers of Audio4Fun support such thorough form of customization, though it is hardly seen elsewhere in the market.

So how has the market embraced these creative editing tools? There are over 10 major music software producers, with big names such as Audio4Fun, Adobe and Sony (Audio4Fun is more specialist, as Adobe is more known for its PDF readers while Sony is an omnipresent titan). Products are for sale from a mere $9.95 to only $99.95, about the price of a DVD player. Free downloads of music editing softwares are also available on the web (legally, of course).

The combination of an extensive supply chain, low pricing and numerous support features might herald an age of home recording audios, where home DJs savor unique mix-medleys that even the Zouk clubbers crave for.

Oh my, Chee Kiang is going to love it if I get him one such Music Morpher for his coming birthday

The worst thing about Christmas has to be listening to Top Of The Pops and the Christmas Number 1 &ndash Girls Aloud, Robbie Williams, Westlife and Mr Blobby for goodness sake! Surely anyone can produce a better Christmas Hit than those. After all, a computer does all the work, doesn’t it - all you do is press a few buttons and jiggle a few drum and bass lines around.

So what do you need? You need a PC with a reasonable amount of processing power under the hood - a Pentium III at least, preferably a P4 - in order to run the music software.

Audio files are quite large - forget MP3s, we’re talking the real thing here - and for each track of audio you record you’ll need around 10.6Mb of hard disk space per minute. Every track won’t be filled with audio so you won’t need quite that much in a multi-track recording but for a four-minute 16-track song it would be wise to allocate around 500Mb of hard disk space.

Playing cards

You need a soundcard. All modern PCs have one of these but if you don’t want your song to sound like it was recorded in a back bedroom - even it if was - get a decent card.

At Christmas-stocking prices are a range of SoundBlaster cards such as the Audigy 2 ZS (for under J70/$100) with a good set of built-in sounds. But more than that, they support SoundFonts. These are samples the card uses to produce realistic instrument sounds and better beefy bass lines than yer average sound card.

If you’ve a rich Mummy and Daddy they’ll be pleased to buy you a more expensive card such as E-Mu’s Emulator X (around J220/$380), a desktop sampling system that also supports SoundFonts. If you own a nightclub you’ll be able to afford one of CreamWare’s high-end systems with on-board synthesisers that can do everything but sober up the drummer - not that you need a drummer ’cause the cards have all the drum sounds you need.

Key move

You’ll also need a MIDI keyboard to record your masterpiece. There’s a vast choice here from E-Mu’s XBoard 25, XBoard 49, and Swissonic’s CK490 (all running around J100/$150 give or take) to the Fatar range running from the TMK61 (J130/$225) up to the VMK 188 Plus (J599/$1000) with several models inbeween.

These keyboards don’t have any on-board sounds like synthesisers but they’re much cheaper than synths and there are sounds in the soundcard anyway. If you’ve seen an Elton John concert and can’t face the thought of touching a keyboard, don’t worry - you can use pre-recorded loops and samples and cleverly arrange them in stunning combinations without a keyboard.

Listen ‘ere

A decent pair of speakers is essential. The ten quid jobbies that were bundled with your PC may be fine for playing MP3s but they simply won’t do for mixing music.

The Big Boys use dedicated monitor speakers which can cost as much as a holiday in Barbados but if you leave the other half at home you could easily afford Behringer’s MS16s (J46/$79), or Edirol’s MA7A (J80/$135) or MA150 (J120/$200).

If your PC is near your hi fi you can run the audio through that but switch off any bass boost or EQ settings. The idea is to get a flat, uncoloured response so if it sounds good on those speakers it should sounds good on any speakers. So the theory goes.

Good arrangement

The Big Boys can fiddle with high-end music sequencers but the new and incredibly modestly-priced Cubase SE 3 (less than a ton/$170) lets you record and assemble audio and MIDI parts with almost as much aplomb. It shows both types of recording on the same arrange page making it easy to see how they fit together.

And finally, you need a CD recorder so you can burn your finished hit to CD and send it to lucky record companies. If you’ve a modern PC you’ll have one already. But do use a labeller and create a CD inlay, too, to give the CD a pro finish. In the music biz, looks, fashion and style are far more important than content so spend at least as much time on the outside as on the music. Put your contact details on the CD label as well as the inlay.

Hook and line

Now let’s make a song. You need a hook. This is the bit everyone sings so it has to be catchy. It’s usually the chorus but you can have a catchy bass line, drum line or even a vocal hook such as shout or a catch phrase like “Eh Oh”. Well it worked for the Teletubbies &ndash are you old enough to remember them with embarrassment?

Let’s say you’ve come up with a stonking chorus. Build a verse around it. It doesn’t have to be memorable; few verses are. You can meander around in a relatively tuneless way until it’s time to unleash the chorus on the world.

When building a song, start with the rhythm section. Grab some groovy drum loops, string them together then add the bass line. You can play this on your new MIDI keyboard or drop in bass samples - jolly useful things, samples.

Next you’ll want to add some keyboard parts which can be clever rhythmic figures or you can play pads by holding down some chords using a broad-texture sound such as strings.

Very vocal

Then add the vocals. If you can’t sing - but remember that never stopped anyone making a record - you might like to nip down the pub and ask the winner of this week’s karaoke contest to do the chanting for you. Play your cards right and they may even pay you for the privilege.

If you’ve too much musical nous to be in the same room as a karaoke singer, you can always fall back on your old friend, the sample.

The final step is the mixing. This is where you balance all the parts you recorded, add a dash of reverb and generally tart the thing up.

Then save the entire song as an audio file ready for burning to CD. This means recording the MIDI parts as audio tracks. You need to mix all the tracks into one stereo track so the final file will be 10.6Mb x the length in minutes.

Looks good

Now you have to interest the A&R men in your CD. It’s all about image so if you’re dull and ugly - name three ugly pop stars, apart from Madonna and Mick Hucknall - you may have to get one of your beautiful friends to pose for the publicity photos.

Write a one-page biog - they don’t want to know that you have a GCSE in music, they want to know what gigs you’ve done and any Big Name bands you’ve supported. Drop a few names such as Bruce, Robbie and Tina. You don’t have to mention surnames…

If you do catch the ear of an A&R person, be prepared to throw your ego out the window - you can’t afford one at the moment and when you’re rich and famous you can buy a much better one anyway.

You’ll see the months of blood, sweat and Pils which you poured into your song pouring straight down the drain as the record company drafts in a 14-year-old DJ to remix your song using the latest Dance breakbeats and crap - sorry, rap - vocals.

But don’t worry - you can laugh all the way to the bank when it reaches Number One!

Before I left Singapore, my aspired DJ-to-be Malaysian buddy, Chee Kiang, burnt for me my favorite Ministry of Sound &ndash The Annual 2005 Deluxe CD. He attempted some modifications to the hits, not without the Zouk influence, the club everyone talks about in Singapore where he is a frequenter.

I didn’t quite feel any distinction from the original record.

Perhaps he is not too familiar with music editing yet (after all, Chee Kiang only has a laptop equipped with a Windows Media Player burner). What negligence, when music morphing features are already so comprehensive, covering almost all there could be to audio morphing!

And the developing music editing softwares are making the list even longer. Not long ago, mixers used to be limited to only 5 file extensions (.wav, .mp2, .mp3, .ogg and .wma). Now, the products of Audio4Fun and Sony support almost all the extensions there are (up to 14). Conversion of songs under different formats into as many types is no longer an edge, but a norm with these music editor-players.

Not only in quantity, but the quality of the output is also enhanced, with special attention to the pitch and timbre of the sound effects. And don’t be surprised getting to know that some music morphers now allow you unlimited freestyle mix-and-match of customized extractions of songs (yes, you can extract all the best verses of your favorite songs to create your own mega-hit). This defining feature is perhaps best demonstrated in the AV Music Morpher Gold.

A hip mixer is one who plays not only good music, but his own good music as well. These music juke boxes take as good care of specific wants of the demanding DJ as that of his above-mentioned special needs. He could drive clubbers hysterically spinning by mixing his voice into any hip-hop favorites, and further adding built-in juke effects or any of his pre-mixed sounds. That is how far the music editors have been developed, to help DJs keep clubbers screaming for more.

Perhaps what distinguishes the music editing concept from other high-end digital streams (DVD morphing for instance) is that the technology is so user-friendly and complete that any average home DJ now can produce his own CDs, fully personalized, from music to CD cover. All Music Morphers of Audio4Fun support such thorough form of customization, though it is hardly seen elsewhere in the market.

So how has the market embraced these creative editing tools? There are over 10 major music software producers, with big names such as Audio4Fun, Adobe and Sony (Audio4Fun is more specialist, as Adobe is more known for its PDF readers while Sony is an omnipresent titan). Products are for sale from a mere $9.95 to only $99.95, about the price of a DVD player. Free downloads of music editing softwares are also available on the web (legally, of course).

The combination of an extensive supply chain, low pricing and numerous support features might herald an age of home recording audios, where home DJs savor unique mix-medleys that even the Zouk clubbers crave for.

Oh my, Chee Kiang is going to love it if I get him one such Music Morpher for his coming birthday

The worst thing about Christmas has to be listening to Top Of The Pops and the Christmas Number 1 &ndash Girls Aloud, Robbie Williams, Westlife and Mr Blobby for goodness sake! Surely anyone can produce a better Christmas Hit than those. After all, a computer does all the work, doesn’t it - all you do is press a few buttons and jiggle a few drum and bass lines around.

So what do you need? You need a PC with a reasonable amount of processing power under the hood - a Pentium III at least, preferably a P4 - in order to run the music software.

Audio files are quite large - forget MP3s, we’re talking the real thing here - and for each track of audio you record you’ll need around 10.6Mb of hard disk space per minute. Every track won’t be filled with audio so you won’t need quite that much in a multi-track recording but for a four-minute 16-track song it would be wise to allocate around 500Mb of hard disk space.

Playing cards

You need a soundcard. All modern PCs have one of these but if you don’t want your song to sound like it was recorded in a back bedroom - even it if was - get a decent card.

At Christmas-stocking prices are a range of SoundBlaster cards such as the Audigy 2 ZS (for under J70/$100) with a good set of built-in sounds. But more than that, they support SoundFonts. These are samples the card uses to produce realistic instrument sounds and better beefy bass lines than yer average sound card.

If you’ve a rich Mummy and Daddy they’ll be pleased to buy you a more expensive card such as E-Mu’s Emulator X (around J220/$380), a desktop sampling system that also supports SoundFonts. If you own a nightclub you’ll be able to afford one of CreamWare’s high-end systems with on-board synthesisers that can do everything but sober up the drummer - not that you need a drummer ’cause the cards have all the drum sounds you need.

Key move

You’ll also need a MIDI keyboard to record your masterpiece. There’s a vast choice here from E-Mu’s XBoard 25, XBoard 49, and Swissonic’s CK490 (all running around J100/$150 give or take) to the Fatar range running from the TMK61 (J130/$225) up to the VMK 188 Plus (J599/$1000) with several models inbeween.

These keyboards don’t have any on-board sounds like synthesisers but they’re much cheaper than synths and there are sounds in the soundcard anyway. If you’ve seen an Elton John concert and can’t face the thought of touching a keyboard, don’t worry - you can use pre-recorded loops and samples and cleverly arrange them in stunning combinations without a keyboard.

Listen ‘ere

A decent pair of speakers is essential. The ten quid jobbies that were bundled with your PC may be fine for playing MP3s but they simply won’t do for mixing music.

The Big Boys use dedicated monitor speakers which can cost as much as a holiday in Barbados but if you leave the other half at home you could easily afford Behringer’s MS16s (J46/$79), or Edirol’s MA7A (J80/$135) or MA150 (J120/$200).

If your PC is near your hi fi you can run the audio through that but switch off any bass boost or EQ settings. The idea is to get a flat, uncoloured response so if it sounds good on those speakers it should sounds good on any speakers. So the theory goes.

Good arrangement

The Big Boys can fiddle with high-end music sequencers but the new and incredibly modestly-priced Cubase SE 3 (less than a ton/$170) lets you record and assemble audio and MIDI parts with almost as much aplomb. It shows both types of recording on the same arrange page making it easy to see how they fit together.

And finally, you need a CD recorder so you can burn your finished hit to CD and send it to lucky record companies. If you’ve a modern PC you’ll have one already. But do use a labeller and create a CD inlay, too, to give the CD a pro finish. In the music biz, looks, fashion and style are far more important than content so spend at least as much time on the outside as on the music. Put your contact details on the CD label as well as the inlay.

Hook and line

Now let’s make a song. You need a hook. This is the bit everyone sings so it has to be catchy. It’s usually the chorus but you can have a catchy bass line, drum line or even a vocal hook such as shout or a catch phrase like “Eh Oh”. Well it worked for the Teletubbies &ndash are you old enough to remember them with embarrassment?

Let’s say you’ve come up with a stonking chorus. Build a verse around it. It doesn’t have to be memorable; few verses are. You can meander around in a relatively tuneless way until it’s time to unleash the chorus on the world.

When building a song, start with the rhythm section. Grab some groovy drum loops, string them together then add the bass line. You can play this on your new MIDI keyboard or drop in bass samples - jolly useful things, samples.

Next you’ll want to add some keyboard parts which can be clever rhythmic figures or you can play pads by holding down some chords using a broad-texture sound such as strings.

Very vocal

Then add the vocals. If you can’t sing - but remember that never stopped anyone making a record - you might like to nip down the pub and ask the winner of this week’s karaoke contest to do the chanting for you. Play your cards right and they may even pay you for the privilege.

If you’ve too much musical nous to be in the same room as a karaoke singer, you can always fall back on your old friend, the sample.

The final step is the mixing. This is where you balance all the parts you recorded, add a dash of reverb and generally tart the thing up.

Then save the entire song as an audio file ready for burning to CD. This means recording the MIDI parts as audio tracks. You need to mix all the tracks into one stereo track so the final file will be 10.6Mb x the length in minutes.

Looks good

Now you have to interest the A&R men in your CD. It’s all about image so if you’re dull and ugly - name three ugly pop stars, apart from Madonna and Mick Hucknall - you may have to get one of your beautiful friends to pose for the publicity photos.

Write a one-page biog - they don’t want to know that you have a GCSE in music, they want to know what gigs you’ve done and any Big Name bands you’ve supported. Drop a few names such as Bruce, Robbie and Tina. You don’t have to mention surnames…

If you do catch the ear of an A&R person, be prepared to throw your ego out the window - you can’t afford one at the moment and when you’re rich and famous you can buy a much better one anyway.

You’ll see the months of blood, sweat and Pils which you poured into your song pouring straight down the drain as the record company drafts in a 14-year-old DJ to remix your song using the latest Dance breakbeats and crap - sorry, rap - vocals.

But don’t worry - you can laugh all the way to the bank when it reaches Number One!