REPEAT [Music on the PC]

Whether you wish to learn to play an instrument, compose a song, download MP3 files, or just find out fun facts about your favorite musician, there's software, hardware, and many Internet sites for you. [Episode #1741, First broadcast: 2/1/2000] Adaptec - Easy CD Creator Mary Eaves of Adaptec shows us their Easy CD Creator. She explains CD-R and CD-RW technology as she demonstrates how you can use the software to make compilation CDs of your favorite music. If you are recording from old vinyl LPs, the software has a neat program called Spin Doctor that helps get rid of scratches, pops and hisses. You can also use the program to record and store any other kind of data from your PC. Beatnik Tony De Young from Beatnik shows us their cool web plug-in. He shows us several web sites such as sonicopia.com, Promotion.Yahoo.com, and a Pokemon site that have Beatnik installed, pointing out how they are different from other sites with audio. Tony also shows how you can add Beatnik to your own site. And finally he demonstrates their GrooveGrams concept where you can mix your own song online and post it. ACID Music 2.0 R. J. Holmberg shows us ACID MUSIC, a cool loop-based music creator. You can use it to create a song with almost no musical skill. You can easily add tracks and mix them together. If you have some musical ability, you can record your own tracks to add to those provided by the program. When you have created your song, you can export it as MP3, to a CD or upload it to share with others at the ACIDplanet web site. Van Koevring Interactive Piano Sean O’Shea demonstrates the upright version of the Van Koevering Interactive Piano. He shows us how its impressive range of instrument sounds. You can even use different parts of the keyboard to play different instruments. The main appeal of the piano, though, is that it incorporates a Windows 98 CPU, touchscreen and CD player, which together allow you to run music teaching software of your choice. You ca