Here's a selection of downloads on Shareware Music Machine that are targeted at the computer musician and home recording enthusiast.

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Computer-aided music is a term which can generate some confusion. Ultimately, every program on Shareware Music Machine could be placed in this category. But let's use some common sense. On the one hand, you've got software which creates music automatically and on the other there is software which requires a fair bit of human involvement without the direct need for an instrument.

What we're going to do is take you through a selection of popular downloads in this category as well as a few of the more unusual titles. Your level of knowledge and experience shouldn't matter. There's something in this supplement for just about everyone..

Multi-Track Recording Downloads for Windows 95/98/NT

ACID Demo - Size: 7 MB - Demo
Use loops and samples to create music in minutes. Best loop-composition download.

AudioMulch - Size: 1.6 MB - Shareware
Real-time interactive computer music environment. Great user reviews.

Band-in-a-Box - Size: 3.7 MB - Demo
Musical accompaniment in a variety of styles. Guitarists favorite.

Cakewalk Guitar Studio 2 - Size: 12.8 MB - Trial
Produce guitar-based music with full accompaniment.

FruityLoops - Size: 4.4 MB - Shareware
A great sample sequencer with enthusiasts worldwide.

Rebirth RB-338 Demo - Size: 4.3 MB - Demo
Two 303s and one 808 complete with full MIDI and sync capabilities.

Swan Studio - Size: 2.6 MB - Demo
One or more keyboardists can play up to a full orchestration.

Tuareg - Size: 2.4 MB - Freeware
Sequencer/loop-composer/remixer. Feed it sound. Hear what happens.

Tangent - Size: 2.2 MB - Demo
Generative music program that builds musical structures with rich polyphonic textures and rhythms.

Sounder - Size: 1.3 MB - Demo
Generate interactive, visual music that runs 'perpetually'.

QuasiFractal Composer - Size: 1 MB - Freeware
Combines fractal music with algorithmic composition. Generates standard MIDI files.

FractMus 2000 - Size: 877Kb - Freeware
A freeware fractal music composer.

A Musical Generator - Size: 1.1 MB - Demo
Use fractals, bitmaps and text to create wild new MIDIs.

Multi-Track Recording Downloads for Macintosh

Rebirth RB-338 Demo - Size: 5.4 MB - Demo
Software emulation of "TR-303s" and one "TR-808".

Bol Processor - Size: 2.2 MB - Shareware
Software for music composition/improvisation.

fLOW - Size: 2.3 MB - Freeware
An ambient sound generator.

M - Size: 760Kb - Demo
M becomes a part of the actual process of composition. Look out!

PhatBoy for Mac - Size: 2.3 MB - Shareware
4-track generative sample sequencer.

cellular grid machine - Size: 744Kb - Shareware
An experiment. A mutated method of music making.

thOnk_0+2 - Size: 293Kb - Freeware
Produces very diverse sounds based upon a sound file you give it.

Stoner Sound - Size: 30Kb - Freeware
Produces a stream of musical tones like a sound-based screensaver.

Multi-Track Recording Downloads for Linux

EsounD 0.2.8 - Size: 210Kb - Freeware
Mix audio streams and samples.

Random Phase Generator - Size: 8Kb - Freeware
A tool to experiment with ideas of Reich, Mozart and Cage.

Multi-Track Recording Downloads for BeOS

BeatyBeatyBeaty - Size: 381Kb - Shareware
An algorithmic audio event generator

Grabbo [PPC][Intel] - Size: 502Kb - Freeware
Takes video and computes MIDI values for output.  

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