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Audacity is an excellent free waveform editor that I swear by. It is highly plugin-based, and it comes with essential tools for audio-capture (click-removal, noise removal). Also is compatible with VST and others, I believe. Check it out. Also, for synthsizing and midi-editing, Melody Assistant and Gold Sound Base are incredibly cheap (20 dollars for MA, 30 for GSB), and there is a demo for MA with no time limit. With score editing, actual working music notation, and midi-keyboard compatibility, there is no excuse for the music-savvy to not get a decent sound out of it. There is also the option of recording your own instruments, if the strangely-limited soundbases aren't to your liking. I've been working with it for over a year, and... just be careful. If this catches on, I'd be more than willing to provide support for y'all. I apologize if these tools were mentioned before in this thread, but I did not see them in the main listing of stuff. If my terminology is off, correct me! (And take a gander at my miniscule post-count... 2!) The learning experience is really what I'm here for.

Hullo! Perfect newbzorz here! Don't eat me! I was wondering if anyone on these forums has heard of or tried Melody Assistant and Gold Sound Base, and if they could tell me how successful they have found it to be for making remixes. I have been using it for over a year now to write original music, but I am not sure if this site would consider it final-production-quality material for submissions. My budget demands that that and live recordings of my various woodwind instruments are my only options for mixing... opinions?