Anvil Studio is a handy program designed for people who want to: record music with MIDI and Audio equipment, compose music for MIDI and Audio equipment, sequence music with MIDI equipment, or play with music using a computer and sound card. FEATURES: General: · Editors: Staff, Lyrics, Piano Roll, Drum, Loops, Audio, Events. · File formats: standard .MID and .WAV files. · Includes extensive integrated help. Piano Roll / Rhythm editor with: · multi-level loops · loops can refer to notes, other loops, samples, or Riffs. · Import, record and edit audio samples and play them like drums. · any note duration down to 1/128th notes. · dynamic editing while the song is playing, making it easier to experiment with rhythms. · duplet, quintuplet, and septuplet notes. · Enter notes from external MIDI device, on-screen guitar fret board, on-screen piano keyboard, or by dragging notes to the staff. · Per-track On/Mute/Solo, device, instrument, channel, fader, pan, and effects controls. For screens larger than 800 x 600, it shows: · up to 25 tracks of information displayed at the same time. · zoomed-out view of notes and wave data for all tracks at the same time. · option to play notes as mouse moves over them, making it easier to quickly locate a spot in the song. · Dynamically change track volumes, mutes, instruments, and effects properties while a song continues to play. · Fast loading and scrolling of large MIDI files. · Time and Duration fields display time in Minute:Second:Frame(SMPTE), or Measure:Beat:Ticks, or sample format. · Metronome includes tempo, lead-in, and accent beat attributes. · Add Cue points for quickly positioning to a desired spot in the song. · Play list for playing hours of different song files. · File/Truncate menu to shorten the duration of .MID files. · File/Merge Song menu for copying tracks between .MID files. · Add standard music notation including: slur, crescendo, decrescendo, fermata, trill, repeat, D.C., D.S., segno, coda, prima volta, seconda volta, pp, p, mp, mf, f, ff · User-defined keyboard shortcuts. · Control Record/Play/Stop functions remotely using any MIDI controllers such as a Foot Switch, Modulation wheel. · Free version has built-in patch-library support for SoundFont®-compatible sound cards. · Supports the Tascam US-428 External Mixing console. · Runs on Windows 98, ME, NT 4.0, 2000, XP, Vista (32-bit versions) · ASIO, VST, VST-Instrument, and Automation support with optional Pro-Mix accessory. Audio: · Free version allows you to record and edit a single, stereo or mono, one minute audio track. · Optional $19 Multi-Audio 1/8 accessory allows you to record and mix up to 8 stereo/mono audio tracks, where recording time is limited by available free disk space. · Uses Windows Audio Format Converters to import/export WMA and other audio formats. · Mix audio files with different formats (bits per sample, samples per second). · Controls for sound-card configuration. · Mix all tracks down to a single .WAV file. · Set record and play start and end times to control which range get recorded for Punch-in to re-record over mistakes. · Record audio tracks from any sound card's Mono, Left, Right or Stereo channels, from any soundcard source including Microphone, Line-In, CD-Audio, etc. · Audio effects: native reverb, native EQ, third-party DirectX effects. · Audio filters: zero-range, pitch change, volume change, pan, filtering, reverse, normalize (to maximize a track's head-room), low-pass, high-pass, band-pass, and band-stop. · VU meters · Zoom in to the sample level · Per-sample Volume, Pan and Reverb controls · Record an Audio device's Left or Right channel to a track by itself. · Mix stereo and mono Audio tracks in the same song to a stereo or mono mix. · Split a stereo audio track into two mono tracks. · Change audio tracks between Mono and Stereo without erasing the track. · Paste Stereo to Mono and Mono to Stereo. · Import .WAV files to audio tracks or sampled rhythms.