#music accompaniment software

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This is a glossary page of AthTek DigiBand. You will read what does DRUM mean and how you can use drum in music composition by AthTek DigiBand.

The drum is a member of the percussion group of musical instruments. In the Hornbostel-Sachs classification system, it is a membranophone. Drums may be played individually, with the player using a single drum, and some drums such as the djembe are almost always played in this way. Others are normally played in a set of two or more, all played by the one player, such as bongo drums and timpani. A number of different drums together with cymbals form the basic modern drum kit.

Drumming may be a purposeful expression of emotion for entertainment, spiritualism and communication. Many cultures practice drumming as a spiritual or religious passage and interpret drummed rhythm similarly to spoken language or prayer. Drumming has developed over millennia to be a powerful art form. Drumming is commonly viewed as the root of music and is sometimes performed as a kinesthetic dance. As a discipline, drumming concentrates on training the body to punctuate, convey and interpret musical rhythmic intention to an audience and to the performer.

AthTek DigiBand supports to create digital music including multiple drum tracks. There are many drum music patterns for users to make a good rhythm of beats.

Use Drum in Music Composition or Accompaniment

No matter in music composition or accompaniment, DigiBand users are able to pick up DRUM as an instrument when creating music with AthTek DigiBand.

Drum can be found in [Instrument] in composition guide window. Users can delete or modify DRUM settings to make a rich music expression.

Edit Drum Track in Music Composition

When a piece of music has been created in AthTek DigiBand, users will see drum track(s) listed. Multiple drum tracks are supported in music composition by AthTek DigiBand.

DigiBand users can add/delete/modify drum tracks easily by clicks. Currently, only drum kit effect is supported. But you can refresh the drum track to use new drum beat patterns. Thousands of drum beat patterns have been integrated in AthTek DigiBand.

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AthTek DigiBand can not only create music in MIDI format, but also make a melodious musical accompaniment for the MIDI file automatically. The program will recognize the rhythms in MIDI file and try to generate a melodious accompaniment to the MIDI file. Even you are new to AthTek DigiBand, you can generate a melodious accompaniment in a few minutes. In this article, you will read how to make a musical accompaniment easily for a MIDI file.

If you don’t have any MIDI file, you can download some for free from Mfiles or PartnersInRhyme. Otherwise you can convert existing audio files to MIDI files by a MIDI converter in Ofoct (WAV/MP3/OGG/AAC/WMA to MIDI) or Intelliscore (MP3 to MIDI). Now, let’s start to make a musical accompaniment for the MIDI file.

Step.1 Run AthTek DigiBand and import the MIDI file. CLick on button [Accompany your midi file] on Startup Guide and you will be asked to import the MIDI file. You can choose one audio track/channel in the MIDI file and the generated accomaniment music will be based on your choice. Click on [OK] to continue.

Step.2 Recognize chord and generate an acommpaniment. Click on [Recognize Chord] to convert the imported MIDI file to editable music. You can configure BPM (beat per minute), Key, Scale, musical emotion and instruments for the accompaniment. If you have no idea about these values, just leave them as default. When everything is OK, please press [Auto accompaniment] to generate the accompaniment music.

Step.3 Preview and optimize the accompaniment music. You will see the accompaniment music has been generated automatically. If you are not satisfied with the generated accompaniment music, you can click to change or delete any track to optimize it.

Step.4 Export the accompaniment music. When the accompaniment music is OK for use, you can export it easily. You can export it as MIDI file or WAVE file in SF2 or midi sound source. Now, you have complete the work of making a melodious accompaniment for the MIDI file.

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Background music is everywhere–in movies, elevators, dentists’ offices and presentations. Beautiful background music will greatly help with your presentation and get better results. New background music is always needed. How to make beautiful background music can be a good career for a beginning digital musician. By using AthTek DigiBand, you can effortlessly make background music to sell or use in your place of business. In this article, you will learn how to make beautiful background music by AthTek DigiBand.

Step.1 Open AthTek DigiBand and you will see the Start Guide with 6 buttons for music creation. Click on button [Make an accompaniment] to continue.

Step.2 On the opening Accompaniment Guide you will be able to customize your background music by clicks. You can choose a musical emotion, BPM (beat per minute) and beat type for your background music. For presentations, a soothing and soft background would be better. So let’s choose “Peaceful” as the musical emotion and BPM 78 in beat 4/4 type. Bass and drum will be too noisy in a piece of presentation background music, so that I will delete bass and drum in Instrument selection. Background music should have a pure rhythm through out the presentation, so that I will delete the intro and outro parts in Structure selection. After that, press button [Auto composition] to make the background music for presentation.

Step.3 Now we can preview the background music we have just made. If you dislike the background music, you can simply regenerate one by clicking on the refresh button on beginning of each audio track. To me, I dislike the organ sound in my presentation. I clicked the organ’s icon in audio track and change it to piano easily. After several attempts, we finally got the beautiful background music for presentation.

Step.4 Export the background music for making presentation. I’d prefer SF2 as the sound source and WAV for further editing. Now please listen to the background music I have just made!

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AthTek DigiBand is an advanced MIDI software application which can actually do more than other MIDI software. Both newbie and savvy can use it for midi music composition.