Percussion Software

SequBeat offers a full virtual drum kit for all of your practicing and songwriting needs. It works as a sequencer for constructing percussion quality sounds. SequBeat comes with the "Power" drum library that features 16 great samples. The Power kit items include a kick, high hat, snare, cymbal, shaker, rimshot and much more. You'll also be able to import up to 32 samples of your own.

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Pianito is a very intuitive and funny piano simulator great to learn music. Recommended for children and adults. Play in background your favorite MP3, midi or wave files as your rythm pattern while you play interactively with the keyboard of your PC. The included 128 instruments and 48 percussion instruments will provide you hours of fun.

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MuseScore is a free and open source music scorewriter. MuseScore is a WYSIWYG editor, complete with support for score playback and import/export of MusicXML and standard MIDI files. Percussion notation is supported, as is direct printing from the program.The program has a clean user interface, with fast note editing input similar to the step-time note entry found in the popular commercial Scorewriting software packages, Finale and Sibelius.

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Musicians software DTAB is a powerful, yet easy to use Drum Tab Editor. The package not only includes full support for Drum Tab creation with full Midi play back. But, It can also IMPORT hand made Drum Tabs. Allowing you can download and listen to your favorite Drum Tabs from the web. Giving you access to thousands of FREE transcriptions online. Once imported, you can Edit, Print, Convert to midi etc. DTAB is an invaluable Tuition & Drum Tabbers tool.

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Virtual computer piano KBPiano will turn your computer into a musical keyboard. Just press the keyboard's keys and you'll hear sounds coming out your speakers. Configure the program to play chords by pressing just a key (configured automatically when you create a new file). This utility supports 15 channels, and realtime mixing, so you can create professional quality midi files. It is very easy to learn and use. If you want to record your own songs, give KBPiano a try !

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mangodrum is a very simple to use percussion composer program for Windows which uses an easy to understand grid format for displaying the rhythm patterns. These compositions can then be played, recorded to MP3 files or saved as a PDF file. Each composition can consist of a range of instruments with options to only listen to the selected instrument or the whole band. A playlist is used to bring together all the sections in your composition.

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Create your own professionally performed drum parts with DrumTools Performance Designer. This is a powerful VSTi that easily creates 1-8 measure drum performances including drum and percussion loops, fills, intros, endings, solo. And then you can simply trigger them by MIDI notes from your sequencer to easily turn separate performances into complete drum track perfectly matching your song.

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