Free for educators and STEM-D students! A scratchpad for your musical ideas: SongSmith

SongSmith, this is cool beans, no kidding. If you are thinking about writing music as a profession, or just goofing around, this is a way to scratchpad your music ideas.

Head over to https://research.microsoft.com/en-us/um/redmond/projects/songsmith/

Download and play with this awesome toy, tool and possibly a profitable hobby!

If you are not a STEM-D student or you are not an educator, then you do have to pay for this great product. However you do get a 6 hour use trial version, this means 6 hours of total time USING the product, not 6 hours from the initial starting of your application.

Here is what you need to use SongSmith:

You’ll need a Windows-based PC, running Microsoft Windows XP (with Service Pack 2 or greater), Windows Vista, or Windows 7. 1GB of RAM and a processor of at least 1GHz are also required. The Microsoft .NET Framework 3.0 is also required on Windows XP (it’s built in to Windows Vista), but the Songsmith setup program will guide you through this and any other software requirements.