Songtrix is a powerful software platform for musical creativity, education and publishing.
It offers musicians an intuitive working environment that manages real musical events and structures, such as chords, strums and drum rolls, as well as individual notes.
The applications of Songtrix are almost endless. It is designed to support musical activity in the same flexible way that a word processor supports writing, or a spreadsheet supports calculation.
Using styles, you can turn a simple chord sequence into a professional musical arrangement in a matter of seconds, to make backing tracks for performance, improvisation practice or to explore harmonic possibilities for composition.
You can progressively override and customize the style arrangement to get exactly the sound you are looking for.
Or you can take full control of the creative process, using the rich palette of musical events to produce your own original compositions or arrangements from scratch. You can easily add effects, such as pitch bend and vibrato, to make the performance sound stunningly realistic.
Staff notation is generated automatically, continuously and accurately as you create your songs, helping you learn or improve your sight-reading skills, and ensuring that you can effectively communicate your work to others.
A unique strength of Songtrix is the awareness of music theory that is built into the workspace. You can mark out key centres, and call on a variety of music theory tools to interpret, inform and guide the creative process.
Whatever your background, the How Music Works tutorials are an invaluable musical reference. Included with Songtrix, they start with the basics of sound and progress through to the advanced topics of songwriting and improvisation, providing sample sounds to clearly demonstrate each point of music theory.
You can take your completed musical works to the world by publishing them on the integrated ChordWizard Network. The ChordWizard Song file format features encryption, song protection and an embedded link back to the publisher, making it much more secure than other formats such as Midi files.
You can also use Songtrix to meet and collaborate with other members, making you part of a global community of musicians, as your skills and creativity are unleashed to fully realize your potential.
But first things first.
To help you get started on your musical journey with Songtrix, it is strongly recommended that you read through this chapter to get an overview of the key concepts you will encounter. Some are musical, others concern the Midi protocol, and some are specific to Songtrix itself.
Key Concepts
