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This was the original purpose of this Wiki


 * [[image:digimus.jpg align="right"]]The purpose of this site is for the evaluation and experimentation with free digital music production tools. The initial assessments will be carried out by students at St Johns School and Sixth form in Bishop Aukland but we hope others will soon join.**

We have a large number of free digital music production resources: synths, samplers, sequencers, effects, drum machines etc. These resources will be made available to students and with support they will experiment with them. Because they are genuinely free resources they can also take a copy home. Students will write up their findings and experiences of using these digital music tools in this Wiki which will hopefully form an extensive evaluation of these resources. Pieces of music created with these digital tools will be added as podcasts.

Many of the virtual instruments you'll find here are "plug-ins". VST plugins named after Steinbergs Virtual Studio Technology or more accurately "VSTi" meaning VST instruments. This means you have to plug them into something. Most often this is a program like Steinbergs Cubase or a similar sequencer. IN my personal opinion the commercial programs do this best. However they are expensive and complex. The free or cheaper programs offer an alternative but they can be clumsy and in their own simplistic way quite complex (personal opinion again) This is the purpose of this site. To investigate all the possibiities and report on what works well and what doesn't (personal oppinions are OK)

To try out some of these virtual instruments there is another alternative - VST Hosts, a simple program to load up the VST1. There are some examples here.

//Steve Thompson, Institute of Digital Innovation, University of Teesside.//