Third generation (I will write about what I mean by this) music composition software for Windows. I downloaded a demo and it immediately started sucking up my time. The limitation of the demo is that you cannot save your work, however, you can render it to a Wav or MP3 file.
So I kept spending lots of time putting together a nice drum track and adding a few instruments, then arranging that into the rough beginnings of some little piece of music, just because it was fun. Then I would have to close the program and lose everything I’d done, but I knew I wouldn’t be able to save my work going in. This program is addicting. Here are a couple small exports of test segments I threw together in testing out the program:
A little silly, but presented anyway for your amusement. The point of these was to test out the sound quality capabilities of the program, and here’s where it excels. You’ll notice that each instrument has a separate chain of effects being applied to it (delay, equalizer, reverb, etc.) and the nice thing is that you can control this at so many points within the program, which gives the composer a great deal of expressive freedom in that regard.