Make your creative dreams a reality and achieve polished, professional recordings from your home computer with Music Creator 5—no previous recording experience required! Music Creator 5 guides you through initial set-up, making it easy for you to plug in your instrument or microphone and immediately start recording. Get professional sounding results using Music Creator’s powerful tools, instruments, and effects.

Music Creator 5 includes the Roland TTS-1 synth, which is like having a genuine Roland sound module built right into your PC!  The TTS-1 includes everything from synthesizers to orchestral instruments and just about everything in between. To further enhance your productions, you get the Triangle II synthesizer, capable of a broad range of raw, analog-style sounds, from warm to aggressive—perfect for leads and bass.

The Garritan Jazz & Big Band Collection features over 50 individual instruments including a comprehensive saxophone collection (16 different saxes), 5 trumpets (with various mutes plus scream trumpet), 5 trombones (with various mutes), a complete rhythm section (3 drum kits), guitars, a Jazz piano, electric piano, woodwinds, acoustic and electric basses, vibraphone, Latin percussion and more. The integrated Native Instruments KontaktTM Player supports VST, DXi, RTAS & AU, and supports popular notation programs, Mac or PC.

Garritan Personal Orchestra is an affordable, easy-to-use and thoroughly comprehensive orchestral library. It includes all the major instruments of the orchestra - strings, brass, woodwinds, and percussion - the highest quality collection of orchestral instruments ever sampled. Acclaimed as "the most significant sample-based instrument library ever to be produced", GPO has won more awards than any other orchestral library.

Coyote's ForteDXi is a DirectX (DXi) plugin that implements a high-quality sample player. Its sampled instruments offer a sound quality far better than the standard Windows Midi Synthesizer or similar synths. ForteDXi works with any compatible DXi host program to allow it to produce very realistic instrument sounds.

Get four programs for the price of one with the PG Music Musical Arcade! This program is a stand-alone launcher for our arcade-style games. Each game is designed to help train your ear and musical memory in different ways.

ChordFind for Windows® is a music game designed to be easy and fun to play, while at the same time teaching you valuable skills as a musician. The screen is set up much like a traditional word search, but in this case, instead of searching for letters and words, you’re searching for notes and chords. The game has two modes. In "Note Mode" you use your mouse to select a series of adjacent notes (squares) in a grid, then choose a chord that all of those notes belong to. In "Key Mode", you try to find chords that all belong to the same key.

GuitarStar Brent Mason: PG Music continues its GuitarStar series with Nashville guitar legend Brent Mason. If you turn on any Country Guitar radio station at any time, eight times out of ten you'll be hearing Brent's virtuosic playing. Brent has appeared on hundreds of albums with such familiar artists as Chet Atkins, George Strait, Brooks and Dunn, Neil Diamond, Shania Twain, and more.

GuitarStar Volume 2 is the fun way to become a Rock guitar star in the comfort of your own home. GuitarStar Volume 2 can turn any aspiring guitarist into a full-fledged rocker in no time! Create and play a unique, killer guitar solo complete with a rockin' rhythm section by simply pressing keys on your computer keyboard. And the fun doesn't stop there, GuitarStar Volume 2 will also teach you how to play those rockin' riffs. While the music plays, each note is displayed in notation, guitar tablature and on the on-screen guitar fretboard. Included video tutorials show how the riffs are played and include pro tips for practice and learning.

GuitarStar Volume 1 is the fun new way to become a Rock guitar star in the comfort of your home. By simply pressing different keys on your computer keyboard, you can play a unique, killer guitar solo complete with a rockin' rhythm section to back you up. But the fun doesn't stop there, GuitarStar will also teach you how to play those rockin' guitar riffs. While the music plays, each note is displayed in notation, guitar tablature and on the on-screen guitar fretboard. To get you started quickly we've included video tutorials with pro tips to tell you exactly how each riff is played.

The Guitar Chord Dictionary is an essential tool for any aspiring guitarist. Simply select any root note, and choose the chord you want to learn from the list of available chords. The selected chord will then be displayed on the on-screen guitar fretboard. The Guitar Chord Dictionary is the perfect tool for guitar players at any level!

The Piano Chord Dictionary is an essential tool for any musician. Simply choose a root note, select the chord you want to learn, and the Piano Chord Dictionary will display the chord on the on-screen piano keyboard. This extremely effective program is great for any musician who wants to learn more about chord structures.

Keeping time is essential for all musicians, and Metronome Pro is a great way to ensure that you are always practicing at the correct tempo. Metronome Pro can be used as a basic "old school" metronome and includes advanced features to take your tempo practice to a new level. In its basic mode, Metronome Pro will keep perfect time as you practice along while the advanced features provide additional practice tools such as increase tempo, trade 4's, even a song length calculator. All possible time signatures are supported, including composite time. If you need a drummer, Metronome Pro can easily be turned into a drum machine to play the drum track from any standard MIDI file. Metronome Pro is an excellent tool for musicians of any level.

Music comes alive with Finale.

Finale provides easy access to everything you need to compose, arrange, play, and print music. Whether you’re creating orchestra film scores or .MP3 files for your iPod, your music comes alive with Finale.

Finale is for everyone Finale 2011 provides you with the flexibility, freedom and power to create any music you can imagine. Instead of forcing you to adapt your creative process to the software, Finale adapts to you. The result? You can quickly and easily turn your inspiration into applause.

Create & print publisher-quality sheet music.

Finale PrintMusic is the fast, easy way to bring your music to life with professional results.

• Arrange full ensembles and extract individual parts
• Play your music with professional sounds and nuance
• Share your music with iPod-ready MP3 files.