Resources for Music Artist

My 14 year old daughter is passionate about music. She plays guitar, writes songs & sings. At $0.90/minute for her weekly music lessons with a Berkley graduate, there isn't any money left over for the super tech software she needs to compete with today's artist. So I set out to find all the music tools out there, and their free/inexpensive alternatives.

SOFTWARE

BASIC AUDIO RECORDING

• Audacity $ FREE

MULTI-AUDIO and/or MIDI PRODUCTION

• GarageBand
• FruityLoops
• Live
• Pro Tools
• Logic
• Reason
• SONAR
• Digital Performer

DIGITAL AUDIO WORKSTATION "DAW"

• Cockos, Inc.’s Reaper (full-featured software)
• EarSketch $ FREE
• Python programming environment for Reaper developed at Georgia Tech

TEXT EDITOR

• Komodo (free).

FREE WEB COURSES

• Music and Computers: A Theoretical and Historical Approach by Phil Burk, Larry Polansky, Douglas Repetto, Mary Roberts, and Dan Rockmore

FREE ONLINE BOOK/READING

• Theory and Techniques of Electronic Music by Miller Puckette
• Composing and Producing Electronic Music by Loudon Stearns