Songsmith generates musical accompaniment to match a singer’s voice. Just choose a musical style, sing into your PC’s microphone, and Songsmith will create backing music for you. Then share your songs with your friends and family, post your songs online, or create your own music videos. What if I don’t know how to write music? Songsmith is for you. Get your first taste of songwriting just by singing into a microphone, then explore different styles and arrangements, even if you don’t know the first thing about music theory. What if I do know how to write music? Songsmith is for you too. Songwriters can use Songsmith as an “intelligent scratchpad” to work with new melodies, quickly turning your scratch recordings of new ideas into richer, deeper explorations. Musicians can also play instruments right into Songsmith, instead of singing. Save your songs as audio files to send to your friends and family or post online at social networking sites. Share your Songsmith files with your friends so they can put their ideas into your songs. Even create music videos! For Windows XP/Vista . Trial is limited to 6 hours.

This is Songsmith version 1.01, which fixes two problems users encountered in our initial release:

• Songsmith did not work properly on certain non-English installations of Windows, or on English installations where a user had non-English characters in his or her user name. Users in these scenarios received an error message when Songsmith tried to play or record any music. This has been fixed.

• Songsmith did not install on the Windows 7 beta. This has been fixed.