Composing / Arranging / Songwriting

Scaler 3.1 benefits from new synchronisation features, improvements to the way chords and MIDI are handled and a number of other enhancements. 

Designed to support independent artists, producers, and collaborators at every stage of the music-making journey, SOS FOR ARTISTS is a new subscription service from Sound On Sound that brings together all the tools needed to take your music from idea to release.

Casio Music UK have announced that their Casio Sessions competition has returned...

Scaler 3 promises to make it easier than ever for users to take new directions, solve musical puzzles and improve their work-in-progress projects in new and interesting ways.

ILIO have announced the availability of three exclusive bundles that combine Nextmidi’s innovative Divisimate plug-in with a selection of Audio Modeling’s popular SWAM-series physical-modelling instruments. 

Nextmidi's innovative Divisimate software can now control up to 512 instruments, and has gained a built-in arpeggiator as well as powerful performance tools.

LANDR have announced the launch of an initiative that has been set up to allow artists to earn recurring revenue from participating in the training of assistive AI music tools. 

Gothic Storm are running a competition that challenges composers to score a trailer exclusively with a free sound pack download. 

Bang & Olufsen have teamed up with STUDIOCANAL to launch a competition that is offering one lucky singer-songwriter a five-day residency at Metropolis Studios, London.

The winners of this year's FMC have been announced following a prize-giving ceremony in Budapest, Hungary.

The final addition to EastWest's new fantasy scoring package helps users to quickly create everything from basic arrangements to complex orchestrated parts.

This year's Film Music Contest is now underway, with composers of film, television and video game music invited to submit their original compositions.

GPU Audio have announced a beat making competition which will see entrants’ submissions being pitted against each other in a series of head-to-head ‘battles’ to determine a winner.

Everyone’s A Singer is an organisation that was established with the goal of promoting the benefits that singing and songwriting can have on a person’s wellbeing.

Virtual Orchestration is a new series of educational videos dedicated to the art of composing with sampled orchestral instruments.

The latest add-on for EZKeys provides a collection of MIDI phrases and chord progressions aimed at creators of fantasy scores and soundtracks. 

PreSonus have released Android, Chrome OS, Fire OS, Windows, and macOS versions of their award-winning Notion iOS composition tool.

Producer and songwriter Trevor Horn has released a book detailing his long and successful career in the music industry.

Motif helps to create unique, multi-part melodies and progressions based on probability algorithms.