The Digital Music Lab offers 5 Power Mac workstations, digital keyboards, and a suite of specialized hardware and software. Below is a detailed listing of what is available. Please contact us with any suggestions or problems. You can reach us by e-mail at musiclibrary@columbia.edu.
Digital Music Lab - Equipment List
Hardware
- 5 Mac Pro 2.66 GHz Quad-core Intel Xeon workstations, each with 6GB RAM
- 4 MOTU Fastlane USB interfaces
- 2 Yamaha Arius YDP181 digital pianos, with weighted keyboard and MIDI connectivity
- 1 Epson 11" x 17" flatbed scanner
- Workstation for working with phonorecordings, cassettes, and DAT format transfers (in Seminar Room, which may be reserved)
Software
- Sibelius 6 (music notation and scanning)
- PhotoScore Ultimate (music scanning and OCR, with Sibelius)
- Finale 2010 (music notation)
- Logic Pro 9 (multi-track audio and MIDI sequencer)
- Amadeus Pro 1.5 (full-featured 2-ch audio editor)
- Audacity (free basic 2-channel audio editor)
- Max/MSP (audio and MIDI programming environment)
- Ableton Live (performance-oriented composition)
- Max4Live (application which links Max/MSP and Live)
- SPEAR (sound analysis and resynthesis)
- AudioSculpt and OpenMusic (IRCAM)
- Transcribe (audio editing, transcription, and annotation)
- Soundflower (free inter-application audio routing utility)
- MacGamut 6 (ear training software)
- iTunes (audio file management; CD burning)
- GarageBand (simple multi-track sequencer)
Coming in Spring/Summer 2013
- Fission non-destructive MP3 editor
- Higher-quality audio interfaces
- Attachable MIDI controllers (mini-keyboard, sliders, knobs)
- Laptop USB MIDI interfaces for personal laptop use in Lab
