Music Highlights

Why just listen to your media on single PC when you can listen to it anywhere? No reason at all. With Winamp Remote you can play your music and videos from any Web browser, from your mobile device, your game machine, and more.

Winamp has been around for a long time, making it easy to keep music collections organized, to create playlists, to listen to online radio and more. With all the improvements Winamp has received over the years, it's a mature music player and a great alternative to iTunes or Windows Media Player.

When you have lots of media getting it all organized can sometimes be a problem, but not with Winamp Media PLayer. It gives you a variety of ways to sort, organize, and categorize your media so you can find what you're looking for.

A big music fan are ya? Well, then does Winamp Media Player have something for you. You can listen to your own music, but there's so much more. Listen to music remotely with Winamp Remote, listen to free online radio, television, and podcasts. If it has to do with media you can check it out in Winamp.

Andrew Carr delves into some of the more advanced FL Studio tips and tricks to round out our 10 part FL Studio video how to series. These tips make it easy to create patterns from loops and even beat-match different samples and loops in FL Studio. These tips are guaranteed to launch your music career. Guarantee not guaranteed. If you do go multi-platinum though, remember where you got your start though, OK?

You've created your aural masterwork in FL Studio... but how do you get it onto iTunes? Onto your MP3 player? Onto MySpace, Facebook or the 'net at large? Andrew Carr continues our Feel the Beat with FL Studio series and shows us how to export MP3, WAV and other audio or project files from FL Studio.

While there are a bunch of samples pre-recorded and available in FL Studio, bringing in your own samples, your own voice, a guitar chord, a piano roll or even crashing pots and pans allows you to expand your piece. FL Studio supports recording MIDI instruments as well as just about any sound generating device that can plug into your soundcard, including your microphone.

You don't need to buy tens of thousands of dollars of studio gear to have access to some sweet effects. FL Studio has lots of preset effects built right in and new ones can be downloaded. You can also change the settings on effects to radically change the way your song, or a section of your song, sounds.

FL Studio has a wide array of effects and a powerful mixer board that let you take control of your sound. Andrew Carr continues our 10-part video how-to on FL Studio with a close look at these program features.

We've got a beat. We've got a melody. Now it's time to change the arrangement in the FL Studio song playlist. Andrew Carr runs through how to arrange patterns into songs and shows us how to split our patterns and use them to create a bonafide electronic song.

Now that we've figured out how to lay down a beat, it's time to experiment with some of the various sounds and modules that are available in FL Studio to create our own style. There's a world of possibilities just with the pre-loaded sounds and modules in FL Studio and experimentation is the key to finding just the right sound.