
PxTone ( ) is a free software package containing several applications especially designed for creating 8bit or 16bit retro game music.

(Other free interesting software is Ploque SforZando ( ), however I suspect it cannot be made as a portable device.) Polyphone ( ) is a free and easy to use soundfont-editor which also can import a lot of SFZ-files. People who compose music on the computer frequently use SFZ-files or SF2-files. On the other hand Area Maestosa is very intuitive and the structure of the software is quite interesting. Also Aria Maestosa ( ) can be an option, however I find this software quite buggy and it offers less options for MIDI-editing. I haven't worked with it, but it looks very promising. However it's hard to find decent tool specifically for MIDI-editing. There are many free tools for music creation. Because it starts up very fast it works practical for me. I use it mainly to check in which key some tone is. Virtual Piano: also very small and lightweight. G3C ( ) : a small piece of software which offers tuning and practice for guitar playing On the other hand - it is very lightweight and all program files together take some 10 Mb, which is 15 times smaller than MuseScore

If offers less functions and intuitivity than for example MuseScore. Wavosaur ( ) : also an audio editor with some very handy extra functions Unfortunately the other ones which are really interesting require a setup-procedure. Mixere and TripLight can be downloaded as portable software. The developer Chris Korda has many more free tools and some are very interesting, like Mixere ( ), TripLight ( ), Fractice ( ) and World ( ). A very basic audio-editor, however it is interesting because of the 'bit-perfect'-editing. You allready include WaveShop in your app-library. It's very personal if someone likes this software. The Zoom-function really confuses me and there ain't a help-file or guide. On the other hand, it works for me personal less practical then I first assumed. I use this mainly to split for example a large flac-file by a cue-sheet. The best thing is it supports many audio-files and can export many files at once.


Ocenaudio ( ) : Probably allready familiar by you. The shortcuts also are linked to readme-files, manuals and external website-links. When you unzip the software-package at the root of the C-partition, then everything wil appear in a folder called "Program Files Portable (x86)" Then you should be able to access them with the shortcuts. The large one (about 350 Mb) is encrypted with the password: PortableAppsDotCom. To make things easier for you, you can download them at once from this WeTrans-link.
