Songbrew guide

How to make full songs with singing on your own Mac, Windows or Linux computer with Songbrew: what a computer needs, your first song, takes and redoing a part, where your songs are kept and whose they are, and what to do when something goes wrong.

  1. What it is, and what your computer needsSongbrew makes full songs with singing on your own computer, free and with no account. Which Macs, Windows PCs and Linux PCs can run it, how to install it, and what the one-time setup downloads.
  2. Your first songFrom an idea, or nothing at all, to a song that plays: describing it, choosing who writes the lyrics, picking a length, and following the song as it's made.
  3. Takes, redoing a part, restyling, and editing the lyricsHow to get another version of a song, remake just one verse or chorus, hear it in another style, keep the take you like, and change the words.
  4. Where your songs are kept, and whose they areEvery song is a file in your own music folder. How to find, save, search and delete songs, what you may do with them, and what does and doesn't leave your computer.
  5. When something goes wrongWhat to do when Songbrew says the computer can't make songs, when a download stops, when songs take long, when words go missing, and how to send feedback.