Hey, I've been a guitarist for bout 4 years this christmas. I've been working on a 2D game for the past few weeks, and it's fairly close to going gold. I mainly need to work on music and SFX. I downloaded my sound-effects off the internet, and I don't want to have a legal dispute (The game is going to be commercial). I am currently looking for some sort of software that will let me edit sound effects and music. I have a mic downstairs. It's just a regular singing mic that bands use, not a computer mic. Could I use that? If so, how would I upload stuff to my PC and edit it? Edit: apparantly it doesn't work. I tried and nothing. So, is there any software that will let me give it what notes I want it to play and such, like put in the notes of a scale, and it would play that scale?

A very good and free sound editor is Audacity. You can download it here:
http://audacity.sourceforge.net/

You can use the mic you have of course as long as it doesnt bring too much noise in the recording. I dont know if the mic has a connection that can be connected to the computer if it is a mic that is used for bands, but maybe with a few dollars/euro's you can be a cable that can connect it to your computer.

I am not quite sure what you are looking for in the last part of your post. Do you want to have the soundfx translated into notes? Basicly make from wav a midi file?
If yes, then this is very difficult to find something that gives good results. I have never tried it but you could check out: http://www.pluto.dti.ne.jp/~araki/amazingmidi/

If this is not what you are looking for then I am sorry and probably misunderstood it :)
Good luck!

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It's just a regular singing mic that bands use, not a computer mic. Could I use that? If so, how would I upload stuff to my PC and edit it?

These are essentially the same device. If you can plug it in, it should be okay. On your sound card there should be a 1/8 inch headphone-style jack to plug in a micro phone. You should be able to just plug-in the mic. If the mic has 1/4 inch headphone or RCA plugs then you just need an adapter. If it is 3 pin XLR than it's a bit more difficult but still possible.