Collaborative sheet-music & lyrics annotation for bands and ensembles: a reactive web editor (TroubaStudio), an authoritative Go sync core (TroubaCore), and an offline mobile presenter (TroubaStage).
github.com/yoda-jm/troubastack
Category Archives: Mac
Ritmolux ~ Real-time Music Visualizer
A lightweight, real-time music visualizer built around one shared Rust core that turns a stream of PCM audio samples into GPU-rendered visuals. Two frontends consume that core:
- Standalone app (Windows, macOS and Linux) — pure Rust (
winit+wgpu), fed by the OS’s system-audio capture.- foobar2000 plugin (Windows-first) — a thin C++ shim over the core’s C ABI, fed by foobar’s own
visualisation_stream(no loopback needed on that path).The core is source-agnostic: it takes interleaved/mono PCM frames and does not care whether they came from loopback capture or foobar. That single abstraction is what lets one visual codebase serve both frontends.
github.com/IgorKonovalov/Ritmolux
igorkonovalov.github.io/Ritmolux/gallery
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myco ~ macOS Multi-output Device Control
WrzDJ ~ Disc Jockey Song Requestor
A real-time song request system for DJs. Guests scan a QR code to submit requests. DJs manage everything from a live dashboard with automatic track detection from their equipment via plugins for Denon, Pioneer, Serato, and Traktor.
wrzdj.com
github.com/wrzonance/WrzDJ
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thinksynth ~ Modular Synth & Algorthmic Composition
thinksynth builds sounds out of a graph of DSP nodes — oscillators, filters, envelopes, delays and arithmetic — described in a small language and rendered in real time. Patches assign those graphs to MIDI channels, so one instrument can layer several voices.
Every node is a plugin, and the set that ships covers subtractive and FM synthesis, resonators, waveshaping and a range of filters. New ones are ordinary shared libraries dropped into the plugin directory.
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PearTune ~ Peer-To-Peer Music Player
Play a music collection that lives on a computer at home, from anywhere. It can be your computer or a friend’s. No port forwarding, no VPN, no account and no cloud copy of your files.
peerloomllc.com/peartune
github.com/peerloomllc/peartune
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Glacier EQ ~ USB DAC Parametric EQ
Cross-platform parametric EQ editor for USB DACs. Offline, direct Tauri+React app for desktop and Android.
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Masterpiece ~ Hauptwerk Sample Pipe Organ
An open-source pipe organ sample player compatible with Hauptwerk sample sets.
bonninr.github.io/masterpiece
github.com/bonninr/masterpiece
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ShinRonin ~ Modular Filter & Delay
ShinRonin is a ground-up rebuild of Ronin, one of the earliest plugins we ever shipped, first released in 2003. The original paired two delay lines with a set of morphing filters and two fully patchable routing matrices, and it earned a cult following for the strange feedback networks and self-oscillating textures you could build inside it. Twenty years on, we have rebuilt it for modern systems, kept the architecture that made it worth remembering, and released it for free.
Two independent delay lines, each with tempo sync, reverse, looping, and feedback, feed a pair of morphing multimode filters that sweep continuously from notch through lowpass, bandpass, and highpass. There is saturation, two LFOs, and an envelope follower. Everything connects through two on-board matrices: a signal matrix that routes any audio source to any destination, and a modulation matrix that wires the LFOs, envelope, and incoming MIDI to nearly any parameter. It is happy doing clean stereo delays and gentle filtering, but the real fun starts when you patch a feedback loop and let it misbehave.
www.audiodamage.com/pages/shin-ronin
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SC55-CLAP ~ Nuked SC-55 CLAP Plugin
Nuked SC-55 CLAP is a CLAP audio plug-in built upon J.C. Moyer’s fork of nukeykt’s Nuked-SC55, an emulation of the Roland SC-55 Sound Canvas MIDI module.
Unlike the original Nuked-SC55, this version has no graphical user interface. It reacts to MIDI messages like an external MIDI module and is intended for retro gaming, hobby music, and research.
The plug-in supports ROM versions from several original SC-55 models, including the SC-55 v1.00 through v2.00 and SC-55mk2 v1.01. It runs on Windows, macOS and Linux. The project is based on the original MAME license, which includes restrictions on commercial use, including commercial music production and inclusion in commercial software packages.
The project describes its purpose as helping preserve DOS gaming history while providing historically accurate SC-55 sound through a modern CLAP plug-in.
Note: The plug-in requires ROM dumps from the original hardware; the ROMs are not included with the project.
github.com/johnnovak/Nuked-SC55-CLAP
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qtamp ~ qtWasabi Reference Player
I never wanted a player that looks like Winamp. I wanted one that actually runs Winamp skins. The difference is bigger than it sounds. A Modern Skin is not a bitmap theme, it is a program. XML declares the widget tree, compiled Maki bytecode drives the behavior. Drawers slide, tabs switch, windows change their shape, all of it scripted by the skin itself. Repaint that and you have a pretty poster. I wanted the original.
That is why qtamp runs skins as real programs. qtamp is my Qt6-native music player and the reference player for qtWasabi, my independent reimplementation of a Modern Skin engine. Skins ship their compiled Maki bytecode with them, and qtWasabi executes it in its own Maki VM. The skin’s logic drives the interface exactly the way it did in 2002.
The name is a play on words. “Qt” as in the framework, “qt” as in cute. A Qt-native amp, and hopefully a cute one.
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CDPlayer ~ CD Player App
CDPlayer is a Java desktop app that recreates the tactile feel of a physical CD player for local audio playback. Load a track, press play, and enjoy a simple, distraction-free music experience without relying on a browser or web app — no accounts, no streaming, no internet required to play a song. Built with plain Java and native Swing/AWT — no external UI framework, single self-contained app
Plays local audio files through a custom low-latency streaming engine, with FFmpeg handling the formats Java can’t decode natively
Full queue management: drag-and-drop, drag-to-reorder, shuffle, repeat, crossfade, volume, mono downmix, and per-track removal — queue is saved automatically and restored next launch
Ten built-in themes — nine animated ones plus AUTO, which derives its whole palette from the current track’s own album art
A sleep timer that pauses playback after a set time, with a live countdown in the header
A 10-band graphic equalizer with built-in and savable custom presets, and a beat-synced visualizer
True fullscreen, a distraction-free fullscreen Visualizer Mode, and a Mini Mode that shrinks the whole app down to a small always-on-top widget
A dedicated Settings dialog for theme, crossfade, mono, and an ambient blurred-cover-art background wash
Automatic metadata and album art, with an online lookup fallback when a file has none
Works on Windows, macOS, and Linux. ffmpeg required.
