Category Archives: Audio

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Essentia ~ Open Source Audio Algorithms

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Open-source library and tools for audio and music analysis, description and synthesis.

  • Extensive collection of reusable algorithms
  • Cross-platform
  • Fast prototyping
  • Optimized for computational speed

essentia.upf.edu

NewMixer ~ Spatial Mixing Tool

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A unique and revolutionary audio mixing tool that allows the user to visualize audio sources by their location in space rather than as channels on a mixing board.

newmixer

github.com/jatinchowdhury18/NewMixer

Carla ~ Cross-platform Plugin Host

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Carla is a fully-featured modular audio plugin host, with support for many audio drivers and plugin formats. It has some nice features like transport control, automation of parameters via MIDI CC and remote control over OSC.

Carla currently supports LADSPA (including LRDF), DSSI, LV2, VST2, VST3 and AU plugin formats, plus SF2 and SFZ file support. It uses JACK as the default and preferred audio driver but also supports native drivers like ALSA, DirectSound or CoreAudio.

There are 4 types of engine processing:

  • Single-client: (JACK driver only)
    Same as Multi-client, except that all JACK ports belong to a single master client.
    This is needed when a setup doesn’t support multi-client JACK apps, such as LADISH.
  • Multi-client: (JACK driver only)
    Every single plugin is exposed as a new JACK client. Audio and MIDI ports are registered as needed.
  • Rack:
    Plugins are processed in order, from top to bottom.
    Plugins with non-stereo audio channels are not supported, but a forced-stereo option is available for Mono ones.
  • Patchbay:
    Modular patchbay mode, just like in JACK Multi-client and many other modular applications.
    Every plugin gets its own canvas group and ports allowing you to interconnect plugin audio and MIDI.
carla

kx.studio/Applications:Carla
github.com/falkTX/Carla

Triple Cheese ~ Cross-platform Synth

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Triple Cheese: Luscious and cheesy, winner of the 2006 KVR Developer Challenge, is a truly unique freeware synthesizer. No traditional oscillators or wavetables, no FM or phase distortion and no analogue modelled filters here. A touch unusual and a little cheesy, Triple Cheese is quite capable of some surprising sounds.

Triple Cheese avoids classic synthesis techniques—no subtractive, frequency modulation (FM) or additive synthesis. Rather, it employs various types of comb filter, often in series, to generate and modify sound. Think of the comb filters as very short chromatically tuned delays. Three modules are arranged in series and either generate their own sound, or process the output of the previous module.

The features for each module can result in sounds that might seem a little “cheesy” or retro (think early 1980s digital synths). But when pushed, you will find Triple Cheese creates some surprisingly lush sounds.

  • 8 different modes per comb filter module (11 modes total)
  • Polyphonic (up to 16 voices), duophonic, monophonic (retriggered) or legato mode
  • VCA with amplitude modulation, pan
  • Skinnable User Interface
  • 170 factory presets

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u-he.com/products/triplecheese/

Nuclear ~ Stream From Free Sources

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A modern music player focused on streaming from free sources.

Features:

  • Searching for and playing music from YouTube (including integration with playlists), Jamendo, and SoundCloud
  • Searching for albums (powered by Last.fm and Discogs), album view, automatic song lookup based on artist and track name (in progress, can be dodgy sometimes)
  • Song queue, which can be exported as a playlist
  • Loading saved playlists (stored in json files)
  • Scrobbling to last.fm (along with updating the ‘now playing’ status)
  • Newest releases with reviews – tracks and albums
  • Browsing by genre
  • Radio mode (automatically queue similar tracks)
  • Unlimited downloads (powered by youtube)
  • Realtime lyrics
  • Browsing by popularity
  • List of favorite tracks
  • Listen from local library

nuclear
nuclear.js.org
github.com/nukeop/nuclear

foo_musicbrainz ~ Foobar2000 & MusicBrainz

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Allows tagging files using data from MusicBrainz.

Features:

  • Fetches data by automatically calculated MusicBrainz Disc ID, existing Artist/Album or MusicBrainz Album ID tags;
  • Uses the latest version of MusicBrainz web service, which corresponds to the NGS data model;
  • Supports many different tags, including artist, album, date, track number / total tracks, disc number / total discs, label, catalog number, barcode etc.;
  • Supports MusicBrainz-specific tags: Artist ID, Album ID, Release Group ID, Disc ID, Track ID, album type, album status;
  • Missing TOCs can be submitted to MusicBrainz from the context menu.

HA Support Topic
github.com/kbuffington/foo_musicbrainz
musicbrainz.org
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MusicBrainz

Sine Generator ~ Windows Sine & Tone Generator

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Sine generator combines individual sine or square waves into a single waveform. Parameters are frequency, frequency modulation, noise, phase, volume and wave type.

Features:

  • sine generator
  • tone generator
  • wav file output

sine_generator

sourceforge.net/projects/sinegenerator

foo_bestversion ~ Foobar2000 Compares Track Qualities

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foo_bestversion is a Foobar2000 component which can pick the best versions of tracks from your library, (plus last.fm top tracks list grabbing).

github.com/hymerman/foo_bestversion
hydrogenaud.io/index.php?topic=100019.0

Foobar2000 ~ Wallpapers

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Wallpapers:

Dynamic Wallpaper:

www.reddit.com/r/foobar2000/comments/hf83m9/foobar_wallpaper_engine

CUI &  DUI Themes List
Icons & Icon Sets

XMMS ~ Extensible Unix Player

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XMMS is a multimedia player for unix systems. XMMS stands for X MultiMedia System and can play media files such as MP3, MOD’s, WAV and others with the use of Input plugins.

XMMS is mainly targeted at music playback, but through third party plugins some rudimentary video capabilities exists, but there are much better systems other than XMMS for video support.

It was modeled after Winamp from the Windows operating system. XMMS is not a port of Winamp but was written from scratch by Mikael and Peter Alm.

XMMS

www.xmms.org

IMMS is an intelligent playlist plug-in for XMMS that tracks your listening patterns and dynamically adapts to your taste. It is incredibly unobtrusive and easy to use as it requires no direct user interaction.

sourceforge.net/projects/imms

Nebulus is an OpenGL visual plugin for XMMS. It’s conceptually a compilation of various
OpenGL effects that depends on the music.

nebulus.tuxfamily.org

gmorgan ~ Cross-platform Rhythm Station

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gmorgan is a rhythm station, a modern organ with full editable accompaniment for play in real time emulating the capabilities of commercial rhythm stations “Korg”,”Roland”, “Solton” … also has a small pattern based sequencer like “Band in a Box”. Uses the capabilities of ALSA sequencer to produce MIDI accompaniment.

gmorgan.sourceforge.net
deb-multimedia.org/dists/testing/main/binary-armhf/package/gmorgan

AV Linux ~ Install & Create

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AV Linux is a free shared downloadable and installable snapshot ISO image based on Debian/GNU Linux pre-configured to be a turnkey AV content creation system pre-configured and ready to “Install and Create”.

Features:

  • Originates from 32bit and 64bit snapshots of the Debian Stable Distribution.
  • Custom Realtime Preempt Kernel for optimal low-latency Audio potential.
  • CPU governed for performance by default.
  • Extra tweaks for performance, meets all criteria of the included Realtime Configuration Quick Scan.
  • Some special custom packaging not found in default Repositories.
  • Fast and Light XFCE4 Desktop Environment with attractive customizations.
  • falkTX’s KXStudio Repositories for up to date Audio Applications.
  • Extensive Audio/Video and Administrator-friendly Custom Actions.
  • Seamless JACK Audio/MIDI environment with PulseAudio Integration.
  • Extended Application platforms Flatpak and Docker included.
  • Robust Environment for developers: Compilers, GIT, SVN, BZR, tools and development libs.
  • Mozilla builds of Firefox and Thunderbird.

AVL-2020Desktop

www.bandshed.net/avlinux
www.bandshed.net/iso/
www.wikihow.com/Install-AV-Linux
distrowatch.com/table.php?distribution=avlinux
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AV_Linux