Category Archives: Freeware

Free To Use Audio Software

Behringer Vintage ~ Virtual Analog Synthesis

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Get classic and virtual analog synthesis with the Behringer VINTAGE. Download this $99 USD valued plugin for free and help the Playing for Change Foundation, who support music education.

plugins.musictribe.com/behringer/0723-AAD

The Raspberry Jam ~ Raspberry Pi Guitar Effects Pedal

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The realtime Raspberry PI powered digital guitar effects pedal.

Key Features:

  • Realtime audio loop
  • Cutsomisable effects
  • User profiles
  • Low cost
  • Simple effect creation
  • Specialized audio electronics design
github.com/Jscott44/RTEP5-the-raspberry-jam

Phoniebox ~ RPi-Jukebox-RFID

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Phoniebox is a contactless jukebox for the Raspberry Pi, playing audio files, playlists, podcasts, web streams and Spotify triggered by RFID cards. All plug and play via USB, no soldering iron needed. It also features GPIO buttons control support.

github.com/MiczFlor/RPi-Jukebox-RFID

SOX-DSD ~ SoX With DSD For Windows.

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Here located unofficial builds of the SoX (Sound eXchange) audio tool with DSD support and other patches (including both DSF & DFF I/O and SDM sox “effect” to convert from PCM to DSD) for OS Windows only. Provided two Windows executable files for 32 & 64 bit systems. Binaries were cross-compiled on Linux using MinGW/gcc on fully static way.

  •  DSF I/O
  •  DFF I/O
  •  SDM effect to convert from PCM to DSD
github.com/turbulentie/sox-dsd-win

Polyphone ~ Cross-platform Soundfont Editor

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Polyphone is an open-source soundfont editor for creating musical instruments, available for Windows, Mac OS X and Linux.

Features:

  • editing of sf2, sf3, sfz and sfArk file formats
  • compatible with jack and asio audio servers
  • built-in synthesizer, controlled by a virtual keyboard or midi signals
  • automatic recognition of root keys
  • automatic loop of samples
  • simultaneous editing of parameters
  • specific tools for musical instrument creation
  • recorder to keep a trace of what is played in a .wav file
  • soundfont browser connected to the online repository
www.polyphone.io
github.com/davy7125/polyphone
community.linuxmint.com/software/view/polyphone

BirdNET-Go ~ Realtime BirdNET Soundscape Analyzer

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BirdNET-Go is an AI solution for continuous avian monitoring and identification

  • 24/7 realtime bird song analysis of soundcard capture, analysis output to log file, SQLite or MySQL
  • Utilizes BirdNET AI model trained with more than 6500 bird species
  • Local processing, Internet connectivity not required
  • Easy to use Web user interface for data visualisation
  • BirdWeather.com API integration
  • Realtime log file output can be used as overlay in OBS for bird feeder streams etc.
  • Minimal runtime dependencies, BirdNET Tensorflow Lite model is embedded in compiled binary
  • Runs on Windows, Linux and macOS
  • Low resource usage, works on Raspberry Pi 3 and equivalent 64-bit single board computers

github.com/tphakala/birdnet-go

NSMusicS ~ Modular Multiplatform Player

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The NSMusicS plan is a multi-modal smart music software based on Electron and WPF, supporting multiple platforms.

  • Windows Professional MusicPlayer++
  • Tens of millions – song level of Music Library Management on NAS
  • Music and Entertainment Scenes (Recording karaoke and scoring…)
  • Windows Music IDE, similar to Adobe Audition:
    1. Identify songs module based on sound fingerprint technology (also open sourced as a separate project model)
    2. Guessing Your Favorite Module Based on Big Data User Behavior Analysis
    3. AI singing module based on NLP, replacing the sound of the song with your own (also open sourced as a separate project model)
    4. AI music notation module based on NLP (also open sourced as a separate project model)
    5. AI extraction of audio lyrics synchronization information based on nlp (breaking copyright barriers such as Krc and Qrc)
    6. Implement functions such as NSMusicS singing bar scoring and evaluation

github.com/Super-Badmen-Viper/NSMusicS

Akkeyrdion ~ Chromatic MIDI Keyboard Accordion

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Turn your computer keyboard into a chromatic accordion keyboard. Ah, but it already is…

Supports both right and left hand system, currently:
– C griff (right hand)
– B griff (right hand)
– Stradella (left hand standard bass system)

sourceforge.net/projects/akkeyrdion

FlexASIO ~ Flexible Universal ASIO Driver

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FlexASIO is a universal ASIO driver, meaning that it is not tied to specific audio hardware. Other examples of universal ASIO drivers include ASIO4ALL, ASIO2KS, ASIO2WASAPI.

Universal ASIO drivers use hardware-agnostic audio interfaces provided by the operating system to produce and consume sound. The typical use case for such a driver is to make ASIO usable with audio hardware that doesn’t come with its own ASIO drivers, or where the bundled ASIO drivers don’t provide the desired functionality.

While ASIO4ALL and ASIO2KS use a low-level Windows audio API known as Kernel Streaming (also called “DirectKS”, “WDM-KS”) to operate, and ASIO2WASAPI uses WASAPI (in exclusive mode only), FlexASIO differentiates itself by using an intermediate library called PortAudio that itself supports a large number of operating system sound APIs, which includes Kernel Streaming and WASAPI (in shared and exclusive mode), but also the more mundane APIs MME and DirectSound. Thus FlexASIO can be used to interface with any sound API available on a Windows system. For more information, see the backends documentation.

Among other things, this makes it possible to emulate a typical Windows application that opens an audio device in shared mode. This means other applications can use the same audio devices at the same time, with the Windows audio engine mixing the various audio streams. Other universal ASIO drivers do not offer this functionality as they always open audio devices in exclusive mode.

github.com/dechamps/FlexASIO

BaxterEQ ~ Mastering & Mix Buss Shelving EQ

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BaxterEQ – transparent mastering and mix buss shelving EQ

Finest tonal sweetening and finishing which always stays true to the source:

  • natural and accurate bass response
  • authentic analog style HF curve rendering
  • smoothest shelving operation

Perfectly suited for the mastering chain:

  • stepped controls throughout for repeatability and matched channel operation
  • full dual channel layout
  • full mid-side encoding support
  • per channel level control for easy A/B match

Artifact free technical design:

  • low ripple and distortion filter implementations
  • 64bit floating point internal processing
  • oversampled for superior impulse response

Meticulously selected frequencies:

  • Baxandall shelving filters
  • LF @ 74, 84, 98, 116, 131, 166, 230 and 361 Hz
  • HF @ 1.6, 1.8, 2.1, 2.4, 3.4, 4.8, 7.1, 11 and 18 kHz
  • 2-pole Butterworth filters
  • LC @ 12, 18, 24, 30, 36, 43 and 54 Hz
  • HC @ 7.5, 9, 11.1, 12.6, 16, 21, 28 and 40 kHz

An additional analog signal path emulation provides some subtle but precious stereo imaging improvements.

varietyofsound.wordpress.com/downloads

MusicSync ~ Synchronize Music Libraries

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MusicSync is a cross-platform tool that synchronizes your music library between devices and drives with advanced settings.

You can use it through CLI, that makes easy to sync you library with only a click using a script, or through GUI, that is more user-friendly. Here there are two examples:

python musicsync D:/Music sdcard/Music --adb --min-rating 4.5 --output-format opus --output-bitrate 128k
python musicsync D:/Music sdcard/Music --adb --min-rating 3 --min-year 2020 --output-format opus --output-bitrate

github.com/serpest/MusicSync
hydrogenaud.io/index.php?topic=121169.0

Windows Media Player Plus ~ Enhance WMP

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Windows Media Player Plus! is a free plug-in for Windows Media Player that adds various user interface and playback enhancements.

Features:

  • Tag Editor Plus: an alternative for Windows Media Player’s Advanced Tag Editor (screenshot). Tag Editor Plus works on Windows Media Player 12 too, where the original Advanced Tag Editor has been removed.
  • Global hotkeys, allowing you to control Windows Media Player from within any running application.
  • Party Shuffle: a dynamic playlist that automatically gets filled with randomly picked songs. Of course, you can still add songs yourself, and reorder/remove songs, just like with a normal playlist. Very useful while throwing a party, as a DJ aid, or just for casual listening.
  • Real ‘find as you type’ in the media library: you can simply start typing to search, without having to click on the Search field first.
  • Disc number (‘set’) support in the media library: shows disc numbers in the Track number column and makes Windows Media Player use the disc numbers for sorting the tracks of an album (screenshot).
  • Access the standard Explorer right-click menu of a media file directly from within Windows Media Player (screenshot).
  • Restore last active playlist, media item, and playback position at Windows Media Player startup.
  • Show currently playing media in Windows Media Player’s title bar (screenshot).
  • Advanced playback options: Stop after current and Close after current, to automatically stop playback or close Windows Media Player when the current media has ended (screenshot).
  • Let Windows Media Player play/pause when you press the space bar.
  • Disable group headers in the Library Pane (screenshot).
  • Enhanced and configurable replacement of the Windows Live Messenger Music plug-in (What I’m Listening To) (screenshot).
  • Show currently playing media in Skype’s mood message.
  • Access the properties/settings of any Windows Media Player plug-in from within the main menu (Tools – Plug-in properties), without having to go to Options first (screenshot).
  • Bring back the “Find in library” right-click option of older versions of Windows Media Player to Windows Media Player 12.
  • “Play next” option when right-clicking a media item in Windows Media Player 11’s library (Windows Media Player 12 already has this by default).
  • Quickly re-enable all plug-ins after a Windows Media Player crash (screenshot).

Windows Media Player Plus! supports Windows Media Player 12 on all recent releases of Windows.

bmproductions.fixnum.org/wmpplus