Category Archives: OSX

Macintosh OSX Operating System Software

Soundgrain ~ Granular Sound Synthesis

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Soundgrain is a graphical interface where users can draw and edit trajectories to control granular sound synthesis. Soundgrain is written with Python/WxPython and uses Pyo as its audio engine.

Soundgrain_screenshot

github.com/belangeo/soundgrain
linuxsynths.com/SoundgrainDemos/soundgrain

Bandcamp Desktop ~ FOSS Bandcamp Desktop App

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Bandcamp Desktop is a crossplatform desktop application which allows you to use bandcamp.com in an easy and quick way.

Note that Bandcamp Desktop is not affiliated with Bandcamp, it is only a fan-made, free and Open-Source project.

Features:

  • Simple as the website
  • Header menu
  • Mini Player
  • Directly download Music from Bandcamp

Mini Player

Keep listening to the music while you explore the website! That’s the killer feature of this web application.

It’s very simple to use: just go to the album (or song, ep…) and click File > Mini Player (or press Ctrl + Space).

Directly download Music from Bandcamp

Bandcamp Desktop is able to directly download music from Bandcamp. Your albums and songs will be automatically unzipped and stored in the bandcamp-desktop folder which is located in your default download folder (Library Folder can be changed from App Preferences).

github.com/themagiulio/bandcamp-desktop

References:

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bandcamp

SimpleWavSplitter ~ Split WAV Channels

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Split multi-channel WAV files into single channel WAV files.

github.com/wieslawsoltes/SimpleWavSplitter

MP3Gain Express ~ MP3Gain For Macs

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MP3Gain Express is a port of MP3Gain and AACGain to macOS and OSX. It allows you to analyze or apply volume gain to a list of MP3 or AAC files. Anyone who has used the Windows UI for MP3Gain should find this one familiar, as it was designed to look similar to that version.

projects.sappharad.com/mp3gain

OSX Version

github.com/Sappharad/mp3gainOSX

gpodder ~ Media aggregator & Podcast Client

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gPodder is a simple, open source podcast client.

In development since 2005 with a proven, mature codebase.

gpodder.github.io
github.com/gpodder/gpodder
www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q3093354

Sampletoy ~ Sampler & Synthesiser

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Sampletoy is a radical new musical instrument / plaything;
part sampler, part granular synthesiser.

Use it to capture sounds through the microphone,
then play, loop, pitch and distort them live on the screen.

www.elf-audio.com/sampletoy
www.facebook.com/elfaudioapps

AudioPlayer ~ CD Image Player

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This is an audio player for Windows, Linux and MacOS.

It is designed to play audio CDs dumped to raw bin/cue files.

The bin/cue files can be loaded from a folder on disk, or from a zip archive.

This player provides a convenient way of listening to dumps in that format without any additional step(s):

  • No need to mount the cue file as a virtual drive.
  • No need to extract the cue/bin files from zip files.
  • No need to convert the data to wav/flac/ogg/mp3.

This is currently NOT supported:

  • Playing from archives in 7z and rar formats.
  • Playing music from other formats such as wav, mp3, flac, ogg, etc. Just use a regular music player for that.

Album and track metadata is loaded from the CDTEXT information when present in cue file.

Additional metadata is optionally retrieved from CueToolsDB, including album art.

Lyrics are optionally retrieved from LRCLIB. Using a local LRCLIB sqlite3 database is also supported.

AudioPlayer Interface

github.com/huguesv/AudioPlayer

Schism Tracker ~ Create High Quality Music

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Schism Tracker is a free and open-source reimplementation of Impulse Tracker, a program used to create high quality music without the requirements of specialized, expensive equipment, and with a unique “finger feel” that is difficult to replicate in part. The player is based on a highly modified version of the ModPlug engine, with a number of bugfixes and changes to improve IT playback.

Where Impulse Tracker was limited to i386-based systems running MS-DOS, Schism Tracker runs on almost any platform that SDL supports, and has been successfully built for Windows, Mac OS X, Linux, FreeBSD, OpenBSD, AmigaOS, BeOS, and even Wii. Schism will most likely build on any architecture supported by GCC4 (e.g. alpha, m68k, arm, etc.) but it will probably not be as well-optimized on many systems.

schismtracker.org
github.com/schismtracker
Schism Tracker Tutorial on YouTube
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Impulse_Tracker

FMIT ~ Free Music Instrument Tuner

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FMIT is a graphical utility for tuning your musical instruments, with error and volume history and advanced features.

Features:

  • Estimation of the fundamental frequency (f0) of an audio signal, in real-time.
    (the f0, not the perceived pitch)
  • Harmonics’ amplitude
  • Waveform’s period
  • Discrete Fourier Transform (DFT)
  • Microtonal tuning (supports scala file format)
  • Statistics
  • All views are optional so that the interface can be as simple as possible.
    (make it easy to see on a distant screen)
  • Can support OSS, ALSA, PortAudio and Jack sound systems.
  • Everything runs under Linux, Mac OSX  and Windows 

gillesdegottex.github.io/fmit

rt_pvc ~ Realtime Phase Vocoder

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rt_pvc is a:

  • real-time phase vocoder library for synthesis/analysis
  • vocoder application that allows the user to do time-expansion, frequency expansion, and cross-synthesis in real-time, from mic-input or from file.
  • real-time phase vocoder visualization
  • learning tool that teaches about the phase vocoder and its implementation
  • open source!

soundlab.cs.princeton.edu/software/rt_pvc
aur.archlinux.org/packages/rt_pvc

rt_lpc ~ Realtime Linear Predictive Coding

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rt_lpc is a light-weight application that performs real-time LPC analysis and synthesis. It features the following:

  • real-time LPC analysis
  • real-time LPC synthesis
  • visualization of original, predicted, and error waveforms
  • visualization of vocal tract shape from LPC coefficients
  • adjustable LPC analysis order
  • adjustable synthesis pitch shift
  • MIDI controlled pitch (hit ‘m’)
  • lots of other choices (pitch pulse source selection, emphasis filter)
  • STFT plot
  • modular LPC library
  • available on MacOS X, Linux, and Windows under GPL
  • part of the sndtools distribution

soundlab.cs.princeton.edu/software/rt_lpc/
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Linear_predictive_coding
github.com/lewark/lpc.lv2

sndpeek ~ Realtime Audio Visualizer

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sndpeek is just what it sounds (and looks) like:

  • real-time 3D animated display/playback
  • can use mic-input or wav/aiff/snd/raw/mat file (with playback)
  • time-domain waveform
  • FFT magnitude spectrum
  • 3D waterfall plot
  • lissajous! (interchannel correlation)
  • rotatable and scalable display
  • freeze frame! (for didactic purposes)
  • real-time spectral feature extraction (centroid, rms, flux, rolloff)
  • available on MacOS X, Linux, and Windows under GPL
  • part of the sndtools distribution.

www.gewang.com/software/sndpeek
soundlab.cs.princeton.edu/software/sndpeek
www.cs.princeton.edu/sound/software/sndpeek/look