Category Archives: Mac

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LilyPond ~ Music Notation For Everyone

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LilyPond is a music engraving program, devoted to producing the highest-quality sheet music possible. It brings the aesthetics of traditionally engraved music to computer printouts. LilyPond is free software and part of the GNU Project.

lilypond

lilypond.org

Frescobaldi ~ LilyPond Sheet Music Editor

Frescobaldi is a free and open source LilyPond sheet music text editor.

www.frescobaldi.org

ly2video ~  GNU LilyPond Files Into Video

ly2video is a Python script which converts music represented by a GNU LilyPond file into a video containing a horizontally scrolling music staff which is synchronized with a MIDI-generated audio rendering of the music.

It is also possible to synchronize the video of the scrolling music notation with a previously recorded audio track of the same music, such as a live performance, even when the audio uses tempo rubato or is not precisely metronomic.

github.com/aspiers/ly2video

References:

www.weblily.net/weblily-app/Clickable-Notation-Reference.html

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/LilyPond

foo_dsp_dolbyhp ~ Foobar Virtual 5.1 Headphones

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Dolby Headphone technology gives you the sound of a 5.1 surround system through any pair of headphones.

It accurately models the surround sound listening experience of a properly set up and calibrated 5.1-channel speaker system, making it ideal for personal and portable surround listening.

This component wraps the functionality of a Dolby Headphone engine DLL (typically DOLBYHPH.DLL bundled with some software DVD players) to be used under Foobar2000. After installation you must configure the plugin pointing out the location of that DLL in your system and restart foobar2000. Amplification is provided by the Dolby Headphone engine itself.

foo_dsp_dolbyhp

Additional resources:
ww.head-fi.org/threads/5-1-headphone-experience-foobar-configuration-for-all-stereo-music-files.447089/

www.head-fi.org/threads/foobar2000-dolby-headphone-config-comment-discuss.555263/

www.dlldownloader.com/dolbyhph-dll/

cmus ~ Lightweight Unix Player

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cmus is a small, fast and powerful console music player for Unix-like operating systems.

cmus-2.4.3-osx

cmus.github.io

MPD ~ Cross Platform Music Player Daemon

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Music Player Daemon (MPD) is a flexible, powerful, server-side application for playing music. Through plugins and libraries it can play a variety of sound files while being controlled by its network protocol.

MPD can broadcast via Snapcast.

www.musicpd.org
www.musicpd.org/clients

Google Play Music Desktop Player

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The same beautiful Material Design experience you love on the browser, just as a dedicated desktop player.

Google Play Music

www.googleplaymusicdesktopplayer.com

Giada ~ Your Hardcore Loop Machine

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Giada is a free, minimal, hardcore audio tool for DJs, live performers and electronic musicians. How does it work? Just pick up your channel, fill it with samples or MIDI events and start the show by using this tiny piece of software as a loop machine, drum machine, sequencer, live sampler or yet as a plugin/effect host. Giada aims to be a compact and portable virtual device for Linux, Mac and Windows for production use and live sets.

www.giadamusic.com
github.com/monocasual/giada

XiX ~ Open Source Music Player

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XiX Player is a free, easy to use, multi-platform music player that currently runs in Linux, Linux ARM (Raspberry Pi), Windows & MacOS Intel

Features:

  • Supports the following file formats: MP3, OGG, M4A (non-DRM), AAC, FLAC, OPUS, APE, DFF, WAV
  • Play & rip your CDs to MP3 or FLAC with CD-Text and CDDB support.
  • Rip CD/DVD tracks to MP3 or FLAC. Needs mplayer.
  • See albums the chosen artist is on and vice versa.
  • Create and use playlists.
  • Online radio stations + presets.
  • Record online radio stations.
  • Schedule Radio station recordings.
  • Listen to & download podcasts.
  • Play license free audio from the Internet Archive.
  • Show the lyrics and CD covers of the song being played.
  • Shuffle and repeat.
  • Reverse play.
  • Crossfading & trimming.
  • Search.
  • Rate your songs.
  • EQ + FXs (Flanger, Echo & Reverb).
  • Set EQ & trim for individual songs.
  • Copy, delete or rename files.
  • Change ID3 tag (only for MP3/OGG/FLAC/APE).
  • Multiple tagging / renaming.
  • Theme support (Basic).
XIX

sourceforge.net/projects/xixmusicplayer

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

ajaxsoundstudio.com/software/soundgrain

FluidSynth ~ A SoundFont Synthesizer

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FluidSynth is a real-time software synthesizer based on the SoundFont 2 specifications and has reached widespread distribution. FluidSynth itself does not have a graphical user interface, but due to its powerful API several applications utilize it and it has even found its way onto embedded systems and is used in some mobile apps.

Features:

  • Cross platform support (Linux, macOS and Windows to name a few)
  • SoundFont 2 support
  • SoundFont 3 support (vorbis-compressed SF2)
  • Realtime effect control using SoundFont 2.01 modulators
  • Playback of MIDI files
  • Shared library which can be used in other programs
  • Built in command line shell
FluidSynth

www.fluidsynth.org

QSynth ~ FluidSynth GUI Front-end

QSynth is a fluidsynth GUI front-end application written in C++ around the Qt framework using Qt Designer.

qsynth-screenshot1

qsynth.sourceforge.io

FluidPatcher ~ GUI & Automation

FluidPatcher is a performance-oriented interface for FluidSynth built using wxpython to create a simple GUI that allows live editing, selecting, and playing of patches. A patch is a collection of settings such as soundfont presets for each MIDI channel, control-change/sysex messages to send when the patch is selected, and midi router or effects settings. Groups of patches are stored in banks, which are saved as human-readable and -editable YAML files. This allows a musician to easily create complex combinations of synthesizer settings ahead of time and switch between them on the fly during a performance.

Features:

  • Live playing: Play on your MIDI controller and hear the results
  • Customization: Create your own combinations of instruments/effects
  • Extendability: Use the included libraries to design your own implementations/software

sourceforge.net/projects/fluidpatcher

Bfxr ~ Sound Effects For Computer Games

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Bfxr is an elaboration of the glorious Sfxr, the program of choice for many people looking to make sound effects for computer games.

Bfxr has moved in the direction of increased complexity and range of expression. All the buttons that you know and love are here, but there are some new things as well:

  • 5 new waveforms : triangle, breaker, tan, whistle, and pink noise.
  • 3 new filters : compression, harmonics, and bitcrusher.
  • Ability to lock parameters during mutation/randomization.
  • Expanded pitch-jumping abilities – good for arpeggiation effects.
  • Visualisation
  • Mixer
  • Keeps your sounds and mixes in persistent lists.
  • Can reverse synths
  • Ability to link directly to sounds

You have full rights to all sounds made with bfxr, and are free to use them for any purposes, commercial or otherwise.

www.bfxr.net

Facebook 360 ~ Spatial Audio Workstation

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The Facebook 360 Spatial Workstation is a software suite for designing spatial audio for 360 video and cinematic VR. It includes plugins for popular audio workstations, a time synchronized 360 video player and utilities to help design and publish spatial audio in a variety of formats. Audio produced with the tools can be experienced on Facebook News Feed on Android and iOS devices, Chrome for desktop and the Samsung Gear VR headset through headphones.

facebook360.fb.com

AirSonic ~ Community Driven Media Server

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A Free and Open Source community driven media server, providing ubiquitous access to your music.

airsonic.github.io