Category Archives: Mac

Apple MacIntosh Audioware

SonicBirth ~ Create Powerful Audio Plugins

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SonicBirth is an AudioUnit designing MacOS application. The first in its category, it allows users to build their own AudioUnit plugins, either by working with existing circuits or by creating circuits completely from scratch. SonicBirth is also a free AudioUnits package, as it comes bundled with a set of plugins designed for standalone use as plugins as well as pre-constructed circuits to modify or build upon for creating new plugins. Whether you’re looking for traditional eqs, compressors, and reverbs, or softsynths, distortion, and filters, etc., SonicBirth allows you unprecedented freedom and creativity over your sound.

sonicbirth

sonicbirth.sourceforge.net

FixTag ~ Repair Inconsistent mp3 Meta-data

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FixTag is a Java/Swing application that lets you edit the fields within MP3 ID3 tags.

fixtag_table_unknown

fixtag.sourceforge.net

Soundboard ~ Create Sound Cues Easily

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Soundboard makes building / executing sound cues for theatrical performance a snap. With a mix of sound, fade, stop, pause, and resume cues, you can create elegant designs, and execute them with the simple push of a button.

  • Create elegant designs using a combination of simple cue types.
  • Supports popular audio formats, such as wav, mp3, and Ogg
  • Written in Java for true cross-platform compatibility
  • Simple to use, so you’ll have a novice operator running the show perfectly in no time.

Soundboard
soundboard.sourceforge.net

Nighthawk ~ Stealthy Unobtrusive Player

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A stealthy, simple, unobtrusive open source multi-platform music player that stays out of your way in your Menubar / Taskbar.

github.com/quantumkv/nighthawk

Krut ~ Audio / Video Recorder

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Krut Computer Recorder is an open source, cross platform, screencast tool to record audio and video from your computer screen into .mov-files and .wav-files. It can be used to make video tutorials or record games. It can also be used to record from streaming video and audio.

krut

krut.sourceforge.net

MuseScore ~ Open Source Music Notation

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Create, play and print beautiful sheet music.

MuseScore_2.0_in_full_screen

musescore.org
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MuseScore

WaveSurfer ~ Visualize & Manipulate Sound

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WaveSurfer is an open source tool for sound visualization and manipulation. Typical applications are speech / sound analysis and sound annotation / transcription. WaveSurfer may be extended by plug-ins as well as embedded in other applications.
Features:

  • Customizable – users can create their own configurations. Localization support.
  • Extensible – new functionality can be added through a plugin architecture.
  • Embeddable – WaveSurfer can be used as a widget in custom applications.
  • Transcription file formats – reads, and writes HTK (and MLF), TIMIT, ESPS/Waves+, and Phondat. Support for encodings and Unicode.
  • Multi-platform – Linux, OSX & Windows.
WaveSurfer

sourceforge.net/projects/wavesurfer
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WaveSurfer

eSpeak ~ Open Source Speech Synthesizer

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eSpeak is a compact open source Linux and Windows speech synthesizer for English and other languages. eSpeak uses a “formant synthesis” method. This allows many languages to be provided in a small size. The speech is clear, and can be used at high speeds, but is not as natural or smooth as larger synthesizers which are based on human speech recordings.

eSpeak is available as:

  • A command line program (Linux and Windows) to speak text from a file or from stdin.
  • A shared library version for use by other programs. (On Windows this is a DLL).
  • A SAPI5 version for Windows, so it can be used with screen-readers and other programs that support the Windows SAPI5 interface.
  • eSpeak has been ported to other platforms, including Android, Mac OSX and Solaris.

speak.sourceforge.net

Levelator ~ Enhance Your Podcast

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Levelator® adjusts the audio levels within your podcast or other audio file for variations from one speaker to the next, for example. It’s not a compressor, normalizer or limiter although it contains all three. It’s much more than those tools, and it’s much simpler to use. The UI is dirt-simple: Drag-and-drop any WAV or AIFF file onto The Leveler’s application window, and a few moments later you’ll find a new version which just sounds better.

 
www.conversationsnetwork.org/levelator

bs2b ~ Bauer Stereophonic-To-Binaural Headphone DSP

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A typical stereo records are being made to listen by speakers. That is a sound engineer makes the stereo mix to the adaptation of sound for listening of one channel by both ears. Therefore, you will be tired during a long time headphone listening more by a super-stereo effect than by a poor design of headphones. What’s missing in headphones is the sound going from each channel to the opposite ear, arriving a short time later for the extra distance traveled, and with a bit of high frequency roll-off for the shadowing effect of the head. And the time delay to the far ear is somewhat longer at low frequencies than at high frequencies. The Bauer stereophonic-to-binaural DSP (bs2b) is designed to improve headphone listening of stereo audio records…

bs2b.sourceforge.net

JScript Biography ~ Foobar2000 Biography Script (Old)

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There is an updated version here.

Adding scripts is one method used to extend Foobar’s abilities. Not only are there quite a few existing useful scripts, new custom scripts can be written. One great script is the Biography script which displays biography and rating information from both AllMusic and Last.FM

Biography plugin - allmusic reviewScript Panel:

JScript ~ github.com/marc2k3/foo_jscript_panel/releases

Script:

JScript Biography ~ hydrogenaud.io/index.php/topic,112913.0

The most recent version of the script is on, or near, the last page of this discussion.
  1. Download and unzip the newest version of the Biography script
  2. Download and install foo_jscript_panel
  3. In Foobar2000 select “Layout > Enable Layout Editing Mode”
  4. Add a new panel or tab to your Foobar interface
  5. Right click in the new area and select “Add New UI Element…”
  6. Select “JScript Panel” in the Utility section
  7. You should now see a JScript panel and “Click here to open editor.”
  8. Click on the panel to open the editor and click the “Tools” button and select “Import” and navigate to the biography script folder, select the script file (biography.txt) and click “Open”
  9. Click “Apply”, Dismiss the popup message and click “Ok”
  10. Disable “Layout editing mode” in the “View” menu

Forum Discussion:

hydrogenaud.io/index.php/topic,112914.msg929674

Denemo ~ Freeware Music Notation

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Denemo is a free music notation program for GNU/Linux, Mac OSX and Windows that lets you rapidly enter notation which it typesets using the LilyPond music engraver. Music can be typed in at the PC-Keyboard, played in via MIDI controller, or input acoustically into a microphone plugged into your computer’s soundcard.

www.denemo.org