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…
Category Archives: Mac
JScript Biography ~ Foobar2000 Biography Script (Old)
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
Script 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.
- Download and unzip the newest version of the Biography script
- Download and install foo_jscript_panel
- In Foobar2000 select “Layout > Enable Layout Editing Mode”
- Add a new panel or tab to your Foobar interface
- Right click in the new area and select “Add New UI Element…”
- Select “JScript Panel” in the Utility section
- You should now see a JScript panel and “Click here to open editor.”
- 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”
- Click “Apply”, Dismiss the popup message and click “Ok”
- Disable “Layout editing mode” in the “View” menu
Forum Discussion:
hydrogenaud.io/index.php/topic,112914.msg929674
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Denemo ~ Freeware Music Notation
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.
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mopidy ~ Extensible Music Server
Written in Python, Mopidy plays music from a local disk, Spotify, SoundCloud, Google Play Music, and more. You edit the playlist from any phone, tablet, or computer using a range of MPD and web clients.
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ALAC ~ Apple Lossless Audio Codec
The Apple Lossless Audio Codec (ALAC) is an audio codec developed by Apple and supported on iPhone, iPad, most iPods, Mac and iTunes. ALAC is a data compression method which reduces the size of audio files with no loss of information. A decoded ALAC stream is bit-for-bit identical to the original uncompressed audio file.
The Apple Lossless Audio Codec project contains the sources for the ALAC encoder and decoder. Also included is an example command line utility, called alacconvert, to read and write audio data to/from Core Audio Format (CAF) and WAVE files. A description of a ‘magic cookie’ for use with files based on the ISO base media file format (e.g. MP4 and M4A) is included as well.
macosforge.github.io/alac
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apple_Lossless
This package contains ALAC code used in foobar2000 / foobar2000 Mobile; derived from Apple’s public ALAC code release.
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Amsynth ~ Analog Modelling Synthesizer
Amsynth is an easy-to-use software synth with a classic subtractive synthesizer topology.
- Dual oscillators (sine / saw / square / noise) with hard sync
- 12/24 dB/oct resonant filter (low-pass / high-pass / band-pass / notch)
- Mono / poly / legato keyboard modes
- Dual ADSR envelope generators (filter & amplitude)
- LFO which can modulate the oscillators, filter, and amplitude
- Distortion and reverb
amsynth.github.io
github.com/amsynth
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amsynth
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Wormhole2 ~ Network Audio Transfer
Open source plugin to transfer real-time audio over a network. Hyperspace travel for your audio.
code.google.com/archive/p/wormhole2
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Cecilia ~ Ear-Bending Sonics
Cecilia is an audio signal processing environment aimed at sound designers. Cecilia mangles sound in ways unheard of. Cecilia lets you create your own GUI using a simple syntax. Cecilia comes with many original built-in modules and presets for sound effects and synthesis.
ajaxsoundstudio.com/software/cecilia
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Frinika ~ Complete Music Workstation
Frinika is a free, complete music workstation software for Linux, Windows, Mac OSX and other operating systems running Java. It features a sequencer, soft-synths, real-time effects and audio recording.
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LinuxSampler ~ Open Source Sampler
The LinuxSampler project was founded in 2002 with the goal to produce a free, (cross-platform), streaming capable, open source, pure software audio sampler with high stability, efficiency and very low latency, while providing professional grade features, comparable to both hardware and commercial Windows / Mac software samplers and to introduce new features not yet available by any other sampler in the world.
Visual Front Ends ~ GUI:
QSampler
JSampler
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Impro-Visor ~ Jazz Improvisation Adviser
Impro-Visor (short for “Improvisation Advisor”) is a music notation program designed to help jazz musicians compose and hear solos similar to ones that might be improvised. The objective is to improve understanding of solo construction and tune chord changes. There are other, secondary, things it can do, such as improvise on its own. It has also been used for transcription. Because rhythm-section (e.g. piano, bass, drums) accompaniment is automatically generated from chords, Impro-Visor can be used as a play-along device. Now having a wider array of accompaniment styles, its use is not limited to jazz.
www.cs.hmc.edu
sourceforge.net/projects/impro-visor
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Impro-Visor
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Raven Lite ~ Visualize Sounds
Raven Lite is a free cross-platform software program that lets users record, save and visualize sounds as spectrograms and waveforms. Raven Lite is intended for students, educators, and hobbyists and can be used for learning about sounds, as an aid in birdsong recognition, and in musical instruction.
The Audio File 