Category Archives: Mac

Apple MacIntosh Audioware

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

mopidy ~ Extensible Music Server

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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.

mopidy-screenshot

www.mopidy.com

ALAC ~ Apple Lossless Audio Codec

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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.

perkele.cc/software/ALAC

Amsynth ~ Analog Modelling Synthesizer

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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.png

amsynth.github.io
github.com/amsynth
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amsynth

Wormhole2 ~ Network Audio Transfer

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Open source plugin to transfer real-time audio over a network. Hyperspace travel for your audio.

wormhole2

code.google.com/archive/p/wormhole2

Cecilia ~ Ear-Bending Sonics

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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.

Cecilia

ajaxsoundstudio.com/software/cecilia

Frinika ~ Complete Music Workstation

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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.

frinika

www.frinika.com

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