Category Archives: Mac

Apple MacIntosh Audioware

Foobar2000 ~ Installing Analog VU Meters

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Adding an analog VU meter to the Foobar2000 2.x Default User Interface

Required component: foo_vis_vumeter

Directions:

  1. Download foo_vis_vumeter
  2. Click on foo_vis_vumeter which should install the component
  3. Click Apply and then Ok to restart Foobar
  4. Copy some .bin skin files to the …\AppData\Roaming\foobar2000-v2\vumeter folder (Shift+File>Browse configuration folder)
  5. Select View > Layout > Enable layout editing mode
  6. Right click the tab area in a panel and select Add New Tab
  7. Right click the new tab and rename it “Analog VU Meter” or whatever
  8. Right click the new tab display area and select Add New UI Element
  9. Select ‘Analog VU Meter (DirectX 12)’ from the list (Playback Visualization)
  10. Disable layout editing mode

Parameters:

Right mouse click on the meter display:

  • submenus – Layout / Mode / Levels / Decay / Tuning / Options
  • Fullscreen
  • Skin Selection

Mouse wheel (hover over meters)

  • Adjusts current Tuning selection

Resources:
Analog VU Meter Skin Gallery
Foobar2000 1.x ~ Installing Analog VU Meters

Sources:
www.hydrogenaud.io/forums/index.php?showtopic=33939
www.hydrogenaud.io/forums/index.php?showtopic=106793
www.head-fi.org/t/616963/the-foobar2000-resource-thread/45#post_9382013
foobar2000.ru/forum/viewtopic.php?t=5012 (Russian)

CamillaDSP ~ IIR & FIR Engine For Crossovers & Room Correction

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A tool to create audio processing pipelines for applications such as active crossovers or room correction. It is written in Rust to benefit from the safety and elegant handling of threading that this language provides. Supported platforms: Linux, macOS, Windows.

Audio data is captured from a capture device and sent to a playback device. Alsa, PulseAudio, Jack, Wasapi and CoreAudio are currently supported for both capture and playback.

The processing pipeline consists of any number of filters and mixers. Mixers are used to route audio between channels and to change the number of channels in the stream. Filters can be both IIR and FIR. IIR filters are implemented as biquads, while FIR use convolution via FFT/IFFT. A filter can be applied to any number of channels. All processing is done in chunks of a fixed number of samples. A small number of samples gives a small in-out latency while a larger number is required for long FIR filters. The full configuration is given in a YAML file.

henquist.github.io
github.com/HEnquist/camilladsp

Polyphone ~ Cross-platform Soundfont Editor

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Polyphone is an open-source soundfont editor for creating musical instruments, available for Windows, Mac OS X and Linux.

Features:

  • editing of sf2, sf3, sfz and sfArk file formats
  • compatible with jack and asio audio servers
  • built-in synthesizer, controlled by a virtual keyboard or midi signals
  • automatic recognition of root keys
  • automatic loop of samples
  • simultaneous editing of parameters
  • specific tools for musical instrument creation
  • recorder to keep a trace of what is played in a .wav file
  • soundfont browser connected to the online repository
www.polyphone.io
github.com/davy7125/polyphone
community.linuxmint.com/software/view/polyphone

BirdNET-Go ~ Realtime BirdNET Soundscape Analyzer

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BirdNET-Go is an AI solution for continuous avian monitoring and identification

  • 24/7 realtime bird song analysis of soundcard capture, analysis output to log file, SQLite or MySQL
  • Utilizes BirdNET AI model trained with more than 6500 bird species
  • Local processing, Internet connectivity not required
  • Easy to use Web user interface for data visualisation
  • BirdWeather.com API integration
  • Realtime log file output can be used as overlay in OBS for bird feeder streams etc.
  • Minimal runtime dependencies, BirdNET Tensorflow Lite model is embedded in compiled binary
  • Runs on Windows, Linux and macOS
  • Low resource usage, works on Raspberry Pi 3 and equivalent 64-bit single board computers

github.com/tphakala/birdnet-go

Akkeyrdion ~ Chromatic MIDI Keyboard Accordion

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Turn your computer keyboard into a chromatic accordion keyboard. Ah, but it already is…

Supports both right and left hand system, currently:
– C griff (right hand)
– B griff (right hand)
– Stradella (left hand standard bass system)

sourceforge.net/projects/akkeyrdion

Integra Live ~ Simple Interactive Audio

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Interactive audio made simple.

integra.io
sourceforge.net/projects/integralive
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Integra_Live

Two flac2mp3 Scripts

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flac2mp3 is a perl script that will search for flac files within
a directory hierarchy and convert them all to mp3 format, creating a
matching directory structure in the process.
robinbowes.github.io/flac2mp3
github.com/robinbowes/flac2mp3

This is a python script for transcoding flac files into mp3 files keeping covers, tags, and directory structure. It is multithreaded and creates as much thread as the number of cores on the host. The flac tags will be added to the mp3 files ut8 encoded, and if a cover.jpg file is found in the flac files directory it will be added to the mp3.

The mp3 generated will be itunes compliant (accents, covers) and encoded with lame command :

lame --silent -V2 --vbr-new -q0 --lowpass 19.7 --resample 44100
github.com/bamthomas/flac2mp3

Ferocious File Converter ~ Graphical Frontend For ReSampler

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Ferocious File Converter is a graphical front-end for ReSampler, and potentially any number of other command-line audio conversion tools.

It provides a convenient and easy-to-use method for converting audio files between a number of formats.

github.com/jniemann66/ferocious

Spotube ~ Open Source Spotify Client

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An open source, cross-platform Spotify client compatible across multiple platforms utilizing Spotify’s data API and YouTube, Piped.video or JioSaavn as an audio source, eliminating the need for Spotify Premium.

  • 🚫 No ads, thanks to the use of public & free Spotify and YT Music APIs¹
  • ⬇️ Freely downloadable tracks
  • 🖥️ 📱 Cross-platform support
  • 🪶 Small size & less data usage
  • 🕵️ Anonymous/guest login
  • 🕒 Time synced lyrics
  • ✋ No telemetry, diagnostics or user data collection
  • 🚀 Native performance
  • 📖 Open source/libre software
  • 🔉 Playback control is done locally, not on the server

spotube.krtirtho.dev
github.com/KRTirtho/spotube

line ~ Command Line MIDI Sequencer

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A tiny command-line midi sequencer for live coding.

  • Sends MIDI messages to a chosen MIDI channel. Default is 1.
  • 1 instrument or 1 CC
github.com/pd3v/line
line running in a Terminal window

DSD2FLAC ~ Convert DSD To FLAC

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DSD2FLAC converts DSD files to FLAC

Features:

  • Supports DSD input files in .dsf and .dff formats
  • Supports DSD64 and DSD128 input rates
  • Selectable output sample rates: 88.2KHz (default), 176.4KHz or 352.8KHz
  • Selectable bit depth: 16, 20, 24 (default)
  • Volume scale: -6db to +6db (+4 db default)
  • Dither: on (default) or off
  • Optional output mode in DoP2FLAC for use by a player that supports FLAC and a DAC that supports DoP input
  • Transfers stored metadata from the original DSD file to the resulting FLAC file
  • Single title conversion or entire album conversion in a given folder

This application is provided as-is without warranty or support.
Development for this application is closed.

www.sonore.us/dsd2flac

DiscImageCreator ~ Disk Image Extractor

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This command-line program dumps a disc (CD, GD, DVD, HD-DVD, BD, GC/Wii, XBOX, XBOX 360) and disk (Floppy, MO, USB etc.)

CD and GD, it can dump considering a drive + CD (=combined) offset.
What is the drive offset? Please look this document

This program works on Windows PC (Windows XP or higher) and Unix based PC (Linux, macOS).

MPF can work this program with GUI.

github.com/saramibreak/DiscImageCreator