DawDreamer ~ Audio Processing Python Framework


DawDreamer is an audio-processing Python framework supporting core DAW features and beyond:

  • Composing graphs of multi-channel audio processors
  • Audio playback
  • VST instruments and effects (with UI editing and state loading/saving)
  • FAUST effects and polyphonic instruments
  • Time-stretching and looping, optionally according to Ableton Live warp markers
  • Pitch-warping
  • Parameter automation at audio-rate and at pulses-per-quarter-note
  • Parameter automation saving in absolute audio-rate time
  • MIDI playback in absolute time and PPQN time
  • MIDI file export in absolute time
  • Rendering and saving multiple processors simultaneously
  • Support for the Faust Box and Signal APIs
  • Transpiling Faust code to JAX/Flax and other target languages (C++, Rust, Wasm, etc.)
  • Machine learning experiments with QDax
  • Multiprocessing support
  • Full support on macOS, Windows, Linux, Google Colab, and Ubuntu Dockerfile

DawDreamer’s foundation is JUCE, with a user-friendly Python interface thanks to pybind11. DawDreamer evolved from an earlier VSTi audio “renderer”, RenderMan.

github.com/DBraun/DawDreamer

LosslessSwitcher ~ Mac Sample Rate Utility


LosslessSwitcher switches your current audio device’s sample rate to match the currently playing lossless song on your Apple Music app, automatically.

Let’s say if the next song that you are playing, is a Hi-Res Lossless track with a sample rate of 192kHz, LosslessSwitcher will switch your device to that sample rate as soon as possible.

The opposite happens, when the next track happens to have a lower sample rate.

github.com/vincentneo/LosslessSwitcher

MusicIP ~ Analyse Songs & Generate Playlists


MusicIP is much more than a conventional Playlist Generator. MusicIP is a clever piece of software written in the 2000s that analyses and fingerprints your local music library to try to understand the makeup of each music track. So instead of endlessly scrolling through your library, trying to find something to listen to, you can simply select a track (the seed track) then based on MusicIPs understanding of your library, generate a playlist of tracks that blend together. This is far more than a genre based mix, as it will select tracks that are similar in composition.

www.spicefly.com/article.php?page=what-is-musicip

Festival ~ Album Centered Music Player


Festival is a cross-platform music player for local album collections, with a client server architecture and multiple frontends

github.com/hinto-janai/festival

Qsynth ~ Fluidsynth Qt GUI


Qsynth is a fluidsynth GUI front-end application written in C++ around the Qt framework using Qt Designer. Eventually it may evolve into a softsynth management application allowing the user to control and manage a variety of command line softsynth but for the moment it wraps the excellent FluidSynthFluidSynth is a command line software synthesiser based on the Soundfont specification.

qsynth.sourceforge.io
sourceforge.net/projects/qsynth
github.com/rncbc/qsynth
flathub.org/en/apps/org.rncbc.qsynth

redumper ~ Byte Perfect Disc Dumper


redumper is an advanced byte perfect disc dumper. It supports incremental dumps, advanced SCSI/C2 repair, intelligent audio CD offset detection and a lot of other features. Everything is written from scratch in C++.

github.com/superg/redumper

Soundnode ~ SoundCloud For The Desktop


Soundnode App is an Open-Source project to support Soundcloud for desktop Mac, Windows, and Linux. It’s built with Electron, Node.js, Angular.js, and uses the Soundcloud API.

soundnode.github.io/soundnode-website

soundnode user interface

eyeD3 ~ ID3 Python Script Development


eyeD3 is a Python tool for working with audio files, specifically MP3 files containing ID3 metadata (i.e. song info).

It provides a command-line tool (eyeD3) and a Python library (import eyed3) that can be used to write your own applications or plugins that are callable from the command-line tool.

eyed3.readthedocs.io/en/latest/index

github.com/nicfit/eyeD3

Resonance Audio ~ DAW Tools


A VST plugin which enables you to binaurally render ambisonic sound fields in a DAW environment.

github.com/resonance-audio/resonance-audio-daw-tools#resonance-audio-vst-for-ambisonic-soundfield-daw-monitoring

BallroomDJ 4 ~ Ballroom Music Player


BallroomDJ 4 is a complete rewrite of BallroomDJ. BallroomDJ 4 is a ballroom music player (but can be used for other purposes). It is designed with the goal of being able to play music the entire evening without intervention.

Features:

  • Uses your music collection from your hard drive
  • No limitations on the number of audio files
  • Manual, sequenced and automatic playlists.
  • Flexible: adjust the music queue or the playlist queue while playing
  • Flexible: almost everything can be configured
  • Edit song data. Optionally write the audio file tags
  • Uses VLC to play the music
  • Runs on Windows, Mac OS and Linux
sourceforge.net/projects/ballroomdj4
ballroomdj4.sourceforge.io

ReSampler ~ Command Line Audio Conversion


ReSampler is a high-performance command-line audio sample rate conversion tool which can convert audio file formats with a variety of different bit-depths and audio channel configurations. ReSampler compiles and runs on WindowsLinux and macOS

github.com/jniemann66/ReSampler