Category Archives: Mac

Apple MacIntosh Audioware

JJazzLab ~ Generate Backing Tracks

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JJazzLab is a Midi-based application dedicated to backing tracks generation. You type in chord symbols, select a rhythm (style), then the application generates a complete backing track with drums, bass, guitar, piano, strings, etc.

The objective is to generate intelligent and interesting backing tracks, i.e tracks which are:

  • realistic
  • non-boring (with variations)
  • easily customizable, even for complex songs
github.com/jjazzboss/JJazzLab
jjazzlab.gitbook.io/user-guide
www.facebook.com/jjazzlab/
www.youtube.com/channel/UC0L3SwjY6bhTj6jsbOYzzAw
JJazzLab user Interface

IVGI ~ Saturation & Distortion

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IVGI can deliver very soft and subtle saturation, that feels at home on the master buss. It is equally capable of very dense and dirty distortion effects to spice up single tracks.

IVGI reacts dynamically to the input signal. Even the modeled fluctuations react dynamically and also change depending on the drive setting, so that it doesn’t get in the way of the SOUND. Stereo tracks benefit from it’s modeled crosstalk behavior.

IVGI features a Controlled Randomness, which determines the internal drift and variance inside the unit. It contributes to the liveliness and realness of IVGI’s saturation character. To achieve this, all internal processes are modulated to some extent.

IVGI gives you a sensible amount of controls to manipulate the character of the saturation itself. It offers a unique ASYM MIX knob to alter the symmetry of the signal without affecting the harmonic content much.

IVGI also lets you alter the frequency dependency of the saturation with the RESPONSE control.

klanghelm.com/contents/products/IVGI
IVGI graphical user interface

DawDreamer ~ Audio Processing Python Framework

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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 FluidSynth. FluidSynth 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

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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

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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

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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

tone ~ Audio File Tagger & Metadata Editor

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tone is a cross platform audio tagger and metadata editor to dump and modify metadata for a wide variety of formats, including mp3, m4b, flac and more. It has no dependencies and can be downloaded as single binary for Windows, macOS, Linux and other common platforms.

The code is written in pure C# and utilizes the awesome atldotnet library to provide full support for a wide variety of audio and metadata formats.

Features:

The main purpose of tone is to tag m4b audio books for myself. It is planned as a successor to [m4b-tool].

  • dump metadata of audio files
    • different metadata formats (e.g. chptfmtnative, ffmetadata, etc.)
    • file information (bitrate, channels, duration, etc.)
    • support for filterable json output (similar to jq)
    • extensive list of supported tags (default fields like album or *artist as well as custom fields, covers, chapters, etc.)
  • tag audio files with different kinds of metadata
    • different file formats (e.g. mp3, m4b, and flac)
    • extensive list of supported tags (default fields like album or *artist as well as custom fields, covers, chapters, etc.)
    • filename to tags via --path-pattern (see below)
    • custom javascript taggers via --script and --script-tagger-parameter
github.com/sandreas/tone

Resonance Audio ~ DAW Tools

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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