Category Archives: Mac

Apple MacIntosh Audioware

VirtuoZo! ~ Find Scales, Chords & Generate Music

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This software can be used to search scales & chords from a large and expandable database (XML). Thanks to the jmusic project (jmusic.sourceforge.io), this is also possible to generate music starting from these scales & chords and export the result to MIDI file.

Features:

  • Scales & chords finder
  • Music generator (MIDI)

sourceforge.net/projects/virtuozo

Krush ~ Bit Crushing & Downsampling Plugin

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With its bit crushing and downsampling algorithms, Krush combines the crispy taste of the digital realm with the warmth of its drive stage and analog modeled resonant filters. A modulation section allows you to quickly add extra life to the sound by modulating any parameter.

The sound palette produced by Krush ranges from the dirtiest digital effects to crunchy modulated colours, with all the classic and weirdest bit-crushing effects in between.

Krush

Cantata ~ GUI MPD Audio Player

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A graphical (Qt5) client for MPD, supporting the following features:
  1. Supports Linux, macOS, Windows, and Haiku. NOTE: Only Linux actively supported as of 2.3.3
  2. Multiple MPD collections.
  3. Highly customisable layout.
  4. Songs (optionally) grouped by album in play queue.
  5. Context view to show artist, album, and song information of current track.
  6. Simple tag editor.
  7. File organizer – use tags to organize files and folders.
  8. Ability to calculate ReplyGain tags. (Linux only, and if relevant libraries installed)
  9. Dynamic playlists.
  10. Smart Playlists.
  11. Online services; Jamendo, Magnatune, SoundCloud, and Podcasts.
  12. Radio stream support – with the ability to search for streams via TuneIn, ShoutCast, or Dirble.
  13. USB-Mass-Storage and MTP device support. (Linux only, and if relevant libraries installed)
  14. Audio CD ripping and playback. (Linux only, and if relevant libraries installed)
  15. Playback of non-MPD songs – via simple in-built HTTP server.
  16. MPRISv2 DBUS interface.
  17. Ratings support.
  18. “Partitions” support.

github.com/CDrummond/cantata

Cider ~ Apple Music Alternative

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A new cross-platform Apple Music experience based on Electron and Vue.js written from scratch with performance in mind. A new look into listening and enjoying Apple Music in style and performance. 🚀 (Work in progress, expect bugs.) an Apple Music subscription is required to use this application. This may change in the future when we add local file support.

github.com/ciderapp/Cider

AstroFox ~ Amazing Audio Videos

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Astrofox is a free, open-source motion graphics program that lets you turn your audio into custom, shareable videos. Combine text, images, animations and effects to create stunning, unique visuals. Then generate high-definition videos to share with your fans on social media.

astrofox.io
github.com/astrofox-io/astrofox

Jellyfin Audio Player ~ Stream Your Songs

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This is a React Native-based audio streaming app for Jellyfin. Jellyfin is a community-based piece of software that allows you to stream your media library over the internet. By means of React Native, Jellyfin Audio Player allows you to stream your Jellyfin Music library, with full support for background audio and casting (ie. Airplay and Chromecast).

github.com/leinelissen/jellyfin-audio-player

Features:

  • Sorting by recent albums
  • Browsing through all available albums
  • Searching based on album and artist names
  • Queuing tracks and albums
  • AirPlay and Chromecast support
  • Background audio
  • Native Dark Mode

BitterSweet ~ Transient Designer

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BitterSweet v3 is Flux:: acclaimed transient processor used by hundreds of thousands of users for audio transient management with the simple turn of a knob – Turning it to the Sweet side reduces the transients, and turning it to the Bitter side magnifies the transients – No dongle or license activation required – 100% Freeware!

Features:

  • Up to 8 channels Input / Output
  • Output Gain
  • Controls the Output Gain at the end of the processing (-/+ 12 dB).
  • Link to Output Gain – Compensates the Output Gain depending on the Transient Amount in order to achieve unity gain.

www.flux.audio/project/bittersweet-v3

GClip ~ Wave-shaping Signal Clipper Plugin

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Free VST audio effect plug-in download for music production, broadcasting and general audio editing.

  • Clip peaks off audio with abrupt or smooth wave-shaping.
  • Graph and waveform displays assist in setting the clip level according to the source material.
  • Oversampling can be enabled to reduce aliasing.

www.gvst.co.uk/gclip

MKVToolNix ~ Matroska Tools For Linux / Unix & Windows

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With these tools one can get information about (via mkvinfo) Matroska files, extract tracks/data from (via mkvextract) Matroska files and create (via mkvmerge) Matroska files from other media files. Matroska is a new multimedia file format aiming to become THE new container format for the future. You can find more information about it and its underlying technology, the Extensible Binary Meta Language (EBML), at www.matroska.org

mkvtoolnix.download/index

GarageBand ~ MacOS / IOS DAW

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Looking for a great Apple IOS Digital Audio Workstatation? Get Garageband!

www.apple.com/lae/mac/garageband

GBand ~ Band-Pass Filter

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Free VST audio effect plug-in download for music production, broadcasting and general audio editing.

  • Set lower and upper cut-off frequencies.
  • Create filter sweeps by automating the cut-off frequencies.
  • Add resonant boosts at the selected frequencies to accentuate sweeps.

www.gvst.co.uk/gband

BeepComp ~ Create Chiptunes

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BeepComp is an app that helps you create nice chiptunes.
Write text… compose beep music!

Features:

  • Text editor
  • Easy MML-inspired syntax
  • 9 music and 1 drum channels
  • Effects (delay, LFO, envelope etc.)
  • Export to mp3, wav, ogg files
  • Coping + pasting to/from outside text
  • Waveform selection (sine, square, sawtooth, triangle etc.)

hiromorozumi.com/beepcomp
sourceforge.net/projects/beepcomp