Category Archives: PC

Personal Computer Audioware

ColourEQ ~ Super Parametric Equalization Plugin

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Not just another EQ: with its custom-made 4th order IIR filter, ColourEQ sounds unlike any other EQ you have ever come across. It comes with five bands of ”super parametric” peaking filters, which means that there is one more parameter in addition to the traditional gain/width/frequency set that can influence the curve shape. These shapes cannot be reproduced by ordinary IIR equalizers. Further features include: adjustable GUI colours, freely resizable window size, internal 64 bit processing and low CPU usage. Available in Windows VST (32/64 bit), Windows/Mac RTAS and Mac VST/AU format (Intel, OSX 10.5 and higher).

ddmf.eu/freeware

LFX-1310 ~ Multi Effector Plugin

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LFX-1310 is a free plug-in multi-effector including 24 types of algorithm and 3 serial slots. This freeware is the stand-alone version of Effecting Module of Ravity-S & Ravity-R. Every algorithm realizes the very effect you have on your mind, and is fully optimized for low CPU load.

Including 24 Effectors:
  • S’Filter 12 / S’Filter 24 / 3-band EQ
  • Peak Compressor / RMS Compressor
  • Overdrive / Distortion / Amp Distortion
  • Crusher / LP Noise / Stereo Image
  • Chorus / Flanger / Phaser / Auto Wah / Tremolo / Auto Pan
  • Delay / Stereo Delay / Ping-pong Delay
  • Gate Reverb / Room Reverb / Hall Reverb / Spring Reverb
LFX-1310

OSD Lyrics ~ Linux On Screen Lyrics

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Show synced lyrics with your favorite media player on Linux. OSD Lyrics is a desktop application to view lyrics compatible with various media players. It is not a plugin but a standalone program. OSD Lyrics shows lyrics on your desktop, in the style similar to KaraOK. It also provides another displaying style, in which lyrics scroll from bottom to top. OSD Lyrics can download lyrics from the network automatically.

github.com/osdlyrics

genius-spicetify ~ Spotify Lyrics

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Fetch lyrics from Genius and Musixmatch right in Spotify’s desktop client.

github.com/khanhas/genius-spicetify

CP-GFX ~ Guitar Effect Processor

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CP-GFX is simply a Cross Platform Guitar Effect Processor. The aim of the project is to create an extensible and easy to use program which is easy to port to different platforms and operating systems. Currently in development are both Linux x86 and Win32 builds.

For the Linux build the primary audio API in use is JACK, which allows CP-GFX to work along side and with other programs, such as Ardour, or any other software using JACK without any fuss or problems.

image of the CP-GFX user interface

cp-gfx.sourceforge.net
sourceforge.net/projects/cp-gfx

Bosca Ceoil ~ Multiplatform & Online Music Composition App

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Easy to Use ~ A free and easy tool for creating music. Bosca is designed for beginners and takes less than five minutes to learn, and comes with a quick built in tutorial to walk you through everything, step by step.

Scales and Chords ~ Bosca supports lots of different scales and chords, so even if you’ve never composed music before, it’s really easy to get something that sounds good straight away.

Instruments ~ No messing around getting instruments to work! Bosca comes with over a hundred presets, including MIDI and Chiptune instruments.

It’s Free ~ Bosca Ceoil is completely free, and open sourced! Ready to make music? Try it right now in your browser: Online version

boscaceoil.net
github.com/TerryCavanagh/boscaceoil

ARTA ~ Audio Real Time Analysis

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A collection of programs for audio measurements and analysis in acoustical and communication systems. ARTA software uses standard and professional PC sound cards for audio signal acquisition and generation.

ARTA software consists of following programs:

ARTA – program for the impulse response measurement and for real-time spectrum analysis and frequency response measurements.
STEPS – program for frequency response measurements with stepped-sine excitation. Simultaneously with a frequency response measurement the program estimates levels of 2nd, 3rd, 4th, 5th and higher order harmonic distortions.
LIMP – program for the loudspeaker impedance measurement and loudspeaker parameters estimation.

ARTA has functions of the following measurement systems:
  • Signal generator of following signals: white noise, pink noise, periodic white noise, periodic pink noise, speech signal, sine, two sine, multitone, triangle, square.
  • Impulse response measurement system
  • Single and Dual channel Fourier analyzer
  • Spectrum, octave band and THD analyzer
  • Triggered storage scope
  • Two-channel voltage level meter and third octave analyzer

With a calibrated microphone, ARTA can be used as a virtual IEC class 1 SPL meter with real time modes:

  • Integrating SPL meter with 24 hours data logging,
  • Octave SPL meter with noise rating (NR, NC, PNC, RC,NCB),
  • Third octave SPL meter with report of specific loudness, loudness in sones and loudness level in phones.
 ARTA is also a powerful analyzer of:
  • Gated frequency response,
  • Smoothed frequency response (in 1/n-octave bands),
    Step response,
  • Impulse response envelope (ETC – curve),
  • Cumulative spectral decay waterfall graphs and sonogram,
  • Burst decay waterfall graphs and sonogram,
  • Energy decay in reverberant environments,
  • Room acoustical parameters,
  • Directivity patterns,
  • Speech intelligibility measures: MTF, STI, RASTI, %AL.

www.artalabs.hr

LAoE ~ Multilayer Java Audio Editor

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LAoE means Layer-based Audio Editor, and it is a rich featured graphical audio sample-editor, based on multi-layers, floating-point samples, volume-masks, variable selection-intensity, and many plugins suitable to manipulate sound, such as filtering, retouching, resampling, graphical spectrogram editing by brushes and rectangles, sample-curve editing by freehand-pen and spline and other interpolation curves, effects like reverb, echo, compress, expand, pitch-shift, time-stretch, and much more… And it is free of charge, under GPL license!

www.oli4.ch/laoe/home
sourceforge.net/projects/laoe

DrumGizmo ~ Multilayered Drum App & Plugin

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DrumGizmo is an open source, multichannel, multilayered, cross-platform drum plugin and stand-alone application. It enables you to compose drums in midi and mix them with a multichannel approach. It is comparable to that of mixing a real drumkit that’s has been recorded with a multi mic setup.

Features:

  • Stand-alone, Lv2 and VSTi versions available
  • Open drumkit file format, allowing the community to create their own drumkits
  • Drum velocity, allowing for several different hit velocities for each drum
  • Multichannel output, making it possible to mix it just the way you would a real drumkit
  • Optional built-in humanizer, analyzing the midi notes, adjusting velocities on-the-fly
  • Stand-alone midi renderer, generating .wav files, 1 for each channel
  • Stand-alone midi input, making it possible to use DrumGizmo as a software sampler for an electronic drumkit

www.drumgizmo.org

CheeseTracker ~ Sampler & Sequencer

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CheeseTracker is a software sampler and step-based sequencer. It allows a musician to turn single-note samples into instruments capable of covering three or four octaves (by playing the samples at different speeds, resulting in different pitches). In addition, it is possible to take a collection of samples that are recorded at different octaves, and combine them into a single “instrument,” allowing for even more octaves without sampling artifacts.

Using the Pattern Editor, it is possible to compose songs with these instruments that the computer plays automatically. The Pattern Editor allows the user to arrange samples in several independant channels, so that many samples can play simultaneously. These songs, and the samples which comprise their instruments, can be saved together in one-file archives called modules.

CheeseTracker imposes no limits on the length of the samples used. As a result, it can be used as a mixer as well as a sampler/sequencer. Effects such as reverb can be applied to each sample individually, eliminating the need for expensive pedals.

cheesetracker.sourceforge.net

SooperLooper ~ Live Looping Sampler

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SooperLooper is a live looping sampler capable of immediate loop recording, overdubbing, multiplying, reversing and more. It allows for multiple simultaneous multi-channel loops limited only by your computer’s available memory.

The application is a standalone JACK client with an engine controllable via OSC and MIDI. It also includes a GUI which communicates with the engine via OSC (even over a network) for user-friendly control on a desktop. However, this kind of live performance looping tool is most effectively used via hardware (midi foot pedals, etc) and the engine can be run standalone on a computer without a monitor.

SooperLooper is currently supported on Linux and Mac OS X, and any other platforms that support JACK. A Mac OS X Audio Unit version is included which does not require JACK to run.

essej.net/sooperlooper

DGuitar ~ Guitar Pro File Player & Viewer

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DGuitar is a Guitar Pro (*.GP4,*.GP3,GTP) viewer and player that works under Linux, MacOs, Solaris, BSD or Windows or any other Operational System that has Java Runtime Environment 1.4 or later installed.

dguitar.sourceforge.net