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Personal Computer Audioware

Speedy MIDI ~ Easy MIDI Editor

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Speedy MIDI is an editor designed for choirs and singers to quickly generate MIDI files for rehearsal.

Focus is on fast and easy note entry

If the quality of the sheet music is too low for scanning, Speedy MIDI is an interesting alternative to other MIDI or notation editors. Use the mouse piano for input, or an external MIDI keyboard.

Cell raster technique

Note lengths are entered in multiples of the current cell length.
Thus entering dotted notes or ties is not needed any more!
Tuplets are fully supported.

Simultaneous entry in multiple tracks

Speedy MIDI automatically distributes multiple pressed notes to multiple tracks. This helps when entering music with same rhythmic patterns in multiple voices, e.g. chorale music.

Features:

  • unlimited undo/redo
  • part extraction
  • rehearsal markers (verse, chorus etc.)
  • transpose
  • adjustable playback speed
  • swing playback
  • shortcuts for all commands
  • compatible file format: Standard MIDI File (.mid)
speedymidi

speedymidi.sourceforge.net
sourceforge.net/projects/speedymidi

Streamripper ~ Record Shoutcast-compatible Streams

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Streamripper was started sometime back in early 2000. Streamripper started as a way to separate tracks via Shoutcast’s title-streaming feature. This has now been expanded into a much more generic feature, where part of the program only tries to “hint” at where one track starts and another ends, thus allowing a mp3 decoding engine to scan for a silent mark, which is used to find an exact track separation.

Streamripper is now part of the FreeBSD standard distribution, mentioned in the Linux MP3 HOWTO, known to compile on many platforms such as Linux, Windows, FreeBSD, BeOS, OS/2. This is not surprising as portability was a constant consideration during development.

With the emergence of file sharing protocols such as Napster, Gnutella, and now Mojonation and Freenet, the average Internet user can download nearly any mp3 he wants in a matter of no time, but many times people don’t know what they want. Streamripper allows you to download an entire station of music. Many of these mp3 radio stations only play certain genres, so you can now download an entire collection of goa/trance music, an entire collection of jazz, punk rock, whatever you want.

streamripper.sourceforge.net
sourceforge.net/projects/streamripper

MOLOSS ~ Hybrid Virtual Synthesizer

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Multi Oscillator Linear Open Source Synthesizer. The purpose of this synth is to emulate various 80’s synths in a single low CPU module. It is available as a stand-alone exe or 32/64 bits VST.

MOLOSS4

sourceforge.net/projects/moloss/files

EXP Soundboard ~ Simple Soundboard With Hotkeys

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A soundboard that supports almost all MP3s and WAVs. Sounds can be triggered with custom keyboard hot-keys and played through up to 2 outputs. i.e. Your speakers and a virtual audio cable. Also allows for your mic to pass into the virtual audio cable when enabling Mic Injector. This soundboard also incorporates a save feature.

Features:

  • Easy to use soundboard app, allows soundboards to be saved.
  • Use keyboard hotkeys to trigger sounds
  • Play sounds through a virtual audio cable and still be able to hear them through your speakers
  • Includes Mic Injector to route sound from your mic into your virtual audio cable
  • Includes converter tool for converting almost any audio file into a compatible one

expsoundboard

sourceforge.net/projects/expsoundboard
How To Use Microphone While Using Soundboard (Using Mic Injector)

Frescobaldi ~ LilyPond Sheet Music Editor

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Frescobaldi is a free and open source LilyPond sheet music text editor. Designed to be powerful yet lightweight and easy-to-use, Frescobaldi offers great functionality and a host of useful features such as music view with advanced two-way Point & Click, Midi capturing to enter music, a Snippet Manager and many more.

Frescobaldi is named after Girolamo Frescobaldi (1583-1643), an Italian composer of keyboard music in the late Renaissance and early Baroque period.

Features

  • Powerful text editor with syntax highlighting and automatic completion
  • Music view with advanced two-way Point & Click
  • Midi player to proof-listen LilyPond-generated MIDI files
  • Midi capturing to enter music
  • Powerful Score Wizard to quickly setup a music score
  • Snippet Manager to store and apply text snippets, templates or scripts
  • Use multiple versions of LilyPond, automatically selects the correct version
  • Built-in LilyPond documentation browser and built-in help
  • Configurable document outline view to navigate large LilyPond scores easily
  • Smart layout-control functions like coloring specific objects in the PDF
  • Import ABC, Midi and MusicXML using the LilyPond-provided tools
  • Experimental export to MusicXML
  • Modern user interface with configurable colors, fonts and keyboard shortcuts
  • Translated into: Dutch, English, French, German, Italian, Czech, Russian, Spanish, Galician, Turkish, Polish, Brazilian and Ukrainian.
Frescobaldi

sourceforge.net/projects/frescobaldi.mirror
www.frescobaldi.org

Softsqueeze ~ Software Squeezebox

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Softsqueeze is a music player for your PC that works with the SqueezeCenter software. It complements the Boom, Duet, Transporter, Squeezebox and Slimp3 hardware music players developed by Slim Devices.

Supports synchronization with hardware players and remote streaming over the Internet using ssh tunneling.

Developed in Java, allowing this useful application to work with Windows PCs, OS X and Unix systems.

Emulates most of the digital music players and uses the TCP based slim protocol, allowing use across the Internet and through firewalls / NAT routers.

softsqueeze.sourceforge.net
sourceforge.net/projects/softsqueeze

Metatogger ~ Windows Audio Tag Management

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Metatogger is a tag editor for audio files. These tags or metadata are helping to exploit with more efficiency audio files data. Most of the files are not coming along with metadata, while others are having wrong, useless or inconsistent data. Sometimes, even file name doesn’t reflect the true content of the file. It is then difficult to identify the piece without playing it. This is where Metatogger makes it great.

Metatogger allows correcting or completing audio files tags. It comes with features that allow:

    • manual tags editing or with C# scripts;
    • retrieve tags from file name or paths;
    • rename files with tags content;
    • look after duplicate audio files;
    • organize files according to tags (copy, move, symbolic link);
    • retrieve tags in a local database of 1.5 million public records;
    • retrieve covers and lyrics from Internet;
    • identify files using acoustic fingerprinting technology;
    • easily clean unwanted tags.

Metatogger works with Ogg Vorbis, FLAC, M4A (AAC and ALAC) and WMA.

metatogger_main

www.luminescence-software.org/en/metatogger

Spek ~ Acoustic Spectrum Analyzer

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Spek (IPA: /spɛk/, ‘bacon’ in Dutch) helps to analyse your audio files by showing their spectrogram. Spek is free software available for Unix, Windows and Mac OS X.

Features:

  • Supports all popular lossy and lossless audio file formats thanks to the FFmpeg libraries.
  • Ultra-fast signal processing, uses multiple threads to further speed up the analysis.
  • Shows the codec name and the audio signal parameters.
  • Allows to save the spectrogram as an image file.
  • Drag-and-drop support; associates with common audio file formats.
  • Auto-fitting time, frequency and spectral density rulers.
  • Adjustable spectral density range.
  • Translated into 19 languages.
spek

spek.cc
github.com/alexkay/spek

References:

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spectrum_analyzer

VBAN ~ The Audio Network

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VBAN, The VB-Audio Network Protocol:

VBAN Protocol has been designed for real-time transport of digital audio stream in IP-based network environments. VBAN allows to send or / and receive audio to / from other computers of any local networks. Voicemeeter already allows easy way to manage several incoming / outgoing streams.

For Any Local Network Infrastructure:

Based on UDP Protocol, VBAN is made for Audio Pro and Audiophiles, to transport multichannel audio in native PCM format (all sampling rate supported). Developed like a “RADIO” transmitter / receptor system, the sender is always master and the receiver is always slave.

https://www.vb-audio.com/Voicemeeter/vban.htm

foo_beefweb ~ Foobar Web Browser Remote

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Web interface plugin for DeaDBeeF and Foobar2000 music players.

Features:

  • Lightweight web user interface
  • Playback control
  • Playlist management
  • Music directory browser
  • Real-time UI updates
  • Mobile-friendly responsive design
  • REST-like API for controlling player from your application

foo_beefweb

foobar2000.org/components/view/foo_beefweb
github.com/hyperblast/beefweb
hydrogenaud.io/index.php?topic=116490.0
How to install a foobar component

JSound ~ Multiplatform Audio Player

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Best level of equalization sound, convert to your audio format, listen to web radio, show music representations with spectrum and VU meters. Set equalization in played music, apply effects. Feel the difference and change your music listening experience.

Features:

  • Play many formats
  • Stream Web Radio
  • Equalizer 31 bands (Left and Right)
  • Find and download music
  • Sound Effects
  • Audio Converter
  • Spectrum Analyzer
  • VU Meter
  • Preamp
  • Tag Editor
  • Cover-Art
  • Lyrics in real time
  • More accurate equalizer
  • Equalizer Smooth control
  • Music downloads more efficient
  • Spectrum now in gradient or one color
  • New engine for lyrics
  • New engine for covers
  • Cut Music (wav editor)
  • CD Ripper
  • Automatic Update
  • Music Statistics

jsound

www.youtube.com/user/JSoundPlayer
sourceforge.net/projects/jortegasound

Jniz ~ Compose With Harmonies

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Jniz is a free proprietary piece of software designed for musicians as a support tool to the musical composition. It allows you to build and to harmonize several voices according to the rules of classical harmony.

To be convinced of the limitations observed and of the work done by the great classical masters such as Bach, Mozart or Beethoven, please refer to Wikipedia, the Walter Piston Harmony book or the Schonberg theory.

The perfect knowledge and the good practice of these rules are not required but you will undoubtedly save time and it will help you greatly in using and understanding the mechanism of Jniz.

  • interface of musical notation which allows you to create, edit, save a score
  • number of voices up to 16 (256 with layers).
  • possibility to change of Key at any time.
  • Jnz, MusicXml, LillyPond, Midi, PDF export.
  • listen to the available Midi ports.
  • scale
  • redo / undo
  • Non harmonic tones (appoggiatura, echappee, suspension, passing, pedal, cambiata, anticipation)
  • Minor melodic keys
  • Chords notation recognition
  • harmonic correction of your work following the set of predefined rules
  • to give one or several solutions in case of fault if one or more rules are circumvented (Solver module).
  • Empty staves filled up by Solver (Auto Harmonizing)
  • Keys / modulations simulation tool
  • Cadences
  • Solvers serialization
  • multi-cores support
  • Input with Midi keyboards or microphones / input lines
  • Audio / sound to midi converter (monophonic)
  • Windows, Linux, OS X compatible (32/64 bits)
  • multi-languages support
jniz

www.jniz.org