Category Archives: Unix

UNIX audio applications, tools or utilities

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

Elektroid ~ Sample & MIDI Device Manager

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Elektroid is a sample and MIDI device manager. It includes the elektroid GUI application and the elektroid-cli CLI application.

Elektroid user interface

github.com/dagargo/elektroid
flathub.org/apps/io.github.dagargo.Elektroid

NymphCast ~ Open Source Multimedia Client Server

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Audio and video casting system with support for custom applications.


nyanko.ws/nymphcast
github.com/MayaPosch/NymphCast

ReSampler ~ Command Line Audio Conversion

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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 Windows, Linux and macOS

github.com/jniemann66/ReSampler

Podfetch ~ Sleek & Efficient Podcast Downloader

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Podfetch is a self-hosted cross-platform podcast manager. It is a web app that lets you download podcasts and listen to them online. It is written in Rust and uses React for the frontend. It also contains a GPodder integration so you can continue using your current podcast app.

github.com/SamTV12345/PodFetch

SuperCollider ~ Audio Synthesis & Composition

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SuperCollider is a platform for audio synthesis and algorithmic composition, used by musicians, artists, and researchers working with sound. It consists of:

  • scsynth, a real-time audio server with hundreds of unit generators (“UGens”) for audio analysis, synthesis, and processing
  • supernova, an alternative server to scsynth with support for parallel DSP on multi-core processors
  • sclang, an interpreted programming language that controls the servers
  • scide, an editing environment for sclang with an integrated help system

sclang comes with its own package manager, called Quarks. scsynth and supernova both support third-party plugins via C and C++ APIs.

github.com/supercollider/supercollider
github.com/supercollider
supercollider.github.io
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SuperCollider
soundcloud.com/tags/supercollider
www.linux-magazine.com/Online/Features/Sculpting-Sound-with-SuperCollider

Playrec ~ Multi-channel Matlab Audio

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Playrec is a Matlab and Octave utility (MEX file) that provides simple yet versatile access to soundcards using PortAudio, a free, open-source audio I/O library. It can be used on different platforms (Windows, Macintosh, Unix) and access the soundcard via different host API including ASIO, WMME and DirectSound under Windows.

www.playrec.co.uk

byzorgan ~ Specialized sound synthesizer with Byzantine Church music scales

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This software integrates a small specialized synthesizer and vocal processor. It can be used to learn Byzantine Church singing. You can play from the keyboard, mouse or touch screen. MIDI input is also available. Voice functions include: pitch highlighting, synthesizer control by voice, pitch correction and voice-to-ison conversion.


On the screen there are labels with symbols of Byzantine notes. There is a metronome. The program is oriented on the Chrysanthos tuning of the diatonic scale: 9/8 – 12/11 – 88/81. The octave is divided into 17 (or 19) non-equal parts, it allows you to get all the Byzantine modes.

Features:

  • No installation required
  • Metronome
  • Different channels for melos and isokratima
  • MIDI input
  • 17 (or 19) non-equal steps per octave: same tuning for all scales
  • Voice functions: highlight key, synthesizer control by voice, pitch correction, voice-to-ison conversion
  • Record audio
  • Training mode
  • Cross-platform: may be compiled on any platform, supported by Qt 4.x or 5.x
https://sourceforge.net/projects/byzorgan/

WildMidi ~ Cross-Platform Software Synthesizer

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WildMIDI is a simple software MIDI player which has a core software synthesizer (softsynth) library that can be used with other applications.

www.mindwerks.net/projects/wildmidi
github.com/Mindwerks/wildmidi

TAP-plugins ~ LADSPA Linux Plugins

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Tom’s Audio Processing plugins is a selection of LADSPA plugins for audio engineering on the Linux platform. Intended for use in a professional DAW environment such as Ardour, it includes high quality reverberation, echo, eq, limiter & more.

tomscii.sig7.se/tap-plugins/index

sourceforge.net/projects/tap-plugins
github.com/tomszilagyi/tap-plugins

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

OpenBroadcaster ~ Broadcast Your Stream

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OBPlayer is a stable and secure UNIX-based media streaming playout application that can operate as a standalone player or controlled over a network by a managing OBServer. It can be installed remotely at a transmitter site, in the studio or as multiple virtual headless processes.

OBPlayer is built with rules based intelligence to continue broadcasting no matter what happens. It functions by continually syncing with OBServer, looking for updated schedules, media, and priority broadcasts. If there is a blank spot in the schedule, it falls back to a Default Playlist. If that fails, it goes into Fallback Media Mode. If that fails, it plays from the analog input bypass. Finally, it will play a test signal as a last resort. OBPlayer will always play valid CAP (Common Alerting Protocol) Alerts at the highest priority.

OBPlayer can be run in a variety of configurations:

  • Headless OBPlayer (CLI Process)
  • LIVE Assist with Mobile HTML5 Touch Screen interface
  • GTK desktop application for a Digital Display and output to CATV
  • Standalone Emergency Alerting CAP Player supporting audio, image and video
  • Support For IPAWS CAP Profile Version 1.0 via Alert-Hub

github.com/openbroadcaster/obplayer

OpenBroadcaster focuses on reliability, accessibility and scalability over a having a bloated range of half baked / buggy features. It has an organic AJAX interface built with Gstreamer, HTML5 and Javascript to deliver a web application in support of broadcast radio and TV automation, media asset management and dynamic community programming. One OBServer may manage one or more OBPlayer in a synchronized network configuration or have the server and playout on one device or VM. There is a robust Plugin Module Architecture with many modules extending the core server application. The server has a Documented API to enable sharing digital media assets and metadata with revocable secure keys.

github.com/openbroadcaster/observer
openbroadcaster.com