Vinyl sounds better, looks better, feels better and even smells better. But digital does have its benefits, musical metadata is one of them. Having theΒ key,Β tempoΒ and other musical metadata for your records at a glance would be useful. Disconest usesΒ The EchonestΒ music database to find information about releases registered onΒ Discogs.
As of November 2024 Spotify removed access to api endpoints used by Disconest and many other indie apps. Without these apis Disconests functionality is limited. See the Spotify Developer blog for more details.
Vintage Drums ~ Free VST Percussion Sounds
Add an authentic edge to your music with this essential collection of vintage drum sounds captured at one of the fewΒ remaining analogue recording studios: KERWAX. Discover two stunning kits β a 1970Β LudwigΒ with 26β bass drum (as made famous by John Bonham of Led Zeppelin) and a 1940s custom kitΒ fitted with original calfskin heads for a warm,Β roundedΒ tone. Produced and engineered by Christophe Chavanon.
labs.spitfireaudio.com/vintage-drums (registration required)
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ChordPro ~ Create Lead Sheets
In 1992 Martin Leclerc and Mario Dorion developed a simple text file format to write lead sheets, songs with lyrics and chords, and a tool to create neatly printed lead sheets out of these text files. The tool was called
www.chordpro.org/chordprochord, and the text files were calledchordfiles. It soon became a popular way to write lead sheets and many users and tools adopted this format for similar purposes. For still unknown reasons people started calling the fileschordprofiles.
The ChordPro (also known as Chord) is an ASCII text file format for transcribing songs with chords and lyrics. The format was originally used for guitar, but is used for variety of other string instruments, such as ukulele, bass guitar or mandolin. Although this format is legible as it is, there are many popular programs for displaying, transposing and printing. Files in this format often have extensions such as .crd, .chopro, .pro, .chordpro or .cho.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ChordPro
Downloads ~ github.com/ChordPro/chordpro/releases
Related:
Chordii ~ www.vromans.org/johan/projects/Chordii/intro
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byzorgan ~ Specialized sound synthesizer with Byzantine Church music scales
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:
https://sourceforge.net/projects/byzorgan/
- 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
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LameVST ~ Preview Lossy mp3 Compression
MP3 as VST-effect.
Ideal solution, if you need to preview you track in the mp3-mode during playback.
https://github.com/Iunusov/LameVST
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W1Β Limiter ~ Professional Sound Limiter
W1 Limiter is a clone of Waves L1, with identical output, as well as an approximation of Waves L2.
www.yohng.com/software/w1limit
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Stereo to 7.1 Converter
This program will convert just two channels to full 7.1 covered surround scene. Real psychoacoustics on the fly. Absolutely new technology by phase interference and partial time shifting. Source channels dividing to fifty virtual channels to make their magic and combine to 7.1
https://sourceforge.net/projects/stereo-to-7-1-converter/
You have to use “Equalizer APO” as the engine.
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Blue Cat Chorus ~ Free Vintage Chorus
From a light ensemble to a deep destructive modulation effect, Blue Cat’s Chorus can just do anything, for free! The Chorus effect was originally designed to simulate several voices, just as if several persons were playing together the same notes, but with a variable delay between them. This is one of the typical effects that you can get with Blue Cat’s Chorus. But this plug-in also enables you to drastically change the original sound and create deep pitch modulation or crazy ‘bubbling’ effects. With the additional “Spread” control on the stereo version, the famous stereo widening and head spinning chorus effects are a few click away.
www.bluecataudio.com/Products/Product_Chorus
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wavtoac3encoder ~ WAV To AC3 Encoder
WAV to AC3 Encoder an audio encoder which generates compressed audio streams based on ATSC A/52 specification
wieslawsoltes.github.io/wavtoac3encoder/
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Find & Play ~ Foobar2000 Music Search Extension
Feature rich plug-in for foobar2000 that finds and plays music. Works great with youtube and your own media library.
Features:
Display & Play:
- full album and track discographies
- top tracks, similar artists, similar songs, decades
- top 100 charts (current and historic back to 1952)
- can use queries or track matching with last.fm tag database (so files don’t need to be tagged in any special way to identify tracks of specific genres, mood or artist locale)
Auto DJ:
- auto DJ option with automated weighting algorithmn that can use last.fm or own data to help select better tracks
Other features:
- operates on a minimum number of playlists, so there’s no awkward playlist management
- nowplaying pane that provides feedback or displays configurable info on current track
github.com/Wil-B/Find-and-Play/releases
hydrogenaud.io/index.php/topic,121006.0.html
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wma2wav ~ Convert WMA To Wave Audio
WWSpatialAudioPlayer ~ Windows Spatial Audio Player
WWSpatialAudioPlayer plays sound using Spatial sound API.
How to turn on Window’s 10 Spatial Sound ~ https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/how-to-turn-on-spatial-sound-in-windows-10-ca2700a0-6519-448d-5434-56f499d59c96
The Audio File 