Cabbage is a software for prototyping and developing audio instruments with the Csound audio synthesis language. Instrument development and prototyping is carried out with the main Cabbage IDE. Users write and compile Csound code in a code editor. If one wishes one can also create a graphical frontend, although this is no longer a requirement for Cabbage. Any Csound file can be run with Cabbage, regardless of whether or not it has a graphical interface. Cabbage is designed for realtime processing in mind. It is possible to use Cabbage to run Csound in the more traditional score-driven way, but your success may vary.
Cabbage is a ‘host’ application. It treats each and every Csound instrument as a unique audio plugin, which gets added to a digital audio graph (DAG) once it is compiled. The graph can be opened and edited at any point during a performance. If one wishes to use one of their Csound instruments in another audio plugin host, such as Reaper, Live, Bitwig, Ardour, QTractor, etc, they can export the instrument through the ‘Export instrument’ option.
Tag Archives: music
ChucK ~ Music Programming Language
ChucK is a programming language for real-time sound synthesis and music creation. It is open-source and freely available on MacOS X, Windows, and Linux. ChucK presents a unique time-based, concurrent programming model that’s precise and expressive (we call this strongly-timed), dynamic control rates, and the ability to add and modify code on-the-fly. In addition, ChucK supports MIDI, OpenSoundControl, HID device, and multi-channel audio. It’s fun and easy to learn, and offers composers, researchers, and performers a powerful programming tool for building and experimenting with complex audio synthesis / analysis programs, and real-time interactive music.
chuck.cs.princeton.edu
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BestPractice ~ Audio Time-Stretching Tool
BestPractice is a musician’s practice tool, to slow down or speed up music, either from an MP3 file or directly from a CD. Ordinarily the sound is distorted when slowed down our sped up – you get the effect like when playing a 33 rpm record on 45 rpm speed (remember the Chipmunks?). BestPractice tries to correct this, so you can slow down and speed up music, while keeping the original pitch. It is also possible to change the pitch of the music without affecting its tempo. Play along with for instance Eb tuned guitars without retuning your own, or slow down that high-speed guitar solo on a CD that you like to learn.
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Audio Overload ~ Video Game Music Player
Audio Overload emulates the sound hardware of vintage consoles and computers, allowing you to listen to completely authentic renditions of classic video game tunes. Audio Overload does not play music from arcade games; for that you should use M1.
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M1 ~ Mac Arcade Music Player
M1 plays the music from arcade games by running the code in the original ROMs (not supplied). This allows entirely authentic playback of classic video game tunes while you work. M1 does not play music from console and computer games; for that you should use Audio Overload.
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Csound ~ Open Source Sound Compiler
… Although Csound has a strong tradition as a tool for composing electro-acoustic pieces, it is used by composers and musicians for any kind of music that can be made with the help of the computer. Csound has traditionally been used in a non-interactive score driven context, but nowadays it is mostly used in in a real-time context. Csound can run on a host of different platforms including all major operating systems as well as Android and iOS. Csound can also be called through other programming languages such as Python, Lua, C/C++, Java, etc.
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Opsound ~ Free Open Music
Opsound was a gift economy in action, an experiment in applying the model of free software to music. Musicians and sound artists were invited to add their work to the Opsound pool using a copyleft license developed by Creative Commons. Listeners were invited to download, share, remix, and reimagine.
o̶p̶s̶o̶u̶n̶d̶.̶o̶r̶g̶ now defunct
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Opsound
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if2ktool ~ Migrate Data From iTunes™ To Foobar2000
This tool is aimed at people migrating a music library from iTunes™ to Foobar2000, and allows you to keep the various statistics and dates that are saved by iTunes. It reads these fields from your iTunes Library XML, and writes them to the file tags that are expected by the import function of foo_playcount. You can transfer playlists too.
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Overtone ~ Collaborative Programmable Music
Overtone is an open source audio environment designed to explore new musical ideas from synthesis and sampling to instrument building, live-coding and collaborative jamming. We combine the powerful SuperCollider audio engine, with Clojure, a state of-the-art lisp, to create an intoxicating interactive sonic experience.
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LilyPond ~ Music Notation For Everyone
LilyPond is a music engraving program, devoted to producing the highest-quality sheet music possible. It brings the aesthetics of traditionally engraved music to computer printouts. LilyPond is free software and part of the GNU Project.
Frescobaldi ~ LilyPond Sheet Music Editor
Frescobaldi is a free and open source LilyPond sheet music text editor.
ly2video ~ GNU LilyPond Files Into Video
ly2video is a Python script which converts music represented by a GNU LilyPond file into a video containing a horizontally scrolling music staff which is synchronized with a MIDI-generated audio rendering of the music.
It is also possible to synchronize the video of the scrolling music notation with a previously recorded audio track of the same music, such as a live performance, even when the audio uses tempo rubato or is not precisely metronomic.
References:
www.weblily.net/weblily-app/Clickable-Notation-Reference.html
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/LilyPond
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VGMPF ~ Video Games Music Preservation Foundation
The Video Games Music Preservation Foundation is an online community effort that is concerned with the preservation of video game music and information related to it.
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Giada ~ Your Hardcore Loop Machine
Giada is a free, minimal, hardcore audio tool for DJs, live performers and electronic musicians. How does it work? Just pick up your channel, fill it with samples or MIDI events and start the show by using this tiny piece of software as a loop machine, drum machine, sequencer, live sampler or yet as a plugin/effect host. Giada aims to be a compact and portable virtual device for Linux, Mac and Windows for production use and live sets.
www.giadamusic.com
github.com/monocasual/giada
