Tag Archives: OSX

AudioPlayer ~ CD Image Player

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This is an audio player for Windows, Linux and MacOS.

It is designed to play audio CDs dumped to raw bin/cue files.

The bin/cue files can be loaded from a folder on disk, or from a zip archive.

This player provides a convenient way of listening to dumps in that format without any additional step(s):

  • No need to mount the cue file as a virtual drive.
  • No need to extract the cue/bin files from zip files.
  • No need to convert the data to wav/flac/ogg/mp3.

This is currently NOT supported:

  • Playing from archives in 7z and rar formats.
  • Playing music from other formats such as wav, mp3, flac, ogg, etc. Just use a regular music player for that.

Album and track metadata is loaded from the CDTEXT information when present in cue file.

Additional metadata is optionally retrieved from CueToolsDB, including album art.

Lyrics are optionally retrieved from LRCLIB. Using a local LRCLIB sqlite3 database is also supported.

AudioPlayer Interface

github.com/huguesv/AudioPlayer

Schism Tracker ~ Create High Quality Music

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Schism Tracker is a free and open-source reimplementation of Impulse Tracker, a program used to create high quality music without the requirements of specialized, expensive equipment, and with a unique “finger feel” that is difficult to replicate in part. The player is based on a highly modified version of the ModPlug engine, with a number of bugfixes and changes to improve IT playback.

Where Impulse Tracker was limited to i386-based systems running MS-DOS, Schism Tracker runs on almost any platform that SDL supports, and has been successfully built for Windows, Mac OS X, Linux, FreeBSD, OpenBSD, AmigaOS, BeOS, and even Wii. Schism will most likely build on any architecture supported by GCC4 (e.g. alpha, m68k, arm, etc.) but it will probably not be as well-optimized on many systems.

schismtracker.org
github.com/schismtracker
Schism Tracker Tutorial on YouTube
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Impulse_Tracker

FMIT ~ Free Music Instrument Tuner

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FMIT is a graphical utility for tuning your musical instruments, with error and volume history and advanced features.

Features:

  • Estimation of the fundamental frequency (f0) of an audio signal, in real-time.
    (the f0, not the perceived pitch)
  • Harmonics’ amplitude
  • Waveform’s period
  • Discrete Fourier Transform (DFT)
  • Microtonal tuning (supports scala file format)
  • Statistics
  • All views are optional so that the interface can be as simple as possible.
    (make it easy to see on a distant screen)
  • Can support OSS, ALSA, PortAudio and Jack sound systems.
  • Everything runs under Linux, Mac OSX  and Windows 

gillesdegottex.github.io/fmit

rt_pvc ~ Realtime Phase Vocoder

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rt_pvc is a:

  • real-time phase vocoder library for synthesis/analysis
  • vocoder application that allows the user to do time-expansion, frequency expansion, and cross-synthesis in real-time, from mic-input or from file.
  • real-time phase vocoder visualization
  • learning tool that teaches about the phase vocoder and its implementation
  • open source!

soundlab.cs.princeton.edu/software/rt_pvc
aur.archlinux.org/packages/rt_pvc

rt_lpc ~ Realtime Linear Predictive Coding

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rt_lpc is a light-weight application that performs real-time LPC analysis and synthesis. It features the following:

  • real-time LPC analysis
  • real-time LPC synthesis
  • visualization of original, predicted, and error waveforms
  • visualization of vocal tract shape from LPC coefficients
  • adjustable LPC analysis order
  • adjustable synthesis pitch shift
  • MIDI controlled pitch (hit ‘m’)
  • lots of other choices (pitch pulse source selection, emphasis filter)
  • STFT plot
  • modular LPC library
  • available on MacOS X, Linux, and Windows under GPL
  • part of the sndtools distribution

soundlab.cs.princeton.edu/software/rt_lpc/
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Linear_predictive_coding
github.com/lewark/lpc.lv2

sndpeek ~ Realtime Audio Visualizer

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sndpeek is just what it sounds (and looks) like:

  • real-time 3D animated display/playback
  • can use mic-input or wav/aiff/snd/raw/mat file (with playback)
  • time-domain waveform
  • FFT magnitude spectrum
  • 3D waterfall plot
  • lissajous! (interchannel correlation)
  • rotatable and scalable display
  • freeze frame! (for didactic purposes)
  • real-time spectral feature extraction (centroid, rms, flux, rolloff)
  • available on MacOS X, Linux, and Windows under GPL
  • part of the sndtools distribution.

www.gewang.com/software/sndpeek
soundlab.cs.princeton.edu/software/sndpeek
www.cs.princeton.edu/sound/software/sndpeek/look

Filtron ~ Variable Filter

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Filtron is a 12dB state variable filter that can smoothly transition between lowpass, bandpass, and highpass. It is capable of self-oscillation with resonance levels that can reach up to 11! Filtron also features a fat sounding internal saturation algorithm and a sizzly post overdrive with two modes to choose from: cold and hot.

  • 12db state variable filter
  • Transition smoothly between Lowpass, Bandpass, Highpass
  • Self-oscillating resonance
  • Fat Internal saturation
  • Post overdrive with Cold and Hot modes
  • Stereo Modulation via CV
  • Integrates with Gatekeeper
  • Optimized for audio rate modulation
  • State of the art zero delay filter design
  • Internally oversampled
  • 100% FREE

polyversemusic.com/products/filtron

Polyphone ~ Cross-platform Soundfont Editor

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Polyphone is an open-source soundfont editor for creating musical instruments, available for Windows, Mac OS X and Linux.

Features:

  • editing of sf2, sf3, sfz and sfArk file formats
  • compatible with jack and asio audio servers
  • built-in synthesizer, controlled by a virtual keyboard or midi signals
  • automatic recognition of root keys
  • automatic loop of samples
  • simultaneous editing of parameters
  • specific tools for musical instrument creation
  • recorder to keep a trace of what is played in a .wav file
  • soundfont browser connected to the online repository
www.polyphone.io
github.com/davy7125/polyphone
community.linuxmint.com/software/view/polyphone

Soundnode ~ SoundCloud For The Desktop

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Soundnode App is an Open-Source project to support Soundcloud for desktop Mac, Windows, and Linux. It’s built with Electron, Node.js, Angular.js, and uses the Soundcloud API.

soundnode.github.io/soundnode-website

soundnode user interface

W1 Limiter ~ Professional Sound Limiter

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W1 Limiter is a clone of Waves L1, with identical output, as well as an approximation of Waves L2.

www.yohng.com/software/w1limit

shelfelf ~ Web Player Frontend & Remote

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The shelfelf is a web frontend to send commands to your music player (iTunes, mpd, squeezebox, xmms2,…). The shelfelf works with all tested browsers (except for Microsoft’s Internet Explorer, Amiga’s AWeb and lynx), but the interface is designed for tablets (with a browser running in full screen mode) like Apple’s iPad. Linux (or Mac OS X) with Apache webserver, MySQL database and the ability to send commands to your stereo equipment is required.

Features:

  • elf at the shelf
  • coverflow
  • full text search
  • record stack
  • communication with other shelfelves

sourceforge.net/projects/shelfelf
shelfelf.vaubeh.de

DIN Is Noise ~ Synth Of A 3rd Kind

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It forgets history, To not repeat it.
It doesn’t hide analog music hardware, In digital music software.
You had pulse, sine, triangle and sawtooth, And went forth and made electronic music.
Now there is just the Bezier curve. Go make your pulse, sine, triangle and sawtooths. Or this, this, this and this.
TOPLAP Nick thinks this is nothing new, His old men did it in the 60s, Punching numbers into cards. Now you edit waveforms with a GUI, And watch the sound change before your ears.
Has it got ADSR? It’s got DADSARSADS.
Filters? No because Additive not Subtractive.
Modulation? Bezier on Carrier and Modulator. Wolf that Chowning.
Notes? Yes + Infinite microtones in between.
Input? MIDI Keyboard. Computer keyboard.

dinisnoise.org