| PROGRAM |
MAKER |
FUNCTION |
DESCRIPTION |
| Soundflower / Soundflowerbed |
Cycling74 |
recording |
Simple and extraordinarily useful extension and ap for routing audio from one program to another. Very useful for things like capturing audio streaming in a browser into your recording program.
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| Audacity |
Open Source |
recording, editing, sound shaping |
Record audio, convert into most known formats, edit and process. There's a version for just about every operating system.
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| sonicWORX Power Bundle v2.6 |
Prosoniq |
recording / editing / sound shaping /mastering |
Terrific features and processing. Runs in OS X Classic (OS 9) only. |
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| Burn |
Maarten Foukhar |
utility |
Burn is an application to burn most common disks: data disks, audio disks (mp3, audio cd), video disks (VCD, SVCD, DVD-Video, DivX), images and disk copy. |
| Instant Player |
Tom Erbe |
utility |
Desktop utility that allow you to play any audio file with an opt-click. Very useful - if you set it to auto-load when you log in it's always ready to go.
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| Leafcutter Audio Assistant 2
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Leafcutter John |
utility |
Drag-and-drop application that creates playlists showing size, file type, bit rate, channels, etc. plus lets you audition them.
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| Quick Convert |
Doug Adams |
utility |
Doug has 417 Apple Scripts for iTunes on his site. The most critical is Quick Convert, which adds the ability to do near instant conversion of file off a CD or hard drive. Select, pull down, click, click, click and the file(s) is imported into the format of your choice. You won't believe you ever lived without it.
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| Sonic Visualizer |
Chris Cannam |
utility |
Visual analysis program that that can create annotatable spectrograms. Aimed more toward musicologists and people doing audio research, it nevertheless has some interesting time-stretch capabilities and an interesting set of data extraction plug-ins. |
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| QLab |
Christopher Ashworth |
Playback |
Cue playback program designed for live theater. Paid upgrades from the free version add additional features like MIDI commands, Show Control and advanced audio controls.
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| Chicken of the VNC |
Jason Harris (admin) |
VNC Client |
Free VNC client for Mac. A VNC client allows you to view and control a remote computer (PC or Mac).
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| SoundHack 0.893 Carbon |
Tom Erbe |
sound shaping |
Unique processing including convolution. This is the old OS X version before he switched to a VST based plug-in. Still works well.
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| Argeiphontes Lyre v3.b3 |
Akira Rabelais |
sound shaping |
Unique audio processor. Convolution based. Visually stunning interface. |
| Freesound Bundle |
Tom Erbe |
sound shaping |
Five plugins that are downright odd, but unique. Comes in VST and AU. |
| pd (aka Pure Data) |
Miller Puckette |
other |
pd is an environment for programming synthesis and processing applications. It's by the guy that wrote the original version of MAX, and very much like that program except free and open source.
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| DigitalFishPhones |
Sascha Eversmeier |
sound shaping |
Sascha is sadly no longer making plugins, but he keeps these VST/AU plugins available for free. |
| Luna |
MUTOOLS |
multi-track and midi sequencing |
Luna is a Ableton Live! type application. The free version has limited channels and plugins available
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Ardour
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open source |
multi-track |
Full featured multi-track. Under constant development. Check the requirements carefully as it requires several utilities to run properly - but all info is online.
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| SuperCollider |
James McCartney |
granular synthesis |
Terrific granular synth that used to be $300 shareware. Continues to be developed at Wesleyan University so updates are frequent.
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| Frequency |
Pandaa Jonas Arstrom |
spectrum analysis and re-synthesis |
Spectrum analyzer with a paintbrush tool to rework content. Like a baby Metasynth. Linked through the MacMusic site until Jonas's site reappears.
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