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Mammut will FFT your sound in one single gigantic analysis (no windows). These spectral data, where the development in time is incorporated in mysterious ways, may then be transformed by different algorithms prior to resynthesis.
An interesting aspect of Mammut is its completely non-intuitive sound transformation approach.
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http://www.notam02.no/arkiv/doc/mammut/ (2204 clicks)

Seen it before? As a MIDI instrument? As a VST plugin?
When you play pong, you play music. You can try it as an applet, though that’s not half as cute as connecting it to a nice soft-synth sound, adding a few effects (arpeggiator, anyone?) and letting it play some loops for you.
Note that I’ve used [...]

Get nuts with the Wii remote and your loops..
The Wii Loop Machine is a system for using the wireless Wii remote to sync, control, and manipulate loops in real time.
It uses the aka.wiimote object for Max/MSP by Masayuki Akamatsu.
Download it, unzip it, and follow the directions in the patch (it will probably take [...]

QLab makes it simple to build rich, sophisticated multimedia designs for theatre, dance, or other live performance or installation projects. Use it for sound design, video projection design, or anything where you need to trigger media playback in a precise and flexible manner.
QLab allows you to control audio, video, and MIDI from a single workspace. [...]

Arcade Music Player
M1 plays the music from classic arcade games by running the code in the original ROMs.
Features
Support for over 1100 different games.
Emulation of over a dozen CPUs and more than one hundred boards.
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http://www.bannister.org/software/m1.htm (436 clicks)

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 supports music in the following file formats:
AY – Amstrad CPC/Spectrum ZX/Atari ST
COP – Sam Coupe
GBS – Nintendo Gameboy
GSF – Nintendo Gameboy Advance
GYM – Sega Megadrive/Genesis
HES – PC [...]

Simon Extreme is a reinterpretation of the classic 1978 Milton Bradley game Simon, complete with authentic gameplay and sound samples from the original game.
Written for Mac OS X, Simon Extreme features: Mac OS X Aqua-inspired graphics , Alternate sound sets including Metal, Trip Hop, and Windchimes [...]

AudioRack is an open-source radio broadcast automation and live assist system for Mac OS X computers.
The system is composed of three major components (see diagram below):
1. arserver – faceless (daemon) eight bus audio server
2. AudioRack – User interface
3. database server (MySQL 4.x supported)
Optionally, audio files can reside on a separate file server, making a [...]

Software to display lyrics full screen, it was designed to display lyrics in live gigs.
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http://www.geocities.com/kingyco/ (152 clicks)

Not audio, but something for the recording studio… something refreshing for those long night music sessions.. it’s like having a lamp inside your screen.
Black Light ! Your brain will love it.
Black Light allows you to invert the colors on your screen. This is done by inverting the gamma curve of the screen.When you open Black [...]

The Conductor Program — computer-mediated musical performance
Remember how you could record a melody in your casio and how you could play it back only with 2 fingers and with a different timing ? well, this is the basic idea of Tapper.
Give it a midi file to use as a score, select the MIDI input and [...]

An Application for the Creation of Geophonic Music
Have you ever wondered what climate cycles of the last million years SOUND like? What would happen if you turned tide level data into sound waves? If geological cycles could make music – what would the melody be? The harmony?
Maestro Frankenstein is a unique application that is designed [...]

Simple speech synthesis for Mac OS X
Say is a simple program for Mac OS X that allows you to let your computer speak for you…in a wide variety of voices.
- Variable Pitch
- Variable Speed
- Variable Volume
http://nsgn.net/software/say/ (627 clicks)

Ever thought ‘what is this song?’ Let Tunatic hear it and you will get the artist’s name and the song’s title within seconds. Tunatic is the very first song search engine based on sound for your computer. All you need is a microphone and Internet access.
Tunatic can identify music from any genre except classical.
Tunatic can [...]

A drawing software made with max/msp.(WinXP/MacOSX). Not many controls over sound but any suggestion appreciated.
how to:
1. turn it “on” on the left top.
2. draw whatever on the pad.
3. click on “play back”
4. “playback” bar should move left to right.
5. you can choose “randomly” instead of “left to right”,
6. or even grab the “playback” bar and [...]

A binaural beats generator as a Max/MSP standalone.
WARNING AND DISCLAIMER
The full effects of brain wave synchronization are unknown, and possibly dangerous. I cannot be held responsible for any effect this program may have on you. Please consult a physician before using this program.
Don’t use this program if you are:
– suffering from epilepsy
– pregnant
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ccPublisher is a tool that does two things: it will help you tag your audio and video files with information about your license and it allows you to upload Creative Commons-licensed audio and video works to the Internet Archive for free hosting. You also have the option of publishing the licensed and tagged audio works [...]

routes is a community web sound art piece in which visitors to the website download software for recording/creating sound. This software can run on any Apple computer with OSX and sound input although plans exist to port the software to other platforms. The software records sound input into a 30 second buffer. This buffer continuously [...]

BallDroppings is an addicting and noisy play-toy. It can also be seen as an emergence game. Alternatively this software can be taken seriously as an audio-visual performance instrument. Balls fall from the top of the screen and bounce off the lines you are drawing with the mouse. The balls make a percussive and melodic sound, [...]

SetMaker is the ideal computer application for rapid creation and management of Set Lists.
Featuring an intuitive graphic user interface, SetMaker allows users to store song titles, styles, tempos, lengths, and more. It is also the FASTEST way to create and print out Set Lists for any occasion.
Whether youre a gigging musician, a worship [...]

Realtime Music Collaboration Software
NINJAM is a program to allow people to make real music together via the Internet. Every participant can hear every other participant. Each user can also tweak their personal mix to his or her liking. NINJAM is cross-platform, with clients available for Mac OS X,Linux and Windows.
NINJAM uses compressed audio which allows [...]

something a little different this time !
does the vocalist need help when recording a new track ?? Forgetting the lyrics ???
Solution here would be a teleprompt software like used on TV, This is the lite version of Prompt!, a teleprompt application with fullscreen display on black background, scrolls smoothly with big characters and looks [...]

Orator is a small application used to convert typed text into a sound file.
The application is very simple and uses only one window. Type, paste, or drag text to the window, pick a voice and save the text to a file. Orator can also read text aloud.
get it:
http://homepage.mac.com/dougeverly/orator.html (203 clicks)
example:
http://www.1xn.org/1xn/output/ZzZzZz/bruce.mp3 (109 clicks)

RetroPlayer is a music player with which you can listen to music as if it was played by an analog record player. You can re-enjoy a piece of music that you have listened to for many times.
It’s awesome to create Lo-fi mixes, it has a speed dial and recreates some cool vinyl effects, just try [...]

Now check this… This little app turns some of the latest apple laptops into a Starwars saber simulator… yiiihaaa…
Compatibility notes:
iBook: SMS only exists on iBooks built after July 26, 2005. These iBooks are either 1.33GHz or 1.42GHz. All 1.42GHz iBooks have SMS. Only 1.33 GHz iBooks with a scrolling trackpad, 512MB RAM (stock), and 40GB [...]

Your music is the game.
Music Muncher is a game unlike any other. It runs as a plugin in iTunes, and your music determines what happens. Flee the ghost and eat the notes.
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http://www.groovyvis.com/musicmuncher.html (181 clicks)

Use this little OSX dashboard widget to keep track of the latest in the studiotoolz site ! for those dashboard lovers, no konfabulator.. yet.
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download it:
http://1xn.org/0.utput/studiotoolz/StudiotoolzRSS.zip (87 clicks)

Sample motion tracking to MIDI patch developed by Peter Kirn for Make Magazine #4
DESCRIPTION: To demonstrate one possible application of motion tracking, I’ve built a simple patch based on sample code making use of the cv.jit computer visualization objects for Cycling ’74’s Max/MSP and Jitter. It converts motion tracking analysis control data to MIDI, for [...]

Ant-hem is a small MAX/MSP motion tracking performance piece to generate oscillating sound from the video tracking of an ant farm, whether it be through a live feed, or a time-lapsed quicktime mov. It will be implemented as soon as my ants start burrowing in their new home.
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link
http://gavmack.co.uk/news/?p=57 (508 clicks)
screenshot
http://www.gavmack.co.uk/news/images/anthem2.gif (330 clicks)

now check this out…. :)
On his 2003 album, London Fix, Tom Hamilton converts fluctuations in spot gold price charts into streams of sound. The realtime stock grabber is a max patch I built for Tom. If he decides to integrate realtime data in upcoming performances this patch will make it possible. To run it you [...]

Here goes a collection of 13 drum machines programs for the Commodore 64. Real oldschool traumas for you freaks !
To use them you need some sort of C64 emulator with a proper SID emulation for OSX. You could also transfer them to your real C64 of course to get the real thing.
Included in the [...]

Sound Toys- These are a few icons I made using images from a great library of musical toys from the 70’s and 80’s. You can use .png versions (Pixadex will export them) as custom track icons in Logic 7 . I’d like to be able to use them with GarageBand too, but I can’t find [...]

Cassette Tapes – Here’s a few casette tape icons that were made from the archive of photos at Project C-90, a Russian photo-archive of cassette tapes. These aren’t anything spectacular, but I am kind of happy with the Sony tape (the body is slightly translucent, just like the real tape would be).
http://www.wileywiggins.com/icons.html (621 clicks)

Reel 2 Reel – These are icons made from photographs of miniature reel-to-reel tape machines from this German site. The only notable one here is the “Sabine” icon, which has an additional open/drop state icon. (use it on a folder and then try dropping something on it)
http://www.wileywiggins.com/icons.html (621 clicks)

A little iconset for recording studios and musicians.
12 icons in MacOSX and PNG format 128×128 pixels:
Akai MPC 1000, Boss Dr.Sample, Cables, Commodore 64, Genelec 1030A, Kaoss Pad 2, Novation K-Station, Roland TR808, Shure SM58, Tascam US428, Yamaha DMP11, Yamaha RS7000.
enjoy!
http://www.1xN.org/0.utput/studioiconz/Studioiconz-Vol1.zip (391 clicks)

This is a Cocoa based Commodore 64 SID emulator. It takes full advantage of MacOS X and allows you to playback Commodore 64 SID tunes.
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http://fruitz-of-dojo.de (236 clicks)