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LineIn is a simple application for OS X to enable the soft playthru of audio from input devices. In simpler terms, you can use LineIn to play sound coming in through a microphone or any other device plugged in to your Sound In port, just as was once available with OS 9’s “Play input through [...]

SoundSource is a tiny tool for OS X enabling you to switch your audio input and output sources with a single click.
And with the System setting, you can transfer system beeps to a secondary audio source so you won’t be disturbed.
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http://www.rogueamoeba.com/freebies/ (161 clicks)

Autoplay application - Do Something When will launch documents or applications you specify when certain external drives are mounted.
You can launch your itunes or your favourite DAW when your music hard drive gets mounted and you can quit the applications when you eject the drive. This is just an example of what can be done. [...]

This is a collection of device images for the Audio/MIDI set-up application featured in Mac OS X. It will allow you to make MIDI connections more easily as you’ll be able to distinguish your gear by their actual pictures. Included are pictures for most of the USB MIDI capable instruments from Roland, Edirol, and Akai.
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http://www.apple.com/downloads/macosx/audio/midideviceimages.html [...]

Freeware QuickTime plugin XiphQT adds support for Ogg audio files in QuickTime and iTunes.
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http://www.xiph.org/quicktime/ (130 clicks)

An output volume balance adjustment daemon for Mac OS X Tiger.
Why?
Bugs in Mac OS X or other running programs might break your output’s balance settings. balanced listens for CoreAudio’s volume change notifications and adjusts the balance if needed. This first version of balanced has no preferences file and adjusts the balance in a 50-50 manner. [...]

File List is a super useful batch file rename and playlist generator.
Have to sort a whole folder of samples / takes / songs ??? this is the tool. This is what it looks like:
Renaming
File List currently supports the following basic renaming routines: Find and replace (including support for regular expressions); Number sequentially; Change case; [...]

SoundDog is a simple QuickTime-based applescript droplet that acts as a sound inspector. It is designed to be placed in your folder toolbar so that you can quickly drag and drop any audio file(s) onto SoundDog’s icon to hear playback and view a detailed description of the file.
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http://rdiv.com/apps/sounddog/ (160 clicks)

A terrific, free audio tool is lurking in Mac OS X Tiger’s developer tools. AU Lab is intended for testing Audio Unit effects and instruments, but it’s feature-packed enough to be useful to end users, too. If you haven’t already, install Xcode Tools from your Tiger install disc. Then launch Developer > Applications > Audio [...]

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 (34 clicks)

FingaMIDI is a replacement driver for the ADB trackpad found in Apple G4 PowerBooks and second generation (white) iBooks.
It allows the inbuilt trackpad to be used as a three-axis MIDI controller, sending x, y and z (pressure) data as parameter change messages. OK, its not really pressure data but capacitance, which is proportional to [...]

Max/MSP is a graphical environment for music, audio, and multimedia.
In use worldwide for over fifteen years by performers, composers, artists, teachers, and students, Max/MSP is the way to make your computer do things that reflect your individual ideas and dreams
If you want to run Max / MSP standalone applications you need to have the Max/MSP [...]

Pluggo Runtime enables you to use plug-ins created with Max/MSP. Click on the links below to begin downloading.
Develop Your Own Plug-in
Pluggo isn’t be limited to the warehouse full of plug-ins we’re supplying today. If you want to tweak your own plug-ins, you might want to consider Max/MSP, which includes everything you need to develop your [...]

Detour lets you control where audio from all your programs is going. Whether you send it to your speakers, your headphones, or mute it all together, you’re in charge.
Technically speaking, Detour allows you to send audio to different output devices on an application-specific basis. What does that mean exactly? It means you can…
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Currently, the Java versions 1.4.2 and 1.5 installed on Apple Macintosh OS X computers do not identify connected MIDI devices in a way that is completely compatible with the standard Java Sound API package (javax.sound.midi)
(all trademarks acknowledged).
Plumstone is an open source Java project which fills in the gap, providing javax.sound.midi compatible MIDI input and output [...]

Use any midi keyboard as a full blown computer keyboard replacement.
midiStroke converts midi note, program or CC messages into keystrokes. Any single midi message can trigger as many keystrokes as you like, in order. As one example, you could use one note on message to select all, copy, move to the right, paste, move right [...]

GarageRemote allows the control of GarageBand’s transport functions from any MIDI controller that has programmable buttons.
http://www.muratnkonar.com/otherstuff/garageremote/ (97 clicks)

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Jack (the Jack Audio Connection Kit) is a low-latency audio server, written originally for the GNU/Linux operating system, and now with Mac OS X support. It can connect any number of different applications to a single hardware audio device; it also allows applications to send and receive audio to and from each other.
Jack [...]

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Soundflower is a Mac OS X (10.2 and later) system extension that allows applications to pass audio to other applications. Soundflower is easy to use, it simply presents itself as an audio device, allowing any audio application to send and receive audio with no other support needed.