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Tune It! is a piece of software that helps musicians to tune their instrument. It can also be used to monitor the pitch during live performance. 
Tune It! is based on a original and very accurate pitch detection algorithm. It can tune a wide range of instruments such as guitar, bass, piano, flute, violin, saxophone, etc… 
Tune It! [...]

Clocker is a utility plug-in that sends MIDI clock.
Why would you want a plug-in to do that, when your host app sends MIDI clock perfectly fine? Well, with Clocker you have a separate, adjustable source of MIDI clock. So [...]

 
Simple Studio Calculator that calculates BPMs, delay calculator , etc..
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http://www.unbearablerecordings.co.uk/devices/ (3170 clicks)

MIDI tools
I intended to provide a set of midi tools to help composition and music generation. I’ve used the “MIDI gain” example that can be downloaded at musicdsp as a base for the controler mapper. These plugins register themselves as midi sources. With Cubase SX, the Midi tracks have to be set to monitor so [...]

Pretty standard fare, a MIDI keyboard that you can play on your computer. Gives you access to two octaves on a regular computer keyboard.
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http://mars.pingdynasty.com/software.oml (1583 clicks)

Audio File Converter
Switch sound file conversion software is an audio file format converter for Windows or Mac. It can convert audio files from many different file formats into mp3 or wav files including wav to mp3, mp3 to wav, wma to mp3 and much more (see the supported formats list below).
Switch audio file converter is [...]

QTCoffee is a set of command-line Mac OS X utilities for manipulating QuickTime movies and other QuickTime readable media (AVIs, MPEGs, as well as audio files such as MP3s and AACs).
Features include:
* Joining (concatenating) movies or audio files, so they play one after the other, with special support for pass-through joining of MPEG-4 video and [...]

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/ (298 clicks)

AudioMove is a simple, easy to use GUI-based batch audio file copy-and-conversion program.
You just tell it what files to convert, what format to convert them to, and where to put the output files, and it does it.
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http://www.lcscanada.com/audiomove/ (355 clicks)

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. [...]

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. [...]

It’s the times of GTD and how to organize yourself better so here goes another tool to be more productive in your studio sessions:
Do It is a small application to manage categorized to do lists. Each to do item can be linked with a file on your computer, a URL, such as the address [...]

Need to write studio session notes or to have a setlist handy in your live gig ?
Sidenote tries to catch the “Stickies” spirit but in the form of a multi-document drawer that will hide in the corner of your screen (left or right).
Sidenote will automatically expand so that you will be able to drag into [...]

This application allows you to convert and calculate data such as heights, MIDI notes and frequencies, durations, tempos…
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http://web.mac.com/pierre.couprie/iWeb/Logiciels/le%20convertisseur.html (166 clicks)

DATXtract is a program for transferring the contents of audio DAT tapes into AIFF files.
DATXtract also requires an audio-capable computer DAT drive. “Audio-capable” means that the drive must have firmware which supports the set of SCSI commands for working with audio tapes. Although computer DAT drives are typically connected via a SCSI connection, they may [...]

Dent du Midi is an application that takes standard MIDI files and generates separate files for each track which contains the MIDI note data. These files are suitable for dropping into Apple’s GarageBand application for use as loops or entire tracks. In simple terms, this application allows you to convert MIDI files into GarageBand files.
Dent [...]

Small application that gradually fades the volume down to some preset level. Cool thing here is that it is possible to set the application to make really long fades..
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http://scsibug.com/calando/ (292 clicks)

Volume Slider is a simple Mac OS X application which allows you to control your computer’s volume using a slider on a small window that you can place anywhere on your screen.
Volume Slider has two components including (1) a small volume slider with a mute button on it, and (2) a resizable mute button [...]

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)

Musorg allows you to easily organize your music collection.
Supports simple tag editing, freedb lookups for correct Id3 tags and files and/or directory renaming.
Start the app, navigate to your music folder….list of your media info shows at the bottom.
Edit tags directly and/or do freedb lookup with “Lookup” button.
When finished just use “Save Tags” and/or “Rename [...]

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; [...]

Stream recorder is a Mac application (OSX Tiger and above) that I wrote to let me listen to radio programmes on my iPod. It records RealPlayer streams as MP3s and imports them into iTunes.
How do you use it?
As an example, open Stream Recorder, open a browser and then drag one of the “Listen” links onto [...]

Music Math is a freeware which converts music values (BPM, transpose, Delay, Samples, ms, Hz, Timestretch %, Notes ). Music-Math has 7 conversion functions: Tempo Change, Transpose, Delay, Tap Tempo, Samples, Notes and SMPTE:
- Tempo : computes the equivalent TimeStrecthing from the original and new tempos.
- Transpose: converts semi tones to TimeStrecthing values
- Delay [...]

Perfect Tone is the third software release by Line of Sight. It is an advanced tone generator, allowing the creation and simultaneous sounding of up to 64 waveforms.
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http://los.dtcurrie.net/projects/ (311 clicks)

Perfect Pitch is a powerful and diverse tuner application. It is simple enough for the casual instrumentalist to use, yet contains advanced features for tuning based on harmonic series, quarter tones, and any other even division of the octave.
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http://los.dtcurrie.net/projects/ (311 clicks)

YamiPod is a freeware application to efficiently manage your iPod under Mac OS X, Windows and Linux. It can be run directly from your iPod and needs no installation. Take a look at the feature list to find out what it can do and feel free to suggest anything that might be missing.
Here’s a brief [...]

Mac OS X software to quickly and easily rename large numbers of music files.
MusicRenamer is a powerful mp3 file renaming tool. It helps to avoid spending hours of hard boring manual editing of mp3 filenames. You will rename your mp3 filenames easier and faster and…you’ll see your mp3 list with consistent order in filenames.
The renamer [...]

I wanted an application that I could use to mimic my BCF2000 midi controller, for when I didn’t have the hardware with me. Here is the result.
This application is designed to be used with MidiPipe; first launch MidiPipe and create a new pipe – with just a midi in element and a midi out element. [...]

The Levelator is a software that runs on Windows or OS X (universal binary) that adjusts the audio levels within your podcast or other audio file for variations from one speaker to the next, for example.
It’s not a compressor, normalizer or limiter although it contains all three. It’s much more than those tools, and [...]

A simple standalone 8 channel input meter for quick reference with headroom and clip displays.
Made to be seen from across the room. Also measures amphibiosity of your audio on a scale of tadpole to bullfrog, including statistics on how many times Alphonse the aquatic frog misses his food pellets on average before actually getting one [...]

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 [...]

Small utility to calculate values for different situations.
　☆Delay Time for MS
　☆Delay Time for TC
　☆Pitch
　☆Auto Pan
　☆Offset to Sync
　☆Offset to Shift
　☆Commercials-Time
　☆Auto Pan for Note
　☆PCM3348 Advance Out
　☆Memory
　☆Pitch – Tempo
　☆Samples
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http://www.logicalyze.com/f_down/downmac.html (259 clicks)

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 [...]

GainSet is a computer program for sound professionals brought to you by Jason Romney and Michel Marrano of the North Carolina School of the Arts Theatre Sound Design program.
You’re setting up your sound system and it’s time to connect up the amplifiers. Where do you turn the knob on the amp? Hmm . . [...]

Utility that renames the bounced audio “Split (L+R)” into other forms.
ExRena rewrites [ .L.aif ] , [ .R.wav ] etc… to [ .L ] , [ .R ].
ExRena can rename quickly by Drag&Drop.
When Importing a file to ProTools etc.
It can prevent ProTools recognizing a stereo file as two mono audio.
As an option, Exrena can change [...]

Have you ever been curious about what your recorder is putting in your BWAV files?
BWAV Reader allows you to view the contents and info of a broadcast wav file.
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http://www.quesosoft.com/reader.html (200 clicks)

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 [...]

WaveSurfer is an Open Source tool for sound visualization and manipulation. It has been designed to suit both novice and advanced users. WaveSurfer has a simple and logical user interface that provides functionality in an intuitive way and which can be adapted to different tasks. It can be used as a stand-alone tool for a [...]

It can connect several tubePlug users via the internet and allows high quality multichannel audio exchange between them and the t-u-b-e venue.
tubePlug runs as a VST/AudioUnit plug on MACOSX 10.3.9 or higher (universal Intel/PowerPC) and as a VST plug on Win9x, WinME, WinXP. You can use your favorite audio host (e.g. Cubase, Logic, Plogue [...]

CherryPicker is a powerful MIDI patchfile editor for OSX
Use CherryPicker To:
Convert patchfile formats
Sort, edit, add and delete Banks, Patches, Notelists, Controller Lists
Import banks from other apps and text files
Export banks to text files and the clipboard
Create your own patch categories for your sequencer’s popup menu
Renumber MIDI patch change values or ASCII display numbers
Main Features:
Integrated Middev [...]

This is a utility that might be useful if you want to know how many megabytes an 8 channel audio file will take up and 96khz etc. A few things missing from this but it could help calculating delay times with audio cards, and mic/loudspeaker placements.
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http://www.tinpark.com/?q=audio_info_app (396 clicks)

miTunes is a programme developed to enable batch processing of audio and video files. It also permits the creation of playlists, editing playlists of media and full screen playback of video.
The heart of the software uses Jitter’s jit.qt.movie object to load and export quicktime media from one format to another. miTunes will only allow exporting [...]

MoviePlayer – VST plugin to play video in Live

Here is the second update of the video device I built for Ableton Live. I used Max/Msp (demo), and exported it as a Pluggo plugin. That plugin needs Pluggo runtime (free) to run.
- I made it in two size, since it is not resizable.
- When Live [...]

VST – Pd Bridging Plugin
PdVst is a software system that allows Pd patches to run as VST plugins.
-How PdVst Works-
PdVst consists of two main parts, a VST plugin and a custom version of Pd. When a PdVst plugin is opened by the host application, a setup file is read to determine information about the plugin, [...]

SoX Wrap is a wrapper for the conversion routines of the open source sound utility SoX (Sound eXchange). It transfers to and from the following formats: 8svx, aiff, al, au, avr, cdr, cvs, dat, gsm, hcom, la, lu, maud, mp3, nul, ogg, prc, raw, sb, sf, sl, sph, smp, snd, sndt, sw, txw, ub, ul, [...]

Welcome to the home of SoX, the swiss army knife of sound processing programs. SoX is a command line utility that can convert various formats of computer audio files in to other formats. It can also apply various effects to these sound files during the conversion. As an added bonus, SoX can play and record [...]

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 [...]

Sinusoidal Partial Editing Analysis and Resynthesis
SPEAR is an application for audio analysis, editing and synthesis. The analysis procedure (which is based on the traditional McAulay-Quatieri technique) attempts to represent a sound with many individual sinusoidal tracks (partials), each corresponding to a single sinusoidal wave with time varying frequency and amplitude.
Something which closely resembles the original [...]

A little something for the Extras folder of Max/MSP. It’s a metronome with volume control and beats per minute instead of the usual Max milliseconds. The interface is made to match the built-in extras of Max/MSP (see picture). Includes adjustable sounds from “subtle” to “irritating” (the classic Seiko sound).
http://jnote.dk/metronome (373 clicks)