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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/ (2150 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 (892 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/ (161 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/ (107 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 (69 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/ (169 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/ (67 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 [...]