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Simply drag and drop a sound file (or multiple files) onto the window to see:
• File Name
• Number of Channels
• Bit Rate
• Sample Rate
• File Length in ms.
• Sample Type
• File Type
Select a file in the list and press ‘play’ to listen to it. If you select the ‘auto audition’ box the file will be [...]

Monalisa-Audio Unit is a software component which allows you to process audio using Apple Image Units by routing this audio through any Audio Unit capable application. Monalisa-Audio Unit acts as a plug-in host to mediate between Audio Units and Image Units, allowing you to process your audio signal through any Image Unit. All processing in [...]

A pack of MIDI utility plugins I made to use with Tracktion’s Rack Filters (though they’ll probably work in most hosts). Uses the Simple Controls library of widgets I’m making for VSTGUI (still in development, not sure I can really be bothered to finish them). Scroll down for download links. (C++)
MIDI Note Filter
Allows through only [...]

BeatCounter is a simple plugin designed to facilitate beatmatching software and turntables. It displays the current tempo in beats per minute (BPM), while the bottom window displays an accumulated average over the last few seconds. BeatCounter is the perfect tool for DJ’s that want to integrate computer effects or elements with turntables.
Features
Lowpass filter with variable [...]

Merger is a utility plug-in that combines two audio channels into one. This is typically useful for e.g. vocoder plug-ins that expect their two inputs on either side of a stereo pair.
In Logic 7 it is used as an insert effect on a mono or stereo track. The other input is selected from the ’side [...]

The plug-in reports to the host application that it has a latency (controlled by the plug-in parameters) but does not actually apply any processing to the audio signal. This causes the host to use its own latency compensation to advance the audio fed into the plug-in by the requested amount.
This is useful to compensate for [...]

Guitar Tuner.
You must have Pluggo, Pluggo Demo, or a free Pluggo Runtime installed to use it.
http://www.sonoria.pl/jk/pluggox.html (3153 clicks)

Audio Stream Bit Analyzer
A unique plugin originally developed by Tobybear. This plugin counts the bits really used in an audio stream.
It is part of Tobybear’s Utilbag compilation and donationware.
apulSoft translated this plug from Delphi to C++
and ported it to mac osx vst & au
BitViewer can be downloaded here:
http://www.apulsoft.ch/freeports/index.php (634 clicks)

RMS Buddy is a handy tool for tracking RMS and peak volume information.
It provides a cumulative, running average RMS of the audio signal, momentary RMS values, and it keeps track of the peak volume levels.
I find it very useful when I’m mastering stuff.
http://destroyfx.smartelectronix.com/extras/ (586 clicks)

LFO to LogicPro7 Parameter control program as a MAX / MSP standalone.
http://cycling74.com/twiki/bin/view/Share/LeighHunt (197 clicks)

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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Sonogram has been programmed at the German Research Center for Artificial Intelligence (Deutsches Forschungszentrum fuer Kuenstliche Intelligenz DFKI, www.dfki.de (241 clicks)). Sonogram is an signal analyze tool to visualize different signal analyze algorithms in the frequency domain. It generates visual plots/graphs from this algorithms and has the ability to render three dimensional interactive plots of [...]

AudioXplorer is a powerful sound analyzer software designed specifically for MacOS X.
AudioXplorer provides real-time analysis window where user can visualize the sound, spectrum and sonogram. Several real-time windows can be opened simultaneously.
AudioXplorer provides static analysis window: user can record or generate any sound and performs operation on it. Sound from the real-time window can be [...]

This program is used to write out guitar tablature in the typical style of ascii tab.
It features Chords, Lead and Lyrics mode.
Perfect for those guitar tabs.
http://etktab.sourceforge.net/ (245 clicks)

LilyPond is an automated engraving system. It formats music beautifully and automatically, and has a friendly syntax for its input files.
Why can’t computer printout look just as good as traditionally engraved music? With that thought in mind we have started LilyPond nine years ago. We built it to be robust, flexible, and, of course, easily [...]

AudioSlicer is a Cocoa GUI application that finds all silences in an audio file and allows you to split it into several smaller audio files and to name/tag them properly. For now only MP3 is supported but other audio formats may be added in the future.
While most other tools doing this split automatically according to [...]

cue-splitter is a small tool to split long MP3s using a CUE-file containing the filenames and splitpositions. This MP3s mostly are an album or a compilation wich you have to split before you can born it to a CD. This method is used by peer2peer users because its easier to transmit one big file then [...]

Hi! I’m a single app that bravely handles all your audio needs – I’m easy to use, but with gobs of advanced features ready to be discovered! I can play your Audio CDs, your MP3s, and your streaming network audio, I can encode, edit, mix, sort and manage, visualize and hypnotize. And now that I’m [...]

Simply the easiest and most satisfying way to get extremely high quality mp3s in MacOS X. Period. NMP3 Ripper uses the LAME mp3 encoding engine which to my ears and many, many others provides the best sound quality / filesize ratio available. It has freedb and id3 tag support so you don’t have to type [...]

MidiClock is a simple MIDI clock source for synchronizing MIDI applications. It provides a virtual endpoint for easy integration with your favorite MIDI app. It can also simultaneously transmit MIDI clock signals to additional MIDI endpoints. Works beautifully with Propellerhead Software’s Reason and was used by them to synchronize two laptops running Reason at NAMM [...]

midimouse is a small, easy-to-use and very simple program. It sends MIDI-controller-messages (CC) by moving the mouse over its (resizeable) window. While moving the mouse (with or without mouseDown) over the X-/Y-axxis, each axxis sends a CC, so you might send values within up to 4 configurable Controllers.
So, what’s it for if you’ve never heard [...]

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 [...]

Amazing Videogame / midi interface
Runloader is a midi interface for happy midi users.
It was created for Eniarof 1.0 festival in France,
basically it was an interactive installation.
It’s works very well with Beatboxes and samplers,
but the Runloader is open-mind…
Write me if it looks nice to you
and maybe show me what you can do with it.
Bonne chance.
Janken.
http://jankenpopp.free.fr/ [...]

MidiKeys is a small application for Mac OS X that presents a miniature MIDI keyboard onscreen. You can use the computer keyboard to play MIDI notes, or click on the keys with the mouse. There is also an option to select a MIDI source and see incoming notes played on the keyboard.
The keys ‘z’ through [...]

Transposon is a MIDI utility to transpose what you play in real time.
http://homepage.mac.com/jschrier/ (166 clicks)

this application lets you simulate a midi keyboard on your computer qwerty keyboard. for laptop-users on the run tired of ‘clicking’ or ‘drawing’ their music in midi-sequencers and notation programs. use keys [] to change octave and arrow keys left/right for chromatic transposition.
http://www.fredrikolofsson.com/pages/code-apps.html (762 clicks)

Application to transpose (Harmonize) an incoming MIDI signal within the given scale. Also Midi Thru.
http://dqueffeulou.free.fr/softs/MIDI_Harmonizer.php (364 clicks)

MIDI patchbay lets you hook up your various pieces of MIDI software and hardware and pass MIDI data between them, applying assorted filters on the way. Things like key splits, MIDI channel remapping, transposition, etc. are made very simple.
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http://pete.yandell.com/software/ (483 clicks)

controlAid was designed to help maximize the use of MIDI controllers with Live or any program that allows you to assign onscreen controls to MIDI messages. The program is freeware and runs in Mac OSX 10.3 and higher.
http://www.charlie-roberts.com/controlAid/ (224 clicks)

Always In Key is a small utility app that allows a user to select a musical key and restrict the MIDI output to only notes contained in that key.
Why would I want to do that?
Well, for any number of reasons really. Let’s say that you are ad-libbing a lead on your synth (and you know [...]

AkBrowser can read samples from both Yamaha A4000/A5000 and A3000 Sample Disks and convert sample waveform data into AIFF files. Samples can be auditioned by simply double-clicking the file in the browser.
AkBrowser can display the sample disk’s files and folders in both a list and column view similar to the Mac OS X Finder. Also, [...]

MIDI Monitor is a utility for Mac OS X which displays MIDI signals in a variety of formats. It can watch both incoming and outgoing MIDI streams, and can filter them by message type and channel.
Musicians will find it handy for tracking down confusing MIDI problems.
Programmers can use it to test MIDI drivers and applications.
MIDI [...]

SysEx Librarian is a utility for Mac OS X which lets you communicate with MIDI devices using System Exclusive messages, also known as SysEx. The most common use is to backup patch data from synthesizers, although there are others (such as sending firmware updates).
SysEx Librarian makes it easy to keep a library of the SysEx [...]

Audio Recorder is a scriptable application that records audio from any default input device and saves it directly to an AIFF, Apple Lossless (M4A and MOV), MP3, MP4 (M4A and MOV), or WAV file.
“..It’s really one of the nicest recorders ever… choose input.. volume, quality settings and record… you see in realtime the filesize growing [...]

Audio In is a simple audio recording application with an oscilloscope view. With Audio In you can:
-Record audio to disk from any sound input device connected to your Macintosh.
-Schedule when recording is to take place.
-Use Volume Operated Recording to skip periods of silence.
http://www.macupdate.com/info.php/id/8846 (252 clicks)

Taply is a simple soundfile player. The main difference between Taply and other players lies in the fact that it consists of nothing more than a tiny floating window and that it will quit after having finished playing. This way, (at least for me) it’s the perfect tool to scan quickly through a large number [...]

SoundAround is a quick and easy way to preview large libraries of sounds. Just drop a folder of sounds (or a folder of folders…) and press the buttons to flip through the sounds. The “auto next” feature automatically flips through all the sounds.
This is for previewing AIFF, WAVE, and SD2 formats only. Source code for [...]

Remember SoundApp for MacOS9 ??
Well this is the answer for OSX ! Dropsound!
Dropsound is a relatively simple sound-playing application, designed primarily for playing samples. As such, it’s not got a lot of really innovative or terribly interesting features, but that’s okay. DS consists of a control panel and queue. Sound files dropped onto the [...]

Freaky Tuner is undoubtedly is the best tuner available. Not only does the program have a wide variety of instruments to tune to, you can pick the note, and one of seven octaves!
http://www.freaksw.com/applications/freakytuner/ (131 clicks)

With AudioUnits and hosts multiplying practically daily, users with growing collections of both soon want to be able to specify subsets of AudioUnits to be loaded with particular hosts. AudioUnit Manager provides a simple way to organize AudioUnits into sets so users can load just the AudioUnits they need for a particular application. This can [...]

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StreamRipperX is an open source (GPL) application that allows you to listen to Internet radio streams and rip the songs as individual MP3 files. StreamRipperX is a native Cocoa port of the unix command-line tool, StreamRipper.

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Audacity is a free, easy-to-use audio editor and recorder for Windows, Mac OS X, GNU/Linux, and other operating systems.
Audacity can record live audio through a microphone or mixer, or digitize recordings from cassette tapes, vinyl records, or minidiscs. With some sound cards, it can also capture streaming audio.
Import sound files, edit them, [...]

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.ogg is a free audio format alternative. It features sound quality that is generally higher than MP3, and has no licensing fees. Ogg Drop will encode audio tracks and CD’s into .oggs.
Ogg Drop includes a CDDB lookup of the FreeDB music database. Stick an audio CD into Ogg Drop, and it should be [...]

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MacFLAC is a graphical frontend for FLAC (Free Lossless Audio Codec), developed using Applescript Studio. It uses the flac binaries developed by Josh Coalson.

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LameBrain is a LAME-based mp3 encoder with the following features:
Drag-and-drop batch file processing
CD ripping with FreeDB support
Saving of encoding settings in “profiles,” which can be loaded for later use

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Neat little program – fabulously pointless, yet infinitely interesting. Feed it an image, and through the magic of algorithms it generates MIDI output. If you tweak the instruments, you can get some really awesome songs out of this program – on par with half of the electronic “musicians” out there.
But, as others have [...]

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Mighty MIDI is a lightweight MIDI Player for OS X (>10.2). Very basic and simple to use, a must have utility for anyone with plenty of MIDI files. Can direct MIDI output to Quicktime or to any installed MIDI interfaces.

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MidiPipe is freeware and comes with no warranties. MidiPipe can be useful in a music studio or live on stage to route, map, filter, convert, display, input and output MIDI messages in real-time. Mac OS X 10.2.8 (Jaguar) or higher is required – 10.4 (Tiger) is recommended.

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Midibug outputs incoming MIDI messages from any selected device into its log window. The log can be saved as a text file. MB is useful for developers who are debugging their device code, or users who are curious what MIDI messages are being sent by various devices.

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iTapTempo is an application designed to let you tap a tempo, either without or with a sound playing at the same time. It’s in other words ideal for remixers, who are in need of a short beat clock on their delicious vinyl grooves and other samples – as well as finding the tempo, [...]