other musical instruments
iKlax Creator Free 1.0
A totally new way to listen to your music and a way to boost your creativity. iKlax Creator Free is a post production software that shall be used after youve gone through your sequencing without more>>
iKlax Creator Free 1.0 gives you the ability to boost your creativity. iKlax Creator Free is a post production software that shall be used after you've gone through your sequencing without changing your usual recording methods. Publish your music in the iKlax multitrack audio format and therefore offer many arrangement versions, for every instrument. Import your stem track from various formats (MP3, OGG VORBIS, WAVE, AIFF, CAF, AU) without decompressing them.
Organize your song's structure and program your various arrangements versions. You can opt to create an iKmix (= a mix configuration). At the end you can export your iKlax file in a compressed quality. The listener will then be able to browse through your song's architecture and access the various versions you've proposed, and do some mixes of his own. For iKlax files playback, download iKlax Player for free on iklaxmedia.com.
iKlax Creator Free is the low end of the iKlax Creator Series range and offers the main features of the software for free. This version is ideal to introduce the interactive music concept before moving on to the more complete iKlax Creator Standard and iKlax Creator Pro versions. About iKlax: iKlax has been imagined and produced by the French company iKlax Media.
O-Generator 1.0
O-Generator is the simplest way to teach the fundamentals of music and composition more>>
Aimed at 10 to 16 year olds, O-Generators structured lessons provide objectives, activities, outcomes and assessment, and fulfill National Curriculum requirements.
The Virtual Music Teacher will guide students through each lesson using simple language in understandable steps with a recorded voice-over, making it ideal for nonspecialists.
For you...
Structured lessons provided
No music knowledge needed
Minimal ICT skills required
Minimal lesson preparation time
Teach the whole class at the same time
For your students...
Learn about rhythm by exploring different styles
Explore melody, harmony and arrangement
Use different instruments to understand chords and create melodies
Learn and develop songwriting techniques
Compose in modern and traditional styles
O-Generator engages children from the outset thanks to its clear design, which uses a circular representation of a bar of music, onto which students place their own beats, rhythms and melodies.
The use of contemporary musical instruments and styles excites students, and lets them compose the kind of music they most enjoy listening to.
And because the software is not limited to preset musical loops, the possibilities for students are endless!
MakingMusic 2.7
MakingMusic - Online musical instrument encyclopedia more>>
The aim of MakingMusic is to form a comprehensive database of musical instruments, the criteria being anything from any culture or any age that is used to make music
This is an ongoing Freeware project, with new instruments being added to the database as the research progresses. Each time you launch the application you may find you have access to different amounts of information.
Enhancements:
- Provides a necessary update to the database server (the database now resides on my idisk).
- MakingMusic now contains 328 musical instruments & climbing.
Synth Rose 1.0.3
Synth Rose is a really superior tool which uses a simple visual interface to construct and customize instruments, and a traditional musical staff to compose songs more>>
Synth Rose 1.0.3 is a really superior tool which uses a simple visual interface to construct and customize instruments, and a traditional musical staff to compose songs.
Compose songs with your own custom instruments. Synth Rose 1 ... reproducethe sounds of typical instruments in asimilar way to vintage synthesizers.The userNative Instruments Dynamo 1.03
Native Instruments Dynamo brings you a convenient and useful MP3 tool. more>>
Native Instruments Dynamo 1.03 brings you a convenient and useful MP3 tool. DYNAMO opens the way into the fascinating world of REAKTOR: the 25 instruments of the present NI Premium Library which are included can be integrated perfectly into your studio via VST 2.0, ASIO, Digidesign DirectConnect and the Logic MIDI-environment.
sfArkXT 1.0.4
sfArkXT is a free, small Carbon application that decompresses sfArk files. more>>
sfArkXT 1.0.4 is a free, small Carbon application that decompresses sfArk files.
Under Mac OS X Jaguar you can now install Sound Fonts .sf2 files which can greatly enhance the sound of the built-in QuickTime Musical Instruments and any other MIDI applications like Intuem, SimpleSynth etc. These files go into (~)/Libary/Audio/Sounds/Banks
Any sound bank installed in those locations can be selected from System Preferences -> QuickTime -> Music to be used as the default synthesizer for QT Musical Instruments.
Mac OS X allows the installation of uncompressed Sound Fonts (.sf2) only so compressed files (.sfArk) need to be decompressed before installation.
Major Features:
- VERY fast compression with good compression ratio in "fast" and "turbo" compression modes.
- State-of-the-art compression ratio with high compression speed using "standard" mode.
- Extra high compression (albeit slowly!) in "maximum" compression mode.
- Able to create "self-extracting" files.
- DLL available for development applications
Native Instruments B4 1.1.3
Native Instruments B4 offers you the ability of using a tonewheel organ combo for stand alone or plugin use, and completely captures the sound of the classic B3 organ including rotating speakers. more>>
Native Instruments B4 1.1.3 offers you the ability of using a tonewheel organ combo for stand alone or plugin use, and completely captures the sound of the classic B3 organ including rotating speakers.
The B4 takes the popular tonewheel organ into new territory. Added flexibility in sound generation and seamless integration into the recording environment make this possibly the best organ since the original.
macTone 1.0
macTone - Turn your computer into a musical keyboard more>>
macTone enables you to perform tunes by typing like the piano.
pixound Browser plugin 2.01
pixound Browser plugin is a comprehensive, user friendly and fast MP3 tool. more>>
pixound Browser plugin 2.01 is a comprehensive, user friendly and fast MP3 tool. If you don't download and play with this plugin, you'll never have any idea what you've missed. If you've never run your mouse across a picture of the sun or any other picture and heard a magical burst of musical notes based on the colors under the mouse, then you've not seen/heard the future of music. Musical instruments of the future will be light based and this is your mondo-fun glimpse at it.
If you don't like music or are thinking "who needs to hear pictures?" then please skip this patented, free plugin and have a music-loving friend give it a try for you. This isn't about need, this is about fun.
If you love music, then you'll get almost limitless pleasure from this plug-in which will turn even the most boring picture, anim or video into a concert (not random noise) or give you great entertainment while you wait for downloads. Pixound enabled pages start instantly and then the plugin does the rest, continuously translating the red, green and blue into musical notes on a given scale, in a given key and with given instruments. Enough said, the rest is up to you!
SCal 5.0
SCal - universal musical value calculator more>>
Musical Assistant 1.0
Musical Assistant - learn about musical theory or chord composition more>>
As the engineer do you sometimes need reminding which notes belong to a certain musical scale? Maybe you just want to prove to a certain smug musician that they are not the only one who knows the composition of a "A# minor major 7th add 13" chord...
Choose a root note, then a chord type or scale, and the notes that belong to the selected item will be represented on the keyboard below in a clean and clear manner.
The chord compositions are shown in a way that allows them to be easily read and understood. As a result the voicing of some chords will not be the most logical or pleasant sounding.
Musical Assistant - learn about musical theory or chord composition. Musical Assistant 1.0 - ...Macsome Audiobook Converter for Mac is a powerful converter to convert anyLicense:Freeware
Clarion 1.1.1
Clarion is a music utility which allows you to practice and be quizzed on your ability to recognize musical intervals. Requirements: PowerPC, MacOS 8.1 or later more>> Clarion is a music utility which allows you to practice and be quizzed on your ability to recognize musical intervals.
PowerPC, MacOS 8.1 or later.
Version 1.1.1 adds the following:
- Supports the QuickTime Music Architecture, for access to a multitude of synthesized instruments.
- Allows customized quizzing of the particular scales you are interested in.
- For added difficulty, the interval tonic, consonance, and direction may be randomized.
Native Instruments Pro-53 1.0
Native Instruments Pro-53 is an innovative and effective tool that is designed with the combination of the sonic properties of the unique originals with the practical requirements of the present day. more>>
Native Instruments Pro-53 1.0 is an innovative and effective tool that is designed with the combination of the sonic properties of the unique originals with the practical requirements of the present day. The Pro-53 carries on the tradition from the legendary days of vintage cult synthesizers. This virtual instrument, fashioned after the Sequential Circuits.
Requirements:
- Intel-based and/or PowerPC-based Macintoshes connected with a 100BaseT Ethernet switch or faster
- OS X 10.4 or later
- QuickTime 7 or later
- Pooch v1.7 or later
Lexikon-Sonate 3.2
Lexikon-Sonate - Algorithmic music generator more>>
It takes advantage of composition algorithms that has been developed by Karlheinz Essl since the 1985 years. With this algorithmic music generator on can easily create fascinating and complex musical structures on the fly.
Furthermore, Lexikon-Sonate is an infinite music installation that can run on a computer for years without repeating itself. Finally, Lexikon-Sonate can be used as an instrument for live performance of electronic music.
VI.ONE 1.1
VI.ONE - A massive multi-disc sample library encompassing over two thousand instruments, kits, and other sound effects more>>
The library is packed to the brim with drums (including hundreds of different kits), drum loops, basses (including acoustic, upright, electric, and synth), world and ethnic instruments (organized by geographic regions), sound effects, guitars (acoustic and electric), keyboards, a full collection of orchestral instruments, screaming B3 organs, world-class acoustic pianos, prepared pianos, electric/synth pianos, pop horns and brass, a bank of vintage synths, and cutting-edge synth patches.
Across every musical style in the world, VI.ONE is a premium, gigantic, and versatile sound palette.
VI.ONE is powered by the Kontakt Player 2 engine, bringing instant access to the sounds via the standalone application, as well as being accessible within sequencers via every major plug-in format: AudioUnit, VST, RTAS, and DXi.
Main features:
- Over two thousand patches of instruments across a wide array of instrument families
- 21GB core library of samples
- Optimized onscreen EQ and reverb controls
- Remote control of various sonic parameters available via MIDI CC
- Multitimbral operation, supporting up to 64 simultaneous instruments loaded (subject to RAM availability), receiving up to 64 MIDI channels (16 in plug-in mode)
- General MIDI compatible
- Kontakt Player 2 engine, supporting standalone operation as well as plug-in operation in all major hosts that support AudioUnit, VST, RTAS, or DXi plug-ins
- Special upgrade pricing to the full version of Kontakt 2, which allows for fuller editing of the instruments
