instruments used by astronomers
Native 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.
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.
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
Flash! from The Astronomer's Telegram 1.0
Flash! from The Astronomers Telegram is specifically designed for professional research astronomers to track the changing heavens and let them know when something unusual occurs. more>> <<less
Sound of an Image 1.1
Sound of an Image converts images into music more>>
Sound of an Image will magically transform into real music the pictures you load into it.
Enhancements:
- MIDI Export
- This was by far the top user request: SoundOfAnImage can now export MIDI files. Note that it always exports with the tempo set to 120 beats per minute; you can Change that in whatever scoring/MIDI editing app youre using.
- Bug Fixes
- I fixed a couple of the most commonly-reported bugs. They were pretty weird and minor so I wont list them here.
- Open Source
- You can download the source code to SoundOfAnImage here. SoundOfAnImage is written in Objective-C using both Cocoa (AppKit) and Carbon (QuickTime). I wouldnt exactly call this high-quality code; SoundOfAnImage is more of an art project to me than a serious piece of engineering.
Exploring the Universe 1.0
An interactive tutorial on the universe, combining math exercises with images from the Hubble Space Telescope more>>
Exploring the Universe is an interactive tutorial on the universe, combining math exercises with images from the Hubble Space Telescope.
Exploring the Universe is used as a teaching aide, and is geared to enhance most space science curriculums. It is extremely easy to use, and is totally mouse driven. It has been reviewed and recommended by Sky & Telescope and Astronomy Now as a tutorial for young astronomers.
Sun Spotter 2.5
Sun Spotter is designed to meet all the needs of amateur astronomers and anyone interesting in the Sun. Sun Spotter displays the latest images of the Sun at the SOHO web site. Images can be saved to the Desktop as required. more>> Sun Spotter 2.5 is designed to meet all the needs of amateur astronomers and anyone interesting in the Sun. Sun Spotter displays the latest images of the Sun at the SOHO web site. Images can be saved to the Desktop as required.
Sun Spotter is designed to be quicker and easier to use that visiting the SOHO page directly. Keyboard shortcuts make it easy to toggle between the views, and buttons take you to the relevant web pages to find out more about what youre looking at. Additional links take you to supplementary SOHO pages including the SOHO Classroom.
- Essential overhaul to use the revised SOHO image links.
- Added a simple Moon phase window, care of the US Naval Observatory.
sort of view you would see using a telescope equipped with a standard solar filter. Some brief ... Intended for amateur astronomers and teachers/students interested in the SunSet Grouping by Category 1.0
Set Grouping by Category - Make use of the new grouping tag in iTunes 4.2 more>>
Put songs into categories like situations to listen to, instruments or languages and create smart playlists that make use of these meta-categories.
Example: Set grouping categories of tracks like: sit:dream (Situation for dreaming), instr:piano (Instrument is piano) and create a smart playlist with: match all conditions, grouping contains sit:dream, grouping contains instr:piano for a romantic piano mix.
NINJAM Client (OS X) 1
NINJAM Client attracts users with a versatile and free program which enables people to make real music together through the Internet. more>>
NINJAM Client (OS X) 1 attracts users with a versatile and free program which enables people to make real music together through 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 and Windows.
NINJAM uses compressed audio which allows it to work with any instrument or combination of instruments. You can sing, play a real piano, play a real saxophone, play a real guitar with whatever effects and guitar amplifier you want, anything. If your computer can record it, then you can jam with it (as opposed to MIDI-only systems that automatically preclude any kind of natural audio collaboration.
Requirements:
- OS X 10.3 or later
- G4 (1GHZ or faster recommended)
MaXineDrum 1.5b
MaXineDrum - synth-drum for Reaktor 5 more>>
This synth-drum comes from the need of being able to tweak any parameter for each step in a sequencer.
The idea came few months ago when I was looking for a virtual drum machine. I couldnt find anything that could do the job, so I decided to build my own drum machine, and ended up with the MaXineDrum.
This knobby instrument uses a bit of CPU according to how many things are happening at once. I suggest you to use it with a low sampling rate (even for the type of sound that comes out of it). You can always use few steps and youll get a good variety of sounds as well.
Main features:
- 4x16 step sequencer
- 4 different wave forms to choose from for each step
- lfo+filter bank and micro space for each pattern, to spice up your sequence
- randomize button
- phaser and parametric eq for the main output
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.
Synth Rose uses algorithms to reproducethe sounds of typical instruments in asimilar way toCalcium Supplements 1.0
Free Dashboard health widget for your Mac more>> All in one: SAMPLIT is the ultimate solution for sampling your midi and real instruments. Everything is here: automated recording, naming, truncating, compression, normalization, looping, resampling and even playing. Samplit sends the midi notes to the midi hardware, records all the individual sounds and create ready-to-play Sampler instruments with a few mouse clicks.
Formats: SAMPLIT currently supports 9 sampler formats:
Halion (Steinberg)
EXS24 (Apple)
Kontakt (Native Instruments)
Sampletank (IK Multimedia)
Reason (Propellerheads)
VSampler (MAZ Sound Tools)
Soundfont (EMU)
Gigasampler (Tascam)
Structure (Digidesign)
Quality: SAMPLIT uses the ASIO driver on PC and the CoreAudio driver on MAC.
Supported sampling rates: 44.1, 48, 96 kHz (depending on your audio card)
Supported bit resolutions: 16, 24, 32 bits (depending on your audio card)
You can always convert to a lower sample rate and bit resolution. For example you can record a piano in 96/24 and create a nice 96/24 piano in Kontakt format and a lighter 44/16 piano in soundfont format. All the operations on samples are non destructives.
Interface: The main window gives you a clear view of your current project. Anything that you do has an immediate visual impact. You can add or remove a velocity, select or deselect a note, listen to any sample, erase a sample that you dont like...
Recording: With SAMPLIT, you are in control. The recording window allows you adjust all the recording parameters in real time: thresholds, pre-recording, post-recording, recording limit, recording pause... You can also decide if you want to record by velocity or by note.
Midi: Every program inside a project records the bank change program change and control change. When you select that program, all these midi parameters are sent back to your midi synth like a total recall. But you dont need a midi interface to use SAMPLIT, you can also record any kind of non-midified sounds.<<less
MDR Accordion for GarageBand 1.0
MDR Accordion for GarageBand emulates accordion sounds more>>
Virtual MIDI Piano Keyboard 0.2.5
A free, cross-platform and open source virtual MIDI piano keyboard more>> A free, cross-platform and open source virtual MIDI piano keyboard
Virtual MIDI Piano Keyboard doesnt produce any sound by itself, but can be used to drive a MIDI synthesizer (either hardware or software, internal or external).
You can use the computers keyboard to play MIDI notes, and also the mouse. You can use the Virtual MIDI Piano Keyboard to display the played MIDI notes from another instrument or MIDI file player. To do so, connect the other MIDI port to the input port of VMPK.
VMPK has been tested in Mac OS X, Linux and Windows, but maybe you can also build it also in SGI Irix.
VMPK uses a modern GUI framework: Qt4, that gives excellent features and performance. RtMIDI provides MIDI input/output features. Both frameworks are free and platform independent, available for Linux, Windows and Mac OSX.
The alphanumeric keyboard mapping can be configured from inside the program using the GUI interface, and the settings are stored in XML files. Some maps for Spanish, German and French keyboard layouts are provided, translated from the ones provided by VKeybd.
VMPK can send program changes and controllers to a MIDI synth. The definitions for different standards and devices can be provided as .INS files, the same format used by QTractor and TSE3. It was developed by Cakewalk and used also in Sonar.
System requirements:
- MIDI device
Enhancements
- Bender returns to zero when mouse is released
- Dialogs: help "WhatIsThis?"
- Updated spanish translation and help file
- Import Sound Font Instruments
- MIDI In always enabled on Linux and Mac
- Implemented RFE# 2779744 - keyboard window: always on top
- Fix for bug# 2790316 - startup crash in OSX when no MIDI port present
A.P.O.D. Screensaver 1.0.1
A.P.O.D. Screensaver gives you the chance to discover the cosmos, space exploration or simply amazing photographs of nature more>>
A.P.O.D. Screensaver 1.0.1 gives you the chance to discover the cosmos, space exploration or simply amazing photographs of nature and the sky with this screensaver based upon the Astronomy Picture of the Day web site. Each day a different image with a short description given by the best astronomers, astrophysicists at the time. These images and photographs are available at the original site of the NASA "Astronomy Picture of the Day 'managed by Robert Nemiroff (MTU) & Jerry Bonnell (UMCP).
Enhancements: Snow Leopard Compatibility
