Free instruments software for mac

eTktab is an ascii tablature editor for 4/5/6 stringed instruments. This program is used to write out guitar tablature in the typical style of ascii tab.

Main features:
- 30 fretboard positions available by single keypress
- lyrics
- expression marks
- solo/chord tab entry modes
- custom guitar tunings and keybindings.

Enhancements
- release for Mac OS X only
- workaround for OS X menu accelerator bug

Hydrogen is an advanced drum machine for GNU/Linux. Its main goal is to bring professional yet simple and intuitive pattern-based drum programming.
Main features:
General
- Very user-friendly, modular, fast and intuitive graphical interface based on QT 3.
- Sample-based streo audio engine, with import of sound samples in .wav, .au and .aiff formats.
- Support of samples in compressed FLAC file.
- Sequencer and mixer
- Pattern-based sequencer, with unlimited number of patterns and ability to chain patterns into a song.
- Up to 64 ticks per pattern with induvidual level per event and variable pattern length.
- 32 instrument tracks with volume, mute, solo, pan capabilities.
- Multi layer support for instruments (up to 16 samples for each instrument).
- Ability to import/export song files.
- Unique human velocity, human time and swing functions.
- Multiple patterns playing at once.
Other
- OSS and Jack audio drivers, with assignable Jack ports.
- ALSA MIDI input with assignable midi-in channel (1..16, ALL).
- Import/export of drumkits.
- Export song to wav file.
- Export song to midi file.
Enhancements:
- New graphics
- Bug fix in export song (using JACK driver)
- Bug fix in export song (wrong samplerate)
- Follow playhead in song editor
- Automatic audio driver selection
- New PortAudio and PortMidi drivers
- Mac Os X port
- Pattern size increased: up to 4 bars
- Random pitch variations
- New instrument editor
- Low pass filter
- Insert/delete a range of patterns in song editor.

Set Grouping by Category - Make use of the new grouping tag in iTunes 4.2.

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.

Requirements:

• Mac OS X 10.4 or later
• Java 5.

AthenaCL is an open-source, cross-platform, command-line program that functions as both a pitch (class) set theory utility (capable of both set and voice-leading modeling and analysis) as well as an object-orientated,
Python-scripted algorithmic front-end to Csound. These features allow the rapid and flexible scoring of Csound instruments with the power of Python-written texture algorithms.
Csound instruments are deployed as textures, layered surface-defining objects containing specialized objects to control rhythm, amplitude, panning, and Csound synthesis and control parameters.
Included Csound instruments provide a library of built-in sounds. As a compositional assistant, algorithms create complex textural surfaces, leaving the limitless mixture and placement of these textures and their attributes in the hands of the composer.
The algorithmic system controls pitch data by using paths, ordered content-groups.
These paths are the fundamental unit of the pitch set utility, allowing the organization, analysis, and modeling of pitch-materials. Paths employ 12-tone set-class and pitch-class notations. Paths can be modeled with the Strausian voice leading system and analyzed with numerous set-class similarity measures. As a desk-reference utility for post-tonal music theory, pitch sets can be searched to find normal-forms, subset vectors, and similarity values.
Main features:
- Advanced, easy to use, interactive command line: enter commands with arguments, or just enter the command and athenaCL will prompt the user for all necessary data.
- Command history logging, and executable command history.
- Graphical displays in EPS (convertible to PDF), Tk GUI, PNG, and JPEG formats, providing Texture arrangement views, Path voice leadings, and Texture parameter event graphs.
- Interactive help for every command. Complete HTML / PDF tutorials and reference documentation.
Enhancements:
- In addition to new ParameterObjects, extended sieve functionality, improved graphic outputs, and other improvements, this version features a completely redesigned output system with the addition of EventMode, EventOutput, and EventList commands.

Freeware GarageBand instrument that emulates accordion sound. After installing you will find new MDR Instruments category in Software Instruments. The original instrument samples and Demo song were created by Eugen Buzuk.

Music Assistant 2.1 is a tool for you to set a tempo and tune your instruments. The metronome mode has a range of 40 to 210 beats per minute. The tune-up mode provides three choices: hear 440 Hz (the A above middle C on a piano), hear any note on a full size piano, hear notes to tune instruments. In addition, the user can tune using LucyTuning and Offset by Cents methods. The utility includes default information to tune instruments and you can add, delete and change this information (Instrument Data window accessible from the menu bar) which is saved between sessions. Music Assistant is Universal Binary.