Free powerful audio software for mac

Bitshift Audios beat programmer, Art Gillespie (aka bitshift), is so excited about GarageBand and the new Apple Loops file format that he put together this collection of free electro/breakbeat drum and synth loops from his forthcoming Apple Loops CD‚ bitshifts bangin‚ beats‚ for everyone to download for free.

Logic Platinum is the centerpiece of the worlds premier music composition and audio production system. The most powerful product in the Logic Series, Logic Platinum is renowned for its technical excellence, and is used by more professionals than any other software of its kind.
Logic Platinum 5 offers countless creative options for MIDI and audio manipulation. It features extensive audio hardware support including TDM (Mac OS), OMF and OpenTL support, and is capable of 192 tracks of audio playback at up to 24Bit/96kHz rates, in a variety of audio formats. The audio functionality also incorporates a digital mixer with Surround Sound up to 7.1, over 50 high-quality audio effect plug-ins, and fully-automated, sample-accurate mixing facilities. The 32 Bit internal signal path ensures that audio quality remains pristine throughout, and the incorporated high-end POW-r dithering process provides master-quality results. Logic supports a virtually unlimited number of MIDI tracks with timing accuracy to 1/3,840 of a note. A wide range of synchronization options ensures that Logic Platinum connects easily to both the digital and analog worlds.
Most importantly for professionals working in music production, film scoring or post production facilities is Logics renowned stability and reliability. This unique combination of tools, an elegant user interface, flexible working methods, rock-solid performance and a comprehensive development schedule make Logic Platinum the perfect software environment around which to base your studio.
Enhancements:
- MIDI Hardware: Access to MIDI hardware is gained over the Mac OS X standard known as "Core MIDI". This means that OMS, MidiManager and MidiShare is no longer needed. For the Unitor8 MkII, AMT8 and MT4, a Core MIDI-Unitor-Family-Driver is already available for USB interfacing. Core MIDI drivers are also available from other manufacturers such as Edirol, Event Electronics, Evolution, M-Audio (Midiman), Motu, Roland and Tascam. If you own another MIDI interface, check the manufacturers web site for Mac OS X compatible driver installers.
- Audio Hardware: Access to audio hardware is handled using the Mac OS X standard known as "Core Audio". This means that there is no further need for proprietary standards like ASIO, EASI or Direct I/O. There are currently Core Audio drivers for the built-in Apple audio hardware and the EMI 2|6, aswell as Core Audio drivers from other audio hardware manufacturers such as MOTU, M-Audio, Edirol and RME. If you own another audio interface, check the manufacturers web site for Mac OS X compatible driver installers.
- Plug-Ins (Effects/Instruments): Access to 3rd party DSP plug-ins will be covered by the Mac OS X standard known as "Audio Units". For further details please read the section below called "Audio Units - the native Mac OS X standard format for DSP plug-ins".
- Current Limitations: Autolink with Sound Diver is not currently avail

USB Audio ASIO Driver allows you to use a laptop as a synthesizer or digital effect-box.

It enables buffersizes down to 32 samples (0.73 ms) and does an ultra highspeed USB audio connection, bypassing the operating systems audio.

This does not only give you low latencies but better sound quality also.

M-Audio Midisport 8x8/s adds support for this device on Mac OS X.
Enhancements:
- Added support for both Power PC and Intel-based Macintosh computers.

xTrem is a tremolo unit capable of a nice range of tremolo shapes. It works as a mono or stereo tremolo. In mono mode, the left channel controls are active. The two channels are fully independent except for the tremolo depth setting. This gives it the capability of producing some interesting panning/tremolo combinations.

xTrem has all 64 bit internal audio processing.

M-Audio Delta 1010/1010LT/410/44/66 contains drivers for this particular MIDI hardware solution.

BabyaTV is very useful and powerful audio/video capture application that saves to QuickTime format (.mov)-which is ideal for use in iMovie, iDVD, websites or Final Cut Studio.
The outputted files can even be used on Windows PCs with QuickTime 7 or later and applications such as Babya OneVideo.
Main features:
- Includes a set of Cocoa wrappers to Sequence Grabber classes
- The app itself is written in Cocoa
- Universal binary
- Captures movies using Sequence Grabber
- Performs real-time preview of audio and video
- Supports arbitrary numbers of source SGChannels
- Supports saving of Sequence Grabber settings files
- Supports restoration of previous captures from saved Sequence Grabber settings files
Video-specific points of interest:
- Demonstrates video preview outside the Sequence Grabber using the SGDataProc - ICMDecompressionSession - CIImage - NSOpenGLView sub-class
- Supports real-time scaling of video preview (live-resizing)
- Supports setting video preview codec quality (low, normal, high, etc.)
- Supports dynamic throttling of video preview fps
- Shows standard SGSettingsDialog for video channel configuration
Audio-specific points of interest:
- Demonstrates getting/setting most audio properties, including:
- Listing record devices
- Selection of record device
- Selection of record device input selection
- Selection of record device stream format
- Setting of record device master and per-channel gain (in hardware or software)
- Enabling/disabling source channels on record device
- Assignment of audio channel labels to source channels
- Soloing and muting of source record channels
- Record device per-channel level metering
- Listing of preview devices
- Selection of preview device
- Selection of preview device output selection
- Selection of preview device stream format
- Setting of preview device master gain
- Hardware playthru or software real-time preview
- Selection of output format (including VBR formats, sample rate conversion, down-mixing, etc.)