Free sound input software for mac

Sound Menu is a small menu for fast sound input/output switching.

Sound Menu is designed as an Apple Menu. Drag it in your ~/Library/Bundles and just double click on it to activate the menu. To desactivate drag it out of the menu bar with Option-click.

Sound Menu needs an Menu Extra Enabler. You can find it for free on Unsanity (http://unsanity.com/products/free)

English and French localization.

Play Sound Pautex is a scripting addition which enables you to to play sound files. Two other scripting additions (in Jons Commands and the GTQ Scripting Library) provide the same functionality.

The event class and ID conflict with the command from the GTQ scripting library.

Completly freeware.

Toggle Sound Output uses Apples GUI scripting technology to toggle between two sound outputs in the "Sound" pane in System Preferences. Adapted from script written by Corey Menscher for toggling with the Salling Erickson Clicker.

Toggle Sound Output is an AppleScript that toggles between two sound outputs.

The default set of sounds you get with Quicktime is a bit short on free-reed instruments, and in particular there is no concertina sound. This is a very high quality Sound Font in SF2 format, made from my own baritone Wheatstone English concertina (ca. 1906). It has been compressed with Stuffit, which is not very efficient, as the dedicated packaging programs (SFArk and SFPack) dont yet have Macintosh versions available. Consequently its a very big file - 7.3 Mb in size. You must be using at least version 5 of Quicktime to use it.

To use this file under OS X, unpack it and place the resulting "Concertina.sf2" file in ~/Library/Audio/Sounds/Banks
To use it under Classic systems, place it in System Folder:Extensions:Quicktime Extensions
If you want to use it under both operating systems you can put the file in the OS X location, reboot in OS 9, make an alias of the file and put that in the Quicktime Extensions folder.

You dont have to reboot, or even re-start BarFly. Choose "Add an Instrument" from the Instrument sub-menu. In the Instrument Picker dialog, the Synthesiser popup menu now contains a new synth named "Wheatstone English Concertina". Choose that, then choose one of the three instruments from the Instrument popup.

SoundHack 0.893 is a potent and easy to use soundfile processing program for the Macintosh. It performs many utility and esoteric sound processing functions available nowhere else. These functions make SoundHack invaluable to computer musicians, sound effects designers, multimedia artists, webmasters and anyone else who enjoys working with sound. Time stretching or pitch shifting with the phase vocoder or varispeed. Spatialize with the binaural filter. Cross-synthesis between two soundfiles with soundfile convolution, ring modulation or spectral mutation. Noise reduction, spectral expansion or compression with the spectral dynamics processor. Separate transient and steady-state components with the spectral extractor.

Use your own spectral algorithm with spectral analysis/resynthesis and the spectral assistant example code. Save sonograms of your soundfile in QuickTime movies or convert QuickTime movies into sound by sonographic analysis. Play almost any type of soundfile (including AU, AIFF and WAVE). Record any size soundfile from the Macintosh sound input. Import soundfiles from audio CDs. Convert between different types of soundfiles with optional gain scaling and sample rate conversion. Change values in the soundfile header (sample rate, number of channels, loop points and marker info). Read and write Sound Designer II, Audio IFC, Audio IFF, BICSF (IRCAM), DSP Designer, QuickTime/AIFF, Microsoft WAVE (RIFF), NeXT .snd, Sun.au, ULaw, IMA4, TEXT and headerless (raw) soundfiles.

The pulsing AlbumArt in the twirl of the sound waves of your music, title, artist and album flying by ... this is SoundWaveTwirl a iVisualize plugin.
Its a Quartz Composition so you can even modify it.
Enhancements:
- initial release.

Play Sound provides a simple, no-fuss way to play sound files in classic Mac OS and Mac OS X. It supports QuickTime sound files (for example, AIFF or MP3 files), Mac OS System 7 sound files (files with a file type of sfil that contain snd resources), or any snd resources embedded into any file.
You can play an unlimited number sounds concurrently or one at a time. You can loop sounds, repeat sounds, control the volume of sounds played, and press the Escape or Command-Period keys to abort sound play.
To use Play Sound as a simple sound file player, simply drag and drop the sound file(s) onto the Play Sound icon in the Mac OS Finder. Better yet, configure the Finder to open sound files with Play Sound when you double-click them (see the Play Sound documentation for easy instructions showing how to do this).
Play Sound is also fully scriptable, allowing AppleScript writers to use simple, easy-to-understand English syntax to play most QuickTime-supported sound files, Mac OS System 7 sound files, and snd resources that are embedded in script applets. To script Play Sound, you call it from an AppleScript script or application.
Enhancements:
- Fixed a bug where Play Sound would return the bogus error Could not get the next document in the list. when Play Sound was called via AppleScript.