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TAPESTREA 0.1.0.4
TAPESTREA - Techniques And Paradigms for Expressive Synthesis, Transformation, and Rendering of Environmental Audio more>>
This is a very experimental audio software, so anticipate glorious disasters and please let us know if you run into issues.
The best way to start working with and learning about taps is to try the software, join the taps mailing list, check out the wiki, ask questions, and help shape the design.
So, whether you are a sound designer, audio researcher, composer, developer, or none/all of the above, take a spin on the TAPESTREA loom and uh, make a musical tapestry.
Main features:
- identify points of interest in the sound and extract them into reusable templates
- transform sound components independently of the background and/or other events
- continually resynthesize the background texture in a perceptually convincing manner
- controllably place event templates over backgrounds, using a novel graphical user interface and/or scripts written in the ChucK audio programming language
- leverage similarity based retrieval to locate other interesting sound components
Enhancements:
- (fixed) no more high CPU usage on reverb tails on Intel processors
- (fixed) can now have ".ck" in path names
- (added) 8-channel output
- number of real-time audio output channels can be set to N by command line: --channels N
- 8 audio buses within taps, can write to 8-channel wav file while playing in stereo
- template can be played on specific bus from chuck script
- (added) chui: chuck gui
- add user interface elements from chuck scripts
- (added) sample rate conversion
- works by default in windows
- install libsamplerate and recompile for Mac OS X, Linux
- (added) new command line option: --nogui
- instead of running gui, synthesis can be controlled from
- the command line using two or more terminals. the first
- acts as a server that receives messages from the rest on which
- templates to add, remove, play or stop.
RecipesWidgets 0.1
Allows you to access the best recipes widgets right from your dashboard. more>> American Hangman is a fun, colorful, soundful, educational word-guessing game based on the simple game of hangman we all played as children. American Hangman features colorful, non-violent graphics, Presidential pictures, State outlines, digitized sounds and synthesized speech. American Hangman is a terrific way to get a headstart on History, Geography and Government. Learn the Presidents, the Vice Presidents, the First Ladies, Terms of Office, Party Affiliations and more. Learn the 50 States, the State Capitals, the State Birds, the State Flowers, the State Trees, the State Nicknames and much more. American Hangman is truly fun for all ages. The game that everyone already knows how to play.<<less
MOTU MachFive 2.0.1
MOTU MachFive 2.0.1 is developed to be a handy and convenient program with the ability to bring the very latest cutting-edge sampling technology by merging four worlds of advanced sound design: samples, loops, synthesis and effects. more>>
MOTU MachFive 2.0.1 is developed to be a handy and convenient program with the ability to bring the very latest cutting-edge sampling technology by merging four worlds of advanced sound design: samples, loops, synthesis and effects. Now you can import, edit, synthesize, process and play multi-sample instruments, loops and phrases in MachFive's unified, intuitive environment.

TextSpeech Pro 3.4.4
Easy to use application that will allow your Mac to read text using natural sounding voices. more>>
Major Features:
- Built on the latest text to speech technology
- Synthesize text-to-speech from any document format (text, Microsoft Word, PDF, Microsoft Excel, RTF, etc) using a variety of voices and languages
- Read web pages using integrated text-to-speech tools
- Export the synthesized speech from documents to a variety of audio file formats in three modes (quick, normal and batch)
- Create and modify conversations, bookmarks and pauses (silence breaks) in a document using an advanced text-to-speech editor
- Modify speech properties (voice, speed, volume, pitch, word highlighting) and speech entities (bookmarks, conversations, pauses) on the fly
- Extract text from scanned documents and convert it to speech or audio files
- Create custom pronunciations using a universal correction system
- Save the created documents with all specified voice settings and entities (voice type, pitch, speed, volume, bookmarks, conversations, pauses, word highlighting) for future use
- Pause, resume or stop the speaking voice
- Tune the speech output using standard XML tags
- Use a fully featured document editor with many text processing features (text manipulation, spell checker, print and print preview, find and replace, go to line..., customizable fonts, zoom capabilities, and document properties view)
- Mark copied text to be automatically transferred and converted to speech
- Access previously used documents from a high-capacity document history
- Utilize a rich and fully configurable user interface (UI) equipped with customizable window docks, toolbars, a multi-tabbed document interface and a layout-saving framework
- Web integration improved.
- Language support improved.
License:Freeware
Sonic Visualiser 0.9
Sonic Visualiser is an application for viewing and analysing the contents of music audio files more>>
The aim of Sonic Visualiser is to be the program you reach for when you find a musical recording you want to study rather than simply hear.
As well as a number of features designed to make exploring audio data as revealing and fun as possible, Sonic Visualiser also has powerful annotation capabilities to help you to describe what you find, and the ability to run automated annotation and analysis plugins in the new Vamp analysis plugin format.
We hope Sonic Visualiser will be of particular interest to musicologists, archivists, signal-processing researchers and anyone else looking for a friendly way to take a look at what lies inside the audio file.
Sonic Visualiser is Free Software, distributed under the GNU General Public License and available for Linux, OS/X, and Windows. It was developed at the Centre for Digital Music at Queen Mary, University of London, by Chris Cannam (of Fervent Software, Rosegarden, Studio to Go!, and DSSI).
Main features:
- Load audio files in WAV, Ogg and MP3 formats, and view their waveforms.
- Look at audio visualisations such as spectrogram views, with interactive adjustment of display parameters.
- Annotate audio data by adding labelled time points and defining segments, point values and curves.
- Overlay annotations on top of one another with aligned scales, and overlay annotations on top of waveform or spectrogram views.
- View the same data at multiple time resolutions simultaneously (for close-up and overview).
- Run feature-extraction plugins to calculate annotations automatically, using algorithms such as beat trackers, pitch detectors and so on.
- Import annotation layers from various text file formats.
- Import note data from MIDI files, view it alongside other frequency scales, and play it with the original audio.
- Play back the audio plus synthesised annotations, taking care to synchronise playback with display.
- Select areas of interest, optionally snapping to nearby feature locations, and audition individual and comparative selections in seamless loops.
- Time-stretch playback, slowing it down to as little as 10% of the original speed while retaining a synchronised display.
- Export audio regions and annotation layers to external files.
Amazing Maze 2.0
Amazing Maze - Infinite and Interactive Realtime Composition for Sampled Sound Particles more>>
Amazing Maze is a work-in-progress that started in 1993 when I was working at IRCAM (Paris). In this realtime composition I attempted to realize ideas that have been haunting me for many years, and which I first accomplished in Lexikon-Sonate (1992-2007) for computer-controlled piano. Both pieces envisage a new type of music
which composes itself at the time of its sounding
which is not merely a reproduction of a pre-fabricated notation
which is capable of reacting on exterior influences
which exhibits infinite temporal expansion
which never repeats itself.
Amazing Maze is represented by a computer program which generates music by manipulating sampled instrumental sounds according to certain compositional strategies that are carried out in different structure generators. Each generator synthesizes its own characteristic sound world.
The compositional algorithms are currently programmed in MaxMSP by taking advantage of my Real Time Composition Library (RTC-lib). This collection of software modules offers the possibility to experiment with a number of compositional techniques, such as serial procedures, permutations and controlled randomness.
The sound material used in Amazing Maze is based on instrumental interpretations of three different types of sounds: points, grids, and planes which have been worked out for different instruments exploring sound qualities beyond the normal playing.
Csound 1.2a5
Csound - Process, synthesize, and manipulate digital audio more>>
It is not restricted to any style of music, having been used for many years in at least classical, pop, techno, ambient...
Timidity++ 2.13.2
Converts MOD, XM, IT, S3M files to WAV more>> Converts MOD, XM, IT, S3M files to WAV
TiMidity++ is a software synthesizer. It can play MIDI files by converting them into PCM waveform data; give it a MIDI data along with digital instrument data files, then it synthesizes them in real-time, and plays.
It is able not only to play sounds, but also can save the generated waveforms into hard disks as various audio file formats.
Note: TiMidity++ is a free software, distributed under the terms of GNU general public license.
Main features:>
- Plays MIDI files without any external MIDI instruments at all
- Understands SMF, MOD, RCP/R36/G18/G36, MFI
- Converts MIDI files into various audio file formats: .wav, .au, .aiff, .ogg and so on
- Uses Gravis Ultrasound compatible patch files and/or SoundFonts as the voice data
- Displays information about the music that is now playing
- Various user interfaces: ncurses, gtk, Win32-GUI, and others
- Plays remote MIDI files over the network
- Plays MIDI files in archive files
- Displays sound spectrogram for the playing music
- Trace playing
License:Freeware
Praat 5.1.11
Praat is a sophisticated computer program with which you can analyse, synthesize, and manipulate speech, and create high-quality pictures for your articles and thesis. more>>
Praat 5.1.11 is a sophisticated computer program with which you can analyse, synthesize, and manipulate speech, and create high-quality pictures for your articles and thesis.
Major Features:
- Speech analysis:
- spectral analysis (spectrograms)
- pitch analysis
- formant analysis
- intensity analysis
- jitter, shimmer, voice breaks
- cochleagram
- excitation pattern
- Speech synthesis:
- from pitch, formant, and intensity
- articulatory synthesis
- Listening experiments:
- identification and discrimination tests
- Labelling and segmentation:
- label intervals and time points on multiple tiers
- use phonetic alphabet
- use sound files up to 2 gigabytes (3 hours)
- Speech manipulation:
- change pitch and duration contours
- filtering
- Learning algorithms:
- feedforward neural networks
- discrete and stochastic Optimality Theory
- Statistics:
- multidimensional scaling
- principal component analysis
- discriminant analysis
- Graphics:
- high quality for your articles and thesis
- produce Encapsulated PostScript files
- integrated mathematical and phonetic symbols
- Programmability:
- easy programmable scripting language
- communicate with other programs
- (the sendpraat source code)
- create hypertext manuals with sound I/O
- Portability:
- machine-independent binary files
- read and write many sound and other file types
- Configurability:
- grow or shrink menus
- save prefs for fonts, views, sound devices
and unique application designed for phoneticians to analyze, synthesize, and manipulate speech and create high-quality images for their articles and doctoral theses. Praat 5.1.02License:Freeware

Oligo 7.24
Oligo is a useful multi-functional program that allows you to search for and select oligonucleotides from a sequence file for polymerase chain reaction (PCR), DNA sequencing, site-directed mutagenesis, and various hybridization applications. more>>
Oligo 7.24 is a useful multi-functional program that allows you to search for and select oligonucleotides from a sequence file for polymerase chain reaction (PCR), DNA sequencing, site-directed mutagenesis, and various hybridization applications.
The OLIGO software has been broadly accepted as the industry software standard for selecting and analyzing oligonucleotides for various molecular biology applications. The first commercial version of the software has been introduced in 1989.
Major Features:
- Calculate hybridization temperature and secondary structure of oligonucleotides based on the nearest neighbor thermodynamic values.
- Is a good tool for construction of synthetic genes, finding an appropriate sequencing primer among those already synthesized, finding and multiplexing consensus prmers and probes, and even finding potential restriction sites in a protein.
- With Oligo you can analyze open reading frames down to predicted molecular weight and pKa of proteins, and search for restriction enzyme sites, not only in DNA but also in reverse-translated proteins.
- For each primer or primer pair, Oligo's various analysis windows show a multitude of useful data, such as DNA and RNA secondary structure, dimer formation, false priming and homology, internal stability, composition and physical properties.
License:update/patch
Adobe Type Manager Updater 4.5.2
Adobe Type Manager 4.5.2 Updater is only for MacOS 9 customers. If you are not running MacOS 9, do not download this update more>> Adobe Type Manager 4.5.2 Updater is only for MacOS 9 customers. If you are not running MacOS 9, do not download this update. In addition to addressing the MacOS 9 incompatibility, the 4.5.2 release incorporates changes made in ATM 4.5.1 to resolve the following issues:
- Synthesized small caps appear properly in QuarkXPress.
- Type no longer prints at unexpected sizes on QuickDraw printers.
- Active fonts no longer deactivate unexpectedly when you start your computer.
MacOS 9
Vesrion 4.5.2 is MacOS 9 compatible.
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.
VX-323 1.0b2
VX-323 is a software instrument that plays real-time synthesized speech in response to MIDI commands more>>
VX-323 provides electronic musicians with a powerful solution for incorporating synthesized speech into their performances. VX-323 replaces neither Celine Dion nor your death-metal croaker, but will open new avenues for exploring voices and the sound of speech.
Main features:
- Use any Apple or Cepstral Text to Speech (Macintalk) voice on your Mac
- Flexible pitch, voice, phrase, and expression setup
- Robust MIDI implementation
- Record CD-quality, dynamic stereo AIFF files
Jampal for Mac 1.07
Jampal is a free mp3 Library and Jukebox program more>>
Main features:
- Jampal stores a music library of over 12000 songs with ease.
- You can sort, organize and categorize your tracks.
- It is very fast. You can sort 12000 tracks in under a second.
- You can update hundreds of track tags in one operation in a few seconds.
- Jampal libraries can be easily customized so that you can organize your music any way you want to.
- You can create your own frames within the ID3v2 standard to categorize your songs which ever way you want.
- The library can be imported into a spreadsheet or text editor program.
- Musicmatch Jukebox libraries can be converted to Jampal and vice versa.
- Most ID3v2 fields are supported, including all text fields and any number of attached pictures.
- Reference information from the ID3v2 standard is included to help understand the purpose and usage of each frame.
- Synthesized voice announcements of song titles (on Microsoft Windows only).
Enhancements:
- Fixed bug loading m3u files
- m3u playlist files could not be loaded with version 1.06.
- Variable bit rate problem
- If you had a file with variable bit rate and no xing header, the bitrate and playing time were incorrect.
- Playlist with duplicate songs
- If you loaded a playlist from an m3u or m3j file and there were duplicate songs you could get a java error message (Row index out of range), although the playlist was loaded successfully.
- Playlist directory
- When you load a playlist from a file, the program will start from the directory you last used for loading a playlist.
- Missing files
- If a file in a playlist is missing the program will display a message and continue with the next one, up to 5 files. This was not working due to a shortcoming in the "Follow" enhancement from the previous version.
- Track Properties Display
- There is a new menu option from the Edit menu and the library context menu. This displays technical data about the mp3 file.
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