musical instruments trial software / shareware for mac

Finally, one simple-to-use instrument that contains everything you need to create complete orchestral recordings. From solo instruments and small ensembles to full orchestral masterpieces, the MOTU Symphonic Instrument delivers.
Start with a massive 8GB library of brand new sounds from world class orchestras and musicians, recorded with pristine audio fidelity and careful attention to detail. Quality and variety abound. Now add a simple, easy to understand, single-window interface to personalize your instruments. Adjust your sound quickly and intuitively.
To further enhance the stunning realism of your compositions, the MOTU Symphonic Instrument includes a built-in convolution reverb processor to produce the most realistic room ambiences available. Use authentic acoustic spaces, from orchestra sound stages to renowned concert halls to majestic cathedrals.
The MOTU Symphonic Instrument is a CPU-efficient plug-in that saves with your host application document for instant recall. Nothing could be easier!
The MOTU Symphonic Instrument is compatible with all major plug in formats for Macintosh OS X and Windows (VST, Audio Units, DXi, MAS and RTAS).
Enhancements:
- Stand-alone application - you can now operate Symphonic Instrument by itself, without a host program. Turn your Mac or PC into a dedicated orchestra ensemble, ready and waiting for the wave of your baton.
- Disk streaming - sample data can now be streamed from disk, instead of always being loaded into RAM, significantly reducing load time and freeing up large amounts of RAM for other software.
- 64 parts - the Symphonic Instrument window now lets you load up to 64 different instruments simultaneously, offering you unprecedented flexibility and convenience in creating ensembles of any size.
- 64 MIDI channels - four separate banks of 16 MIDI channels each let you assign all 64 parts to their own MIDI channel.
- Multiple outputs - each part (instrument) can be assigned to one of 17 separate output pairs for sub-mixing, separate effects processing and a variety of other applications.

Requirements:
Mac OS X 10.1 or later, MIDI keyboard.

Enhancements:
release notes appear to be unavailable at developer site nor in download at the time of this posting

PianistEnvy allows anyone with a Mac and QuickTime to instantly unleash 120 crystal-clear instruments built-into Apples QuickTime software

Each instrument can be extensively manipulated to create the right sound through Octave, Pressure and Duration controls. And if you find the "point and click" approach to piano playing tedious, simply use your Macs keyboard as an alternative.

Chromatic Tuner is an easy, hands-free way to tune your instruments. Listens while you tune and visually guides you through the tuning process.
This is an all-new rendition of Rustle Laidmans famous Chromatic Tuner for Mac OS 9, completely rewritten for Mac OS X.
Enhancements:
- Minor bug fixes.

GUITAR COMBOS perfectly recreate three classic combos, using the same critically acclaimed technology that has already won GUITAR RIG 16 industry awards.
The package includes AC BOX COMBO, PLEXI COMBO and TWANG COMBO. The lovingly emulated tube combos have an absolutely authentic, warm and dynamic sound, producing the purest of tones.
Their flexible nature allows them to be used both as stand-alone applications and as plug-ins. The 100 professional presets included in the package only hint at the wide musical spectrum covered by these classic amps and at the potential they offer.
Main features:
- Noise Gate
- Pre-amp effects
- Amplifier, Cabinet, Mic
- Post-amp effects
- Limiter
- Tuner
- Preset manager for 64 presets with drag and drop.

This software is a fun journey into sound and virtual music.
The style of music is based on the Indian Ragas which evoke calmness & meditation and makes use of sound samples from some of the most popular Indian musical instruments; flute, sitar, santoor, violin, guitar and tabla. In addition to this ambient sound and image are combined with user input to produce an individual musical experience.
Meditation Music does not claim to teach music theory but does provide a simple means for personal expression and involvement with music.
Version restrictions:
- an unlicensed version allows access to only the first track as a taster.
Enhancements:
- V5.6 fixes an interface issue and preferences bug.

Symbolic Composer is one of the most advanced and largest music composition language available with over 1000 music algorithms, suitable for modern, dance, classic, electronic, ambient and experimental styles.
Symbolic Composer is the largest music composition language available.
Main features:
- Tonality is an extended concept in the system. Most scales, modes and chords are predefined, including many non-western forms. New tonalities can be described by interval series, notes or algorithms.
- Beat/Space, descriptive of a mode of rhythmic organisation found in many non-western musics, but also in drum-computer programming, is a dynamic feature and a powerful visual metaphor for rhythm.
- Timesheets extend this beat/space thinking to outlines of complete scores and include tonality descriptions and change points. You can create a large-scale score plan controlling any number of instruments, processors or mixer configurations.
- Sequencing can be both linear and pattern-based, but can be infinitely more powerful and flexible. Loop control and processing is integral.
- Lengths and Zones, that is note durations and section durations, can be generated from maths and fractal functions. This way even a tiny rhythmic cell or hook can spawn cogent and relevant rhythmic material, and whole musical structures.
- Dynamics, either from MIDI velocity or continuous controller values, can originate from fractal sources and be mapped across the entire duration of an instrumental part. These natural dynamic contours can be wonderfully expressive particularly when converted to manipulate reverb depth, envelope shaping or modulation.
- Neural processing from the powerful Neural Expert can be used to add intelligent accents and other dynamic details.
- Articulation, the position of a notes onset in relation to a beat plus the notes actual rather than virtual duration plus its attack dynamic, can be processed by fractal or mathematical intervention creating virtual instruments with user-definable characteristics.
Enhancements:
- New functions implement 17th century rules for 3..7 note chord progressions, minimum energy modulatory sequences, chord enrichments, iterative melodic progressions, harmonisation and ornamentation for 2-voice simulated improvisation.
- New score library additions include dopamine DNA music template, Kraftwerks Autobahn and genral simplepop based on Madonna analysis and synthesis templates, rhythmic element libraries, Ian Clay Teratunings, and spiral form graffities.

Lab Meter is an easy, hands-free way to tune your instruments. Listens while you tune and visually guides you through the tuning process.
This is an all-new rendition of Rustle Laidmans famous tuners, completely rewritten for Mac OS X.
Enhancements:
- Minor bug fixes.