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Autoscore
Autoscore: Audio-to-MIDI music program that allows you to compose by simply singing or playing an instrument. (Macintosh)
http://www.wildcat.com/ |
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FingaMIDI
FingaMIDI: Replacement open-source driver that allows a PowerBook or iBook trackpad to be used as a 3-axis MIDI control surface. (Macintosh)
http://fingamidi.sourceforge.net/ |
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Apple - iTunes
Apple - iTunes: Audio player with multiple playlist functions, native burn support, visual effects, and file conversion. (Macintosh)
http://www.apple.com/itunes/ |
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SoundApp
SoundApp: Norman Franke's sound player and converter for the Macintosh. (PowerPC native, freeware) (Macintosh)
http://www.spies.com/~franke/SoundApp/ |
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Cacophony
Cacophony: Digital audio editor for OS X. Supports many different file formats and multi-track editing. (Macintosh)
http://www.bannister.org/software/cacophony.htm |
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SimpleChord
SimpleChord: Handy reference to chords for musicians. For Mac OS X. (Macintosh)
http://www.wonderwarp.com/simplechord/ |
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Digidesign
Digidesign: Creators of industry standard audio/MIDI sequencers Pro Tools HD and Pro Tools LE, as well as numerous RTAS plug-ins for the applications. (Macintosh)
http://www.digidesign.com |
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Apple Quicktime
Apple Quicktime: Apple's free media player supporting innumerable audio and video formats. The pro version includes an abundance of media authoring capabilities. (Macintosh)
http://www.apple.com/quicktime/ |
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MRAC Publishing - Symbolic Composer
MRAC Publishing - Symbolic Composer: Programming language/expert system for MIDI music composition, including the VLISP Lisp Visualization System. (Macintosh)
http://www.mracpublishing.com/ |
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Macintosh Music Software Site
Macintosh Music Software Site: Many freeware and shareware applications available for download. (Macintosh)
http://www.hitsquad.com/smm/mac/ |
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PlayerPROLounge
PlayerPROLounge: Unofficial web site for the PlayerPRO tracker. (Macintosh)
http://playerprolounge.bedesign.be/ |
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Intuem
Intuem: MIDI music authoring solution for OS X with Aqua interface, music notation, intended mostly for musical amateurs. (Macintosh)
http://www.intuem.com/ |
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Barbabatch
Barbabatch: Institues a Quicktime 4.0 codec that converts MP3 files. Demo download available. (Macintosh)
http://www.audioease.com/Pages/Barbabatch/BarbaMain.html |
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Soundminer
Soundminer: Audio file management system for Digital Audio workstation networks having a Mac attached. (Macintosh)
http://www.soundminer.com/ |
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iStream
iStream: MP3 Streaming Server for the Macintosh from Arctic Software. (Macintosh)
http://www.arcticsw.com/istream/ |
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Audiomac
Audiomac: Reviews of hard disk recording and digital audio post-production software. (Macintosh)
http://www.euro.net/ecompany/ |
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Cosmetic
Cosmetic: Rhythm sequencer, sampler, synthesizer. (Macintosh)
http://cosmetic.yowstar.com/ |
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CMN Common Music Notation
CMN Common Music Notation: Free western music notation package written in Common Lisp. (Macintosh)
http://www-ccrma.stanford.edu/software/cmn/ |
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Macintosh Music Programs
Macintosh Music Programs: Briefly annotated link compilation. (Macintosh)
http://shoko.calarts.edu/~tre/CompMusMac/ |
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FXpansion
FXpansion: Creators of BFD drum library module, DR-008 drum sampler, as well as VST to RTAS, VST to Rewire, and VST to AU plug-in adaptors. (Macintosh)
http://fxpansion.com |
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iPodder.org
iPodder.org: iPodder is small program that runs on your computer. It's only purpose is to download audio files, usually mp3's, directly to your mp3 device. Currently iPod is supported on both Windows and Mac. (Macintosh)
http://ipodder.org |
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Ask the DJ, a mix engine for Mac OS X
Ask the DJ, a mix engine for Mac OS X: MP3 player and DJ/mix engine with beats analysis. (Macintosh)
http://www.wildbits.com/askthedj/ |
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Jasmine Audio
Jasmine Audio: Stereo multi-track audio editor and converter supporting AAC/MP4, AVI, System 7, AIFF, WAV, Quicktime, and other formats. (Macintosh)
http://www.jasmineaudio.com |
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Sagan Technology Metro
Sagan Technology Metro: Sequencer with MIDI, audio, and video functionalities. Includes support for CoreAudio, CoreMIDI, Audio Units, Music Devices, Music Effects, VST, and Premiere. (Macintosh)
http://www.sagantech.biz/ |
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Make A TestTone
Make A TestTone: Free Macintosh test tone Generator (Macintosh)
http://www.audioease.com/Pages/Free/MATTMain.html |
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Lime
Lime: Music Notation software for Macintosh. Also available for Win32. (CERL Sound Group) (Macintosh)
http://www.cerlsoundgroup.org/cgi-bin/Lime/Mac.html |
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Music Ace
Music Ace: Two education programs covering music concepts. (Macintosh)
http://www.harmonicvision.com/products.htm |
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Roxio's Jam Software
Roxio's Jam Software: Sound editing software for Macintosh allowing users to easily create 100% Red Book compliant audio CDs. (Macintosh)
http://www.roxio.com/en/products/toastwithjam/index.jhtml |
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PlayerPRO
PlayerPRO: Tracker, composer, and player, all in one. (Macintosh)
http://www.quadmation.com/pphome.htm |
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Audiocorder
Audiocorder: VOX program audio recorder. Can set volume sound must reach to begin recording and volume at which it should stop. (Macintosh)
http://www.blackcatsystems.com/software/audiocorder.html |
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TunesTracker
TunesTracker: Search the iTunes Music Store daily for your favorite artists and send you an e-mail when there are new songs by those artists. (Macintosh)
http://www.tunestracker.com |
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3ivx.com
3ivx.com: A natural video compression system that is compliant with MPEG-4v3. (Macintosh)
http://www.3ivx.com/ |
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Audio Units
Audio Units: Open guide to applications, utilities, instruments, effects, and devices currently compatible with Audio Units, the native Mac OS X standard format for DSP plug-ins. (Macintosh)
http://www.audio-units.com/ |
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OS X Audio
OS X Audio: Provides information for OS X users as descriptions of software and hardware, news and a forum. (Macintosh)
http://www.osxaudio.com/ |
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QDesign
QDesign: Audio compression solutions for digital music, new media, and Internet streaming. (Macintosh)
http://www.qdesign.com/ |
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BIAS Inc.
BIAS Inc.: Peak Studio for editing, processing, and mastering. Deck, a DAW. Vbox for multi-effects. Freq, a 4-Band EQ. (Macintosh)
http://www.bias-inc.com/ |
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Microsoft Media Player 7
Microsoft Media Player 7: Support among others Microsoft MPEG-4 (version 2.0 and 3.0)and the ISO MPEG-4 video (version 1.0) video codecs. (Macintosh)
http://www.microsoft.com/windows/windowsmedia/download/mac71.asp |
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thOnk_0+2
thOnk_0+2: Freeware application uses Granular Synthesis to produce very diverse sounds based on a user provided sound file. (Macintosh)
http://www.audioease.com/Pages/Free/FreeMain.html |
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Bitcartel Software
Bitcartel Software: Developers of iRecordMusic and RadioLover, utilities to record audio streams to AAC and MP3. (Macintosh)
http://www.bitcartel.com/ |
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DSP-Quattro
DSP-Quattro: Professional sound editor. (Macintosh)
http://www.i3net.it/Products/dspQuattro/Asp/Index_EN.asp |
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Syd - Software Synthesizer
Syd - Software Synthesizer: A software synthesizer for Mac and Windows. Similar to CSound in capabilities, but easier to use. (Macintosh)
http://www.jbum.com/syd/ |
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Ovolab
Ovolab: Develops applications for Mac OS X, particularly software that converts MP3 songs to AAC format. Includes support and downloads. (Macintosh)
http://www.ovolab.com |
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Girl Audio Loop Mixing Software
Girl Audio Loop Mixing Software: MIDI-enabled audio loop mixing instrument. (Macintosh)
http://girl.yowstar.com/ |
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CellSynth
CellSynth: Synthesizer, MP3 and AIFF sample player, DSP processor, and sequencer, which outputs stereo CD quality audio. (Macintosh)
http://www.cellsynth.co.uk/ |
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Rocket Science
Rocket Science: Bundle of real-time plugins for Mark of the Unicorn's Digital Performer and Audio Desk. (Macintosh)
http://www.audioease.com/Pages/RocketScience/RocketMain.html |
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Granted Software
Granted Software: Developers of the AudioUnit host Rax, AudioUnit Manager, and ReVision, a tool to sunchsonize audio from Propellerhead Software's Reason or Ableton's Live with QuickTime movies. All are exclusively Mac OS X applications. (Macintosh)
http://www.grantedsw.com/ |
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Mac Digital Audio
Mac Digital Audio: News, information, reviews, software updates, skins, an MP3 search engine, and a forum. (Macintosh)
http://www.macdigitalaudio.com/ |
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Apple - GarageBand
Apple - GarageBand: Perform, record and create music from virtual instruments and pre-recorded loops. (Macintosh)
http://www.apple.com/ilife/garageband/ |
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MetroGnome
MetroGnome: Freeware metronome for OS X. Customizable settings. (Macintosh)
http://www.braxtech.com/metrognome/ |
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fLOW Ambient Sound
fLOW Ambient Sound: Generates a changing soundscape in realtime suggestive of timbres of water, fire, earth, and air. Freeware for Mac G3. (Macintosh)
http://www.essl.at/works/flow/download.html |
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SFX Machine
SFX Machine: A multitude of real-time AU and VST effects for OS 9, OS X, and Windows. (Macintosh)
http://sfxmachine.com/ |
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Apple - Soundtrack
Apple - Soundtrack: Audio sequencer designed for video, DVD, and web projects. Includes instrument loops and sound effects. (Macintosh)
http://www.apple.com/soundtrack/ |
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MacWaveMaker Users Group
MacWaveMaker Users Group: MacWaveMaker is a nubus card midi synthesizer for Macintosh. Claims every MacWaveMaker thing may be found here. (Macintosh)
http://members.tripod.com/~proclus/mw.html |
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Virtual Composer
Virtual Composer: Shareware multiple track graphical sequencer, allowing files to be exported in AIFF, abc, or MIDI formats. (Macintosh)
http://users.forthnet.gr/ath/jgal/programming/composer.html |
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SoundHack
SoundHack: Shareware sound processing program does various conversions including sample rate, changes file headers, plays headerless files. (Macintosh)
http://www.soundhack.com/ |
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MacMusic
MacMusic: Resources, searchable links, downloads, updates, classified ads, mailing-list, and articles about making music with your Macintosh. (Macintosh)
http://www.macmusic.org/ |
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Red Barn Goat Farm
Red Barn Goat Farm: Li'l Miss' Scale Oven (LMSO), an ethnic and microtonal scale editor/synth retuner. Also DSP holophonics plug-ins. (Macintosh)
http://www.nonoctave.com/ |
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Speechissimo
Speechissimo: Text-To-Speech for Mac OS X 10.2 or higher. (Macintosh)
http://www.speechissimo.com/ |
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MusicCatalog
MusicCatalog: Organize your music collection. Track, sort, use artwork and sound, enter lyrics, publish on the Web. (Macintosh)
http://www.phantasmicstudio.com/mc/ |
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Lexikon Sonate
Lexikon Sonate: Generates piano music in realtime, can also be used as a meta-instrument for improvising complex piano music. (Macintosh)
http://www.essl.at/works/Lexikon-Sonate.html |
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Apple - Logic Platinum
Apple - Logic Platinum: Professional audio and MIDI sequencer with full automation and non-destructive real-time editing. (Macintosh)
http://www.apple.com/software/pro/logic/ |
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BitHeadz Inc.
BitHeadz Inc.: Develops the sampler Unity and the synthesizers Voodoo, Retro Lite, and several sound libraries. Screenshots, demos, support and download area, purchasing information. (Macintosh)
http://www.bitheadz.com/ |
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Audion
Audion: Audio player for MP3 files, CDs, and streaming audio from the Internet. Skins/faces available. (Macintosh)
http://www.panic.com/audion/ |
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U and I Software
U and I Software: Developers of MetaSynth, a composition and sound design program using a strictly visual interface, with customizable tunings and image synthesis. (Macintosh)
http://www.uisoftware.com/PAGES/acceuil_meta.html |
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Emagic
Emagic: Featuring the Logic series, several virtual instruments and hardware accessories. Products description, support area, company information and news. (Macintosh)
http://www.emagic.de/ |
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iDrum
iDrum: Drum machine for OS X, running as both a standalone application and as plug-in. Overview, screenshots, features, downloadable demo and purchasing information. (Macintosh)
http://glaresoft.com/products/idrum/index.html |
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The GarageDoor
The GarageDoor: Tips and suggestions for Apple's GarageBand. Covers live and MIDI recordings, effects, mixing, mastering and links to free loops. (Macintosh)
http://www.thegaragedoor.com/ |
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USB-Audio.com
USB-Audio.com: USB Audio software for Macintosh. (Macintosh)
http://www.usb-audio.com/ |
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Opcode Systems, Inc.
Opcode Systems, Inc.: Developers of the now defunct Studio Vision Pro and Vision DSP sequencing applications, as well as the Mac OS Classic MIDI management standard, OMS. (Macintosh)
http://www.opcode.com |
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RhapsOGL visual effects
RhapsOGL visual effects: RhapsOGLApp X visual effects generator for MacOSX - This is a visual plug-in for SoundJam MP and MACAST (Macintosh)
http://webrhapso.free.fr/rhapsogl/plug.shtml |
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Spectrasonics Virtual Instruments
Spectrasonics Virtual Instruments: Creators of Atmosphere, Stylus, and Trilogy virtual instruments/plug-ins, each with vast core libraries. (Macintosh)
http://www.spectrasonics.net |
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Felt Tip's Sound Studio
Felt Tip's Sound Studio: Shareware digital audio editing and recording application. (Macintosh)
http://felttip.com/products/soundstudio/ |