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Free Macintosh test tone Generator

Tracker, composer, and player, all in one.

VOX program audio recorder. Can set volume sound must reach to begin recording and volume at which it should stop.

Bundle of real-time plugins for Mark of the Unicorn's Digital Performer and Audio Desk.

Audio-to-MIDI music program that allows you to compose by simply singing or playing an instrument.

MP3 Streaming Server for the Macintosh from Arctic Software.

A natural video compression system that is compliant with MPEG-4v3.

Synthesizer, MP3 and AIFF sample player, DSP processor, and sequencer, which outputs stereo CD quality audio.

RhapsOGLApp X visual effects generator for MacOSX - This is a visual plug-in for SoundJam MP and MACAST

Freeware application uses Granular Synthesis to produce very diverse sounds based on a user provided sound file.

Audio compression solutions for digital music, new media, and Internet streaming.

Generates a changing soundscape in realtime suggestive of timbres of water, fire, earth, and air. Freeware for Mac G3.

A software synthesizer for Mac and Windows. Similar to CSound in capabilities, but easier to use.

Music Notation software for Macintosh. Also available for Win32. (CERL Sound Group)

Generates piano music in realtime, can also be used as a meta-instrument for improvising complex piano music.

Many freeware and shareware applications available for download.

Audio player with multiple playlist functions, native burn support, visual effects, and file conversion.

Institutes a Quicktime 4.0 codec that converts MP3 files. Demo download available.

Shareware multiple track graphical sequencer, allowing files to be exported in AIFF, abc, or MIDI formats.

Audio file management system for Digital Audio workstation networks having a Mac attached.

Freeware metronome for OS X. Customizable settings.

MIDI-enabled audio loop mixing instrument.

MIDI music authoring solution for OS X with Aqua interface, music notation, intended mostly for musical amateurs.

Two education programs covering music concepts.

Shareware sound processing program does various conversions including sample rate, changes file headers, plays headerless files.

Audio player for MP3 files, CDs, and streaming audio from the Internet. Skins/faces available.

Sound editing software for Macintosh allowing users to easily create 100% Red Book compliant audio CDs.

Free western music notation package written in Common Lisp.

USB Audio software for Macintosh.

Digital audio editor for OS X. Supports many different file formats and multi-track editing.

Peak Studio for editing, processing, and mastering. Deck, a DAW. Vbox for multi-effects. Freq, a 4-Band EQ.

Developers of MetaSynth, a composition and sound design program using a strictly visual interface, with customizable tunings and image synthesis.

Li'l Miss' Scale Oven (LMSO), an ethnic and microtonal scale editor/synth retuner. Also DSP holophonics plug-ins.

Shareware digital audio editing and recording application.

Resources, searchable links, downloads, updates, classified ads, mailing-list, and articles about making music with your Macintosh.

Professional sound editor.

Featuring the Logic series, several virtual instruments and hardware accessories. Products description, support area, company information and news.

Reviews of hard disk recording and digital audio post-production software.

MP3 player and DJ/mix engine with beats analysis.

Sequencer with MIDI, audio, and video functionalities. Includes support for CoreAudio, CoreMIDI, Audio Units, Music Devices, Music Effects, VST, and Premiere.

Develops applications for Mac OS X, particularly software that converts MP3 songs to AAC format. Includes support and downloads.

Rhythm sequencer, sampler, synthesizer.

MacWaveMaker is a nubus card midi synthesizer for Macintosh. Claims every MacWaveMaker thing may be found here.

Replacement open-source driver that allows a PowerBook or iBook trackpad to be used as a 3-axis MIDI control surface.

Perform, record and create music from virtual instruments and pre-recorded loops.

Stereo multi-track audio editor and converter supporting AAC/MP4, AVI, System 7, AIFF, WAV, Quicktime, and other formats.

Tips and suggestions for Apple's GarageBand. Covers live and MIDI recordings, effects, mixing, mastering and links to free loops.

Apple's free media player supporting innumerable audio and video formats. The pro version includes an abundance of media authoring capabilities.

Handy reference to chords for musicians. For Mac OS X.

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.

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.

Drum machine for OS X, running as both a standalone application and as plug-in. Overview, screenshots, features, downloadable demo and purchasing information.

Developers of iRecordMusic and RadioLover, utilities to record audio streams to AAC and MP3.

Search the iTunes Music Store daily for your favorite artists and send you an e-mail when there are new songs by those artists.

Creators of Atmosphere, Stylus, and Trilogy virtual instruments/plug-ins, each with vast core libraries.

Creators of industry standard audio/MIDI sequencers Pro Tools HD and Pro Tools LE, as well as numerous RTAS plug-ins for the applications.

Utility for Mac OS 9 which allows synchronization of music from different iPods or any other source to computer.

Language translator for iPod.

Freeware application enabling adding and deleting music from the device. Includes software news, development information, and downloads.

Adds bass frequencies, spatialization, 3D surround sound and other real-time enhancements to iTunes.

Microtonal scale editor.

Audio sequencer designed for video, DVD, and web projects. Includes instrument loops and sound effects.

Article giving advice about using the EQ setting in iTunes to its full potential.

Article explores the algorithm iTunes uses to pick what comes next in a Party Shuffle playlist.

Forum provinding information for OS X users.

Real-time audio mixing over Bonjour networks, with support for .mp3, .aif, .wav, .aac, and .caf file formats.

Batch audio converter supporting innumerable sample-based and note-based file formats

Analysis of how iTunes deals with ratings of a finer gradient than just the number of stars.

Programming language/expert system for MIDI music composition, including the VLISP Lisp Visualization System.

Batch audio conversion application with support for a variety of formats, along with the retention of metadata for .mp3, Ogg Vorbis, FLAC, and Quicktime files.

Software for editing and listening to Gregorian Chant.

Support among others Microsoft MPEG-4 (version 2.0 and 3.0)and the ISO MPEG-4 video (version 1.0) video codecs.

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