DRS Digital Image & Sound, Inc., drsdigital@kagi.com, http://www.drsdigital.com
Guitarists, take note (no pun intended)! This extensive library contains diagrams of chords in standard guitar tuning, as well as transpositions in 50 non-standard tunings. Figure out chord fingerings fast through the program’s ‘Neck View’ or use the chord editor to figure out alternative ways of playing a certain chord. Enter standard notation and view its fingering in tablature. And you can hear any chord with the help of QuickTime Musical Instruments. 68k and PPC compatible running Mac OS 7.5 or later and QuickTime 2.5 or later. QuickTime Musical Instruments extension required for sound output.
Clarion 1.0.2 - Freeware
Daniel Jalkut, jalkut@sirius.com, http://www.sirius.com/~jalkut/RedSweater.html
Expand your musical knowledge with this ear-training program. Use your ears to practice musical interval recognition. This program will play a two note interval in a variety of keys, modes, and instruments and ask you to name the appropriate interval. Forget those programs with the annoying sine waves, this one will give you choices of synthesized instrumentation. Requires a PPC running Mac OS 8.1 or later and QuickTime 3.0.
Here are the latest alert and/or system sounds from Clixsounds that will add more personality to your Mac. Most sounds are available in both stereo and mono formats. 68k and PPC compatible.
This plug-in for Adobe Premiere or Direct X format is a mind-blowing fusion of classic and space-age audio filter technology. Control any of the three independent filter modules with tempo-programmable LFOs, envelopes, or the Sequence modulator. It features low and high-pass filters, bandpass filter, notch filter, rung modulator, and overdrive. Requires a PPC and one of the following: Opcode’s Vision or Studio Vision Pro, BIAS’s Peak or Deck II, MOTU’s Digital Performer, or Digidesign’s Pro Tools 4.0.
This audio plug-in allows you to apply flawlessly realistic DSP models of turntable characteristics, vinyl record surface properties, and vintage audio playback sytems to individual tracks or entire mixes. Make your tracks or mix sound like it was sampled from a classic LP at 45 and even 78 RPM. Requires a PPC and one of the following: Opcode’s Vision or Studio Vision Pro, BIAS’s Peak or Deck II, MOTU’s Digital Performer, or Digidesign’s Pro Tools 4.0.
This audio plug-in will give your tracks a trip down memory lane. This filter will make any audio track sound like it’s being processed with an old analog vocoder (a vocoder takes a sound and blends the harmonic quality onto another sound with the end result being a single sound with characteristics of both - think Peter Frampton for a moment - who?) . Requires a PPC and one of the following: Opcode’s Vision or Studio Vision Pro, BIAS’s Peak or Deck II, MOTU’s Digital Performer, or Digidesign’s Pro Tools 4.0.
Not only is this software easy to use, but it will allow you to play and compose music (or noise) on your Mac without any external hardware, MIDI cables, or driver redirecting. It uses the MOD music format to allow your music to be cross-platformed to windoze, Unix, and Amiga, using any or the free players available. Write your compositions using standard notation entry or the “digital” or text editor for more precise timing. Optimized for Mac OS 8.0 and later.
PlayerPRO 5.0.2 - Freeware
Antoine Rosset, RossetAntoine@bluewin.ch, http://www.quadmation.com/
If you’re looking for an easy-to use and affordable multi-track recorder/editor, this one is truly amazing - and it’s free! Record from your MIDI setup or import sound files without any extra hardware. Supports MOD, AIFF, WAV, System 7 sound, MIDI, and more. Edit via the onscreen Digital Editor, by notation, or via a MIDI keyboard, plus tons of other cool features. If you like this program, upgrade to PlayerPRO CD-ROM, where you can save your music in AIFF, receive a music library filled with tons of instruments and samples, and more. Requires Mac OS 8.0 or later and 8MB RAM.
A must-have for all PropellerHead ReBirth RB-338 users! If you’ve got the program and chances are you’re a techno fan, this cool utility will allow you to extract the TR-808 sounds used in the program. And, if you’re feeling so inspired, you can even replace them with your own sounds. Requires a PPC running Mac OS 7.1 or later, QuickTime 2.5 or later, and ReBirth RB-338 (full version).
This simple audio player can locate and play a variety of sound file types embedded in movies, CD audio tracks, and even SND resources hidden within files. It offers support for AIFF, AIFC, WAV, MIDI, ULAW, SFIL, BINA, and more. You can also have the program scan your CDs, folders, and files, looking for sounds to play. That’s music to our ears! 68k and PPC compatible running Mac OS 7 or later and QuickTime 2.5 or later.
This nifty little accessory will certainly be appreciated by any musicians who use their Macs for recording. Vu-Mac will display a stereo Vu-Meter on your screen which will help you set the gain of any audio source you have input into your Mac. Requires a PPC running Mac OS 7.1 or later.
