Chris Smolinski, atomic@blackcatsystems.com, http://www.blackcatsystems.com/
Turn your Mac into a voice-activated recorder. This program allows your Mac to automatically start recording sound to a disk file when the sound volume exceeds an initial threshold. It then continues to record until the volume drops below a second threshold for a minimum amount of time. Sound is stored in AIFF format and can be sampled at 11, 22, or 44 kHz, with 8- or 16-bit resolution. 68k and PPC compatible.
Music lovers—check this out! This totally hip audio player will allow you to listen to your CDs, MP3 files, or streaming MP3 audio over the Internet. But what’s really cool is its interchangeable faceplates (featuring some stunning transparency graphics), and you can even design them yourself. And, it features a built-in streams directory, CDDB support, playlist capabilities, and EQ, one-click switching between CD, MP3, and Net modes, and more. The Audion player comes as a free, totally uninhibited 15 day demo. After 15 days, the sessions are limited to 30 minutes. For MP3 encoding, the demo is limited to 20 encoded files or 30 days, whatever comes first. Requires a PPC running Mac OS 8.1or later.
Vibrato LFO (oscillator), Moduration LFO (oscillator/amplifier/filter) supported. Requires VST 2.0 supporting host applications like Cubase VST and Logic.
GrooveMaker 2.0 Demo
IK Multimedia, ikm@ikmultimedia.com, http://www.ikmultimedia.com
This hip loop and groove generator will turn your Mac into a powerful groovestation, allowing you to easily create, edit, remix, and save your own dance music in realtime. Surf through millions of randomly generated grooves, remixing them on the fly or select tracks and go to town with your own remixes. Get a pro-sounding track with just few clicks even if you don’t know a thing about music. This latest version features the new LoopMaker that allows you to load and resync any audio file with full control. A revolutionary tool for composers, remixers, multimedia presentations, sound enhanced Web sites, games, and CD-ROMs. Requires a PPC running Mac OS 7.6 or later and 16 MB RAM.
Whether you’re putting music on the web, recording audio onto your Mac or converting your CD collection into MP3, N2MP3 professional is a state of the art solution designed to handle your encoding needs. It was engineered from the ground up to make the encoding process powerful and fast, yet easy and customizable. N2MP3 Pro gives you the option to encode using a variety of codecs like LAME, Fraunhofer, MPegger, and the new and open-source Ogg Vorbis format. Requires PPC with Mac OS 8.5 or higher.
Sibelius is a music notation program designed by musicians who believe that music software should be 99% inspiration and 1% perspiration. Fast and powerful. Requires PPC, MacOS 7.1 or later, 6MB of RAM or more, 10MB+ free space. MIDI supported.
MP3 fanatics—you’re gonna love this. SoundJam is now free! Well, the MP3 player part that is. This totally hip MP3 player and encoder all-in-one is jam-packed with features. With it, you can easily convert your music into high-quality MP3’s, listen to live MP3 music streams over the Internet, create customizable playlists, tweak your frequency settings with the 10-band graphic EQ or with the EQ presets, dress your player up in different “skins”, and even have the player display some cool visual effects while your music plays. It supports conversion of CD audio, AIFF, QuickTime, and WAV file formats, and compresses at a 10:1 ratio. The encoding function will expire after 14 days if you don’t register, but the player will retain its full functionality. Requires a PPC running Mac OS 7.6.1 or later.
T-RackS 24 Demo
IK Multimedia, ikm@ikmultimedia.com, http://www.ikmultimedia.com
Make your master recordings sizzle and maximize audio output with analog warmth. The new version of T-RackS has 32 bit Floating Point resolution for better sound. There are more presets and other features in the new 24 bit version of T-RackS.
Unsanity Echo is a new and innovative audio player for MacOS. Every area of Unsanity Echo is pushed to the max, whether it is skins, visual plugins, or playback features. Unsanity Echo plays over 20 different audio formats, including MP3 and the much anticipated OGG Vorbis format.
