Martin Hairer, Martin.Hairer@math.unige.ch, http://www.erehwon.org/hairer/
This powerful utility will allow you to create, manipulate, and analyze sounds. It features tools for recording, resampling, frequency filtering, eliminating background noise, modulation, mixing, and more. It also features powerful sound synthesizers to reproduce practically any instrument, sonograms to visually analyze frequency versus intensity, and spectrograms to view a sound’s different harmonics. The current release has MP3 supprt. Requires a PPC running Mac OS 8.1 or later.
Here’s an easy-to-use program that can turn even dear ol’ granny into a funky DJ diva. BayTex Party! will turn your Mac into a powerful Juke Box and allows you to mix audio files on the fly for non-stop booty shakin’. It features PlayList functions, customizable Mix Settings, a single key-stroke sample player function, adjustable pitch and volume controls, sound effects, and more. It supports MP3, WAV, MIDI, AIFF, and any other music file supported by QuickTime 4. Requires a PPC (604) and QuickTime 4.0 or later.
If you’re a music junkie or simply like to keep up with what’s hot in the music world, this program will allow you to do just that. It will download a variety of different current music charts such as the Billboard Hot 100, Rick Dee’s Top 40, and more at the click of the mouse. 68k and PPC compatible. Requires an Internet connection.
Turn your Power Mac into a full-featured analog synthesizer. This on-screen keyboard program will allow you to revisit the old classic sounds of analog technology by emulating the oscillators, filters, modulation, and effects of days gone by. The keyboard features 32-note polyphony, multi-timbral sounds, 44.1kHz/16-bit sound, over 200 parameters, 100% programmability, 1000 factory presets, and allows you to incorporate MIDI into your set-up. Neato! Requires a PPC, Mac OS 7.6.1 or higher, 32 MB RAM, 40 MB hard disk space, 800x600 screen resolution.
SoundAppFat 2.6.1
Norman Franke, franke@xenon.stanford.edu, http://www-cs-students.stanford.edu/~franke/SoundApp/
SoundApp can play or convert a variety of sound files dropped onto it including MP3, AIFF, WAV, MOD, MIDI, and many more. It allows you to share sounds with PC friends, create sound for your Website, and download sound files of many different formats. It also features a playlist for grouping sound files together, supports batch file conversion, and various conversion abilities, including sample rate, stereo to mono, bit depth, and more. Note: only PPCs can play MP3 files. Includes 68k and PPC versions. Requires Mac OS 7.5 or later and QuickTime 2.5 or later.
Guitar gods unite! Stomp Box Delay is a virtual, real time delay for your Mac. With an interface like a genuine stomp box, you can take any audio signal and feed it through this box to produce an echo effect. Stomp box is shareware.
Stomp Box Tremelo takes an audio signal and produces a pulsating, rhythmic effect, similar to an organ playing through a Leslie speaker. The effect is very signature in surf guitar. Stomp Box Tremelo is shareware.
