Requirements: G3 or faster Mac, Mac OS X 10.0 or later
Simple, quick, and it works. If you need a basic app to record, this one’s got the goods and then some. The program lets you record manually or set it to record at a specific time. It also features an oscilloscope view of your audio input, voice/volume-activated recording, 32-bit audio recording support, and more.
Audiocorder (Classic) 3.7.1—Donationware
Black Cat Systems, support@blackcatsystems.com, http://www.blackcatsystems.com
Requirements: Power Mac, Mac OS 9.x
Need to record something? This nifty app lets you record audio manually at the push of a button or automatically. Record up to CD-quality sound in AIFF format (44kHz, 22kHz, and 11kHz at 8- or 16-bit sampling supported). The program can be set up to be used as a voice-activated recorder or program the app to start and stop recording at specified times—great for recording radio Webcasts.
Audiocorder (OS X) 3.7.1—Donationware
Black Cat Systems, support@blackcatsystems.com, http://www.blackcatsystems.com
Requirements: G3 or faster Mac, Mac OS X 10.1.3 or later
Need to record something? This nifty app lets you record audio manually at the push of a button or automatically. Record up to CD-quality sound in AIFF format (44kHz, 22kHz, and 11kHz at 8- or 16-bit sampling supported). The program can be set up to be used as a voice-activated recorder or program the app to start and stop recording at specified times—great for recording radio Webcasts.
AudioFinder 2.0.5—Shareware
Mystical Sun Software, software@mysitcalsun.com, http://www.mysticalsun.com/software
Requirements: G3 or faster Mac, Mac OS X 10.2 or later
If you’re a digital musician who’s got hordes of sound sample files scattered all over your hard drive, this handy app will help you locate and audition them to find the ones you want to use in a project. It works kind of like an audio file browser, culling through your hard disk to find sound files (AIFF, AIFC, SDII, REX, and WAV formats supported), and then allowing you to play each file from within its easy-to-use interface. From there, you can flag all the desired files in the favorites directory and then simply import them from the directory to your audio sequencer of choice. It also has a BPM feature that will either guess the beats-per-minute in a drum loop or song sample for you, or let you tap out the beats of the rhythm on its BPM Tap Pad to manually determine the tempo.
Blues Music 1.2—Freeware
David Ahmed, davidahmed@mac.com, http://homepage.mac.com/davidahmed/
Requirements: G3 or faster Mac, Mac OS X 10.1 or later
Feel like jamming, but don’t have a guitar (or talent)? This nifty app lets you pump out some cool blues guitar riffs at the push of a button, accompanied by drums and bass. Plus, the little visual element adds to your jamming experience. You can even tell the “band” to take a hike and fly solo, and they won’t throw things at you. Best of all, it’s fun, and it’s free—our favorite kind of app.
Requirements: G3 or faster Mac, Mac OS X 10.2 or later
One thing that we miss about digital music is holding the cool album art in our grubby little hands. This awesome little app allows you to almost do just that. Clutter allows you to stockpile CD cover art on your Mac desktop, and play any of these CDs with a simple double-click in iTunes. Clutter trolls through Amazon.com to find cover art for all of your iTunes-converted CDs—or paste in your own cover art—and stack or stagger the graphics on your desktop for easy play access.
Requirements: Power Mac, Mac OS 8-9.x, QuickTime 4 or later
Forget turntables—this MP3 playing app is designed for DJs of the future or those who want to experiment with music mixes. The app features two virtual CD players with a mixer in between that allows you to perform crossfades, pitch shifts, pitch bends, and cue-ups between songs playing on the two players. It also features a playlist organizer to manage your music by artist, album, BPM, and more, supports ID3 tags, allows prelistening via a USB output device or via split channels, autmated mixing, and more.
Requirements: G3 or faster Mac, Mac OS X 10.0 or later, QuickTime 4 or later
Forget turntables—this MP3 playing app is designed for DJs of the future or those who want to experiment with music mixes. The app features two virtual CD players with a mixer in between that allows you to perform crossfades, pitch shifts, pitch bends, and cue-ups between songs playing on the two players. It also features a playlist organizer to manage your music by artist, album, BPM, and more, supports ID3 tags, allows prelistening via a USB output device or via split channels, autmated mixing, and more.
This QuickTime multitrack, audio editor and mixer lets you create professional-sounding recordings without the expense of a professional audio package. Record, edit, and mix different audio file formats (such as MP3 and AIFF) from any audio input (including mic and USB audio or CD). The app also features many sophisticated audio tools including a pitch shifter, time stretching capabilities, compressor and expander, normalizing, tape display mode, overdubbing, scrubbing capability, record standby, and more.
Requirements: G3 or faster Mac, Mac OS X 10.1 or later
This QuickTime multitrack, audio editor and mixer lets you create professional-sounding recordings without the expense of a professional audio package. Record, edit, and mix different audio file formats (such as MP3 and AIFF) from any audio input (including mic and USB audio or CD). The app also features many sophisticated audio tools including a pitch shifter, time stretching capabilities, compressor and expander, normalizing, tape display mode, overdubbing, scrubbing capability, record standby, and more.
Sound Studio 2.1—Shareware
Felt Tip Software, http://www.felttip.com/products/soundstudio
Requirements: Power Mac, Mac OS 8.1-9.x with CarbonLib or OS X 10.1.5 or later, QuickTime 4.1 or later
This cool and powerful audio app allows you to record and edit audio files on your Mac. It features plenty of tools to record audio from an input device or CD, edit waveforms, add effects (like chorus, flanger, reverb, EQ, compressor, expander, and gate), remove clicks and pops (great for digitizing your record collection!), and more.
Studio365—Live 1.0—Demo
Live365, http://www.live365.com
Requirements: 400MHz G3 or faster Mac, Mac OS X 10.2 or later, 256MB RAM
Broadcast your own Internet radio station with this app. Studio365 allows you to upload your MP3s and iTunes playlists to the Live365 Network and stream your favorite songs to anyone across the WWW. The app features batch upload capability, bitrate control, full integration with iTunes, one-click mic control (for voice-overs), a display manager, and more.
