Martin Hairer, martin.hairer@erehwon.org, http://www.unige.ch/math/folks/hairer/martin
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 8.6 or later with CarbonLib.
Audiocorder 3 Shareware
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.
Write AIFF sound files with this little direct-to-disk recording program. It features settings for input source, sample rate, sample size, mono/stereo selection, and input gain. It also features level meters with headroom and clipping indicators. PPC, OS8 or later, Sound Manager 3.0 or later
Most of you audio folks know about Cubase-it's one of the best professional audio recording and sequencing packages available. For those who haven’t seen this product in action, now’s your chance. This program was designed for musicians and can be easily used by anyone familiar with audio consoles-even 4-track recorders. It allows you to easily record up to 96 channels of better-than-CD-quality audio and MIDI, sequence tracks, edit waveforms, and add a vast number of effects. It also features 4 EQs per channel, 4 insert points per channel, 8 Aux sends, 8 global effects, full automation, 24-bit/96 kHz capability, low latency support, score editing and printing, nondestructive audio clips editor, quantize functions, and much more! Awesome! Requires a PPC running Mac OS 8.5 or later, 64MB RAM, PPC 604e/200MHz Processor.
GrooveMaker 2.0 Demo
IK Multimedia, info@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.
Reason comes in the shape of a classic studio rack, packed with all the gear you could possibly need: Samplers, Analog synths, Mixers, Step time drum machines, Effects, and a realtime multi-track sequencer for fast and intuitive music making. Everything is there except the drawbacks, no tripping over cables or locating ground hum. All of Reason´s 16 devices have the look and feel of the real thing, but more importantly, they have the sound, the performance and the attitude to rival any hardware out there. Requires PPC 166 MHz or faster, 64MB RAM, OS 8.6 or later MIDI Keyboard recommended.
This awesome program keeps getting better and is perfect for those of you who own no musical or MIDI gear whatsoever and want to make music-or even for those who do. It integrates a digital sound database with music notation, allowing you to easily create, play, and print compositions using layers of a variety of instruments. It allows MIDI output, and features a digital effects processor (reverb, flange, chorus, wah, overdrive, and more), multiple undos, and much more. It also allows you to export in MP3 format, add drum staves, incorporate a “Humanize” tool, add multi-instrument staves, record and edit sounds, or add your own sounds (AIFF, WAV, MOD, MIDI) and use them as instruments. Wow! PPC.
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.
Introducing Phrazer, the BitHeadz solution for loop-based composition and arranging. Phrazer combines multitrack audio playback with automatic pitch and tempo mapping, providing a powerful solution for mixing and matching audio loops and phrases on the fly. Requires 200MHz or faster PPC, OS 7.6.1 or later, 64 MB RAM or more.
Sound Sculptor II 2.4.2 Shareware
Jeff Smith, sculptorii@aol.com, http://members.aol.com/sculptorii/
This cool commercial quality sound recorder and editor plays 8 tracks of stereo sound and gives you overdubbing capabilities. It features a multi-track mixer (with level meters and controls for solo, mute, boost, volume, pan, and pan delay), an arsenal of effects (chorus, distortion, echo, EQ, reverb, flange, etc.), generators (envelopes, LFOs), and sound drawing tools. Supports AIFF, System 7, WAV, Sound Designer II, and SoundEdit files. 68k and PPC compatible running Mac OS 7.0 or later and Sound Manager 3.0 or later.
SoundApp 2.7.3 Freeware
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. his is the PPC. Requires Mac OS 7.5 or later and QuickTime 2.5 or later.
