Latest Music Software News
- Nassen RaX'n'TraX 1.4.9 2 Sep 2010, 4:35 pm
Nassen has updated RaX'n'TraX to version 1.4.9. - Kuassa Amplifikation One Update 2 Sep 2010, 4:33 pm
Kuassa has updated Amplifikation One to v1.1. - Plektron Guitar Amp Update 2 Sep 2010, 4:32 pm
Plektron has announced an update to its Guitar Amp amplifier simulator and multi-fx plug-in for Windows. - Hidenori Matsuoka Guitar Kit 2 Sep 2010, 4:31 pm
Hidenori Matsuoka has announced the release of Guitar Kit, a tool for searching guitar chord fingering patterns on the iPhone, iPod touch, and iPad. - Peavey AmpKit, AmpKit+ & AmpKit LiNK 2 Sep 2010, 4:22 pm
Peavey Electronics and Agile Partners have announced that the AmpKit and AmpKit+ Apps are available now on the Apple iTunes App Store. - Ohm Force Studio Teaser 4 2 Sep 2010, 2:31 pm
Part 4 of a 5 part series demonstrating Ohm's Studio- an online collaborative sequencer. - AudioSpillage updates DrumSpillage to v1.1 2 Sep 2010, 7:54 am
2nd September 2010: AudioSpillage has updated its DrumSpillage percussion synth plug-in to version 1.1. New Features: Improved support for automation recording and editing. Choke groups (12 groups ava. […] - Nassen updates RaX'n'TraX to v1.4.9 2 Sep 2010, 7:49 am
2nd September 2010: Nassen has updated RaX'n'TraX to version 1.4.9. Changes since v1.4.1: Drag "Key"-event to MONO panel. Extended window to draw Notes/Velocities in MONO panel (double-click on Note/V. […] - Sonic Reality releases Neil Peart Drums Vol. 1: The Kit 2 Sep 2010, 7:35 am
2nd September 2010: Sonic Reality has announced the release of Neil Peart Drums Vol. 1: The Kit, a music software recreation of the massive DW drum kit of legendary drummer of Rush, Neil Peart. It com. […] - HyperSynth releases SIDizer 2 Sep 2010, 7:30 am
2nd September 2010: HyperSynth has announced the release of SIDizer, a new emulation of the legendary SID chip in the form of a modern software synthesizer plug-in. Using circuit modeling technology,. […]
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Mixxx is an open source DJ tool designed for both professional and amateur DJs alike.
Mixxx allows DJs to mix music live with a clean, simple interface. Futhermore, Mixxx has a number of key features to help DJs in the mix: Beat estimation, parallel visual displays, and support for various DJ hardware controllers.
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Development Lead: Conrad ParkerSweep is an audio editor and live playback tool for GNU/Linux, BSD and compatible systems. It supports many music and voice formats including WAV, AIFF, Ogg Vorbis, Speex and MP3, with multichannel editing and LADSPA effects plugins.Features:
- Extreme ease of use:
- Unlimited undo/redo with a fully revertible edit history
- Multithreaded background rendering and file import/export: effects processing is not disabled during playback, providing instantaneous feedback.
- Precise, interactive scrubbing
- Multichannel file support: Sweep provides complete editing and processing for multichannel sound files.
- Customisable keybindings available for all operations
- Translations for French, Hungarian, Italian, German, Russian and Polish.
- Support for many PCM and voice file formats via libsndfile by Erik de Castro Lopo:
- at least 14 PCM sound file formats formats including WAV, W64, AIFF/AIFF-C, IFF/SVX, AU and raw PCM files.
- PCM audio encoding formats including 8/16/24/32 bit PCM, 32 and 64 bit floating point, u-law, A-law and ADPCM
- voice encoding formats including GSM 6.10, G721/G723 ADPCM, 12/16/24 bit DWVW
- Support for Ogg Vorbis format audio files:
- an exteremely high quality, free, open and unpatented perceptual audio codec.
- supports intuitive variable bitrate encoding, where the Vorbis encoder makes low-level encoding decisions.
- provides access to average bitrate controls, including bounds on minimum and maximum bitrate usage.
- Sweep provides sensible defaults and remembers encoding options between sessions.
- Support for Speex files:
- a free, open and unpatented speech codec designed for Voice over IP (VoIP) and file-based compression.
- supports optional variable bitrate and control over encoding complexity and frame packing.
- Sweep provides sensible defaults and remembers encoding options between sessions.
- Support for LADSPA effects plugins, including:
- the Computer Music Toolkit by Richard Furse, containing high and low pass filters, compressors, delays, and a port of the popular Freeverb reverb unit.
- SWH plugins, over 30 effects plugins by Steve Harris, including overdrives, comb filter, ring modulator, pitch scaler, chorus, flanger and various distortions.
- more listed at ladspa.org
- Powerful editing operations:
- Cut, copy and paste insert: conventional cut or copy selected regions of a sound, and paste into the same or other sounds.
- Discontinuous selections: select multiple regions of a sound and operate on these regions simultaneously
- interactive moving and merging of selection boundaries
- Selection invert, selection double/halve and selection shift left/right
- Intuitive visualisation:
- Multiple views per clip
- Variable zooming to below 1:1 with mouse wheel support
- View Center, Zoom to Selection, Zoom Normal
- Easy differentiation of multiple files with 6 standard colour schemes including Decoder Red, Orangeboom, Coogee Bay Blue and Blackwattle.
- Versatile playback modes:
- Standard transport features: play/pause, stop, rewind, fast forward, scan reverse/forward, go to end/beginning.
- Simultaneous playback of multiple files
- Play all, play selection, and looping playback
- Preview cut, preview cursor, pre-roll to cursor
- Interactive reverse playback: includes reverse previews and reverse looping
- Flexible recording:
- independent record and playback heads
- “tape loop” style recording
- reverse recording
- Device handling and portability:
- Support for Open Sound System compatible audio devices (eg. stock Linux kernel), ALSA 0.6.0 and Solaris audio.
- Intuitive control of application latency
- Support for both little and big endian CPU architectures
- Live playback “DJ” features:
- Two-handed interactive scrubbing
- Independent gain levels per file
- +/-10% pitch slider
- Piano-style sample playback
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BpmDj is a program that can be used to DJ. It works under Linux and plays Mp3’s/Ogg’s. It has a fully automatic BPM counter. It can determine the sound color. It has a full fledged QT based interface. It will help you manage a large amount of songs. Further it can help in creating playlist and has proven to be very robust. The program also allows offline automatic mixing and contains a wavelet based beat graph analyzer to visualize audio tracks.
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Monkey Machine is an online drum machine intented for music practice purposes. It has sample accurate timing, online beat database, and tap tempo.
Drum samples have been acquired from the excellent nskit7_free drumkit by Natural Studio.
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Note: The Free Edition of UltraMixer has a nag screen when it starts up.
UltraMixer is a DJ mixing software which enables you to mix digital music in various formats such as MP3, WMA, AAC, OGG, WAV or CDs in real time. All you need is a sound card. The DJ’s turntables are replaced by two digital SoundPlayers, the “vinyls” are available within seconds through the integrated FileArchive. No matter whether you want to use UltraMixer for a professional gig or at a private party or as virtual jukebox in restaurants, hair studios or medical surgeries - it will prove the right choice!
UltraMixer is the first DJ software in the world, that is available for the most popular operating systems Windows, Linux and Mac OS X.
