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The PPC/68K column shows if I was able to discover anything about its PowerPC compatibility - I'll soon be able to test this myself. The 'size' is the size of the main application itself, which often gives a guide to the sort of complexity you can expect. I've assembled a table showing some of the sorts of things that you may well find, and a few of the columns need some explanation. A bit of searching on the Internet, or failing that, buying up some cover disks at a car‑boot sale, should provide plenty of stuff to investigate. And on the Internet, it only takes a few minutes to find almost anything using a search engine - although downloading a couple of Mb can take a little longer with a modem connection. There are also some specialist suppliers of collections of shareware and freeware on CD‑ROMs. Music magazines, which have to fill up 650Mb of CD every month, don't take long to run through just about every decent bit of MIDI, music and audio related freeware or shareware - although there are always lots of commercial demonstrations.

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A few years ago, the logical place to look for it would have been a Mac shareware disk supplier, but these have been largely replaced by two modern phenomena: the cover‑disk CD and the Internet.

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As a result, Mac MIDI software is rare, especially freeware or shareware.īut it does exist. This tends to put amateur programmers like myself off a little bit, because it requires a large investment of time to get to grips with. Instead of simple reads and writes, there are complete protocols to be negotiated. Things get more complicated if you want to use the Apple MIDI Manager, and even more taxing if you want to use Opcode's OMS or MOTU's FreeMIDI. Persuading MIDI bytes to appear at a standard Mac MIDI interface requires a little bit more programming, and in a Mac there's always a set way of doing things through an Apple‑defined interface. On the Mac, things are slightly different. And as a result, lots of people, myself included, wrote lots of MIDI software for the Atari ST. You needed to change a few variables here and there to alter buffer sizes, but it wasn't difficult at all. On an Atari ST, you wrote bytes to a location and they appeared at the MIDI Out you read bytes from another location and they were received at the MIDI In. Perhaps some of the problem lies in the way that the Mac does MIDI. And unlike the Atari ST, the Mac has never had much MIDI freeware and shareware written for it. In 10 years we've gone from simple intuitive tape recorder emulations to extremely sophisticated Digital Audio and MIDI sequencers which are so complex that they can require days of learning before you become competent at using them. They asked if I knew of any freeware or shareware MIDI sequencers for the Mac, because they had searched around and found only one, which seems to be less than perfect. It all began with an email from a reader. Electronic Document.Why is no‑one giving Mac sequencers away for nothing? Martin Russ dives into the sobering world of shareware and freeware.

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(1998) SoundHack User's Manual Version 0.888. au, ULaw, IMA4, TEXT and headerless (raw) soundfiles.Įrbe, Tom.

Read and write Sound Designer II, Audio IFC, Audio IFF, BICSF (IRCAM), DSP Designer, QuickTime/AIFF, Microsoft WAVE (RIFF), NeXT.

Change values in the soundfile header (sample rate, number of channels, loop points and marker info).

Convert between different types of soundfiles with optional gain scaling and sample rate conversion.

Record any size soundfile from the Macintosh sound input.

Play almost any type of soundfile (including AU, AIFF and WAVE).

Save sonograms of your soundfile in QuickTime movies or convert QuickTime movies into sound by sonographic analysis.

Use your own spectral algorithm with spectral analysis/resynthesis and the spectral assistant example code.

Separate transient and steady-state components with the spectral extractor.

Noise reduction, spectral expansion or compression with the spectral dynamics processor.

Cross-synthesis between two soundfiles with soundfile convolution, ring modulation or spectral mutation.

Time stretching or pitch shifting with the phase vocoder or varispeed.

These functions make SoundHack invaluable to computer musicians, sound effects designers, multimedia artists, webmasters and anyone else who enjoys working with sound.

It performs many utility and esoteric sound processing functions available nowhere else. SoundHack is a soundfile processing program for the Macintosh.

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