Music and Audio

Information about computer audio formats and sound cards.

Loseless audio compression supporting IEEE Float audio data.

A study comparing hardware and software samplers resampling engines, comparing aliasing and audio quality.

Makers of Band-in-a-Box, PowerTracks, Modern Jazz Pianist, Latin Pianist, others for Mac and IBM.

Many free music software downloads. Many guitar links plus tab, online discussion forums.

Music player and DJ software with iTunes integration, recording, real-time collaborative mixing and support for multi-touch trackpads.

Home of MYMPlay. Available for MSX, ZX Spectrum and Amstrad CPC.

Book by Ken C. Pohlmann.

NSF plugin for Winamp that supports many on-cart sound producing devices in Famicom carts.

Non-profit corporation dedicated to protecting multimedia by developing free and open protocols and software, including the Ogg container format.

Membership-driven resource for TTA programmers and enthusiasts. Includes software, source codes and documentation available for download.

Dance production, tips and techniques plus links, club, and charts.

Software to convert proprietary music files into standard midi files.

Can play from a plain text notation and export the score in the Standard MIDI format. Free software.

Running under GNOME desktop, catalogs CDs, LPs, singles, audio and video tapes, and MP3s. Freeware.

Software that automatically catalogs music CDs and organizes MP3 collection into a searchable database.

Organize sound samples in a tree-style form. Especially suited to drum samples. Windows freeware.

Multilanguage, categorizable, searchable, Windows 2K, XP. Freeware.

Audio and video. Supports MP3, WMA, APE, OGG, WAV, AVI and Audio CD formats, also M3U and PLS playlists. Shareware. Windows 9x/ME/NT/2000/XP.

Find duplicates in your MP3, Ogg, and WMA collections and remove them. Free trial download.

Song management tool for worship musicians and other people working with lyrics and chords.

Academic paper defining data structures for general concepts of composition, sound synthesis, networks.

Music Composer is music recognition software which performs Wave to Midi conversion.

Converts WAV, MP3, CD, and WMA to MIDI for live performance, makes multi-track .mid files, and transcribes music. Free demo.

A text to speech converter software that can read any text for you or convert text to WAV files.

Converts printed sheet music into multi-track MIDI files. Handles virtually any type of score, 90-98% accuracy. TWAIN compatible.

Converts audio files to MP3, WAV, WMA, and OGG formats.

Develops Acoustica, an audio editor for Windows. Main features, screenshots, purchase information.

Video of how to create music on your computer using Sony Sound and Cakewalk Sonar 5 Producer Edition.

API for specifying music using simple strings and easily transforming patterns of music.

An object-oriented class library for audio signal processing.

Realtime signal analysis and spectrum analyzer tool.

Audio player based on GTK+ written in Python, lets users make playlists with regular expressions and provides advanced tag editing features.

USB Audio software for Macintosh.

RhapsOGLApp X visual effects generator for MacOSX - This is a visual plug-in for SoundJam MP and MACAST

Generates piano music in realtime, can also be used as a meta-instrument for improvising complex piano music.

Rhythm sequencer, sampler, synthesizer.

[Win] Audio sequencer with notation capabilities: includes features, screenshots and a downloadable demo.

MIDI music composer that helps you go from concept to published score with minimum effort. By GVOX.

ASCII-based notation, with many tools to display, edit, play .abc files on various systems.

Company that develops software for OPENSTEP and Macintosh computers: features NoteAbility Pro and NoteWriter.

For radio and TV, broadcast automation software, traffic builders and log systems.

Radio automation software, includes launcher, database connector, playlist editor, logger.

Specialise in radio management systems and audio playout applications. Demo available.

Developer of radio automation software.

Develops plug-ins for all main formats and sequencers.

Plug-ins such as reverb and surround, for Mac and PC. Demos available.

Plug-in which automatically replaces acoustic drum tracks. Includes reviews, downloads and features overview.

Style enhancer processes MIDI files to add human performance characteristics. Stand alone version and Cakewalk plug-in.

Music creation tools including Quartet X2 Music Studio.