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  Audio

•   Educational Software

  • Classic Guitar Instruction (Freeware)

    Classic Guitar Instruction

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  • Music Arcade Learning Game (Freeware)

    Music Arcade Learning Game

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•   Encoding and Compression

  • Audioactive MP3 Production Studio (Demo)

    Fast high quality audio compression encoder. With it, you can fit fourteen hours of your favorite full-fidelity audio on a single CD-ROM, provide high-quality audio on a website, or attach compact audio files to e-mails without compromising quality. Designed for optimal audio encoding, all bitrates between 8 kbps and 256 kbps are supported. Enhanced functionality includes unlimited batch capability, an advanced command line interface and high-quality encoding options for production-quality audio. Output file formats include:

    MP3 
    ASF
    SWA 
    Compressed WAV
    

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  • Blade MP3 Encoder (Freeware)

    Blade MP3 Encoder allows you to easily make your own Mp3s.

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  • MP3 Enc v3.1

    MP3 Enc v3.1 MP3Enc is Fraunhofer's often-imitated command-line MP3 encoder. It lets you take standard .wav files and shrink them to a fraction of their former size but still maintain nearly all of the original's quality by removing unnecessary audio information. It's still one of the best-sounding MP3 encoders around, but being a command-line utility, isn't very user-friendly. However, there are several Windows-based MP3 encoder front-ends in our library that can make its use easier. This demo version lets you create .mp3-compatible files up to 30 seconds in length.

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  • FastMp3 Download from Ware.netfirms
    FastMp3 Download from ZDNet (Freeware)

    FastMp3 FastMp3 is a simple but speedy Wave-to-MPEG encoder that now allows you to perform MPEG-to-Wave conversions as well. With a compact, button-driven interface that is simplicity itself, FastMp3 lets you load your .wav (or .mp3) file, encode it, and save it to any specified destination by merely clicking three different buttons. You can set the bit rate at either 112000 or 128000 and set the encoding speed at either 44KHz (slower) or 22KHz (faster). A convenient Options button lets you configure the program to hide after encoding and to automatically play the MP3 when the conversion process is complete. A progress bar will keep you informed as to how the conversion process is going, and a Help button provides quick access to well-organized program documentation. Although you need to manually supply a name for the converted file (the preconversion filename doesn't carry over), this freeware converter's speed, efficiency, and ease of use make it a worthwhile download.

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  • Mp3EncDec (Freeware)

    MP3 Encoder Decoder allows you to easily make your own Mp3s or to convert your existing Mp3s into Wav files. There are many options in Mp3EncDec

    Encode
    Decode
    Switches
    Bitrates
    

    Michel Kremer (e-mail : muggsy@myself.com)

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  • RealProducer G2

    Converts standard audio and video into streaming media clips. Utilizing easy-to-use wizards, a simple interface, and customizable settings, RealProducer is perfect for either novice or advanced content creators. Using RealProducer, anyone can easily create streaming media from a variety of sources. Convert audio or video files, record directly from media devices, or use RealProducer to broadcast and stream live content. In addition to creating RealMedia, you can also use this tool to publish your streaming media directly to the Internet. These publishing features allow you to add the dimensions of sight and sound to your Web site or e-mail. Use RealProducer to instantly demonstrate a product, broadcast a speech, or show home videos.

•   MIDI

  • IBM Music Site
  • IBM Music Sketcher

    Demonstrates some of the technology being developed at the IBM TJ Watson Research Center. MusicSketcher is a vehicle for experimenting, generating ideas, and exploring the power of the new music technology developed at the Computer Music Center. The features included in MusicSketcher illustrate the work begin done on blocks, modifiers, and SmartHarmony within the Computer Music group.

    A block is a container that holds musical data. Currently, the program supports two types of blocks: riff blocks that contain MIDI data and harmony blocks that contain chord progressions.

    A modifier is a real-time transformation algorithm that, when applied to a block, alters some aspect of the sound produced by that block.

    SmartHarmony has a model of tonal music that tries to keep the musical elements contained in a project internally consistent. SmartHarmony constrains pitch transformations within a chosen harmonic framework.

    Music Sketcher allows you to compose music by dragging riff blocks and positioning them on a graphical metaphor for a ScorePart within a ScoreSheet. The music can be shaped by applying modifiers - graphical curves that alter various aspects of the music - to produce a wide range of musically expressive transformations on the pitch, articulation, and loudness of the music. SmartHarmony is a model of tonal music that constrains these riffs within the context of a selected chord progression. The purpose of this release of Music Sketcher is to demonstrate how modifiers and SmartHarmony combine to give a surprising amount of creative power and expressive ability, even when you are limited to the pre-existing riffs. Music Sketcher is currently a thin graphical wrapper around some unique ideas, and is not a complete compositional tool. Music Sketcher should (and probably will) have a number of additional features and improvements. (Please e-mail us your suggestions at msketch@watson.ibm.com.)

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•   Recording and Mixing

  • Cool Edit

    Cool Edit 96 is a digital audio editor for Windows 95 and Windows NT. You can use it to record and play files in a wide variety of audio formats, edit files and mix them together, and convert files from one format to another.

    But Cool Edit is much more than just an editor, recorder, and player: it's like a complete recording studio inside your computer. You can work on multiple files simultaneously with the New Instance feature. You can create sounds from scratch with Generate Tones, Generate Noise, and Generate DTMF Signals. You can "touch up" your audio with features like FFT Filter, Quick Filter, Amplify, Compress, Envelope, Stretch, Channel Mixer, and Noise Reduction. You can add fantastic effects to files like Reverb, Delay, Echo, 3D Echo Chamber, Flanging, and Distortion. You can even adjust the pitch or tempo of your audio with the Stretch function. When you find just the effect you want, you can save it as a Preset for later recall, and you can use Cool Edit's Scripts and Batch Processing features to automate your work.

    Cool Edit also offers powerful data analysis features. The Spectral View gives you a multi-color map of the sounds in your files. You can generate a Frequency Analysis to see which frequencies predominate at a point or in a region of your waveform. The Statistics feature gives you information on peak amplitude, minimum and maximum RMS power levels, and more.

    Cool Edit offers two truly unique features. Want to hear your dog sing opera? You can do it with the Making Music feature. You can also create Brainwave files to induce states of deep sleep, theta meditation, or alpha relaxation.

    Sounds complicated? Don't worry; Cool Edit is also easy to use. If you make a mistake, the multi-level Undo feature can back you out. You can quickly learn how to navigate the main screen, and Cool Edit offers a variety of keyboard and mouse shortcuts and an editable toolbar. The Cue and Play lists make it easy to find, name, and play segments within a file, and the built-in CD player controls give you easy access to your computer's CD player. If you get into trouble or can't figure out how to do something, just look at the Troubleshooting or Common Procedures Help topics, or send an email to support@syntrillium.com.

    Above all, Cool Edit is fun! Once you've played with it for a while, you'll see how it got its name.

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  • Gold Wave

    GoldWave&trade is a comprehensive digital audio editor that allows you to play, record, edit, and convert audio on your computer.

    Features:

    An Expression Evaluator allows you to generate everything from simple dial tones to bandpass filters. It supports more than 20 common functions and operations. Expressions can be stored in groups for quick retrieval. Expressions for dial tones, waves, and effects are included.

    An independent Device Controls window provides easy access to audio devices. It contains controls for playback, rewind / fast forward, recording, volume, and speed. LED meters and oscilloscopes graphically display the sound during playback and recording. The oscilloscopes can be configured to display graphs in several different formats.

    A multiple document interface (MDI) allows many files to be opened at one time, making file-to-file editing easy.

    All editing operations, such as paste and mix, are intelligent. This means that clipboard audio data is automatically converted to a compatible format before the data is used. When editing files with different sampling rates, bit resolution, or number of channels, intelligent editing simplifies the process.

    Huge files can be edited using hard disk editing. Small files can be edited quickly using RAM based editing.

    Sounds are displayed graphically and the level of detail can be changed by zooming in or out. Samples can be edited directly with the mouse when zoomed in to a sub-sample level (the level at which individual samples are easily visible).

    Many audio effects, such as Reverse, Echo, Pan, Flange, and Distortion allow you to enhance, distort, or alter sounds in various ways.

    Save as can convert sounds to many different file types. It can convert stereo to mono, 8 to 16 bits, or any combination of attributes supported by a file type.

    A sophisticated and intuitive user interface makes learning easy. Control bar buttons perform commands with a single click of the mouse. Configurable status bars present information in a variety of formats.

  • N - Track

    This program will turn your computer in to a powerful multitrack recorder: All you need is a full duplex soundcard, Windows 95, 98 or NT, a microphone and some free space on your hard drive. There are no limitations on what you can realize with this program: the most powerful feature is that the tracks (wave files) aren't mixed together in a single wave file and then played. The mixing process is done "on the fly": in this way you can alter the volume and pan settings while listening to your song or even while recording.

    You can also add effects to tracks non-destructively (again the result of the effect processing isn’t written on a file but is calculated “on-the-fly” during playback) and change their parameters hearing the results in real-time. The program comes with 4 native effects (chorus, echo, compression and auto-volume) but can also use third party DirectX audio plug-ins (some are optionally installed by the setup program, among which FASoft 4-Band ParEQ).

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  • ProTools

    This is a 40 meg download (link.) The software is available as freeware, and is highly recommended. It may be a bit large for some folks.

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  • Spectrogram

    Dual channel audio spectrum analyzer for Windows 95/98/NT which can provide either a scrolling time-frequency display or a spectrum analyzer scope display in real time for any sound source connected to your sound card. Spectrogram allows unlimited recording and playback of the sounds from the audio spectrum display and can provide very high resolution spectrum analysis of wave files with a wide choice of frequency bands and frequency resolution and either linear or logarithmic frequency scales. Spectrum data logging capability is also provided. Version 5.1 replaces all earlier versions and provides improved audio quality, print-window capability, spectrum averaging for noise reduction and detection of weak signals, and more flexible scanning and recording capabilities. Spectrogram is ideal for any purpose related to sound spectrum analysis including:

    Analysis and identification of biological sounds
    Analysis and identification of human speech
    Analysis of musical performances
    Tuning of musical instruments
    Evaluation and calibration of home audio systems
    Ham Radio audio reception and tuning
    Analysis of radio interference 
      (including atmospheric electromagnetic effects)
    

    Spectrogram requires Windows 95, at least 16 mbytes of RAM, and a Windows compatible sound card. Freely distributable freeware by Richard Horne rshorne@mnsinc.com

  • FFT

    FFT (Fast Fourier Transform)real time fast fourier transforms.