http://refreq2.com/

refreq2
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Download beta for Mac now!
refreq2 – your fully customizable music player
This is not a startup. This is the diploma project of Daniel Feles. It’s now available for free.

Spoiler

Turn your music into image
Simply open any .mp3 or .wav file with the application, and it will automagically generate you the Spectogram of the music

Turn your image into music
Open any image file and see, how it sounds.
Cubist paintings? Minimalist posters? Longshadow, flatdesign UI png’s.
Lets hear ‘em

Rotate your music
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Got your music opened in the application?
Generated into image?
And now you can play back that image?
So why not rotate that?

Edit music with Photoshop
Or simply grab the spectogram and edit it with Photoshop.
Go to filter gallery and try the old filters you used 10 years ago, when you first met PS.
Play it back, hear the magic.
The story
The original concept (refreq) comes from a small psychedelic story.

One day when I woke up, I had a strong feeling that the track I’d just heard while sleeping would be perfect for a documentary that I happened to be working on -- except that it would have to be rotated 90 degrees. Despite having never worked with sound before, I was so inspired by this idea that I started to dig deep into the physics of sound. Through my research, I discovered aspects of the sound world I’d never heard before -- spectrograms, harmonies -- that only generated more curiosity. All of this lead me to build this audio project, which I’ve called refreq.

You control the music. Finally.
Value proposition
With refreq, not only can you load music files into the program, but also images. But what does that mean?

Well, after you’ve imported an .mp3, the program first analyzes the track. Once the analysis is complete, the program can then draw its frequency spectrum -- or, in other words, the image of the music.

Once the image has been created, you can play it back with refreq -- and you can actually hear the original music play!

But instead of just exploring the image you’ve generated, you can now take that image and create a whole new sound. Just export it as a .png, manipulate it with your preferred image-editing software, like Photoshop, and then import it back into refreq.After you’ve explored your own generated image, try importing a different .png or jpg. See what different patterns sound like, maybe a mandala, the floor plan of your apartment...or even the Mona Lisa! Now you can listen to these images with refreq.

Native Mac
refreq is only available on Mac platform.
Just download, unzip and open it.


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Created with the help of:


Any developers around?
Are you a DirectX 12 expert and you are eager to use this application on Windows platform?
Or you just want to use it in your Art installation, and you want to hack the sh*t out of the program to connect it to your MIDI controller?
Check the GitHub repo. Contact me if you have any questions.

It’s free!
No freemium. No Premium. No Ads. As I said, it’s not a startup.
Am I crazy? You may ask. No. I believe, that this stuff just should be available.
I want to see what others would use such a thing.
Drop me a mail if you think your stuff is worth sharing you made with this.

Join the beta testers!
Are you brave enough to start using the Beta version of the software?
Even though it might blow up your speakers?

JOIN THE TESTERS
© refreq. All Rights Reserved. Made with ♥ in Hungary.
openFrameworksDaniel Feles

 

Last edited: Mar 13, 2017

http://www.audiocheck.net/
Test your audio equipment, online
AudioCheck gives you access to an extensive collection of sound tests, playable online and downloadable for free. The audio material provided here will help you assess the audio equipment connected to your computer. Using this website, you will be able to:

• Test your hearing, speakers, headphones, digital-to-analog converters... and more!
• Design your own sound tests using our high quality waveform generators.
• Download our sound files to your favorite audio player, and use your player as a portable audio test device.

These tests are for personal and educational use only. No commercial use is allowed without permission.

 

http://ctrlr.org/

Ctrlr

Control any MIDI enabled hardware: synthesizers, drum machines, samplers, effects. Create custom User Interfaces. Host them as VST or AU plugins in your favorite DAWs.

What’s what, how Ctrlr is built
I’ll be using Ctrlr in Standalone mode. What does it mean ? Well if you downloaded Ctrlr there are 2 ways you can run it.

– Standalone, this means you start Ctrlr as any other program in your Operating System (this will be a “.app” on the Mac, a “.exe” on Window and a plain binary on Linux – no extension)

– As a plugin, this means Ctrlr will be loaded as a VST or a AU plugin in your favorite plugin host.

Cross Platform
Works on Windows (XP and up, both 64 and 32bit binaries are available), MAC OSX (10.5 and up), Linux (any modern distro should run it).

Host in your DAW
Each platform has a VST build of Ctrlr so you can host your panels as normal VST plugins, for the OSX a special AU build is available.

Customize
Each Panel can be customized by the user, the panels are XML files, every panel can be Edited in Ctrlr to suite your specific needs.

Open Source
Need special functionality or want to propose a patch/feature update, know a bit about C++/JUCE framework etc. You can always download the source code and build Ctrlr by yourself.

Extend
With the scripting possibilities inside Ctrlr you can extend you panels in various ways. The LUA scripting language gives you access to all panels elements and hooks to various events.

 

Last edited: Mar 14, 2017

http://portal.unesco.org/culture/fr/ev.php-URL_ID=15860&URL_DO=DO_TOPIC&URL_SECTION=201.html

Coagula
Guide d'utilisation: Ce logiciel transforme une image Bitmap en son. L'image peut être importée ou réalisée dans Coagula. Des filtres, zoom, rotation et déformations de l'image sont disponibles..

 

http://drewbitllama.s3-website-us-east-1.amazonaws.com/beta.zip http://drewbitllama.s3-website-us-east-1.amazonaws.com/beta.zip
The beta version.

 

oblivion sound labs release osl chorus



it's supposed to be a clone of the juno-60 chorus with some extras.

 

2nd sense audio release free 2S EQ (and other (paid) plugins)

 

https://www.iannix.org/en/

activate subtitles if you wish

IANNIX,
A GRAPHICAL OPEN SOURCE SEQUENCER.

IanniX is a graphical open source sequencer, based on Iannis Xenakis works, for digital art. IanniX syncs via Open Sound Control (OSC) events and curves to your real-time environment.

SEQUENCER
IanniX can be used with a diversity of software and hardware tools

REAL-TIME
IanniX can be modified and operated in real-time

SPACE & TIME
IanniX’s graphical space spans several dimensions and time scales

OPEN SOUND CONTROL
The OSC protocol allows fast network communication

OPEN-SOURCE
IanniX is licensed under GPL 3, free and cross-platform

PROGRAMMABLE
Javascripts can be used to create complex and generative scores

 

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http://repmus.ircam.fr/openmusic/home

OpenMusic
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Designed and developed by the IRCAM Music Representation research group
© 1998 - 2013 Carlos Agon, Gérard Assayag, Jean Bresson.

[paste:font size="5"]Lisp. Visual programs are created by assembling and connecting icons representing functions and data structures. Most programming and operations are performed by dragging an icon from a particular place and dropping it to an other place. Built-in visual control structures (e.g. loops) are provided, that interface with Lisp ones.

OM may be used as a general purpose functional/object/visual programming language. At a more specialized level, a set of provided classes and libraries make it a very convenient environment for music composition. Above the OpenMusic kernel, live the OpenMusic Projects. A project is a specialized set of classes and methods written in Lisp, accessible and visualisable in the OM environment. Various classes implementing musical data / behaviour are provided. They are associated with graphical editors and may be extended by the user to meet specific needs. Different representations of a musical process are handled, among which common notation, midi piano-roll, sound signal. High level in-time organisation of the music material is proposed through the concept of "maquette".

Existing CommonLisp/CLOS code can easily be used in OM, and new code can be developed in a visual way.

 

http://csound.github.io/download.html

About Csound
Csound is a sound and music computing system which was originally developed by Barry Vercoe in 1985 at MIT Media Lab. Since the 90s, it has been developed by a group of core developers. A wider community of volunteers contribute examples, documentation, articles, and takes part in the Csound development with bug reports, feature requests and discussions with the core development team.

Although Csound has a strong tradition as a tool for composing electro-acoustic pieces, it is used by composers and musicians for any kind of music that can be made with the help of the computer. Csound has tradtionally being used in a non-interactive score driven context, but nowadays it is mostly used in in a real-time context. Csound can run on a host of different platforms incuding all major operating systems as well as Android and iOS. Csound can also be called through other programming languages such as Python, Lua, C/C++, Java, etc.

One of the main principles in Csound development is to guarantee backwards compatibility. You can still render a Csound source file from 1986 on the latest Csound release, and you should be able to render a file written today with the latest Csound in 2036.

 

https://vvvv.org/

vvvv - a multipurpose toolkit

Korean | Greek | Japanese | Russian | Mandarin | Spanish | French | Italian

vvvv is a hybrid visual/textual live-programming environment for easy prototyping and development. It is designed to facilitate the handling of large media environments with physical interfaces, real-time motion graphics, audio and video that can interact with many users simultaneously. Responsible for its development is the vvvv group.

vvvv is free for non-commercial use,
commercial use requires a license.

For a detailed overview of vvvvs features read the Propaganda or see some Screenshots of vvvv for a basic understanding of what you are dealing with here. People also seem to be interested in what the faq vvvv might mean.

 

https://www.soundmorph.com/product/40/dr01d
A free synth from the past! Nostalgic feelings....
Droid is our homage to retro sci-fi robots. And we're giving it to you for free!

 

http://www.essl.at/works/fontana-mixer.html

Yet another laptop version of Fontana Mix was developed by the Austrian composer Karlheinz Essl (b. 1960) in 2004. Essl's version, also called FontanaMixer, is a completeley self-generating sound environment that the composer programmed using Max/MSP. Adhering to Cage's instructions, and providing four sound channels as in Cage's four-track tape version, Essl's program uses chance-based operations to assign values to each of six possible parameters affecting the sound source. The audio sources become highly modified using granular synthesis techniques. Essl's FontanaMixer is provided with four sound sources including the voice of John Cage and nature sounds, but the user is invited to replace any of the given sources with audio tracks of their own. (Thom Holmes)
in: Electronic and Experimental Music: Technology, Music, and Culture (Routledge 2008)

 

http://www.unstablesound.net/
http://www.unstablesound.net/cdp.html
'CDP's objective when it started in 1987 was to provide in-depth sound transformation software tools at an affordable price. We at CDP believe that it now follows a natural evolution for us to move into a public domain online culture and make our main software package a free download.'

 

http://kymatica.com/Software/AlgoScore

AlgoScore is a graphical environment for algorithmic composition, where music is constructed directly in an interactive graphical score. The result is output as audio (through CSound), arbitrary control data (through JACK ports) for control of other applications, MIDI through JACK or to file, or OpenSoundControl messages. The generated audio can be played back through JACK or exported to an audiofile.

 

http://www.roomeqwizard.com/
Room Acoustics Software
REW is free room acoustics analysis software for measuring and analysing room and loudspeaker responses. The audio analysis features of REW help you optimise the acoustics of your listening room, studio or home theater and find the best locations for your speakers, subwoofers and listening position. It includes tools for generating audio test signals; measuring SPL and impedance; measuring frequency and impulse responses; measuring distortion; generating phase, group delay and spectral decay plots, waterfalls, spectrograms and energy-time curves; generating real time analyser (RTA) plots; calculating reverberation times; calculating Thiele-Small parameters; determining the frequencies and decay times of modal resonances; displaying equaliser responses and automatically adjusting the settings of parametric equalisers to counter the effects of room modes and adjust responses to match a target curve.

 

https://cycling74.com/project/77_gs-a-granular-samplersynthesizer/#.WMVRoGThCfQ
“77_GS” – a granular sampler/synthesizer

 

http://www.hexachords.com/orb-composer/orb-composer-features/
Orb Composer Features
A smarter way to compose music.
Want to try Orb Composer software ?

 

https://jstuff.wordpress.com/jbridgem/

jBridgeM aims to make it possible to run 32bit bit VST plugins in 64 bit VST hosts and vice-versa, as well as do 32bit to 32bit bridging, allowing you to use all the available RAM in your machine, overcome the memory limitations of your 32bit VST host, or use your favorite 32bit plugins in your 64bit VST host.