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SoftStep

Filed under MIDI by gabrielle.zbjv2 on 02-02-2010

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MIDISoftStep is a modular MIDI step sequencer patterned after the modular analog step sequencers. The big ones, with lots of knobs and blinky lights. But SoftStep goes far beyond its step sequencer roots, to give you algorithmic composing tools of all kinds, including fractal, chaos, probability, and numerical based algorithms of virtually unlimited flexibility.

To create a MIDI composition with SoftStep you create the modules and connect them together to produce a MIDI data stream that drives any MIDI synthesizer, or sound card. It will make a standard MIDI file for your web page, to insert into your music notation sequencer, or just play with any MIDI file player.

You can begin with a simple sequence, and then repeat, modify or combine and recombine it with other sequences. Not only do you hear the changes instantly, you also see them. SoftStep modules are visually dynamic, with values changing, lights blinking, indicators flashing. This visual dynamic is what sets SoftStep apart from other modular algorithmic programs, that let you make the connections but otherwise give minimal visual feedback. With SoftStep, even large, complex patches are easy to follow because nearly every module gives an animated visual indication of its processes.

A review in Electronic Musician Magazine says: “A fascinating program from Algorithmic Arts, SoftStep responds to your playing in creative and spontaneous new ways. Play a major scale on your MIDI controller, and the software responds with an exotic microtonal cluster. Play a few more notes, and it responds with a soft, delayed version of the melody at a tempo determined by your playing Velocity. When you pause for more than a specified period, a long arpeggiated chord sounds. The harmony unfolds in response to biological information from genetic code, and a background rhythm responds to the patterns of a fractal image on the screen. Those are only some of the musical scenarios you can produce with SoftStep.”



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Share Speaker Player

Filed under Multiple Computers by gabrielle.zbjv2 on 22-01-2010

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Multiple ComputersMultiple Computers Share Speakers, Save Your Money and Space!
Share Speaker Player is an outstanding yet easy-to-use application to manage music and share speakers over network with high quality. This software allows you sharing songs resource and remote control the playlist. You can choose to play songs on local computer or other computers with speakers. You can add your songs to the shared playlist and reorder, remove songs, control the volume of sound, and so on.
If there are several speakers in one office, they will disturb each other when they are open at the meantime. With this software, just one speaker is enough for an office shared by many colleagues. Save your money and space!
Play music directly on other computer and use its speakers, you even don’t need to copy or send the music to this computer.
All computers in office, home or room can share the same set of speakers.
Songs from laptop computer can be played with the speakers of desktop computer without copy or move.
Your families, friends and colleagues could play their music on your computer and share your speakers.
Every computer is entitled to accepting or refusing other users to play on it or use its speakers.
Support all kinds of audio formats that are available in Window Media Player.
How to use it
Step 1: Install the software on some of computers in your office or family.
Step 2: Run the software on your computer, you will see the computers list that are running the software.
Step 3: Select the songs and the computer which you want to play on, and click “Play” button. Everything is OK now! You will hear the sound send from the speakers of other computer!

Virtual Room Emulator VST

Filed under vst by gabrielle.zbjv2 on 21-01-2010

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vstVirtual Room Emulator is a VST reverb plug-in for native PC platforms. Used to create psycho-acoustic models in the DSP environment. It simulates the reverberation of a sound in a rectangular type room, allowing separate control of the room’s width, depth and height. It also allows you to control the distance between the listener and the sound positioned in that virtual room.
The Virtual Room Emulator section offers control over the size, width, and damping factor of the room by way of three linkable sliders. Produces a natural sounding room reverberation effect that gives you true room perception, from small rooms to large concert halls. Small rooms have a high percentage of early reflections ( the first feedback from the closest objects) that can give more body to tracks. It is also good with acoustic guitars and voices. Larger rooms are better with strings, or wind instruments and synthesizer pads.

Features:
# Reverberation technique that simulates a real acoustic environment of a room.
# Separate control of Room’s dimensions, produces naturally sounding reverberation.
# Early and late reflections, (The sound reflections from walls, floors and ceilings following a sound created in an acoustically reflective environment).
# It uses reverberation engine that does not produce metal harmonics.
# 16 predefined room configurations that range from tiny to extra large rooms , allow you to quickly switch between different Virtual Room’s configurations.
# The plugin is perfectly suited for any type of audio production when acoustic space simulation is needed from recording to post production.
Parameters:
- Size
- Width
- Damp ( Damping factor)
- Gate
- Mode: Normal – Freeze – Gated
- Mix:

( Syntheway VRE )

Blue Cat”s Protector

Filed under Blue Cat Audio by gabrielle.zbjv2 on 20-01-2010

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Blue Cat Audio“A brick wall for your master buss.” – Blue Cat’s Protector is a 0dB stereo brickwall limiter with adjustable dynamics response. It will typically find its place on the master bus of your DAW to protect your audio output from overshoot, limit the general volume and improve the perceived loudness, thanks to a very transparent frequency response. Despite its very simple set of controls, it offers a wide range of sounds and it is also suitable as a track limiter for more creative effects such as distortion, pumping or heavy limiting. Beyond its powerful dynamics processing features, and like most of our plugins, Blue Cat’s Protector also offers a powerful side chain capability thanks to its MIDI CC output. This unique technique not only lets you do side chain limiting but also parameters modulation: control any parameter of any plugin to create powerful side chain effects in real time. If you are looking for a complete dynamics processing solution you might be interested in looking at Blue Cat’s Dynamics plugin.



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RadioBOSS

Filed under radio by gabrielle.zbjv2 on 03-01-2010

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radioRadioBOSS is the software product that provides automation capabilities for broadcasting stations, clubs, discos, casinos, shops, cinemas. A large number of features allows using it no matter where you need to play music. The RadioBOSS software can work for months without operator?s assistance. Network streaming, crossfade, playlist generator, scheduler, format converter, CD grabber, music database, automatic volume control and other features make this software a very useful tool to handle any music collection. The simple and convenient interface minimizes the learning curve.

RadioBOSS consists of 3 components:
Player is the primary component that contains most of the functionality: launching and editing playlists, scheduling, configuring effects and many other.
Musical database that searches you hard drive for music files and saves the list of files into the database. It provides quick search by any field, mass tag editor, sorting, statistics, filter etc.
Playlist Generator that generates playlists using templates. You can specify various parameters such as the length of the playlist, generation method, advertisement options, hourly blocks, jingles, rotations? The result is a ready to use playlist that can be broadcast right away.

Features:
- retranslation is possible
- the ability to run an internet radio station (Internet Streaming)
- metadata output (upload to FTP, HTTP request, text or XML file)
- automatic generation of playlists using templates
- indexed music database that supports quick search capabilities
- the level of advertisements and announcements is increased
- WinAMP plugins are supported
- crossfade support
- voice track feature
- automatic volume control ? all files are played at the same volume
- the program takes advantage of the multichannel cards (4.0, 5.1, 7.1 etc)
- two independent outputs: stereo split; splitting to channels on multichannel cards; using two sound cards
- flexible scheduling capabilities
- support for profiles



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Forte Standard

Filed under notation by gabrielle.zbjv2 on 28-12-2009

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notationForte Standard is the full version of the world’s most intelligent music notation software. It combines all the tools you need to create, edit and perform music with a full-featured score notation engine and visual editing tools for producing professional-quality printed scores.

Forte has been successful because it is versatile and extremely user friendly. Spend your precious time in your work instead of in learning the software itself!

Features:

- Revolutionary easy-to-use interface;
- Edit every music symbol with a simple double-click;
- Several parts can be created in the same document;
- All layouts and views are automatically synchronized;
- Lyrics are automatically aligned under the notes;
- Import images, graphics and texts into your score;
- 8 individual voices can be used on the same staff;
- 9 different types of clefs and support for the octave signs;
- Support for compound and complex meters;
- Support for all meters types with denominators up to 64 and numerators up to 255;
- Support for duplets, triplets, quadruplets and other tuplets up to groups of 32;
- Support for 26 different ornaments;
- 26 different types of accents;
- Movable barlines, support for 4 different barline types;
- Support for repeat signs, repeat expressions and multiple endings;
- Add chord symbols effortlessly using the Chord Analyzer;
- Allow the use of guitar chord grids;
- Import formats: MIDI, MusicXML, CapX and KAR;
- Export formats: MIDI, MusicXML, WAVE, JPEG, TIFF and EPS.

Views:

- Forte provides several different alternatives for entering, editing and viewing music:
- Page View: displays music exactly as it will be printed on a page;
- Track View: displays staves along one long scrolling view; work with scores without having to move between different pages;
- Piano Roll: displays a time grid with a virtual piano; creates envelopes for controllers, tempo, volume, etc.
- Event List: displays music as MIDI events.



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JukeBx

Filed under media by gabrielle.zbjv2 on 21-12-2009

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mediaPlaylists are a useful way to organize your digital music… if you have only a few hundred songs. Once you have thousands of songs, it becomes a chore to modify playlists to suit changing tastes / moods. Also, playlists become completely impractical when you have to suit the musical tastes of various household members. JukeBx changes this. It builds playlists in the background that it creates based on how you, and up to nine other users, rate the song. This enables you to hear the songs you love regularly, and the ones you don’t like as much less, while still giving you the variety that rebuilding playlists every day would give you. Up to ten programmable patterns can be set so everyone can hear music they like equally, or unequally if you set it that way! For example, you can set a pattern that will select 5 songs in a row that you like followed by one your partner likes. JukeBx can be set to use a database that is stored at a remote location and allow you to hear music the way you want it in any room with a networked computer. Multiple copies of JukeBx can use the same database when configured this way.

JukeBx supports most media files, including most video types, and songs can be imported from playlists or directories. JukeBx can also be used as a playlist generator if you like another player but dislike it’s selection ability. JukeBx even includes a Media Filler mode for portable music players which will fill up a directory with a set amount of music.

In addition JukeBx supports offensive song filtering, minimum rating play mode, variable start and end time, ID3 data importing, selectable full screen video, cover / disc image viewing, file type filtering, customization of the user and pattern names, minimize to tray, database browsing, file play count, auto-play, 10 song back, 100 song anti-repeat, anti-artist repeat, and auto minimize. For the advanced / daring users, it is possible to modify some of the values that JukeBx uses to select songs and, for e



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Aktiv Player

Filed under Aktiv Player by gabrielle.zbjv2 on 14-12-2009

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Aktiv PlayerAktiv Player is a versatile Windows audio player designed to offer music fans the ultimate listening experience and turn the audio files stored on your computer into a well organized music collection. This software is built around an embedded SQL database engine (sqlite). It comes with a customizable interface where explanatory icons displayed on the left guide you through the wide audio experience Aktiv Player has set for you.
Aktiv Player does a lot more than just playing tracks – it changes the way you manage and listen to your favourite artists. It’s amazingly simply to handle and its ingenious features will actually turn it into your own home jukebox.
“Dynamic playlists” enables fully automatic, randomized playback of tracks which your own preferences “educate” which means the more you listen to music, the more loyal to your musical needs it will become. Browsable, user reorderable playlists will also attend to your music related habits.
You can easily pause/resume the songs or navigate to the next or previous ones on the playlist and you can also re-randomize the playlist by simply pressing the play button again. The software cal also act as an info source allowing the user to learn details about the album the currently playing song appears on (internet access required).
Aktiv Player is filled with a copious amount of features and exceptional functions. The software was created for users who take their music needs seriously. Whether you want an all-around music player to have fun with when at home , with family or friends or you want a well-resourced music player to fire-up a party or social event, is this the application for you.
The program offers a built-in net-radio function to keep you connected to the music out there. The diversity and freedom in creating and organizing your playlists is one of the key features of this program as it lets you actually build-up a musical profile out of your collection of songs.



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Codec Pack – Standard

Filed under Audio by gabrielle.zbjv2 on 03-12-2009

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AudioThe Cole2k Media standard codec package features a collection of codecs and filters for encoding/decoding a large variety of video/audio formats.

Components include:

ffdshow Video Codec Build 20081228 Revision 2547 by clsid.
CoreAVC 0.0.0.4
On2 Technologies VP7 Video (Decoder) Codec 7.0.8.
On2 Technologies VP6 Video (Decoder) Codec 6.4.2.
Flash Video Splitter 1.0.0.1.

InterVideo Video Filter 7.0.27.191.
CyberLink DVD Video/SP Filter 6.0.2.2806.
AC3Filter 1.51a.
DVBPortal HDTV Pump Filter 1.0.7.

Core AAC Playback Filter 1.2.0.573 + AAC Parser Filter 1.1.0 By Tom Judd.
Core Vorbis Playback Filter 1.1.0.79 + OGG Splitter 1.0.0.0 By Gabest.
RadLight OFR Playback Filter 1.0.0.1 – for OptimFROG.
DivX ACM Audio Codec also known as Windows Media Audio 4.1.
DSP-worx Bass source filter 1.11.

Haali Media Splitter 29/03/08 – For MP4, MKV, OGM and AVI container files.
RealMedia Source Splitter 1.0.1.2.
MPEG Splitter 1.0.0.3
AVI – AC3/DTS Converter + DTS/AC3 Source Filter By Gabest.
VSFilter 2.39 – Subtitle Reader.
XCD Filter – Also known as Form 2 Mode 2 CD.




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Advanced Audio DJ Mixer

Filed under audio mixer by gabrielle.zbjv2 on 26-11-2009

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audio mixerFree Audio Mixer makes it very, very easy to record over and add recordings to something you’ve already done. It plays what you’ve done along with your recording so you hear what you need to. Then adding it is simply a click away! The volume control for each track is really helpful, as well. Another great thing is just the overall simplicity of the whole recording process. One of the things, however, Choose from included music or select your own MP3s and then step up to the turntables and start mixing. With EZ-DJ Plus 1.2, you can finally create the ultimate mix CD. Once you have decided on music, you can perform cool DJ tricks and apply great sounding effects. When your mix is complete, burn it to a CD or export it to your portable music device and take that mix to go!