MacMusic
- Resources, searchable links, downloads, updates, classified ads, mailing-list, and articles about making music with your Macintosh.
Apple - GarageBand - Perform, record and create music from virtual instruments and pre-recorded loops.
Apple - iTunes - Audio player with multiple playlist functions, native burn support, visual effects, and file conversion.
Apple - Soundtrack Pro - Audio sequencer designed for video, DVD, and web projects. Includes instrument loops and sound effects.
Apple Quicktime - Apple's free media player supporting innumerable audio and video formats. The pro version includes an abundance of media authoring capabilities.
Ask the DJ - MP3 player and DJ/mix engine with beats analysis.
Audiocorder - VOX program audio recorder. Can set volume sound must reach to begin recording and volume at which it should stop.
Audiomac - Reviews of hard disk recording and digital audio post-production software.
Audion - Audio player for MP3 files, CDs, and streaming audio from the Internet. Skins/faces available.
Autoscore - Audio-to-MIDI music program that allows you to compose by simply singing or playing an instrument.
Barbabatch - Institutes a Quicktime 4.0 codec that converts MP3 files. Demo download available.
BIAS Inc. - Peak Studio for editing, processing, and mastering. Deck, a DAW. Vbox for multi-effects. Freq, a 4-Band EQ.
Bitcartel Software - Developers of iRecordMusic and RadioLover, utilities to record audio streams to AAC and MP3.
Cacophony - Digital audio editor for OS X. Supports many different file formats and multi-track editing.
Emagic - Featuring the Logic series, several virtual instruments and hardware accessories. Products description, support area, company information and news.
Extended iTunes Rating - Analysis of how iTunes deals with ratings of a finer gradient than just the number of stars.
Granted Software - Developers of the AudioUnit host Rax, AudioUnit Manager, and ReVision, a tool to sunchsonize audio from Propellerhead Software's Reason or Ableton's Live with QuickTime movies. All are exclusively Mac OS X applications.
GregEdit - Software for editing and listening to Gregorian Chant.
iDrum - Drum machine for OS X, running as both a standalone application and as plug-in. Overview, screenshots, features, downloadable demo and purchasing information.
Intuem - MIDI music authoring solution for OS X with Aqua interface, music notation, intended mostly for musical amateurs.
iPod Free File Sync - Utility for Mac OS 9 which allows synchronization of music from different iPods or any other source to computer.
iStream - MP3 Streaming Server for the Macintosh from Arctic Software.
3ivx.com - A natural video compression system that is compliant with MPEG-4v3.
Jasmine Audio - Stereo multi-track audio editor and converter supporting AAC/MP4, AVI, System 7, AIFF, WAV, Quicktime, and other formats.
Lexikon Sonate - Generates piano music in realtime, can also be used as a meta-instrument for improvising complex piano music.
Lime - Music Notation software for Macintosh. Also available for Win32. (CERL Sound Group)
MetroGnome - Freeware metronome for OS X. Customizable settings.
Microsoft Media Player 7.1 - Support among others Microsoft MPEG-4 (version 2.0 and 3.0)and the ISO MPEG-4 video (version 1.0) video codecs.
MRAC Publishing - Symbolic Composer - Programming language/expert system for MIDI music composition, including the VLISP Lisp Visualization System.
Music Ace - Two education programs covering music concepts.
OS X Audio - Forum provinding information for OS X users.
Ovolab - Develops applications for Mac OS X, particularly software that converts MP3 songs to AAC format. Includes support and downloads.
PlayerPRO - Tracker, composer, and player, all in one.
QDesign - Audio compression solutions for digital music, new media, and Internet streaming.
Red Barn Goat Farm - Li'l Miss' Scale Oven (LMSO), an ethnic and microtonal scale editor/synth retuner. Also DSP holophonics plug-ins.
RhapsOGL visual effects - RhapsOGLApp X visual effects generator for MacOSX - This is a visual plug-in for SoundJam MP and MACAST
Rocket Science - Bundle of real-time plugins for Mark of the Unicorn's Digital Performer and Audio Desk.
Roxio's Jam Software - Sound editing software for Macintosh allowing users to easily create 100% Red Book compliant audio CDs.
Sagan Technology Metro - Sequencer with MIDI, audio, and video functionalities. Includes support for CoreAudio, CoreMIDI, Audio Units, Music Devices, Music Effects, VST, and Premiere.
SimpleChord - Handy reference to chords for musicians. For Mac OS X.
Sound Grinder - Batch audio conversion application with support for a variety of formats, along with the retention of metadata for .mp3, Ogg Vorbis, FLAC, and Quicktime files.
thOnk_0+2 - Freeware application uses Granular Synthesis to produce very diverse sounds based on a user provided sound file.
TunesTracker - Search the iTunes Music Store daily for your favorite artists and send you an e-mail when there are new songs by those artists.
U and I Software - Developers of MetaSynth, a composition and sound design program using a strictly visual interface, with customizable tunings and image synthesis.
Virtual Composer - Shareware multiple track graphical sequencer, allowing files to be exported in AIFF, abc, or MIDI formats.
YamIpod - Yet Another iPod Manager - Freeware application enabling adding and deleting music from the device. Includes software news, development information, and downloads.