Jul 28
About 33 RPM
In the past, a musician would learn a piece of music by adjusting the speed of their record player and then methodically practice along with the slower version of the song. 33 RPM brings a little back from a time of LPs and record players, just without the scratches.

33 RPM is an excellent tool to transcribe music, by leveraging the power of QuickTime to provide an easy way to slow down, speed up, and loop your media — all without changing the pitch of the music. But if you enjoy those chipmunk-like voices, 33 RPM also has you covered with independent controls to alter the pitch and speed of your audio.

- Adjust the rate from 1% to 200% of the original song without changing the pitch

- Change the pitch up to one octave without altering the speed

- Easily select portions of a song to loop

- Play any QuickTime-compatible audio or video files, including MP3, AAC, M4P, AIFF, MOV, and AVI

- Works with the Perian and Flip4Mac WMV Player plug-ins for QuickTime to play Flash and Windows Media content

- Elegant interface, designed specifically for the Mac

Jul 28
About DX7 Librarian
Any voice parameter can be changed on Editor window having direct connection with DX7 over MIDI. If your Macintosh have a connection with the Internet, you can access to DX7 voices database. Double clicking on a file in Database window, you can get the voice file on your Mac!

You can submit your original voice file via e-mail just by choosing Submit item in File menu. Then the file will be appended into the Database within a few days.

Jul 28
About QuickVoice
Up until now you probably have found little use for your computer’s microphone. QuickVoice changes that by giving your PC feature-rich voice recording, voice email, voice reminders, voice stickies and a full blown audio editor. That’s five great voice functions in one tightly knit program!

It’s equally suited to record brief voice notes or entire lectures and seminars. QuickVoice features a beautifully designed and easy to use one-click interface with added features found only in high end voice recorders and more e.g. one click send to iTunes as MP3 (for archiving/iPod listening/CD burning), one click voice email, one click voice stickies, voice reminders, and send to audio editor.

This is a great tool for professional, school, or home use and, QuickVoice is a Macworld Magazine “Best Software Under $40” product. Now available as the special discount price of just $15.

Jul 28
About TruePianos
For the gentle virtuosi…
When the instrument blends transparently with the musician’s hands, reality becomes music.

TruePianos was designed with exactly this in mind giving the inspiration an instant GO as soon as you touch the keyboard.

Following our tradition, we have optimized the instruments for a real-time performance. The CPU usage is low even for 96khz host sampling rates, and for advanced polyphony we support dual-core CPUs, spreading the load symmetrically.

TruePianos has multiple modules and offers an intuitive control to match your playing style.

Jul 28
About FontanaMixer
A generative sound environment based on John Cage’s “Fontana Mix” (1958). The original concept of the piece uses a graphical random generator that is supplied with the score. This new version, however, uses realtime sound generation and produces completely unpredictable sonic results which are reflecting Cage’s ideas of indeterminacy, chance, and silence.

The structural core of FontanaMixer is a realtime granular synthesis engine that was originally developed for my realtime sound shredder REplay PLAYer which is distributed as shareware.

This sound generator creates new variants and hybrids of a given sound material, and is controlled by randomly obtained values for compositional parameters like phrase length, speed, grain duration, granular offset, transposition and reverb.

Jul 28
About Strobe Tuner
A 12-note chromatic scale strobe tuner application that utilizes sound input devices such as built-in microphone, line-in and iSight. You can use Strobe Tuner to tune your guitar, bass, and other musical instruments.

- Tuning: 12-note chromatic scale

- Temperaments: Equal, Kellner, Kirnberger III, Meantone, Pythagorean, Vallotti, Werckmeister III, Young II, etc.

- Meter: strobe, cent, and hertz.

- Range: A0 (27.5Hz) - C8 (4186.0Hz)

- Accuracy: ±1 cent with the cent readout. ±0.1 cent @ 440Hz with the strobe tuning meter.

- Calibration: 349.0 - 499.9Hz (0.1Hz steps)

- Transpose: ±11 semitones

KS Strobe Tuner AU (Audio Unit plug-in version) is also available:

http://www.katsurashareware.com/

Jul 28
About Chromatic Tuner
A 12-note chromatic scale tuner that utilizes sound input devices such as built-in microphone, line in, and iSight. You can use Chromatic Tuner to tune your guitar, bass guitar, and any musical instrument.

- Tuning: 12-note chromatic scale

- Temperaments: Equal Tempered, Kellner, Kirnberger III, Meantone, Pythagorean, Vallotti, Werckmeister III, Young II, etc.

- Range: A0 (27.5Hz) - C8 (4186.0Hz)

- Calibration: 349.0 - 499.9Hz (0.1Hz steps)

- Accuracy: +/-1 cent

- Transpose: +/-11 semitones

- Speak current tuning status on demand or automatically

- Resizable main window on Mac OS X 10.4 or later

KS Chromatic Tuner AU (audio unit plug-in version) also available: http://www.katsurashareware.com/

Jul 27

How long before the carriers and the FCC admit that the new transmission medium for radio is the cell system? And how long before they also recognize that the cell system is properly part of the Net’s infrastructure and not just cordless telephony with messaging tacked on?

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Jul 26

Windows Vista Advertising (PC World) by macintoshmad.

I found this marketing space by Microsoft which features Bill Gates as the salesman? Also,look at the tag line — How do you want to crash today?

Apparently this was photoshopped.

You can look here and roll the mouse over to see messages pop out.

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Jul 26

Sixty percent of IT leaders have no plans to deploy Windows Vista (TechRepublic)
Survey predicts upgrade disaster for Windows Vista (TGDaily)
PC with Windows XP can shift to Ubuntu (Baltimore Sun)
Windows Vista All-in-One Desk Reference For Dummies (NetBks)
Forrester Gets Schizophrenic on Windows Vista (WindowsVistaBlog)

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