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Cubase

Company / developer:
  Steinberg

Cubase is a music production software which turns Mac and PC computers into a complete virtual studio.

Cubase converges extraordinary sound quality, intuitive handling and a vast range of highly advanced audio and MIDI tools for composition, recording, editing and mixing.

• State-of-the-art Audio + MIDI Recording/Editing/Mixing
• Complete new set of VST3 virtual instruments and effects
• Real multi-channel 5.1 surround sound
• SoundFrame™ - Universal Sound Manager
• Control Room integration within your outboard studio environment
• Seamless integration of external audio and MIDI hardware
• Pristine 32-bit floating point audio engine
• Professional music notation and score printing
• Cross-Platform: Windows and Mac OS X Universal Binary

Raduga

Company / developer:
  WoLoSoft International

Raduga

Raduga lets you create a playlist simply by dragging audio files from the Explorer into the Raduga window. You can rearrange the songs by dragging them with the mouse from one position to another. When you're finished with the playlist, turn on your radio equipment, press the play button and you are on air.

Features:

• An icon in the system tray displays the current song.
• The tray icon menu provides access to common functions while Raduga is hidden behind other windows.
• Large toolbar buttons make it easier to use Raduga with touchscreen controls.
• Add-ins can be enabled and disabled without restart.
• Scheduled events can expire automatically during long pre-recorded shows.

Visual MP3

Company / developer:
  iProgram Development

Visual MP3

Visual MP3 is competent in music management.
Along with playing MP3 files it can be used to create or import karaoke lyric sheets for music, which can then be displayed on-screen as the music plays. The built-in audio mp3 player is able to recognise ID3 v1/v2 tags, organize MP3 files by either album name, artist or song title. A graphic equaliser is also supplied to get the sound you want. Your MP3 files are organized in an alphabetical listing by either album name, artist or song title.
It is presented in an excellent user-friendly environment, since it is simple and easy to use.

Features:

• Organizer - Organize MP3 Files by ID3s automatically
• CD Ripper - CD to MP3, CD to OGG, CD to WAV Decoder
• Karaoke - Karaoke player and free karaoke song lyrics
• Batch ID3 Tag Editor - Supports ID3 v1/ v2 Tagging
• Batch copy and rename for MP3 files
• Advanced fuzzy search, catalog MP3s by Artist, Album, etc.
• DIY & Publish your own free karaoke song lyrics
• Combine karaoke song lyrics into the MP3
• Search free karaoke song lyrics online
• Create the HTML, TXT and Winamp M3U playlist

Cubase

Company / developer:
  Steinberg

Cubase is a music production software which turns Mac and PC computers into a complete virtual studio.

Cubase converges extraordinary sound quality, intuitive handling and a vast range of highly advanced audio and MIDI tools for composition, recording, editing and mixing.

• State-of-the-art Audio + MIDI Recording/Editing/Mixing
• Complete new set of VST3 virtual instruments and effects
• Real multi-channel 5.1 surround sound
• SoundFrame™ - Universal Sound Manager
• Control Room integration within your outboard studio environment
• Seamless integration of external audio and MIDI hardware
• Pristine 32-bit floating point audio engine
• Professional music notation and score printing
• Cross-Platform: Windows and Mac OS X Universal Binary

Ableton Live

Company / developer:
  Ableton AG

Ableton Live

Live offers two main views—the Session View and the Arrangement View—that interact in a powerful and unique way, allowing you to create, produce and perform your music all in a single application.

The Session View acts as a powerful musical sketch and launch pad, allowing you to try out new ideas easily and improvise freely. Each cell in the Session View grid can hold a recording, MIDI file, or any other musical idea. These ideas can be recorded on the fly or dragged in from the Browser and played in any order and at any time you wish.

The Arrangement View offers a timeline-based approach for traditional multitrack recording, MIDI sequencing and other music production tasks. You can even improvise in the Session View, and all of your actions will be recorded into the Arrangement View, where they can be edited whenever you like.

Features:

• Multitrack recording up to 32-bit/192kHz.
• Complete nondestructive editing with unlimited undo.
• Powerful and creative MIDI sequencing of software and hardware instruments.
• Real-time time-stretching and warping of AIFF, WAV, Ogg Vorbis, FLAC and MP3 files, for improvisation and instant remixing.
• A comprehensive selection of built-in audio effects, including a host of creative delays, filters, distortions, studio compressors and EQs.
• Built-in software instruments: Simpler for creative sample-based synthesis, Impulse for sampled drums.
• Instrument-, Drum-, Effect Racks for creating and managing complex performance setups, drum kits and multi-effects.
• VST and AU effects and instruments support; automatic plug-in delay compensation .
• REX file support and native sliced audio file creation.
• Video import and export for scoring to picture or warping picture to music.
• Real-time control of parameters with any MIDI controller—just MIDI-map it or choose from a list of popular supported controllers for instant mapping.
• Full ReWire support.
• Single-screen user interface for simple, creativity-focused operation.
• Multicore and multiprocessor support.

Awave Studio

Company / developer:
  FMJ-Software

Awave Studio is a multi-purpose audio tool that reads a veritable host of audio carrying file formats from different platforms, synthesizers, trackers, mobile phones... you name it! It can be used in a variety of ways: as an audio file format converter, as an audio editor, an audio and MIDI player, and, last but not least, as a wavetable synthesizer instrument editor & format converter. Think of it as the swiss army knife for anyone working in digital audio or with synthesizers!

Awave Studio

Company / developer:
  FMJ-Software

Awave Studio is a multi-purpose audio tool that reads a veritable host of audio carrying file formats from different platforms, synthesizers, trackers, mobile phones... you name it! It can be used in a variety of ways: as an audio file format converter, as an audio editor, an audio and MIDI player, and, last but not least, as a wavetable synthesizer instrument editor & format converter. Think of it as the swiss army knife for anyone working in digital audio or with synthesizers!

Do conversions from the about 260 audio related file formats that it can read (no kidding - you read that right - approximately two hundred and sixty!) into any of the 125 or so audio file formats that it can write! No other software even comes close to such a wide format support!

Winamp with AdPlug plugin

Company / developer:
  Nullsoft

Winamp with AdPlug plugin

Nullsoft Winamp is a fast, flexible, high-fidelity music and video player for Windows. Winamp supports MP3, CD, WAV and other audio formats, custom appearances called skins, plus audio visualization and audio effect plug-ins. additional features including free-form skins, a new decoder, built-in cross fade, and an advanced Media Library.

AdPlug is a free, cross-platform, hardware independent AdLib sound player library, mainly written in C++ and released under the LGPL. AdPlug plays sound data, originally created for the AdLib (OPL2) and Sound Blaster (Dual OPL2/OPL3) audio boards, directly from its original format on top of an emulator or by using the real hardware. No OPL chip is required for playback.

AdPlug itself is just the backend to many different audio player frontends, which are also being developed here. There are plugins for popular audio players, like Winamp and XMMS, as well as stand-alone players for many different systems available.

iTunes

Company / developer:
  Apple, Inc.

iTunes

iTunes is a digital media player application, introduced by Apple Inc. for playing and organizing digital music and video files. The program is also an interface to manage the contents on Apple's popular iPod digital media players as well as the iPhone. Additionally, iTunes can connect to the iTunes Store via the internet to purchase and download digital music, music videos, television shows, iPod games, audiobooks, various podcasts, feature length films (available only in the USA), Movie Rentals and Ringtones.

iTunes is available as a free download for Mac OS X, Windows Vista, and Windows XP from Apple's website. It is also bundled with all Macs, and some HP and Dell computers. Older versions are available for Mac OS 9, OS X 10.0-10.2, and Windows 2000. iTunes is not available for other operating systems.

KMPlayer

Company / developer:
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KMPlayer

The KMPlayer is a versatile media player which can cover various types of container format such as VCD, DVD, AVI, MKV, Ogg Theora, OGM, 3GP, MPEG-1/2/4, WMV, RealMedia, and QuickTime among others. It handles a wide range of subtitles and allows you to capture audio, video, and screenshots in many ways.

The player provides both internal and external filters with a fully controlled environment in terms of connections to other splitters, decoders, audio/video transform filters and renderers without grappling with the DirectShow merit system. Internal filters are not registered to user's system to keep it from being messed up with system filters.

The KMPlayer includes almost all the essential decoders required for media playback. Furthermore, to get beyond the limitation of internal decoders, the external ones such as commercial h.264 decoders or cyberlink/intervideo audio decoders can be specified, so that KMP works optimally by the users' own customization. Even though the KMP is based upon directshow structure, it supports Winamp, Realmedia and Quicktime by the internal logic. Thus, it is possible to specify where to try to connect firstly the media in preferences.

In short, the player provides a strong hybrid structure efficient for interconnecting various directshow filters, winamp input&dsp plugin, and internal filters. The most outstanding feature is that the player has the full control of filter connections to prevent a media playback from being messed.

The player can set multifarious audio and video effects, slow down or increase playback speed with regular tone, select parts of a video as favorites, do an exceptionally powerful A-B repeat, remap the keys of remote interface for HTPC including overlay screen controls, change a skin dynamically depending on a media type playing, and many more. It is completely customizable thanks to a wide selection of skins and color schemes, and the configuration options are extremely extensive.