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AudioFinder
AudioFinder is an audio asset management system, and music production hub. AudioFinder gathers all the most useful tools in one quick and intuitive application, enabling you to be more creative by handling all the time consuming tasks that slow down your music production.
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GarageBand
(Comes with iLife bundle on new Mac purchases, no demo avaliable. $79.00 is price of iLife bundle.)
GarageBand is a software application that allows users to create a piece of music. It is developed by Apple Computer for Mac OS X.
The application is not aimed at professional musicians, but it is intended to help amateurs produce music easily. The application comes with 1,000 pre-recorded sampled loops, and 50 sampled or synthesized instruments which can be played using a MIDI keyboard connected to the computer, or using an on-screen keyboard.
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Loop Editor Plus
Loop editor is a simple audio loop editor. It has two modes. One is 100% free and allows you to add and edit loop points as well as add crossfades to those loop points. The "Plus" mode is $50 and allows advanced metadata editing utilized in ACID and Apple Loops files.
Designed in Cocoa from the ground up, Loop Editor proudly takes advantage of Quartz, CoreAudio, and other solid OS X interface features.
Loop Editor supports all audio file formats that support loop markers, including every type of looping available for any given format. Loop Editor is one of the only applications available that manages multiple loop makers (within files that support multiple loops).
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Numbers
Introducing Numbers ’08, the spreadsheet you’ve been waiting for — and already know how to use. Innovative, powerful, and intuitive, Numbers ’08 lets you do everything from setting up your family budget to completing a lab report to creating detailed financial documents.
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Pages
Apple's word processing/page layout software. Easy to use and relatively inexpensive (includes the excellent "Keynote" program in the price). Might not replace Word or InDesign but is terrific for making academic posters for conferences.
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Perian
Perian is a free plugin that enables QuickTime to play almost every popular video format.
With Perian installed, any OS X application that uses QuickTime can now use these additional media types:
Divx, XviD, FLV, AVI
MS-MPEG4 v1, MS-MPEG4 v2, MS-MPEG4 v3, DivX 3.11 alpha, 3ivX, Sorenson H.263, Flash Screen Video, Truemotion VP6
These formats when they are inside an AVI:
h.264, mpeg4, AAC, AC3 Audio, and VBR MP3.
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QuickTime Pro
QuickTime 7 Pro is everything that Apple's backbone media engine is, with features unlocked. Record audio, capture video, convert file formats, and save some web delivered content.
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Safari
Safari offers you a superior Web experience with outstanding performance. Even the most complex of pages load at breakneck speed. In fact, Safari loads pages more quickly than any other Mac Web browser. But that's not all. Safari uses the advanced interface technologies underlying Mac OS X to offer you an all-new view of the Web, one that's much easier to use.
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SoundHack
spectral audio processing for the macintosh
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Wave Editor
Wave Editor is a document-based audio file editor.
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A52Codec
- Multi-channel decoding of AC3 audio (can do full 5.1 decoding).
- Implemented as a core-audio component so it is available to both Quicktime and Core Audio components.
- Includes an AC3 importer so QuickTime can read .ac3 files directly.
- Includes a preferences file to enable or disable dobly surround encoding as well as dynamic range compression.
A52/AC-3 audio is a common format for audio from DVDs.
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Adium
Adium is a fast and free instant messaging client which supports AIM, ICQ, Jabber, MSN, Yahoo!, Google Talk, Yahoo! Japan, Bonjour, Gadu-Gadu, Novell Groupwise, and Lotus Sametime. Adium supports beautiful WebKit message display, tabbed messaging, encrypted chat, file transfer, and more. Give it a try; you won't look back.
Adium is currently translated into Catalan, Czech, Danish, Dutch, English, French, German, Icelandic, Italian, Japanese, Norwegian, Russian, Simplified Chinese, Swedish, and Traditional Chinese.
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Anxiety
Anxiety is a super-lightweight To-do list application for Mac OS X Leopard that synchronizes with iCal and Mail. Its aim is to provide a streamlined, easily accessible interface to add and check off your tasks, while remaining poised to melt into the background at a moments notice.
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AppFresh
AppFresh helps you to keep all applications (third-party and Apple), widgets, preference panes and application plugins on your Mac up to date, from one place. It works by checking the excellent iusethis.com for new versions and lets you download and install available updates easily.
AppFresh not only gets update information from iusethis.com. If you have an user profile at iusethis.com you can manage it from within AppFresh and control which applications appear in your profile, even automatically. We can only recommend you sign up, it's free and lets you see how many users use a certain application. In AppFresh, the full iusethis.com application page with comments and links to similar apps is always just a click away.
AppFresh can capture the installed version of an application along with your preferences and application data and store it in a safe place. This way, you're covered in case you decide you liked the last version of an application better. Create as many snapshots as you want to make sure you don't lose anything.
AppFresh is currently work in progress, and we're not even calling it a beta. Make sure to check our development blog regularly. You are welcome to leave your feedback or suggestions for improvements there.
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Audacity
Audacity is a free audio recorder/editor/mixer. You can record sounds, play sounds, import and export WAV, AIFF, and MP3 files, and more. Use it to edit your sounds using Cut, Copy and Paste (with unlimited Undo), mix tracks together, or apply effects to your recordings. It also has a built-in amplitude envelope editor, a customizable spectrogram mode and a frequency analysis window for audio analysis applications. Built-in effects include Bass Boost, Wahwah, and Noise Removal, and it also supports VST plug-in effects.
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Audio Unit Manager
Audio Unit Manager allows you to organize your Audio Units into sets that can be enabled for different contexts (such as Video editing, mastering etc.) and/or troubleshooting Audio Unit host problems.
This can mean accelerated application launch times and exclusion of incompatible Audio Units for some hosts.
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Automator
You can easily automate tasks such as renaming a large group of files, resizing dozens of images to fit an iPhoto slideshow or creating iCal birthday events using Address Book contacts, then repeat those tasks again and again. Simple and easy-to-understand application Actions are the building blocks, so you don't have to write any code. Each Action has all of the options and settings you need. You don't have to work hard to figure out how to make it work.
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BetterZip Quick Look Generator
A Quick Look plugin with support for archive formats: ZIP, TAR, GZip, BZip2, ARJ, LZH, ISO, CHM, CAB, CPIO, RAR, 7-Zip, DEB, RPM, StuffIt's SIT, DiskDoubler, BinHex, and MacBinary.
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ffmpeg (w/o gui)
No need for the GUI. It's a big program anyways. Run it out of Terminal and let it de/encode whatever a/v format you could possibly want while you do you other work.
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FireWave
FireWave is configuration software for the hardware of the same name. The hardware connects to your Mac's firewire port and provides the ports for 5.1 surround sound.
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Flip4Mac WMV
Play wma content on your mac. Works as a Quicktime plugin.
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Google Earth
Google Earth puts a planet's worth of imagery and other geographic information right on your desktop. View exotic locales like Maui and Paris as well as points of interest such as local restaurants, hospitals, schools, and more
Want to know more about a specific location? Dive right in -- Google Earth combines satellite imagery, maps and the power of Google Search to put the world's geographic information at your
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Growl
Growl is a notification system for Mac OS X: it allows applications that support Growl to send you notifications.
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Logic Pro
Complete Audio and Midi production software.
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Logic Studio
Logic Studio delivers everything a musician needs to write, record, edit, mix, and perform in the studio and on the stage. With three applications, instruments, effects, and a massive sound library, Logic Studio puts powerful music creation and production tools in one comprehensive package.
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OnyX
OnyX is a multifunction utility for Mac OS X (PowerPC and Intel). It allows you to verify the Startup Disk and the structure of its System files, to run misc tasks of system maintenance, to configure the hidden parameters of the Finder, Dock and of some of Apple's own applications, to delete caches, to remove a certain number of files and folders that may become cumbersome and more.
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Sample Manager
Sample Manager is the quintessential batch audio file processor for Mac OS X.
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Screen Sharing
The Screen Sharing program included with Apple's OS X 10.5 Leopard. This is a seperate program found in the /System/Library/CoreServices folder. Copy it to your Applications folder for easy access. A great Lifeacker article on tweaking Screen Sharing to add functionality can be found here: http://lifehacker.com/software/remote-control/add-more-functionality-to-leopards-screen-sharing-334759.php
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SoundConverter
Sound Converter is a very flexible Audio Converter for Mac OS X.
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SoundTrack Pro
Soundtrack Pro gives audio and video professionals a powerful way to edit and design sound. Soundtrack Pro?s waveform editor includes innovative action layering and intelligent repair and restoration functions that let you accurately manipulate audio while retaining total creative flexibility. And, with support for video formats up to HD resolutions, full multitrack editing and mixing, over 50 professional effects plug-ins, and thousands of included Apple Loops, precise audio control has never been so intuitive.
About me
Seattle-based (and LA and SF and ATL) Sound Designer for Film & VideoGames
