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• MacMusic Resources, searchable links, downloads, updates, classified ads, mailing-list, articles, and information, about making music with your Macintosh.
  
  
• SoundJam MP Full-Featured, all-in-one, MP3 Player and Encoder for the Macintosh.
  
• Roxios Jam Software Sound editing software for Macintosh allowing users to easily create 100% Red Book compliant audio CDs.
  
• SoundApp Norman Franke's sound player and converter for the Macintosh. (PowerPC native, freeware)
  
• Sibelius Music notation program designed to notate, edit, play back and publish music of every kind, to the highest professional standards. (Now ported to MacOS from the Acorn)
  
• Music Ace A fun, engaging and non-judgmental music education software program designed to provide an introduction to music fundamentals for beginning music students of all ages.
  
• MicroLogic AV Entry-level desktop studio software. (Emagic)
  
• Cubase VST Score Cubase VST with professional notation facilities.
  
• Cubase VST Transforms your Macintosh into a complete recording studio. (Steinberg)
  
• iStream MP3 Streaming Server for the Macintosh from Arctic Software.
  
• MacOS Resources Mac OS Resources is the most complete MacOS resource site for system sounds, system sound sets, desktop patterns, desktop pictures, and other system enhancments.
  
• Vision DSP Complete software system for recording, editing, effecting and playback of MIDI and digital audio. PowerPC native.. (Opcode)
  
• MacMusic News, resources, more than 1600 reviewed links, classifieds, and freeware all related to making music on Macintosh computers.
  
• MP3 For The Mac MP3 charts, encoders, decoders, Mac players, portable players, news, MP3 history and links to MP3 related sites.
  
• BarFly Freeware integrated text editor/player/viewer for abc music files.
  
• Lexikon-Sonate - interactive realtime composition A computer program that generates piano music in realtime and which can also be used as a meta-instrument for improvising highly complex piano music. Macintosh freeware (3 Mar 1998).
  
• AudioFusion A music software program created to transform your PowerMac into a professional studio. Includes standard audio tools such as a sampler, synthesizer, and beatbox, as well as a mixing system. Provides MIDI compatibility and AIFF exporting.
  
• WaveBurner Eddie-award winning software for Audio CD Mastering using the Mac. (Emagic)
  
• Encore MIDI music composer that gives you the tools to go from concept to published score with minimum effort. Now released by GVOX.
  
• Cakewalk Metro 5 Complete digital audio and MIDI studio for the Mac.
  
• SoundHack Manual and download information for a shareware sound processing program that does sample rate conversions, changes sound file headers, plays headerless files and other sound file conversions
  
• Macintosh Music Programs Briefly annotated link compilation.
  
• Clixsounds If you're looking for high-quality stereo sounds for the Macintosh, this site will definitely fit the bill. It adds a new freeware sound every week and also sells CD-ROM's chuck full of other audio morsels. Most sounds are offered for download in 8-bit and 16-bit stereo versions.
  
• SampleTank VST Sound Module with Superior Sampled Sounds SampleTank® is a new software sound module which combines, into a VST instrument, a sophisticated sampler/synth engine with high quality multisampled sounds.
  
• Logic Audio Platinum As the most powerful product of the Logic Audio series, Logic Audio Platinum 4.0 provides the ultimate synthesis of digital audio recording, digital signal processing, MIDI sequencing, and notation.
  
• BarbaBatch Batch Audio Processor Convert to and from all common digital audio formats, control dynamic range. Process hundreds of files into different formats in one pass. (1998 Eddy winner)
  
• Virtual Composer Shareware multiple track graphical sequencer, allowing files to be exported in AIFF, abc, or MIDI formats.
  
• PlayerPRO Tracker, composer, and player, all in one.
  
• Pro Tools PowerMix Software-only version of ProTools for PowerPC Mac.
  
• Digitial Performer Multitrack sequencer that features 32 bit effects processing, MAS plugins, Mixer, MTS, Mixing Automation, 24 Bit Audio and MIDI.
  
• GrooveMaker Revolutionary loop-based remixing software and sound libraries, with real time groove-generator and import/match of any audio file (including MP3).
  
• Mosaic Mark of the Unicorn's state-of-the-art music desktop publishing software for the Macintosh.
  
• Cakewalk Metro SE Multitrack digital audio and MIDI recording studio for iMacs.
  
• Macintosh Music Software Site A large collection of music software for the Mac. Hundreds of free and shareware programs are available for download.
  
• Macintosh MP3 Information Lists the best players, encoders/extractors and helper apps for the Macintosh. Also has other helpful information about playing MP3s on a Mac.
  
• Piper calls the tune - SBP 7 June 1999 Dara McCluskey met Davy Spillane who uses the oldest of instruments with the latest technology to make his own music.
  
• Lime Music Notation software for Macintosh. Also available for Win32. (CERL Sound Group)
  
• Finale 2000 Coda's popular music notation software. Mac-OS and Win32.
  
• Audiocorder VOX program which allows your Mac to act as an audio recorder. It allows you to set the volume that the sound must reach to begin recording, and the volume at which it should end recording.
  
• QDesign Press Release MP3 encoding and decoding software released.
  
• Syd - Software Synthesizer A software synthesizer for Mac and Windows. Similar to CSound in capabilities, but easier to use.
  
• 3ivx.com A natural video compression system that is compliant with MPEG-4v3.
  
• ReCycle Audio processing tool for drum loops and grooves.
  
• Music Ace 2 Designed for beginning and intermediate students, this is the second title in the highly-acclaimed Music Ace series from Harmonic Vision.
  
• QDesign Corporation An audio compression technology provider including MP3, MP2, and the QDesign Music Codec for Apple QuickTime.
  
• Audion A top-notch audio player from Panic Software for MPEG Layer III (MP3) files, CDs, and streaming audio from the Internet. The interface can be changed with skins, known in the Audion universe as faces.
  
• Igor Engraver Lite Powerful and intuitive, Noteheads' Igor Engraver Lite lets you create perfect music notation faster, easier and more creatively than ever before.
  
• Rocket Science Bundle of real-time plugins for Mark of the Unicorn's Digital Performer and Audio Desk.
  
• Allegro 2000 Giving musicians the MIDI and notation tools to create publisher quality scores. Entry-level software from Coda, the makers of Finale.
  
• Studio Vision Pro MIDI and digital audio recording and sequencing with professional hardware support. (Opcode)
  
• Freestyle MOTU's software for trackless sequencing and instant notation printing.
  
• Autoscore Audio-to-MIDI music software program that allows you to compose music by simply singing or playing an instrument. (Wildcat Canyon Software)
  
• Music Doodle Pad Creative software program designed to provide beginning music students, young and old, with the opportunity to easily compose and listen to their own music.
  
• USB-Audio.com USB Audio software for Macintosh.
  
• Apple Quicktime QuickTime is Apple's complete technology for handling video, sound, animation, graphics, text, music, and even 360-degree virtual reality (VR) scenes.
  
• Mac Digital Audio The premier source of timely news, information, reviews, software updates, and more. Boasts a huge collection of skins, an MP3 search engine, and a forum, among other things.
  
• MacAlert Downoload Macintosh system alert sounds recorded from television, movies, nature, and everywhere else. Collection is added to every week and is totally free!
  
• Barbabatch Institues a Quicktime 4.0 codec that converts MP3 files. Demo download available.
  
• Microsoft Media Player 7 Support among others Microsoft MPEG-4 (version 2.0 and 3.0)and the ISO MPEG-4 video (version 1.0) video codecs.
  
• thOnk_0+2 Extremely simple to use Freeware Macintosh application, that uses Granular Synthesis to produce very diverse sounds based upon a sound file provided by the user.
  
• CMN (Common Music Notation) Free western music notation package written in Common Lisp.
  
• Creative Music and Audio A section on Apple's website featuring articles detailing how musicians use Macs.
  
• a2b music Download the AT&T a2b music player for the Mac.
  
• AudionTi A serie of faces designed with first objective to port the look & feel of the new design from Apple on the best mp3 player available today, audion from panic software.
  
• DivX4Mac A MPEG-4 codec for Quicktime Pro. Compresses up to four times better than MPEG-2.
  
• MusicCatalog A program to help organize your music collection. Track your entire collection, sort it however you like, use artwork and sound, enter lyrics and even publish your collection on the Web!
  
• AudioCatalyst AudioCatalyst is a complete CD to MP3 conversion solution featuring the acclaimed interface of AudioGrabber with the power of the XingMP3 encoding engine.
  
• Apple - iTunes Free program from Apple that lets you listen to 100s of internet radio stations, organize and encode MP3s or even burn your collection to CD.
  
• Rapster A fully featured, unofficial Napster client for the Mac OS. It already supports file downloads (including resumable downloads), searching, and a complete chat and private message system.
  
• fLOW - ambient sound generator Generates an everchanging sound scape in realtime; flooding sounds that evoke timbres of water, fire, earth, and air. (freeware for Mac G3).
  
• Make A TestTone Free Macintosh test tone Generator
  
• Mark of the Unicorn (MOTU) Music software and hardware products for the Macintosh and PC.
  
• RhapsOGL visual effects RhapsOGLApp X visual effects generator for MacOSX - This is a visual plug-in for SoundJam MP and MACAST