Midi Sound Driver

SynthFont is a new tool that works to play and render MIDI sound files, using SoundFonts and other similar sound fonts. The result can be played via a sound card, or written to Wave files. The principle sound fonts the program uses are SoundFont, but it also uses Wave, DLS and GIGA, or VST... Platforms: Windows

SimpleSynth is a simple soft synth that takes input from a connected MIDI device and can play instruments from Soundfonts and DLS files including Apple's default General MIDI sound set. Platforms: Mac

The Advanced Linux Sound Architecture is composed of several parts. The first is a fully modularized sound driver which supports module autoloading, devfs, isapnp autoconfiguration, and gives complete access to analog audio, digital audio, control, mixer, synthesizer, DSP, MIDI, and timer... Platforms: *nix

M-Audio FireWire 1814 contains drivers and applications that enable the use of the M-Audio FireWire 1814 on Mac OS X.This driver supports Pro Tools M-Powered 7.1.1 for Mac Intel Computers running Mac OS 10.4.6. Platforms: Mac

This is a little program I wrote because I wanted to use my Rock Band 2 drums as a handy MIDI controller for my digital audio workstation, and there didn't seem to be any freely available software to make this easy to do. The user interface isn't amazing, but it functions very effectively,... Platforms: Windows

MIDI patchbay lets you hook up your various pieces of MIDI software and hardware and pass MIDI data between them, applying assorted filters on the way. Things like key splits, MIDI channel remapping, transposition, etc. are made very simple. Platforms: Mac

M-Audio Audiophile USB adds improved support for MIDI on the following devices: Audiophile USB Keystation 49 and 61 MIDISPORT 1x1, 2x2, 2x4, 4x4, and 8x8 OmniStudio USB Oxygen8 OzoneQuattro Radium Sonica Uno Platforms: Mac

M-Audio Transit USB is a USB device which allows you to connect MIDI devices comfortably with your Mac's built-in USB port. Platforms: Mac

Virtual piano, guitar/banjo/mandolin etc, hammered dulcimer simulator and note mapper/composer lets you write and play back songs thru midi and see the notes played (animated) on a musical staff and scale, piano keyboard, guitar/banjo/mandolin, and hammered dulcimer images. You can change the... Platforms: Windows

Xmmix is a premium audio mixer utility for the X window system using the Motif graphical user interface. It operates the input and output mixer section of the sound hardware on many PCs and workstations. Xmmix offers superior features and look-and-feel. It is designed to be attractive,... Platforms: *nix

About PlayerPRO PlayerPRO is primarily a musical utility called a "tracker". Trackers are programs that generate music files called MODs. PlayerPRO is also a full-fledged composition tool. With many editing modes, including a block mode, digital view, and a traditional score view of the music,... Platforms: Mac

PortMedia is the result of discussion among many computer music researchers and developers. After considering many options, the group decided to endorse the work of Phil Burk and Ross Bencina who created the PortAudio library. Supporters and users of PortMedia are listed below. Our goal is to... Platforms: *nix

Freeware - Dazzling SlideShow / Screen Saver of "Valentine-Always On My Mind" featuring the song of the same name sung by Willie Nelson. Executes out 113 Intro-Effect, 80 Transition Effects. Plays MP3, WMA, WAV and MIDI sound files. Supports captions in any font-type, sizes, colors (even in... Platforms: Windows

Independence is not just one of these commercial distributions who have been appearing daily for the last months. It aims at being a distribution allowing the users to make hear their voice in distribution design. It is built by volunteers who no longer accept having an aristocracy of... Platforms: *nix

rdesktop is an open source client for Windows NT Terminal Server and Windows 2000/2003 Terminal Services, capable of natively speaking Remote Desktop Protocol (RDP) in order to present the users NT desktop. Unlike Citrix ICA, no server extensions are required. rdesktop currently runs on most... Platforms: *nix

EFlite is a speech server for Emacspeak and other screen readers that allows them to interface with Festival Lite. EFlite is still in beta, but I have been using it successfully with Yasr to get speech on my notebook under Linux without having to lug my Speak-out around. It uses Festival Lites... Platforms: *nix

Sarien project is a Sierra AGI interpreter for games like Kings Quest and Space Quest. Sarien is a portable Sierra AGI resource interpreter engine that allows you to play Sierra On-Line AGI version 2 and version 3 games (such as Space Quest 1 and 2, and Leisure Suit Larry in the Land of the... Platforms: *nix

Aumix is a software mixer. This program adjusts an audio mixer from X, the console, a terminal, the command line or a script. Version 2.8 was released 25 November 2002. Support for the Advanced Linux Sound Architecture driver is currently disabled because of changes to the ALSA API. See if... Platforms: *nix

Algorithmic Composer is a compositional tool that enables composers to construct musical structures by connecting virtual objects -- like metronomes, counters, etc... -- with virtual patch cables. The performer can then interact with these structures using a mouse, keyboard, microphone, and MIDI... Platforms: Windows

About FFTea A real time high resolution spectrum analyser for MacOS X. It was born as a debugging tool for a sound driver, then it degenerated into something that eats enough CPU, memory and graphic card power to be worthy of release to the unsuspecting world. It is a surprisingly interesting... Platforms: Mac