Music software newsletter - with heaps of downloads
Shareware Music Machine
Shareware Music Machine Newsletter October 98
The monthly newsletter from HITSQUAD's Shareware Music Machine
Vol. 2, No. 9
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In This Issue
- New Look Hitsquad Complete With Online Store
- 20 Most Popular Programs for PC
- 10 Most Popular Programs for Macintosh
- Highlights of New Windows 95,98,NT Releases
- Highlights of New Windows 3.1 Releases
- Highlights of New Macintosh Releases
- Highlights of New Linux Releases
- Highlights of New OS/2 Releases
- Highlights of New DOS Releases
- Send us your Feedback
o There isn't enough space to include every new music program in this
newsletter, but you can get a complete list of new music software at
http://www.hitsquad.com/smm/new.html
o You can get help deciding what software to get, how to solve particular
computer problems, and just about anything else involved in making music
on computers from our Music Software Discussion and Help page at-
http://www.hitsquad.com/smm/wwwboard/
o You can easily find the software you're looking for using our
Music Software Search Engine at http://www.hitsquad.com/smm/search/
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New Look Hitsquad Complete With Online Store
It's been a busy month at Hitsquad with us breaking the 1,500 barrier for
software listings! With this amount of programs available, Shareware is
certainly the first stop on your travels for music software.
If you've visited the site in the past couple of days, you might've
noticed a transformation in the Hitsquad site. We've redesigned the
software pages to improve not only download times but readability. This
is part of our philosophy of making the site easy and pleasurable to use.
We also have screenshot pages on the site, so that you can check out
what software looks like in operation. Expect us to expand from over 100
screenshot pages in the coming months.
We're also offering software authors a place to sell their shareware.
Check out http://www.hitsquad.com/smm/sell_software/ for more details.
You can expect an online store to open in early November when you can
check out some goodies for Christmas.
That's it for now. But keep an eye out on Hitsquad for further
developments, making it even more easy for you find quality music
software.
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20 Most Popular Programs for PC
TM LM Program OS Description
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1 2 Virtual Turntables 95 Mix like a DJ with MP3s!!!
http://www.hitsquad.com/smm/programs/Virtual_Turntables_win95/?nl9810
2 5 MP3 Blaster Pro 95 MP3 Player, Convert MP3's and Wav's...
http://www.hitsquad.com/smm/programs/MP3_Blaster_Pro_win95/?nl9810
3 9 JETAUDIO 95 Player for CD,MP3,RA,MID,Video files
http://www.hitsquad.com/smm/programs/JETAUDIO/?nl9810
4 8 FruityLoops 95 Drumloops creation tool
http://www.hitsquad.com/smm/programs/FruityLoops_win95/?nl9810
5 4 Cool Edit 96 95,NT Audio Editor for Windows 95/NT
http://www.hitsquad.com/smm/programs/Cool_Edit_Win32/?nl9810
6 7 CD Copy 95 Copy CDDA(audio) from CDROM/CDR to disk
http://www.hitsquad.com/smm/programs/CD_Copy/?nl9810
7 1 Winamp 95 MPEG Player (mpg, mp2, mp3)
http://www.hitsquad.com/smm/programs/Winamp/?nl9810
8 12 HammerHead Rhythm Stat. 95 Virtual drum machine
http://www.hitsquad.com/smm/programs/HammerHead_Rhythm_Station/?nl9810
9 6 Guitar Effects 95 FREE Guitar Effects for Windows 95
http://www.hitsquad.com/smm/programs/Guitar_Effects/?nl9810
10 3 Mixman Studio 95 Produce perform and record your music
http://www.hitsquad.com/smm/programs/Mixman_Studio/?nl9810
11 13 L3EncWin 95 Automatically converts WAVE to MP3
http://www.hitsquad.com/smm/programs/L3EncWin_win95/?nl9810
12 -- WAVmaker 95,NT MID to WAV renderer & editor
http://www.hitsquad.com/smm/programs/WAVmaker_for_Windows_95/?nl9810
13 -- Melody Assistant 95,NT All-in-one computer-assisted composing
http://www.hitsquad.com/smm/programs/Melody_Assistant_Win95/?nl9810
14 -- GoldWave 95,NT Sound editor, and converter
http://www.hitsquad.com/smm/programs/GoldWave/?nl9810
15 -- Fast Tracker DOS A mod maker with midi and wave support
http://www.hitsquad.com/smm/programs/Fast_Tracker/?nl9810
16 19 SequBeat 95 Turn your PC into a drum kit
http://www.hitsquad.com/smm/programs/SequBeat/?nl9810
17 16 Audiograbber 95 Copies digital audio from CDs digitally
http://www.hitsquad.com/smm/programs/Audiograbber/?nl9810
18 17 Ra2Wav 95,98,NT Convert RealAudio files into .wav files
http://www.hitsquad.com/smm/programs/Ra2Wav_Pentium/?nl9810
19 10 Audio Suite 95 Real Time Mixing Desk and Audio Editor
http://www.hitsquad.com/smm/programs/Audio_Suite/?nl9810
20 -- Agfree 95 Excellent CD-Ripper for windows 95
http://www.hitsquad.com/smm/programs/agfree_win95/?nl9810
Legend: TM - This Month's Position
LM - Last Month's Position
OS - Operating System
Programs that dropped out of the chart from last month:
11 GrooveMaker 95,NT Multi-track sample composer with effects
http://www.hitsquad.com/smm/programs/GrooveMaker/?nl9810
14 SoundWave97 95,98,NT Digital Soundstudio and sound-editor
http://www.hitsquad.com/smm/programs/Digital_Soundstudio/?nl9810
15 GAMA 95 Convert instrumental wav files to midi
http://www.hitsquad.com/smm/programs/AMA_Win95/?nl9810
18 ASM Audio 95 Multi-track sample composer with effects
http://www.hitsquad.com/smm/programs/ASM_Audio/?nl9810
20 FX2 95,98 Digital sound effects & virtual synth
http://www.hitsquad.com/smm/programs/FX2/?nl9810
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10 Most Popular Programs for Macintosh
TM LM Program Description
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1 2 AudioFusion 3.3 For creating modern music: techno, trance, house
http://www.hitsquad.com/smm/programs/Hit_Factory/?nl9810
2 -- Midi Thru A Software Midi Thru Box
http://www.hitsquad.com/smm/programs/Midi_Thru/?nl9810
3 -- MidiShare A complete real-time Midi Operating System
http://www.hitsquad.com/smm/programs/MidiShare/?nl9810
4 4 MacAMP Audio Mpeg Player - MP3 Player
http://www.hitsquad.com/smm/programs/MacAmp/?nl9810
5 1 Brian's Sound Tool A sound converter from .wav to a system sound
http://www.hitsquad.com/smm/programs/Brians_Sound_Tool/?nl9810
6 -- Mpecker Encoder MPEG Layer 3 Encoder (mp3)
http://www.hitsquad.com/smm/programs/Mpecker_Encoder/?nl9810
7 8 Rebirth RB-338 Software emulation of "TR-303s" and one "TR-808"
http://www.hitsquad.com/smm/programs/Rebirth_RB-338/?nl9810
8 9 Hit Factory Transform your PPC into a professionnal studio
http://www.hitsquad.com/smm/programs/Hit_Factory_PPC/?nl9810
9 10 D-SoundPRO Graphical sound editor with a Virtual Synth Module
http://www.hitsquad.com/smm/programs/D-SoundPRO/?nl9810
10 -- BIAS Peak Tools for editing and processing digital audio
http://www.hitsquad.com/smm/programs/BIAS_Peak/?nl9810
Legend: TM - This Month's Position
LM - Last Month's Position
Programs that dropped out of the chart from last month:
3 Midi Typer Convinces your system that all your MIDI files
really are MIDI files
http://www.hitsquad.com/smm/programs/Midi_Typer/?nl9810
5 CMU Midi Toolkit Carnegie Mellon University's Midi Toolkit
http://www.hitsquad.com/smm/programs/CMU_Midi_Toolkit/?nl9810
6 mac-midi-adapters Schematics for Macintosh midi adapters
http://www.hitsquad.com/smm/programs/mac-midi-adapters/?nl9810
7 MidiChaos Application/utility/game/composition tool
http://www.hitsquad.com/smm/programs/MidiChaos/?nl9810
10 MIDItoCsound Convert standard MIDI files to Csound score files
http://www.hitsquad.com/smm/programs/MIDItoCsound_Mac/?nl9810
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Highlights of New Windows 95,98,NT Releases
o Acid - Demo
http://www.hitsquad.com/smm/programs/SonicFoundryAcid/?nl9810
A breakthrough in loop-based music creation, ACID takes creativity to a
completely new realm. ACID allows you to preview any loop before adding
it to your mix, automatically matching the tempo and key in real time.
Click-and-drag to easily add or delete loops
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o Ambient automa - Freeware
http://www.hitsquad.com/smm/programs/ambient_automat/?nl9810
Java Music Machine. A java based semi-automatic sequencer with different
synth voices, a drum kit and a 303 emulator.
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o AuditionIT! - Shareware
http://www.hitsquad.com/smm/programs/AuditionIT/?nl9810
AuditionIT! simplifies the Auditioning of sample files in Wave Format
(.WAV). It automatically queues up the wave files it finds, either as
you change directories, through its recursive search functions, or
through drag and drop from Windows Explorer (inc. CDRoms and Network).
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o BPM-Meter - Freeware
http://www.hitsquad.com/smm/programs/BPM_meter_win32/?nl9810
First virtual and automatic beat counter.
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o Build a hardware midi controller - Freeware
http://www.hitsquad.com/smm/programs/Schematics_to_build_midi_controller/
Download complete schematics to build your hardware midi contoller.
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o CD-Runner 8.21 - Shareware
http://www.hitsquad.com/smm/programs/CD-Runner_win95/?nl9810
CD-RUNNER v8.21 - CD/Multimedia Player and Database Organizer.
Faceplates designed to look like real equipment.
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o CD-Runner SL 2.21 - Shareware
http://www.hitsquad.com/smm/programs/CD-Runner_SL_win95/?nl9810
Audio CD Player and Database Organizer. Faceplate designed to look like
real equipment. By popular demand, this is the CD player un-bundled from
the complete CD-Runner CD/Multimedia suite. Features include read &
submit access to the Internet CD Database
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o Coagula - Demo
http://www.hitsquad.com/smm/programs/Coagula_win32/?nl9810
Coagula is a graphical editor for additive synthesis. You construct
sounds by adding massive amounts of sine-wave oscillators. There are
drawing tools specially geared towards musically relevant image editing.
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o Digital DJ - Demo
http://www.hitsquad.com/smm/programs/JHUtv_DigitalDj/?nl9810
Digital DJ is a program for professional club DJ's, its aim is to make
it possible to mix and remix in real time while playing.It stores all
the start points (stage presets in the program) that is used for cue to
the right place in a track or when making loops
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o Effects Processor Pro 1.5 - Shareware
http://www.hitsquad.com/smm/programs/Effects_Processor_Pro/?nl9810
Effects Processor Pro is a real-time audio effects processor for Windows
95. EPP offers a flexible palette of high-quality modulation effects
(phaser, flanger, and chorus) to enhance any audio material.
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o Freequency - Freeware
http://www.hitsquad.com/smm/programs/Freequency_win32/?nl9810
Freequency is a multi-purpose electronic musician's calculator. It is
divided in four sections: Delay values 24 delay values to use with
multi-fx processors and programs (i.e. Multi-tap delays, Phasers,
Flangers). Tap tempo Tap to the beat for a quick BPM count. Loop
calculator calculates the right number of samples a loop should have
to be perfect, according to a BPM.
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o Full CD V1.0 - Freeware
http://www.hitsquad.com/smm/programs/Full_CD/?nl9810
FullCD is a CD player for win32 environment. It maintain database of
your CDs, allowing to import/export to/from many formats.
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o GranuLab - Freeware
http://www.hitsquad.com/smm/programs/GranuLab_win32/?nl9810
GranuLab is a real-time generator of sound grains for Windows 95. Use
the built in sine wave or load a soundfile as raw material for sound
production.
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o GrooveMaker - Demo
http://www.hitsquad.com/smm/programs/GrooveMaker/?nl9810
Groovemaker™ is the world's only real time, remixable groove-generator!
Patent pending grooves generation using random combinations of loops
taken from included pre-arranged studio-ready sample collection called
songs. Techno, Trance, Dub, Progressive Hardcore, House and Jungle are
included with the Dancity sample collection. 8 complete song (with more
than 60 sample instruments each) for more than 500 full-length 8 bar
phrase loops (from 98 to 180bpm).
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o Guitar tools suite - Shareware
http://www.hitsquad.com/smm/programs/Guitar_tools_suite/?nl9810
Work on your tablature, scales and chords.
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o Hardware Parametric Audio Filter - Freeware
http://www.hitsquad.com/smm/programs/parametric_filter_win32/?nl9810
Schematics to build hardware parametric audio filter.
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o Jammin - Shareware
http://www.hitsquad.com/smm/programs/Jammin_win32/?nl9810
A Windows 95, 98, NT MIDI Player & Sequencer. Features - uses musical
staff or piano roll notation.
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o KB2Midi - Freeware
http://www.hitsquad.com/smm/programs/KB2Midi/?nl9810
Use your computer keyboard to play MIDI notes.
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o M1LibEd - Shareware
http://www.hitsquad.com/smm/programs/M1LibEd/?nl9810
Korg M1 - M1R Editor and Librarian. Save programs and combinations of
your M1 synth on your HD. Copy programs or combinations from a library
to another using the Multiple instance functionality. Easy listen
programs and combinations. More features than we can list here!
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o M3RLibEd 3.12 - Freeware
http://www.hitsquad.com/smm/programs/M3R_LibEd/?nl9810
Features: Save programs and combinations of your M3R synth on your
H.D. Copy programs or combinations from a library to another using the
Multiple instance functionality. Easy listen programs and combinations
with Virtual MIDI keyboard. Heaps more features!
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o Melody Assistant 2.0.7 - Shareware
http://www.hitsquad.com/smm/programs/Melody_Assistant_Win95/?nl9810
Melody Assistant is a complete score editor and music composition
software. It offers a friendly interface and powerful features.
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o Midi Stapler v1.2 - Freeware
http://www.hitsquad.com/smm/programs/Midi_Stapler/?nl9810
Free MIDI File Database.
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o MidiGroove - Demo
http://www.hitsquad.com/smm/programs/Midigroove_win32/?nl9810
MIDI pattern sequencer for AWE32/64 featuring MIDI and Wave export
(registered version),pattern presets, key force, randomize, autodrift
and more.
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o MIDInight Express 2.3 - Freeware
http://www.hitsquad.com/smm/programs/MIDInight_Express/?nl9810
The MIDInight Express II is a real time, emulated wavetable MIDI jukebox
and renderer. It runs with any Windows-compatible 16 bit sound card
supporting a playback rate of 22050 Hz.
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o MidiViaNet - Freeware
http://www.hitsquad.com/smm/programs/MidiViaNet/?nl9810
Allows you to synchronize MIDI playback or jam together with your
friends on any 2 networked PCs. No more need to sacrifice Midi in/out
ports in the process of linking two PCs.
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o Mikeys MP3 Player - Freeware
http://www.hitsquad.com/smm/programs/Mikeys_mp3_Player/?nl9810
Free MP3 player with playlists.
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o MP3Wolf v1.04 - Shareware
http://www.hitsquad.com/smm/programs//?nl9810
An MP3 search program.
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o MT Sight Read - Freeware
http://www.hitsquad.com/smm/programs/MT_Sight_Read_win32/?nl9810
Sheet music sight reading education program.
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o Multimedia Builder MP3 - Shareware
http://www.hitsquad.com/smm/programs/Multimedia_Builder_MP3/?nl9810
MP3 visual authoring tool.
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o Music Flash - Freeware
http://www.hitsquad.com/smm/programs/Flash_cards/?nl9810
Flash Cards For Key Signatures.
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o Music Label 98 v4.05 - Shareware
http://www.hitsquad.com/smm/programs/Music_Label_98_win95/?nl9810
Looking for an easy yet powerful way to organize your CD collection?
Try Music Label 98, awarded the ZDNet Editor's Pick, the MyFolder
Editor's Pick, and rated as the No 1 music organizer by MyDesktop
Network.
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o My CD v5.111d - Shareware
http://www.hitsquad.com/smm/programs/My_CD_win95/?nl9810
CD Player and Library program. Plays multiple CDs, imports from giant
internet library and from the Win95 CD Player. Has Win95 autostart
feature.
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o n-Track Studio 2.2.1 b - Shareware
http://www.hitsquad.com/smm/programs/n-Track/?nl9810
n-Track Studio is a multitrack recorder for Windows 95/98/NT. It lets
you record, overdub, mix wave and MIDI tracks. All you need is a
full-duplex sound card (i.e. capable of simultaneous recording and
playback) or two or more soundcards and some free space on your hard
disk to store audio data. Simultaneous recording from multiple
soundcards is also supported. Various wave files formats are supported
and mono & stereo tracks are can coexist in the same song.
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o PcRadio for Win95/NT - Shareware
http://www.hitsquad.com/smm/programs/PC_Radio_win32/?nl9810
PCRADIO is a software for control various FM/AM radio adapter for
personal computer: are supported Reveal RA300, Aims Lab Radiotrack,
Gemtek WizardRadio, Gemtek RadioMan, Zoltrix Radioplus 108 and brands
from Justy and Unit.
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o PowerPlay v1.00 - Freeware
http://www.hitsquad.com/smm/programs/PowerPlay_win32/?nl9810
PowerPlay is a free feature-rich audio CD player for Windows 95/98.
Features include retrieving disc and track titles from CDDB internet
database and downloading lyrics from International Lyrics Server.
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o Pulse - Freeware
http://www.hitsquad.com/smm/programs/Pulse_win32/?nl9810
MPEG, MP3, and MOD player
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o RubberDuck 2.04 - Shareware
http://www.hitsquad.com/smm/programs/rdh3o/?nl9810
Create cool acid sounds in realtime! New weird filters.
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o SampleCalc - Freeware
http://www.hitsquad.com/smm/programs/SampleCalc/?nl9810
A time to BPM converter for audio samples. This tool calculates a given
length in seconds of an audio sample into tempo in BPM and reverse.
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o Scratch Me - Shareware
http://www.hitsquad.com/smm/programs/Scratch_Me/?nl9810
This program allows to de-pitch, de-speed and scratch a wav in realtime.
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o sp240 -
http://www.hitsquad.com/smm/programs/sp240_win32/?nl9810
MP3 Playlist manager & front end.
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o SyxLibEd - Shareware
http://www.hitsquad.com/smm/programs/Syx_Lib_Ed/?nl9810
SyxLibEd is the new member of the LibEd family. Along with M3RLibEd
(Editor Librarian for the Korg M3R) and M1LibEd (for M1 and M1R).
SyxLibEd is a Sysex files manager and database that allows you to
archive patches of any MIDI device that supports System Exclusive.
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o XG/GS SYSEX Decoder & XG/GS MIDI Jukebox 95 - Shareware
http://www.hitsquad.com/smm/programs/XG_GS_Decoder_Jukebox/?nl9810
XG/GS SYSEX Decoder & XG/GS MIDI Jukebox 95.
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o XG-Gold - Shareware
http://www.hitsquad.com/smm/programs/XG_Gold/?nl9810
XG-Gold is a XG-Editor & QS Voice Emulator & Bankloader for Yamaha
DB50XG, SW60XG, MU10, QY700, QS300. XG-Gold creates 100% QS300 voices
with four(4!) elements for ALL mentioned modules! XG-Gold offers the
most comfortable and fastest parameter access of all known XG editors.
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Highlights of New Windows 3.1 Releases
o Build a hardware midi controller - Shareware
http://www.hitsquad.com/smm/programs/hardware_midi_controller/?nl9810
Download schematics to build midi controller.
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o Sweet MIDI Player - Shareware
http://www.hitsquad.com/smm/programs/Sweet_MIDI_Player/?nl9810
Sweet MIDI Player is a program for not only auditioning all types of
MIDI files, but for modifying the MIDI files themselves. Use its
mixer-like interface to easily edit the control messages, transpose
the music, change the tempo, mute desired MIDI channels, and save the
end results to disk.
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o TablEdit 1.80 - Shareware
http://www.hitsquad.com/smm/programs/TablEdit/?nl9810
TablEdit is an original tablature music program for Windows. It's able
to manage the majority of fretted string instruments. Many useful
features.
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Highlights of New Macintosh Releases
o 4OP Librarian 1.0.5 - Shareware
http://www.hitsquad.com/smm/programs/4OP_Librarian/?nl9810
Make libraries of voice data for Yamaha 4-Operator Synthesizer. One
window has one voice data, and you can open windows as many as you want.
(It's only limited by partition size of the application.) When this
application receives bulk dump MIDI data, new window will open and show
you the parameter.
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o Amadeus 1.44 Demo - Shareware
http://www.hitsquad.com/smm/programs/Amadeus/?nl9810
Amadeus is a powerful tool that allows to process sounds on a Macintosh.
It provides original tools like the elimination of a "crack" in a sound
or the efficient suppression of backgroung noise.
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o Ambient Automat - Freeware
http://www.hitsquad.com/smm/programs/ambient_automat_mac/?nl9810
A java based semi-automatic sequencer with different synth voices, a
drumkit and a 303 emulator.
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o BitMapMusic 1.41 - Freeware
http://www.hitsquad.com/smm/programs/BitMapMusic/?nl9810
BitMapMusic is a free music notation program, suitable for notating a
few lines of music. It's good for those situations where you don't want
to be bothered with anything much more complicated than click and drag.
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o Bol Processor 2.9.2 - Shareware
http://www.hitsquad.com/smm/programs/Bol_Processor/?nl9810
This version provides new tools for the composition of serial music and
a straightforward intuitive approach to the design of very sophisticated
time structures. It is supplied with a new set of musical examples
demonstrating the power of the new syntactic features.
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o Chord Lab 1.6 - Shareware
http://www.hitsquad.com/smm/programs/Chord_Lab/?nl9810
For spelling chords, harmonic eartraining and songform generation.
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o Chord Studio - Shareware
http://www.hitsquad.com/smm/programs/Chord_Studio/?nl9810
Chord Studio is an exciting new program for beginner and experienced
musicians to create, name, store and manipulate chords of all kinds,
from simple triads to complex jazz voicings.
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o Cubase Score 3.02 VST - Demo
http://www.hitsquad.com/smm/programs/Cubase_Score_VST_PMAC/?nl9810
Demo of Cubase Score 4.0 VST for Power Macintosh.
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o D-SoundPRO 3.5.1 - Shareware
http://www.hitsquad.com/smm/programs/D-SoundPRO/?nl9810
D-SoundPRO is a professional Audio Sound Editor, Software Synthesizer,
WaveGenerator and MIDI/SCSI samplers network manager.
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o DX7 Librarian 1.2.2 - Shareware
http://www.hitsquad.com/smm/programs/DX7_Librarian/?nl9810
DX7 Librarian is an application for the Macintosh which allows you to
make up library of voice data for DX7. One window has one voice data,
and you can open windows as many as you want.
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o Earsaver Sampler - Demo
http://www.hitsquad.com/smm/programs/Earsaver_sampler/?nl9810
EarSaver is like an audio-based screen saver designed to be used while
you perform your normal everyday computing tasks! EarSaver works
transparently without affecting other programs
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o Groove Buddy - Demo
http://www.hitsquad.com/smm/programs/Groove_buddy/?nl9810
Groove Buddy is a desktop musical instrument, 100-note sequencer, and
a calculator.
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o GrooveMaker 1.1 - Demo
http://www.hitsquad.com/smm/programs/GrooveMaker_mac/?nl9810
Groovemaker™ is the world's only real time, remixable groove-generator!
Patent pending grooves generation using random combinations of loops
taken from an included pre-arranged studio-ready sample collection.
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o JUNO Librarian - Shareware
http://www.hitsquad.com/smm/programs/JUNO_Librarian/?nl9810
Make your own libraries of voice data for Juno106.
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o K1 Librarian - Shareware
http://www.hitsquad.com/smm/programs/K1_Librarian/?nl9810
K1 Librarian is an application for the Macintosh which allows you to
make up library of voice data for K1. One window has one voice data,
and you can open windows as many as you want.
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o Melody Assistant 2.0.7 - Shareware
http://www.hitsquad.com/smm/programs/Melody_Assistant/?nl9810
Melody Assistant is a complete score editor and music composition
software. It offers a friendly interface and powerful features.
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o Melody Pilot 1.0 - Shareware
http://www.hitsquad.com/smm/programs/Melody_pilot/?nl9810
Create your own music to be played on Macintoshes (in Melody Pilot
itself or exported to HyperCard) and PalmPilots (using Tan Kok Mun's
Music Box).
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o MIDI Pack'en 1.1.6 - Shareware
http://www.hitsquad.com/smm/programs/MIDI_Packen/?nl9810
Keep system exclusive data in files. When this application receives
system exclusive MIDI data, new window will open and show you the data
size and manufacturer.
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o ModPlayer 2.16 - Shareware
http://www.hitsquad.com/smm/programs/ModPlayer/?nl9810
ModPlayer is a simple music program. Supported file formats are: MOD,
MADx, MED, S3M, MTM, XM, 669, OKTA and IT.
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o MsPatterson - Demo
http://www.hitsquad.com/smm/programs/MsPatterson/?nl9810
K2000/K2500 librarian for Macintosh.
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o NetCD 1.5.0 - Freeware
http://www.hitsquad.com/smm/programs/NetCD/?nl9810
This is the 68K version of NetCD. NetCD is an audio CD console program
that can download information about the currently playing CD from the
Internet. A Power Macintosh version is also available (below).
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o NetCD 1.5.0 (PPC) - Freeware
http://www.hitsquad.com/smm/programs/NetCD_PPC/?nl9810
NetCD is an audio CD console program that can download information about
the currently playing CD from the Internet.
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o Play it Cool 3.01 - Shareware
http://www.hitsquad.com/smm/programs/Play_it_Cool_mac/?nl9810
Play it Cool is a QuickTime and QuickTime VR movie player and simple
editor. It plays all types of QuickTime movies, including "mov", "MIDI",
"MPEG" and "QuickTime VR".
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o SoundCalc - Shareware
http://www.hitsquad.com/smm/programs/SoundCalc/?nl9810
SoundCalc is a music and sound conversion calculator which freely and
simultaneously converts between: Frequency, Note Names, MIDI Note
Numbers, Wavelengths, SampleRates, FrameRates, BPM, and more.
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o Stomp Box Delay 1.0.2 - Shareware
http://www.hitsquad.com/smm/programs/Stomp_Box_Delay/?nl9810
Stomp Box Delay is a real time delay effect for use with musical
instruments. You can use it to add echo and reverb-like effects to your
instruments for recordings or during a performance.
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o Stoner Sound - Freeware
http://www.hitsquad.com/smm/programs/Stoner_sound/?nl9810
StonerSound produces a weirdly hypnotic stream of rippling musical
tones.
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o Text To Mod - Freeware
http://www.hitsquad.com/smm/programs/Text_To_Mod/?nl9810
Thus small utility is useful for those who use MacLHA to decompress
compressed .MOD files.
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o Ultimate Music Player - Shareware
http://www.hitsquad.com/smm/programs/Ultimate_music/?nl9810
This is a software synthesizer/player for Apple PowerMacintosh.
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o VSamp 2.3 - Shareware
http://www.hitsquad.com/smm/programs/Vsamp/?nl9810
VSamp is a long-awaited program that turns the Macintosh into an OMS and
Sound Manager compatible multitimbral sample playback module.
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Highlights of New Linux Releases
o Ambient automat - Freeware
http://www.hitsquad.com/smm/programs/ambient_automat_linux/?nl9810
A java based semi-automatic sequencer with different synth voices, a
drum kit and a 303 emulator.
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o KModPlayer - Freeware
http://www.hitsquad.com/smm/programs/KModPlayer/?nl9810
Mod player for KDE project (mod,s3m,stm,ult,uni,xm,m15).
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o MPEG Audio Layer 3 - Shareware
http://www.hitsquad.com/smm/programs/MPEG_Audio_Layer_3/?nl9810
MPEG Audio Layer3 Encoder and Decoder.
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o Xsox - Freeware
http://www.hitsquad.com/smm/programs/Xsox/?nl9810
An X-windows frontend for the SOX Sound Converter with sliders buttons
instead of nasty command lines.
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Highlights of New OS/2 Releases
o Ambient automat - Freeware
http://www.hitsquad.com/smm/programs/ambient_automat_os2/?nl9810
A java based semi-automatic sequencer with different synth voices, a
drum kit and an 303 emulator.
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Highlights of New DOS Releases
o Impulse Tracker: Song renamer - Shareware
http://www.hitsquad.com/smm/programs/Impulse_renamer/?nl9810
Impulse Tracker: Song name to filename renamer.
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