#audio (179 links)
- MacWhisper macwhisper.com
- Rad Edit Teaser - YouTube youtube.com
- The Sound of Software notboring.software
When done right, sound unlocks a path to much richer software experiences
Maybe they’re perfect reminders of how violently smashing bytes together on a thin, vulnerable plastic / magnet sandwich is still one of the most punk things you can do as a musician and artist.
- BlackHole: Route Audio Between Apps existential.audio
BlackHole is a modern macOS virtual audio loopback driver that allows applications to pass audio to other applications with zero additional latency.
An open-source alternative to Audio Hijack
- London Pirate Radio Adverts 1984-1993, Vol. 1 deathisnot.bandcamp.com
The first volume in a two-part collection of pirate radio adverts & idents, taken from recordings of London stations between 1984 & 1993.
Via Thom Yorke's Guest Mix.
- Ruark Audio R2 award winning stereo music system ruarkaudio.com
- Feeding the ear poddit.appspot.com
<blockquote>[Gives] people a simple way to bookmark idividual podcasts using a bookmarklet. These are made available through an RSS feed.</blockquote>
- The Loudness Wars: Is Music's Noisy Arms Race Over? - Mike Barthel - Entertainment - The Atlantic theatlantic.com
I want graphs, dammit.
- The Wheels Of Steel: An Ode To Turntables (in HTML) schillmania.com
Pretty flipping amazing.
- Inserting Chapter Markers into Your Podcast bukisa.com
Aha, this is what XLR8R and others use for their podcasts (bad content farm link - couldn't find anything else).
- Gobbler getgobbler.com
Backup, collaboration, and project organization designed for pro audio professionals.
- Musicity : Welcome london.musicity.info
a programme of curated music that sits at the intersection of sound, architecture and experience
- Improve your French by listening to French Radio stations learn-french-help.com
- British Library UK Sound Map sounds.bl.uk
- How to reduce wind noise on your smartphone recordings - Archival Sounds britishlibrary.typepad.co.uk
You can use a woolly smartphone 'sock' as an improvised windshield. One with a fairly open weave will produce less muffled results than a sock with a microfibre lining. Pulling the sock about half way down the phone lets you get at the touchscreen and also creates a small but necessary air space around the microphone.
- Paul's Extreme Sound Stretch hypermammut.sourceforge.net
- DJ TechTools | MacBook USB Port Inequality djtechtools.com
For MacBook and MacBook Pro users, the choice of which of the two available USB ports to use for your sound card hook-up may have never occurred to you. New evidence is showing, that especially with the new i5 and i7 models, you might be missing out on performance by choosing the wrong port.
The first comprehensive collection of Numbers Stations recordings released to the public.
- Why records DO all sound the same | Word Magazine wordmagazine.co.uk
"There's a little-watched video on Maroon Five's YouTube channel which documents the torturous, tedious process of crafting an instantly forgettable mainstream radio hit. It's fourteen minutes of elegantly dishevelled chaps sitting in leather sofas, playing $15,000 vintage guitars next to $200,000 studio consoles, staring at notepads and endlessly discussing how little they like the track (called Makes Me Wonder), and how it doesn't have a chorus. Even edited down, the tedium is mind-boggling as they play the same lame riff over and over and over again. At one point, singer Adam Levine says: "I'm sick of trying to engineer songs to be hits." But that's exactly he proceeds to do."
- The Loudness War Analyzed « Music Machinery musicmachinery.com
I’m interested in looking at the loudness for the recordings of a number of artists to see how wide-spread this loudness war really is. To do this I used the Echo Nest remix API and a bit of Python to collect and plot loudness for a set of recordings. I did two experiments. First I looked at the loudness for music by some of my favorite or well known artists. Then I looked at loudness over a large collection of music.
- In Search of the Click Track labs.echonest.com
Use this application to look at tempo plots for any song to see which bands have a machine controlling the heartbeat of the band. Type in the name of an artist and/or track and get a click plot of the track. If a machine is setting the beat for the song, the click plot will show only small deviations from the average tempo. A flat line means a machine is setting the beat.
- The Echo Nest : The Musical Brain developer.echonest.com
Lots of rather exciting music analysis APIs.
- Turn Me Up! | Bringing Dynamics Back To Music turnmeup.org
A non-profit music industry organization campaigning to give artists back the choice to release more dynamic records.
A review. "Goodman [aka Kode9] explores the power of sound as a tactic of irritation, intimidation, or even permanent harm. Goodman analyzes "environments, or ecologies, in which sound contributes to an immersive atmosphere or ambience of fear and dread--where sound helps produce a bad vibe."
- Google Text-To-Speech (TTS) | Weston Ruter weston.ruter.net
"The British Library launches the ICA Talks from the 1980s online [...] The recordings feature a kaleidoscopic range of leading cultural figures debating the social and artistic currents of the 1980s". Salman Rushdie, Steve Reich, Richard Dawkins, Alan Moore...
- BENGE: Twenty Systems (Expanding Records) | themilkfactory themilkfactory.co.uk
With Twenty Systems, Edwards creates twenty tracks, one for each of the years between 1968 and 1987, and each built using just one synthesizer. The list of makes, Moog, ARP, Roland, Serge, Korg, Yamaha, Oberheim, and models used is likely to send shivers down the spines of many aficionados, and the accompanying liner notes provide much needed information on each machine.
- Make: Online : How-to: Hacking RjDj with PD blog.makezine.com
- freesound :: home page freesound.org
A collaborative database of Creative Commons licensed sounds.
The British Library launches new traditional and world music collections online at http://sounds.bl.uk. Featuring unique field recordings, live performances and out-of-print commercial releases, this latest addition to the JISC-funded Archival Sound Recordings website provides a sample of musical traditions across the globe - offering a glimpse of cultural experience around the world.
- Moodstream™ by Getty Images moodstream.gettyimages.com