Top Software for Waveform Software

PVCX is a wrapper for Paul Koonce's powerful PVC phase vocoder package. Currently, it's being made available as a public beta with the hope that it'll generate feedback, bug reports, suggestions, and additions to its help pages. There are plenty of rough...

Matriosity is a matrix generator and analyzer for the branch of music composition known as serialism. It accepts a prime row either as letters or numbers, and from this row generates a matrix (also as letters or numbers). It also analyzes the prime form...

PresentArms is a slideshow program. Import multiple directories or files and play back the images at a time interval you define, in windowed or fullscreen mode with a customizable background color. PresentArms also allows the creation of playlists of...

SoX Wrap is a wrapper for the conversion routines of the open-source sound utility SoX. It handles the following formats: 8svx, aiff, al, au, avr, cdr, cvs, dat, gsm, hcom, la, lu, maud, mp3, nul, ogg, prc, raw, sb, sf, sl, sph, smp, snd, sndt, sw, txw,...

Amber-X is a free granular synthesis application for OS X, based upon Amber by Matt McCabe and Jennifer Bernard. Amber-X takes in WAVs and AIFFs and breaks them into tiny grains, or sub-sounds, then reassembles them in interesting ways defined by the...