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Delay Calculator is a simple tool I wrote to convert bpm into milliseconds according to common note values. Note values are arranged into four tabs, sixteenths, twelfths, triplets and dotted.

MP3RSS Magician is a MP3 tagging application that allows for the integration of a Podcasting RSS XML file. The program is simple, import an MP3, create/modify the ID3 tags, then if the user wants to create a Podcasting file, just click one of the buttons.

You are currently working with your MP3 files and suddenly one file does not play anymore - this sounds familiar? MP3 files are very sensitive, just a single modified byte can make the whole file unreadable for several MP3 players so an accident or bug in a MP3 editor can easily corrupt a file. But this doesn't mean that the entire file is lost, MP3 Repair Tool can help you! Important note: MP3 Repair Tool deletes the beginning and/or end of MP3 files. You cannot undo this action.

Audio and Video playback problems can often be caused by NOT having the correct codec installed on your computer, or even the wrong version installed. SHERLOCK - The Codec Detective determines the codecs installed on a Windows XP computer, checks to see if any of the codec's are broken and exports the data to a text file for technical support.

BestPractice is a tool to slow down or speed up music, either from a wave file or directly from a CD. Ordinarily the sound is distorted when slowed down or sped up BestPractice tries to correct this, so you can slow down and speed up music, while keeping the original tune. You can also change the pitch of the music without affecting its length. Use it to study a piece of music; transcribe music; tune a song to your instrument; change a song key to match your voice; or simply have fun with audio files!

PianoTuner enables you to alter the velocity of incoming MIDI messages which will change the touch and feel of your digital piano or keyboard. You can adjust the velocity of EACH KEY seperately using an editable curve that ensures that zero velocity remains zero and maximum velocity remains 127 (as described in the MIDI standard) resulting in natural sounding velocity levels. To imitate the silence when a key is hit very gently, I added a cut-off velocity. To avoid the extreme loudness when playing a midi-file through-out the piano, I also created a maximum velocity slider. You can also monitor the notes directly on the on-screen pianobar together with the velocity used.

Soundplant 26.1 is a self-contained digital audio performance program that turns your computer keyboard into a fully customizable sample-triggering device. It allows the assignment of sound files of unlimited size to virtually any keyboard keys, with no external devices needed and no MIDI involved. It can be used as a drum pad, to add a live track to an already made song, to mix together tracks in realtime, to create music or loops from scratch, to quickly sketch sound designs, to give new life to old sounds, or as a performance, presentation, or installation tool.

Monkey's Audio is a fast and easy way to compress digital music. Unlike traditional methods such as mp3, ogg, or lqt that permanently discard quality to save space, Monkey's Audio only makes perfect, bit-for-bit copies of your music.. That means it always sounds perfect – exactly the same as the original. Even though the sound is perfect, it still saves a lot of space. (think of it as a beefed-up Winzip™ for your music) The other great thing is that you can always decompress your Monkey's Audio files back to the exact, original files. That way, you'll never have to recopy your CD collection to switch formats, and you'll always be able to recreate the original music CD if something ever happens to yours. Monkey's Audio is completely free! Freely available source code, simple SDK and non-restrictive licensing - other developers can easily use Monkey's Audio in their own programs -- and there are no evil restrictive licensing agreements.

So what exactly does AnalogX Bound do? Well, it simply clamps any audio to within a user-specified range... What this eliminates is one of the more common errors a plugin makes with high-volume samples - wrapping. This means the other plugin would take something like a 32bit sample 1.1, and instead of clamping it to 1.0, it instead wraps it to -0.9, which is very bad. Of course, Bound requires an application that supports DirectX Audio plugins (like the Paris or WaveLab), and works with primarily realtime applications, although it might work with some non-realtime as well. Bound supports mono or stereo sound streams, as well as 16bit and 32bit data types, although it really is geared for 32bit audio.

Just like our fine officers on the streets, BitPolice is looking to catch some poor quality plugins in the act of trashing your audio fidelity! Simply start two copies of BitPolice, and place one before the plugin you're interested in, and one after. Then just compare the results, and the bit's don't lie. In order to use BitPolice, your application must support DirectX Audio Plugins, and must also support realtime processing (such as Paris or WaveLab). If your application forces you to render the output from DirectX plugins, you're out of luck and should complain to the people who wrote it, because there's nothing I can do to help you out.

ACM Properties is an easy way to get a listing of all the installed ACM plugins, as well as the audio formats that they can input and output (and their respective bit depths, sample rates, etc). ACM Properties is especially handy when you're having a problem using a plugin in another program, and can quickly check to see if the format is correct.

Are you a power DirectX Audio user, or do you just want to have a better grasp of where all those plugins are going? Frustrated with plugins still showing up in all your programs, even though you deleted them ages ago? Then AnalogX DXMan is for you! DXMan allows you to add or remove plugin registrations on a whim... Find out almost any piece of information related to a plugin, from it's Class ID, to it's input and output pins, to it's filename and path, even it's properies page!