Software on CEMC Machintosh systems

Primary (found in system dock):

AC Toolbox
Audacity
Ardour
Csound
Cubase (and License Control Center)
Final Cut (or FC Express)
Finale
JackOSX (and QjackCtll)
JackTrip
Ableton Live!
Max/MSP
Melodyn (plugin)
PureData (Pd-extended)
Reason
Sibelius
Spear
SuperCollider

Secondary (found in Applications folder):

Cecilia
Ceres3
CLAM (QtSMStools, NetworkEditor, Prototyper, Annotator,Voice2MIDI)
Chuck and MiniAudicle
Common Music
JAMin
MIDIKeys
Praat
PVCX
sndtools (sndpeek, rt-pvc, rt-lpc)
SooperLooper
SoxWrap
Tapestrea

Plugins and externals:
This section is to be expanded

Additional (non-music):

Auqua Emacs
Firefox
ffmpegX
GIMP
Handbrake
MPEG Streamclip
iMovie
Inkscape
NeoOffice
Scribus
Smultron
Transmission
Cyberduck
VLC

System Utilities:

Perian (for extra video formats)
Growl
DoubleCommand
Flip4Mac (for wmv/wma format support)
Quicksilver
The Unarchiver (for Stuffits support)

Drivers required:

Apogee Drivers
RME Fireface drivers
M-Audio drivers

Free Software details

One of the explicit goals of Music 120 is to incite users to develop their own working methods and creative procedures.  Part of this is accomplished through information provided in lectures and in your time engaging the software available in the studios.  But as time goes by you will want to build your own software toolkit.  Free software is an excellent way to do this and there are many powerful applications available.  Indeed, many represent unique compositional tools unmatched in the world of commercial music software.

Below is a recent compilation of recommended software for various operating systems.  All software is available for free to the user and most has source code available under the GNU Public License (GPL).  I tend to favor tools with cross-platform implementations.  This gives the user a further freedom, allowing them to use whatever operating system they choose (or are provided with).  Before listing items by operating system, it is useful to list tools which will "run anywhere".  As this list grows, the list of system-specific tools can, hopefully, fade away.  A "*" denotes tools which are available for Unix systems only such as Linux, Mac OSX, Sun Solaris, etc.

First, a few quick links to downloads directly pertinent to lectures:

PureData installers (for pd-extended, all operating systems)
JACK audio connection kit for OSX

Audio/video:
Ardour* (Multitrack recording/editing) -- http://ardour.org
Audacity (Audio editing/recording) -- http://audacity.sourceforge.net
Audicle (One-the-fly programming) -- http://audicle.cs.princeton.edu/
Cecilia (Uber-app) -- http://cecilia.sourceforge.net and http://www.csounds.com/cecilia
Ceres3 (Spectral editor) -- http://www.music.columbia.edu/~stanko/About_Ceres3.html
ChucK (On-the-fly programming) -- http://chuck.cs.princeton.edu
CLAM (Spectral modeling/editing) -- http://clam.iua.upf.edu
Csound (Uber-sythn) -- http://csounds.com
JACK* (audio signal control) -- http://jackaudio.org
JAMin* (audio mastering) -- http://jamin.sourceforge.net
Mplayer (play/view almost any file type)-- http://www.mplayerhq.hu
Praat (spectral analysis) -- http://www.fon.hum.uva.nl/praat
PureData, PD (Modular audio programming) -- http://www.puredata.org
Sndtools* (audio visualization) -- http://sndtools.cs.princeton.edu
SooperLooper* (Loops) -- http://essej.net/sooperlooper
Spear (Spectral editor; Mac and Windows only) -- http://www.klingbeil.com/spear/
SuperCollider* (real-time synth) -- http://www.audiosynth.com
Tapestrea (Sound design, analysis/resynthesis) -- http://taps.cs.princeton.edu/release
VideLANClient , VLC (play/view/stream anything) -- http://www.videolan.org
Xine (play almost any filetype, nice GUI) -- http://xinehq.de

Images/office/publishing:
GIMP (Photoshop replacement) -- http://www.gimp.org
GIMPShop (Photoshop replacement) -- http://plasticbugs.com/?page_id=294
Hugin (Panoramic image stitching/editing) -- http://hugin.sourceforge.net
Inkscape (Illustrator/Freehand replacement) -- http://www.inkscape.org
OpenOffice (MS Office replacement) -- http://www.openoffice.org
Scribus (High-quality publishing) -- http://www.scribus.net

Web:
Drupal (web management software) -- http://drupal.org
Firefox (web browser) -- http://www.mozilla.com/firefox
Gallery (online photo gallery software) -- http://gallery.menalto.com
GAIM (multi-protocol IM) -- http://gaim.sourceforge.net
GoogleTalk (IM) -- http://www.google.com/talk/
Nvu (free WYSIWYG web editor) -- http://www.nvu.com

Other interests:
Celestia (a 3D celestial browser) -- http://www.shatters.net/celestia
Stellarium (a virtual planetarium) -- http://stellarium.sourceforge.net

Mac-specific Recommendations (often Mac version of above apps):

Adium (IM) -- http://www.adiumx.com
AudioMove (Audio conversion) --  http://www.lcscanada.com/audiomove
Colloquy  (IRC client) -- http://colloquy.info/
ffmpegX (play/encode/decode anything) -- http://homepage.mac.com/major4
Fink (software management) -- http://fink.sourceforge.net
Fire (multi-protocol IM) -- http://fire.sourceforge.net
Gentoo (software management) -- http://www.metadistribution.org/macos
Handbrake (DVD to Div/X) -- http://handbrake.m0k.org
Hymn (iTunes DRM help) -- http://hymn-project.org/download.php
JackOSX  -- http://www.jackosx.com
MplayerOSX (OSX GUI) -- http://mplayerosx.sourceforge.net
PVCX (OSX PVC) --  http://www.waveformsoftware.com/PVCX/pvcx.htm
OpenDarwin (Unix core) -- http://www.opendarwin.org
SoxWrap (Audio conversion)--  http://www.waveformsoftware.com/SoX_Wrap/soxwrap.htm

Windows-specific software recommendations:

Mobius (Loops) -- http://zonemobius.com
(others coming soon...offer your suggestions)

Linux Applications:

Unlike Windows and Mac, Linux is not an "app-by-app" world.  Installation is automated within the operating system.  WIth a base system in place, one can simply ask for applications and Linux will find them, download them, and install them for you.  This has led to application "bundling" (when it's so easy to ask for one, why not create ways to ask for lots of applications at once?).  Below are several audio/video-specific bundles of this kind.  Follow the directions on these pages and you will have a full-blown music environment running under Linux (for free) in a few hours.  One or two even run directly off of a CDROM (see below), just pop the disk in the drive, reboot, and you are ready to make music.

Linux will run on any hardware (PC, Mac, Sun, Xbox, toaster, etc) so you might consider adding it to your machine alongside your curret operating system.

Audio Bundles (install on Linux)
PlanetCCRMA: http://ccrma.stanford.edu/planetccrma/software/
AGNULA: http://www.agnula.org/
Turnkey Linux Audio: http://tkla.sourceforge.net/
Thac pages: http://rpm.nyvalls.se
64 Studio: http://64studio.com/
Dave Phillips Pages http://linux-sound.org

Bundles which run from CDROM (no install required)
Dynebolic: http://dynebolic.org/
Plus24: http://www.plus24.com/m-dist/
Studio to Go: http://www.ferventsoftware.com/ (commercial)
Apodio: http://www.apo33.org/apodio/mediaw (in French)