DAWs

• renoise

Renoise is based on mod trackers. Mod trackers are characterized by displaying and editing music in an easily understood grid known as a pattern. These patterns are akin to sheet music, but are displayed alphanumerically instead of with musical notation.

Whether you're an audio veteran or just starting out, Renoise is a fantastic addition to any bedroom or professional studio.

Renoise is multiplatform; runs on Windows, Mac and Linux. Register your copy, and you get all 3 versions. LINKS> official_site>

• berna

Between the 1950s and the mid 1960s, long before Robert Moog and Wendy Carlos injected electronics into pop-music (with a few exceptions like the Barrons and Raymond Scott), electroacoustic music was pioneered by european radio laboratories, US universities. and tape centers. Composing with tapes and electronics was a serious painstaking and expensive affair, prerogative of a restricted elite of contemporary music composers and adventurous sound engineers. At that time there wasn’t any electronic musical instruments market, as a matter of fact, most of the equipment was adapted from scientific tools belonging to radio engineering departments. Sometimes the equipment was built from scratch cannibalizing  anything that had wires, tubes and pots, more rarely, the studios used the few commercial instruments available in those days, such as the Melchord, the Trautonium and the Theremin. Contrarily to what happens today, electronic music then was everything but fast and easy to create. A few minutes of electronic composition could take more than one year of work. Everything was handmade, from complex timbres with multiple sine oscillators bounces  to tape editing with scissors and scotch-tape. Even sound envelopes were manually made by cutting tapes’ edgdes at different degrees of inclination. Ussachevsky’s ADSR was yet to be invented! 

Berna is a software simulation of a late 1950s electroacoustic music studio. Oscillators, filters, modulators, tape recorders, mixers, are all packed in a easy-to-use interface with historical accuracy. 

Explore serial, concrete and tape music or create strange new sonic worlds with instruments inspired by the greatest studios of the early days of electronic music.

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• gleetchlab

A realtime modular composition and processing software for sound design and experimental music like glitch, IDM, electroacustic, ambient...

Gleetchlab 3 is a modular software designed to process audio files and live sound sources in realtime.

Unlike many music softwares, gleetchlab does not use a "timeline", instead you can process and record sound as it plays and quckly store every  parameter into ten easy-to-recall temporary presets.

You can manipulate samples with random loop points, alterate speed and direction of playing without limits, pencil-edit waveforms and use the internal DSPs such as convolution, feedback generator, granular re-synthesis, waveshaping distortion, spectral filtering, wow simulation, dynamic reverberation and your own VST plugins. 

Also you can record  and re-record endlessly each processed sound into the 6 stereo loopers or manipulate  sources coming from your soundcard and last but not least, use a quadriphonic suround mixer/recorder.

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• numerology

Numerology is a modular music sequencing and audio plugin environment for Mac OS X. It takes the step sequencing and modulation metaphors established by the analog sequencers of the 70's, and implements them in a structured and highly interactive software environment designed for experimentation, improvisation and live performance. By using Numerology in conjunction with your choice of Audio Unit plugins and hardware synths, you can create an open compositional environment that is truly your own.


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