audio gadgetware
Various Sagebrush programs are able to record and play MP3, but only if you already have an ACM MP3 audio codec installed on your computer, which was common during Windows XP but less likely in later versions of Windows. We do not bundle an MP3 encoder with our products because the technology is covered by … Read more
Recently we described how to add new instrument voices to WinChime, beyond those pre-defined in the drop-down list. TL;DNR version: Enter the MIDI instrument number (minus 1) in the edit box portion of the drop-down list. You can do the same trick in MouSing, on the MIDI tab main window. We actually forgot this trick, … Read more
Previously we described how to run RecAll-PRO, RecAll, and other Sagebrush programs on Ubuntu Linux, using the free open-source Wine software library. Here we show how to do the same thing with MacIntosh running OS X on an Intel CPU. The easiest way to install Wine on OS X is with WineBottler. Download and install … Read more
A recent comment from a tester prompted us to write up this application note. WinChime has long had the capability to use any instrument defined in the MIDI sound bank, not just the ones listed in the Instrument drop-down list. This is even documented in the help file… but it’s a little hard to find … Read more
The Sagebrush Blog began on April 9, 2007, so we are five years old today! We haven’t actually been blogging continuously all that time, taking a hiatus from April 2009 to October 2011. It is hard to avoid the dreaded blog-poster burn-out. We got better. My current goal is to post at least once a … Read more
Install Wine and MouSing using the procedure described in Installing RecAll-PRO and RecAll on Ubuntu Linux. If using the MIDI option in MouSing, install the Timidity MIDI daemon as described in Installing WinChime on Ubuntu Linux. If using MIDI, go into menu Options-> Preferences->MIDI and change the MIDI Output Device to an existing device. Adjust … Read more
Remember when voice recording was hard? Rare? A special event? Cost money? Required special hardware? Full size ad at Vintage Ads. More ads and hardware photos at Pinrepair. Recording on YouTube. (hat tip BoingBoing) Related Posts: Recording in the News Anniversary of BetaMax Decision
Check out this interview with the person who designed the ambient sound system for Disney World. More than 15,000 speakers have been positioned using complex algorithms to ensure that the sound plays within a range of just a couple decibels throughout the entire park. It is quite a technical feat acoustically, electrically, and mathematically. How … Read more
Stanford physicist Matt Bellis and developers attending Science Hack Day SF have created a program to render subatomic particle collisions as musical notes. Particle parameters, such as energy or angle, could be mapped onto volume or pitch of a note. Read the Article in Symmetry Breaking magazine [no longer available or not found] or download … Read more
This has been making the rounds of the blogs lately. What MIDI instrument selected in WinChime gives a similar sound?