Amadeus

• Description of the program
• Download the program
• Informations about registering

Amadeus is a powerful tool designed to manipulate, create and analyse sounds. It offers most of the basic functions like echoing, frequency filtering, resampling, intensity modulation, mixing, and so on. Besides, it offers a few more original tools like:

• Easy realisation of sonograms. A sonogram is a picture that shows the sound's frequency vs. its intensity. The colors symbolise the intensity of a given frequency. Sonograms are useful for example if you want to compare the sounds of two different animals.
• Realisation of spectrograms. This allows to look at the spectral composition of a fragment of sound. It also offers an easy way to compare the intensities of the fontamental frequency and the different harmonics.
• Powerful sound synthetizers. It is possible to constitute a library of waveforms and then generating a sound by telling the program which waveform should appear at a given time and a given basis frequency. This allows to reproduce any instrument and to invent new tonalities.
• Elimination of cracks. This can be done manually by selecting the crack and choosing the function Interpolation->Manual or automatically by selecting the whole sound and choosing the function Interpolation->Automatic. The latter function has the disadvantage of sometimes missing "large" cracks because it doesn't obligatory make the difference between a crack and a beat for example.
• Eliminating of background noise. This function is designed to complete the Interpolation function. It offers an easy way to get rid of background noise, typically if the sound was initially sampled at 16bits or if the recording comes from a tape.

There are two different binaries you can download here: an english version and a french version. In order to use the file saving and printing functions, you have to be a registered user. To know how to become a registered user, report to the section "Informations about registering"

Both binaries ar FAT, this means they should run as well on 68k and PPC machines.

All the binaries available on this page run only on Macintosh compatible machines with system 7.1 or later! Don't try to use them on Windows or Unix machines.

The latest available version is 1.44..

Amadeus is not a freeware. This means that if you want to use the file saving functions, you are supposed to register. The registering fee is 25$ or an equivalent amount in any currency. The payments are processed by Kagi . Among others, some accepted payment methods are:

• Cash in any currency.
• Credit card (Visa, Mastercard, American Express).
• Checks in USD.

It is possible to register online .