Audio & Video

The following is a sampling of audio, video and graphic applications you might enjoy on AmigaOS4.

Disclaimer

The following list of applications are neither endorsed by nor supported by Hyperion Entertainment. This list is strictly informational only.

AmigaAMP

AmigaAMP is a powerful realtime multi format audio player for Amiga computers. It is based on the amp decoding engine by Tomislav Uzelac and can do realtime decoding on 50 MHz processors and up. AmigaAMP is a completely free and non-commercial project. Fraunhofer IIS and THOMSON multimedia grant a free license to use their MPEG Layer-3 audio compression technology for this kind of software.

GadTools rules!

The player comes with a fully fontsensitive, style guide conformous Amiga GadTools user interface and features multithreaded non-blocking windows for main interface, stream information and playlist. GatTools GUI

WinAMP looks nice, too!

Too dull? Well, the same executable can be made look and behave like WinAMP just by ticking a checkbox in the configuration window. It can load all the WinAMP skins and can display a realtime spectrum analyzer.

680x0 Realtime Decoding

AmigaAMP can do realtime decoding even on slower 680x0 processors using Stephane Tavenard's highly optimized mpega.library. On a 68040-40 you can play Layer3 at half the sampling rate and with reduced quality. Full quality and sampling rate can be achieved with a 68060-50.

OS4 native

AmigaAMP 3 is completely AmigaOS4 native giving you the performance you'd expect from a fast PowerPC system. It can play MPEG Layer-2, Layer-3, OGG, M4A, FLAC, AIFF, WAV and MOD/S3M/XM/IT through built-in decoders and lots more via TuneNet plugins.

PowerUP and WarpUP Compatible

In addition to the 68k decoder AmigaAMP 2 comes with two PPC native decoding engines one for PowerUP and one for WarpUP. Both engines feature high quality realtime decoding of Layer2 and Layer3 streams, graphic equalizer settings and full visualization.

On a PPC604e-200 you can play two 128kbps Layer3 streams with equalizer switched on and crossfade between the two without taking much CPU load! The realtime analyzers will continue to run smoothly without any latency problems at all.

AHI Compatible

AmigaAMP uses the widespread AHI Audio System at device access level. You can use it with any AHI compatible soundcard as well as with the original Amiga audio chipset.

Current Features (v3.16)

• MPEG Layer-2, Layer-3, OGG, M4A, FLAC, AIFF, WAV and MOD/S3M/XM/IT playback
• TuneNet plugin support
• Visualisation plugin system
• ReAction based user interface
• Alternatively WinAMP compatible user interface
• Workbench application (you can drop icons on its window)
• AHI device-level access (uses default audio mode automatically)
• Native AmigaOS4 executable
• Metadata and album cover display
• Playlists and Repeat mode
• Volume, panning and crossfading
• Editable playlists and shuffle mode with skin support
• Graphic equalizer
• Shoutcast/Icecast internet radio support with recording option

AmigaAMP webpage

Audio Evolution

Audio Evolution 4 gives you unsurpassed power for digital audio recording and editing on the Amiga. The latest release focuses on time-saving non-linear and non-destructive editing, as seen on other platforms. Besides editing, Audio Evolution 4 offers a wide range of realtime effects, including compression, noise gate, delays, reverb, chorus and 3-band EQ.

Whether you put them as inserts on a channel or use them as auxiliaries, the effect parameters are realtime adjustable and can be fully automated. Together with all other mixing parameters, they can even be controlled remotely, using more ergonomic MIDI hardware.

Highlights of Audio Evolution 4.0:

• Non-linear editing on the time line, including cut, copy, paste, move, split, trim and crossfade actions
• Unlimited undo
• Many grid options to align regions
• Improved automation editing on the time line
• Record automation events during playback by mouse or MIDI remote
• Track height adjustment and higher quality waveform display
• Metronome with freely adjustable time signature
• Control the mixer and transport controls remotely with external MIDI hardware
• Native OS4 effect plug-ins with realtime parameter control and metering
• New plug-ins, including a new compressor, chorus, ducking delay and sound replacer *
• Effect parameter automation
• WAV import
• 'Repeat region' functionality with intervals
• Automatic regionize with export to BurnIt
• ARexx interface
• Communicate and synchronize with other applications (like B&P) easily through the Master Control Bus
• Enhanced look using a 256 color screen. Most imagery can be changed by the user.
• Experimental Dolby Pro Logic encoder
• Brand new manual in HTML and PDF formats
• Many more smaller improvements and bug fixes

Audio Evolution OS4Depot download

Bars and Pipes

Bars n Pipes is a MIDI sequencer with some very creative abilities. By dropping tools on to Pipelines, it is easy to experiment without making permanent changes to the recorded song.

MIDI is an acronym for "Musical Instrument Digital Interface", and it allows remote control of synthesizers, audio mixers, and a variety of other production equipment. "sequencer" is simply a device or program that allows recording, playback, and editing of MIDI events.

Bars n Pipes lets you record, edit, and play back musical performances. This is NOT the same as audio recording. In a sequencer, we can make changes to the volume, tempo, and even the instrument being played, even AFTER the recording has been made. This offers a level of flexibility that audio recording does not have.

As an editor, Bars n Pipes lets you view the recorded performance as a list of events, or as "Bars" on a staff, with the length of each bar showing the note duration. You can simply drag notes around to change time, pitch or length, within user selectable boundaries.

The output of each track is represented by a Pipe, carrying the performance to an output. Bars n Pipes will let you drop any variety of tools on to the track to change the output, it does this without making any changes to the actual recording. So you can add an "echo" tool, even while the song is playing, and suddenly you'll hear notes on that track begin to echo. If you click on the tool you just dropped, you'll get a window that lets you control the parameters of the echo effect. Bars and Pipes gives you the tools to duplicate a track, or split high/low from any setpoint, quantize the notes to "tighten up" the timing, or unquantize tools to make the drummer sound a bit drunk. Create inversions, or chords, modify volume, velocity, or any other parameter you can name from a selection of over 80 tools. You can combine tools into patterns of your own design, and create "Macro-Tools" that you can add to your toolbox. If you decide that you want to make permanent changes, you can "toolize" a selected region, track, group, or the entire song. This flexible use of tools allows you to experiment without any fear of making a wrong move. It really frees you up to enjoy the experience.

Bars and Pipes OS4Depot webpage

Bars and Pipes Professional Manual

Sketchblock

SketchBlock is a developing sketching and painting package for AmigaOS. The project is in it's very early stages but is very bold in it's long term aims.

What are those aims? To create a sophisticated application for digital painting, with full support for graphics tablets, layers, a wide variety of tools, configurable interface, full Arexx script support, a plugin API and much more. The bias of SketchBlock will be towards painting and creating digital art rather than image processing, but it will likely be usable for manipulating photos too!

With SketchBlock you can make your artistic-side come to life.

Features:

• Layer Support
• Graphics Tablet Support
• Smudge and Smooth Tools
• Intuitive Paint Tool

OS4Depot Sketchblock webpage