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asiga

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Nov 4, 2012
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I've been using the old version of the Vox player for decades now (I mean, when it was the greatest minimalist player you ever saw). Now I have no remedy but to update MacOS to versions that cannot run 32bit apps. The old Vox player is 32bit, and the new one is completely opposite to the kind of player I need, so I'll move to another one.

The features I need are:
  • As minimalist as possible (simple app, just drag into applications, no obscure files left).
  • Play common music files (mp3, wav, flac, ...I don't need fancy formats).
  • Realtime reverb (if it uses the Mac Audio Units, like the MatrixReverb like Vox did, would be perfect).
  • Realtime modification of speed without changing the pitch, and viceversa (ie: time stretch).
  • Realtime equalizer.
  • Preferably no "music library" (I prefer to manage files myself and play folders directly).
After some search, I just found Fidelia, which really reminds me a lot of the old Vox player (well, it uses the concept of music library, which I really hate, but seems to be non-intrusive, ie: it just stores links to your song files in a sqlite3 index which is stored in your ~/Library/Application Support/Fidelia folder ...not my preferred solution, but I can live with that).

On the plus side, Fidelia has Audio Unit support, which means I get the great MatrixReverb from Apple, as well as the graphical equalizer).

On the minus side, it comes with no time-stretch, and I really want that. It only supports Audio Units, and I don't know of any Audio Unit for time-stretch. Do you know of any?

Do you have any other suggestions apart from Fidelia, or do you know of any time-stretch Audio Unit that I can install?
 
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