AudioCodex is one of the coolest applications I’ve stumbled upon in recent history. What it is, is a whole new way to experience your music. It incorporates all your iTunes files and whatever other multimedia files it can find on your hard drive, and consolidates it into a fairly easy to use interface which in my opinion, is pretty ordinary and dull; but you shouldn’t get AudioCodex because you’re looking for an iTunes replacement, look at it as more of a media “enhancer”.
By “enhancer”, I mean cool application with lots of neat sound editing features, coupled with some of the trippiest visualizers you’ll ever see. It’s really a lot of fun just to pick one of your favorite songs, and mess with it. The results range from straight-up bizarre, to downright hilarious.
If you’ve ever had any experience with DJ equipment, then the interface should look pretty familiar. You have your pitch distortion knob, your time (tempo) adjustment knob, a basic equalizer, some reverb adjustments, volume control, and pan (balance) adjustment. All these controls are found on the bottom of the player itself. If you activate the Inspector (command+2) then you get a much more precise version of the same controls
As mentioned previously, the software also comes bundled with some really cool visualizers. My personal favorite is “Rock Fandango”, a spinning star that pulsates to the beat and which you can drag and rotate. It’s a really cool effect that has to really be witnessed in order to really be understood.
While this is a cool application and is currently free, it will not be free forever. It is currently in public beta, but the developer plans on releasing it as shareware on April 1st, 2008.
Below is a sample of a song I modified using AudioCodex. Major brownie points if you can guess which song it is
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Omer Zach
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