Links

For links to Audio Units, see the Numerology AU Compatibility List.

Free or Cheap Software

This handy virtual audio driver for OS X comes from Cycling74. It is probably the easiest way to route audio from Numerology to another application for recording. Soundflower is a free download, available on the Cycling74 homepage.

Cycling74

A highly popular app from Rogue Amoeba for recording the sound output of your Mac. It also allows you to add AU's to the recorded stream. This is a good way to record the output of Numerology if you don't have any other software available.

Free software that does what Audio Hijack does, but without the bells and whistles.

Jack is an open-source project to create plugins that can stream audio from one application to another -- kindof a peer-to-peer variation on ReWire. Five12 has not had a chance to test this stuff yet, but some Numerology users have been able to use it to stream audio into other apps.

Jack for OS X: jackosx.com Jack Pilot : www.meskalina.it/elementicaotici/dev/audiounits.html
Jack Server : www.grame.fr/~letz/jack.html

A very handy and well-written MIDI monitor application from www.snoize.com. Great for debugging MIDI communication issues, or judging the accuracy of MIDI Clock generated by an application...

Get it at: http://www.snoize.com/MIDIMonitor

It's not free, or a synthesizer, but it is an inexpensive ($40) utility for building SoundFont or DLS sounds you can use in SimpleSynth or other synthesizers.

Get it at: http://www.bestsoftwaredesign.com/polyphontics.html

JunXion allows you to use USB game controllers to generate MIDI, which you can then use to control Numerology...

Get it at: www.steim.org/steim/junxion.html

A very reasonably priced ($39) software sampler with integrated editing. It can load SampleCell and SoundFont files, and run as a VST plugin.

Get it at: http://www.vsamp.com.

A free, and very handy virtual instrument that plays Soundfont and DLS sample files, including Apple's built in General MIDI soundset. Those of you that are programmers may be interested to know that it comes with source code and makes a good example of writing a simple CoreAudio app.

Get it at: http://www.pete.yandell.com/software/index.html

Get it at: http://www.grantedsw.com/rax/index.shtml

Fancy Software

These packages are a bit more expensive, but offer a wide range of features. See the web pages for each vendor for details. We plan to add to this list as more products are ported to OS X.

Propellerheads Reason Software synth and virtual studio.
Ableton Live Audio loop sequencer.

Interesting Hardware

This is a semi-random list of hardware synthesisers that we have experience with and know are fun to use with Numerology.

Another synth company that knows how to do multi-timbral operation right. Voices are fully editable, with many parameters controllable through CC.

Using Numerology to control a modular synthesizer is an experience that can range from just damned convenient, to absolutely nutty. If you feel adventurous, and you've never worked with one before, we highly recommend investigating this option.