![]() In our testing experience (there is a 12-day demo available), the difference was most profound when listening to our PowerBook’s small built-in laptop speakers. VolumeLogic’s devout users report significant increase in sound quality for small and large speakers, as well as headphones. VolumeLogic’s audio output is customizable by Volume, Drive, and Bass Boost, and many preset configurations are available for various musical genres. Available for both Mac and PC as a $20 commercial product, VolumeLogic processes iTunes’ audio and makes it sound significantly better. MacOS X v10.3 (Panther) is required to use GasLight at all.Ĭurrently the only significant iTunes audio enhancer add-on is VolumeLogic from Octiv Software. GasLight takes advantage of the fragment shaders built into advanced graphics cards and Panther’s OpenGL extensions to add some incredible glow, zoom, and blur effects to an otherwise fairly standard frequency spectrum analyzer.Īs a result, an ATI Radeon 9600-9800 or nVidia GeForceFX video card are required for the full effect. GasLight from Steel Skies software, also a Mac-only visualizer, is perhaps the most visually stunning visualization plug-in available for iTunes to date. ![]() A Windows iTunes version is supposedly in the works-keep an eye out. I find it equally stunning to G-Force, and oftentimes better.Īt this point, iGoom is only available for Mac iTunes and non-iTunes Windows media programs. IGoom is an open-source (and thus, free) visualization plug-in similar to G-Force. G-Force Gold, available for $10, adds new effects, video recording, and album cover art display. G-Force improves upon WhiteCap’s wireframe simplicity, adding stunning and sophisticated visual effects-anti-aliasing, blurs, and massive particle motion. G-Force is an incredibly popular (and generally gorgeous!) visualizer plug-in available for several media players. SoundSpectrum’s second visualizer is G-Force, pictured above. A “Gold” version of WhiteCap will soon be released, and will offer similar capabilities as “G-Force Gold” like Album Art display. WhiteCap is extremely customizable both to the individual’s aesthetic tastes and to the capabilities of their computer. Pre-defined “scenes” of wireframe creations-flags, donut shapes, lips, volcanos, and dozens more-actually morph from one preset to the next – the effect is very neat. ![]() WhiteCap’s wireframe designs bounce, as expected, to the music. WhiteCap works some amazing visual wonders with wireframe “twists” on a spectrum analyzer. Their first visualizer offering is WhiteCap. ![]() SoundSpectrum software offers iTunes users (Mac AND PC) two distinct visualization plug-ins. Luckily, however, there are quite a few excellent offerings in this category, many of them free! (To activate it, click the 8-point rose icon in the bottom right corner of the iTunes window) However, many iTunes “power users” may find themselves looking for more features, more customization, and better graphics. Without further (painful?) introduction, let’s get started we have a lot to cover!Īs many of you have likely already discovered, iTunes does include it’s own visualizer. Keep in mind, PC users, that iTunes has been around for years longer on the Mac than on the PC, and that more plugins are certainly coming your way as more developers jump on-board iTunes’ soaring popularity. One last note: You may notice that there are a few more plug-ins mentioned for the MacOS version of iTunes than for the Windows version. ![]()
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