Sagan Technology is a company concentrating on the development of quality software solutions for users of multimedia. The focus of our development is to make software that is as stable and user friendly as possible.

We are the makers of Metro, a MIDI, Audio and Video Sequencer formerly sold by Dr. T's Music Software, OSC, JS Technologies and Cakewalk Music Software. Metro is designed for and developed on Apple Macintosh™ computers.

Links

News/Information:

• The place to find VST or other plug-ins is kvr-vst.
• HitSquad is a handy resource to music software and hardware.
• The shortcut to news: zicos.
• Much useful computer music related info is available at harmony-central.
• Versiontracker (Mac OS X Audio).
• OS X Audio.
• All about Mac OS X audio from Apple Computer.
• Google, the best search engine.
• X-Static forum, News and noise about audio production in Mac OS X.
• A source for news is Music On The Mac.com.
• MacMusic.org.
  

Plug-Ins:

• A guide to everything compatible with the OS X plug-in standard: Audio Units.

An Incredible wealth of professional quality plug-ins can be had for free from apulsoft. Including a chorus, reverb, scope, thick sounding synthesizer name daHornet, Clav synth, EQ, compressor, phaser and more.
GreenOak has some very useful VST plug-ins and amazingly they are free!
Smartelectronix destroyfx has many excellent and free Audio Units.
Urs Heckmann also has some excellent Audio Units available.
Creed has some excellent plug-ins and a very useful MIDI Keyboard for those who must use QWERTY.
SilverSpike has a very cool early reflection plug named RoomMachine 844 and digital amp tube plug-in named RubyTube as well as some inexpensive high quality plugs.
If you want to control resonant filters after Apple's DLS synthesizer, check these excellent plug-ins out: Ohm Force's Frohmage and Prosoniq's NorthPole.
alphakanal Multimedia has created some cool free synthesizers named: buzZer and buzzer2.
reFX has some commercial synths and also a cool free synth called the claw. You may need to scroll to the bottom of this page to download it.
PSP has a free VU Metering and a free PianoVerb plug-in.
PowerFX has a free version of their Miracle Drum Loops tempo matching plug-in. They also have a commerical sample-loop-preview-before-you-purchase-online-plug-in called Soundshuttle.
Izotope has a lo-fi record simulator for adding noise named Vinyl.
Camel Audio has a free fully-functional distortion and compressor effect, CamelPhatFree.

Commercial:

The new spelling of the word "Phat" must of come from listening to Arturia's Moog Modular synthesizer emulation.
Swar Systems makes SwarPlug, which contains 49 virtual Indian instruments in VSTi/AU technology. There is also a Librarian to browse and select among a collection of over 1000 MIDI loops from the Indian classical and folkloric repertoire.
Izotope has a very very nice mastering plug-in named Ozone 3, a guitar speaker and cab modeler named Trash and a morphing EQ named Spectron.
U-he makes Filterscape a new synth and effect and also Zebra an amazing synthesizer.
PSP has a many incredible plug-ins including Nitro (the ultimate multimode filter plugin!), Lexicon emulations, EQ's, mixing, mastering and more.
Antares has several plug-ins including a pitch correction plug-in named Auto-Tune 4 that works quite nicely in Metro.
Atmosphere is simply amazing. Thank you Spectrasonics!
Some excellent EQ plug-ins can be found at Elemental Audio Systems.
WaveArts makes very a very nice EQ/Finalizer and Reverb plug-ins to name a few.
The very nice SFX Machine RT houses quite a few audio effects in a single plug-in.
Camel Audio has an additive synthesizer with morphing and resynthesis abilities named Cameleon 5000.
Sonic Charge makes a very unique and cool VST drum machine plug-in named µTONiC.
IKMultimedia makes an excellent sampler plug-in.... SampleTank II, an unbelievable Amp Simulator plug-in named Amplitube and a fantastic mastering suite: T-RackS.
Slice up your audio with the great Phatmatik Pro by Glaresoft. They also make a very clean Drum machine plug-in iDrum.
Native Instruments makes some amazing sounding plug-ins including AbSynth 2 and Battery.
Toontrack makes the most realistic sounding drum plug-in to date, named Superior. The sound library is huge so reserve room on your hard disk.
Korg has available the legacy collection. Very nice soft-synths.
MHC has some nice spacey plug-ins and synthesizers.

• M-Audio has a lot of PCI Cards. The delta series work quite well.
• Echo Digital Audio has the Gina and the Layla. Both excellent PCI cards but require Metro 6.2.5 or greater to record in stereo properly.

Soundfonts:

• Hammersound has a lot of excellent Soundfonts.
• Many links to Soundfonts can be found here.
• A sfArk converter that decompresses Soundfonts is now available for Mac OS X. Find it here.
• Some nice and large Soundfonts can be found here.
• More links to free Soundfonts can be found here.

• There is an arsenal of .ins files at cakewalknet.com.
• Cakewalk also has some at their FTP site.

Contact

Version 6 now available.

We are located at:

Sagan Technology
3 Woodstock Drive
Framingham, MA 01701