Audio::Ecasound::Multitrack

Audio::Ecasound::Multitrack provides classes for tracks and buses, a template system for signal routing and other infrastructure to manage multitrack recording and mixing using the Ecasound audio processing engine.

The distribution includes Nama, a recorder-mixer application with command-line and graphic interfaces.

The graphic interface uses the Tk widget set.

The command-line interface executes internal commands, Ecasound commands, perl code, and shell commands. It includes history and help functions.

'Nama' is Japanese for 'live', describing live performances, raw fish and draft beer.

INSTALLATION

To install this module type the following:

perl Makefile.PL
make
make test
make install

DEPENDENCIES

Perl Modules

Carp
Cwd
Storable 
Getopt::Std
Tk (for GUI users)
Event
Audio::Ecasound
Parse::RecDescent
Data::YAML
File::Find::Rule
File::Spec::Link
IO::All
Term::Readline
Term::Readline::Gnu
Time::HiRes
Text::Template (for building from sources)

Libraries

The Ecasound audio processing libraries must be installed. Ecasound may be obtained from http://ecasound.seul.org/ecasound/ or as precompiled binary packages for your Un*x distribution.

The LADSPA SDK is required to autosense LADSPA plugins and scaling hints. It is available at:

http://www.ladspa.org/ladspa_sdk/download.html

In particular the utility program 'analyseplugin' must be installed in a directory in your execution PATH.

'file', a BSD utility program that detects file formats must be installed for Nama to correctly identify stereo files.

BUILD INSTRUCTIONS

It is much easier to browse the sources prior to build. Functionality is separated into a number of files, and the long module prefix "Audio::Ecasound::Multitrack" is shortened to "::".

*.pm files for the distribution are created from source files *.p and *.pl and a few other files by executing the ./myproc script.

For typical build and test type the following in the pre directory.

./myproc; ./ui

To see the names of the files and scripts used to build the modules type:

grep '\[%' *  # finds directives for including files

ls *.p        

LICENSE

This software is licensed for use under the terms of the GNU Public License version 2. The text of this license is provided in the file COPYING that is included in this distribution.

This software is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the GNU General Public License for more details.