NAME
Nama - Ecasound-based recorder, mixer and mastering system
ABOUT
Nama provides a convenient interface for multitrack recording, effects processing, mixdown, and mastering. Tracks can have auxiliary sends and inserts. User-defined buses allow musicians to have individualized monitors.
Nama is based on Ecasound, a stable, versatile and mature audio processing engine. Nama gives you everything great about Ecasound, along with high-level track, bus and project abstractions expected of a digital audio workstation.
While Nama is especially suited for console users and headless applications, it also has Tk-based GUI with transport buttons, sliders for track and effects parameters, and other commonly used functions.
The command-line interface executes internal commands, Ecasound commands, perl code, and shell commands. It includes history, help, and autocompletion.
'Nama' is Japanese for 'live', describing live performances, raw fish and draft beer.
INSTALLATION
You can probably install Nama via CPAN using the following command to pull in all dependencies:
PERL_MM_USE_DEFAULT=1 cpan Audio::NamaDEPENDENCIES
Perl Modules
Most Perl dependencies are pulled in automatically when installing via CPAN. The following will install all required dependencies without prompting.
PERL_MM_USE_DEFAULT=1 cpan Audio::NamaLibraries
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.
Nama's mastering mode uses a number of LADSPA plugins. These specified in the configuration file .namarc.
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.