Ecasound
Ecasound is a software package designed for multitrack audio processing. It can be used for simple tasks like audio playback, recording, and format conversions, as well as for multitrack effect processing, mixing, recording and signal recycling. It supports a wide range of audio inputs, outputs, and effect algorithms. Effects and audio objects can be combined in various ways, and their parameters can be controlled by operator objects like oscillators and MIDI-CCs. A versatile console-mode user interface is included in the package.
| Tags | multimedia Sound/Audio Capture/Recording Conversion Editors MIDI Players |
|---|---|
| Licenses | GPL |
| Operating Systems | POSIX Windows Windows Cygwin Mac OS X |
| Implementation | C C++ Python Emacs Lisp Perl PHP Ruby |
Recent releases
- 22 May 2011 14:02
Release Notes: A bunch of bugs were fixed, including a jack_multi regression in the previous release.
- 13 May 2011 21:52
Release Notes: An important bugfix has been made to sample conversion routines. Many other minor bugs have been fixed.
- 19 Aug 2010 22:12
Release Notes: A manual gate feature has been added. Bugs have been fixed in saving the chainsetup state, seeking with resample objects, and with Cygwin support.
- 21 Feb 2010 19:06
Release Notes: Various bugfixes, including a fix to a bug causing audible glitches with old versions of ALSA and certain hardware drivers.
- 20 Oct 2009 00:42
Release Notes: An initial Open Sound Control (OSC) interface for parameter control has been added. New '-chorder' and '-eadb' options and a 'cop-get' interactive mode command have been added. Optional build time support has been added for using liboil to optimize inner loops, giving a small performance boost to many common use-scenarios. Various bugs have been fixed in JACK support, MP3 output, and option parsing. There are fixes to build problems in Mac OS X.
Recent comments
Re: nice work!
> This is the only thing of its kind that
> I've found so far,
> which actually works. And it works well.
That's nice to hear! :)
> What would be nice is a tool with a
> threshold gate that
> triggers recording (or maybe there is
> one??)
This actually does exist already: the "-ge:args" option.
See ecasound(1) man page for more info.
nice work!
This is the only thing of its kind that I've found so far,
which actually works. And it works well.
My current interface to it is a bunch of shell scripts
called "record", "mix-two-tracks", etc.
I see that there are several GUIs out there but none
that are really good. (Maybe if there was a really good
one, there wouldn't be any others.)
What would be nice is a tool with a threshold gate that
triggers recording (or maybe there is one??)
And maybe something like a "circular file" which emulates a tape on which you can record at most
n seconds of new material, after which the material
at the start of the loop is overwritten. Actually it would
be nice if ext2fs supported this sort of file. Would be
nice for logs too. Hm, maybe I'll write one..
kaiv
12 Jul 1999 18:39
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