About:
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.

Author:
Kai Vehmanen [contact developer]

Rating:	reset 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10
8.40/10.00 (5 votes)

Homepage:
http://eca.cx/ecasound/
Tar/GZ:
http://ecasound.seul.org/download/ecasound-2.5.2.tar.gz
Changelog:
http://eca.cx/relnotes/ecasound_v2_5_2_relnotes.txt
RPM package:
http://www-ccrma.stanford.edu/[..]etccrma/software/soundapps.html#ecasound
Debian package:
http://packages.debian.org/ecasound
BSD Ports URL:
http://www.freebsd.org/ports/audio.html
Bug tracker:
https://sourceforge.net/tracker/?group_id=4605&atid=104605
Mailing list archive:
http://eca.cx/ecasound-list/
Mirror site:
http://ecasound.seul.org/ecasound/
Demo site:
http://eca.cx/ecasound/Documentation/examples.html

Trove categories: [change]

[Environment]		Console (Text Based), Console (Text Based) :: Curses
[License]		OSI Approved :: GNU General Public License (GPL)
[Operating System]		MacOS X, Microsoft :: Windows :: Cygwin, POSIX
[Programming Language]		C, C++, Emacs-Lisp, Perl, PHP, Python, Ruby
[Topic]		Multimedia :: Sound/Audio, Multimedia :: Sound/Audio :: Capture/Recording, Multimedia :: Sound/Audio :: Conversion, Multimedia :: Sound/Audio :: Editors, Multimedia :: Sound/Audio :: MIDI, Multimedia :: Sound/Audio :: Players

Dependencies: [change]
ALSA driver (optional)
aRts (optional)
FAAC (optional)
FLAC (optional)
Jack Audio Connection Kit (optional)
LAME (optional)
libmikmod (optional)
libsndfile (optional)
mpg123 (optional)
OSS (optional)
Secret Rabbit Code (optional)
SWH Plugins (optional)
TiMidity++ (optional)
vorbis-tools (optional)
[download links]

 Branches

Branch	Version	Last release	License	URLs
Default	2.5.2	24-Aug-2008	GNU General Public License (GPL)

 Articles referencing this project

• Sound and Music Software
  by Dave Phillips , in Category Reviews
  Sat, Dec 15th 2001 00:00
  

 Comments

[»] nice work!
by krzys majewski - Feb 19th 2004 10:41:45

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..

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[»] Re: nice work!
by Kai Vehmanen - Apr 16th 2004 10:47:31


> 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.


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