Ecasound - multitrack audio processing tool

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[ latest release: v2.4.6.1 ]

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. Ecasound 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. See key features and technologies for more details.

Primary platform for running Ecasound is GNU/Linux. Ecasound can also be run on many UNIX-derived systems such as FreeBSD, Mac OS X and Solaris. Limited support for Windows is available through Cygwin.

Ecasound is free software. It is distributed under terms of the GNU General Public License. See the file ’COPYING’ for details. This file is included in all Ecasound distribution packages.

14.08.2007 - Ecasound 2.4.6 released!
Ability to specify a custom configuration resource file has been added. Several long-standing bugs have been fixed. The licensing of rubyecasound has been changed. See the whole announcement. [website] UPDATE: an annoying debugging trace was left enabled to the 2.4.6 release, so 2.4.6.1 was released on the same day.
07.12.2006 - Ecasound 2.4.5 released!
Native support for FLAC files has been added using the sndfile library. New debugging tools for ecasound scripting and ECI applicatin development have been added. Bugs related to ecasound process return values, memory corruption in ECI apps, handling of 24/32bit big-endian audio files, robustness of mp3/ogg/flac/aac support, managing loop devices, parsing user input, and build errors on cygwin, have been fixed. A set of new processing ops for channel routing and mixing has been added. See the whole announcement. [website]
27.01.2006 - Ecasound 2.4.4 released!
A severe bug related to audio routing in the engine has been fixed. It is now possible to set initial values for any MIDI-CC controlled effect parameters. Many minor bugfixes and improvements have been made to the Ecasound Control Interface implementation. Some improvements have been also made to the ecasignalview utility. See the whole announcement. [website]
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