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. Ecasound allows flexible interconnection of audio inputs, files, outputs, and effects algorithms, realtime-controllable by builtin oscillators,

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, or interprocess communication via GUI front-end. Ecasound supports

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User Interface

Ecasound is a command-line tool: it does not include a native graphical interface. Major tasks (recording, mixdown) can be easily performed directly from the command line interface, or by scripts. Several GUI front-ends have been written for it: * EcaEnveloptor – Creates envelopes for ecasound objects, requires

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& pyecasound. Non-realtime. By Arto Hamara (13/06/2001) * Nama – multi-track recorder, mixer and mastering application. Tk and ReadLine interfaces. By Joel Roth (13/01/2010) * EMi (Ecasound Mastering interface) – virtual rack-mount effect. Python-based. By Felix Le Blanc (27/04/2006) * GAS (Graphical Audio Sequencer) – multi-track recording and mixing. GTK based. by Luke Tindall. (2001) (?-site down) * TkEca – Controls almost all features: multi-track recorder/mixer. Tcl/Tk interface. By Luis Gasparotto (29/01/2004) * Visecas – Preserves Ecasound semantics: edits chains & audio objects, not tracks/regions.

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-based. By Jan Weil (22/01/2004)

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* Audio recording software Free music software Free audio editors Audio editing software that uses GTK Audio software with JACK support Audio editing software for Linux Free software programmed in C++ Software using the GNU General Public License {{multimedia-software-stub

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