[LAU] [ann] CAPS 0.4.0

[David Baron]

On Sunday 17 June 2007, Tim Goetze wrote:
> The C* Audio Plugin Suite reincarnates as version 0.4.0.
>
> CAPS is a collection of LADSPA plugins enjoying worldwide favour for
> its instrument amplifier emulation.  In addition, it provides a
> sizeable assortment of acclaimed audio DSP units, sound generators and
> effects.  CAPS is distributed as open source under the terms of the
> GNU Public License.
>
>   http://quitte.de/dsp/caps.html
>   http://quitte.de/dsp/caps_0.4.0.tar.gz
>
> This release sees the addition of the fine work of David Yeh at CCRMA
> on the emulation of classic tube amplifier tone stack circuits (more
> here: http://ccrma.stanford.edu/~dtyeh/tonestack/ ).
>
> Three new plugins are building on the tone stack: ToneStack and
> ToneStackLT offer isolated implementations, while the new AmpVTS unit
> combines a refined AmpV and a ToneStack circuit.  I'm very grateful to
> David for his brilliant contribution, and I'm quite positive that
> those who actively use the CAPS Amps will share this sentiment.
>
> Also primarily aimed at the discerning guitarist is the new AutoWah
> plugin, offering a versatile rendition of this classic audio effect.
>
> The last new plugin is Eq2x2, a two-channel 10-band graphic equalizer
> modeled after an analogue design.
>
> -*-
>
> Beyond the new plugins, this release also brings tons of major
> improvements "under the hood".  All plugins have been hardened to work
> glitch-free in the face of invalid control input.  Much effort has
> also been spent on further elimination of denormal numbers everywhere.
> Parameter smoothing (which is performed in order to prevent zipper
> noise) has been refined never to occur at the start of processing.
> The build process can now be configured to take advantage of the SSE
> and SSE3 extensions on the i686 platform, providing slight performance
> gains and automatic denormal protection.  The HTML documentation has
> been thoroughly updated to reflect all changes.  Finally, thanks to
> Paul Winkler CAPS now comes with an improved RDF file containing
> plugin categorisation.
>
> For the near-complete list of changes please see
> http://quitte.de/dsp/caps.html#Changelog
>
> -*-
>
> Don't hesitate to let me know what you think.
>
> Enjoy, and thank you for using CAPS,
>
> Tim

Better compile using G++-4.0. 4.1 fails with an internal compiler error 
compiling ToneStack.cc. I filed a bug for the debian G++-4.1 as instructed. 
G++-4.0 compiles fine.