I'm announcing a maintenance update of Nama[1], with several fixes and improvements. - envelope fades now work with transport seeking (fix in Ecasound 2.8.0) - more intuitive control of buses - reorganized source code - documentation of variables and track subclasses Nama is available as a Debian package[2], or as a native perl distribution from CPAN.[3] A blurb follows. Regards, Joel -----------------------blurb------------------------------- Nama is an application for multitrack recording, non-destructive editing, mixing and mastering using the Ecasound audio engine developed by Kai Vehmanen. Primarily text-based, it also has a simple Tk based GUI. Audio features * stable and mature audio engine * unlimited tracks supporting multiple WAV versions (AKA takes), * track caching (aka track freezing) * effects (also presets, multitrack profiles) * controllers * sends * inserts * marks * regions * edits * buses * instrument monitor outputs with per-musician customized mix * mastering mode * project templates * autoselect JACK/ALSA modes * autodetects LADSPA plugins * Ladish Level 1 session handling. Command prompt features * grammar-based command language * Ecasound interactive-mode commands * shell commands * perl code * command history * scripting * user-defined commands * autocompletion of commands and filenames * help menus and keyword search GUI * simple and convenient * coexists with command prompt * colors can be customized * no waveform visualization Debugging resources * track and bus status displays * signal routing shown as Ecasound chain setup * viewing of any and all data structures * separate debugging outputs at Nama and Ecasound levels * mailing lists[4,5] 1. http://freeshell.de/~bolangi/cgi1/nama.cgi/00home.html 2. http://packages.debian.org/search?keywords=nama 3. http://search.cpan.org/~ganglion/Audio-Nama-1.076/ 4. http://www.freelists.org/list/nama 5. http://eca.cx/ecasound/mlists.php -- Joel Roth