[LAU] Nama multitrack recorder v1.203

I am happy to announce Nama version 1.203. With this release, the effects-handling code has been fully converted to Nama's OO model and several issues resolved. * fix spurious reconfiguration * effect chains apply parameters * restore playback position to zero after recording * kill Ecasound on exit in NetECI mode * correctly handle user effect addressing (aliases and effect chain affiliation) * fix drift in Master track volume * add CONTRIBUTORS to man page * add-effect/remove-effect accepts effect chain name as well as effect ID * fix parsing of Ecasound chain operator parameter names For users, the add-effect and remove-effect commands will now work on effect chains as well as simple effects. Effects can be addressed by effect ID, user alias or effect code. Some bus-related commands have been renamed to conform standard terminology. For those who care to prod and hack the sources, Nama's variables, defined in src/var_*, are now documented in var_overview.[1] I welcome feedback from any tire-kicking, torture-testing etc. Thanks to the Linux audio community, to Kai Vehmanen for Ecasound and to Nama's user community for their invaluable assistance. DESCRIPTION =========== Nama is a digital audio workstation. It is suitable for multitrack recording, effects-processing, editing, mixing, and other audio tasks. Nama uses Ecasound, developed by Kai Vehmanen, for audio processing. Nama hosts LADSPA and LV2 plugins, Ecasound effects and controllers. It works well under JACK and ALSA. New projects begin with a mixer, and may include tracks, takes, buses, effects, sends, inserts, marks, regions, fades, edits, sequences and submixes, with mixdown to wav, ogg, mp3. Nama has a full-featured command interpreter with TAB completion, keyword help and command history; a hotkey mode for tweaking effect parameters, a Tk-based GUI, and project management (history, branching, tags) based on git. INSTALLATION ============ The easiest way to install Nama, is using a CPAN client such as cpan or cpanm: cpanm Audio::Nama PERL_MM_USE_DEFAULT=1 cpan Audio::Nama Other dependencies are Ecasound, LADSPA SDK (for LADSPA plugin support), LILV utilities (for LV2 plugin support), and midish (for MIDI capabilities). 1. This and other source files are available from the git repository at http://github.com/bolangi/nama -- Joel Roth