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NAME

Nama - Ecasound-based recorder, mixer and mastering system

ABOUT

Nama is a multitrack recording, effects-processing, mixing and mastering application based on the Ecasound audio processing engine. Nama adds track, bus and project abstractions that supplement Ecasound's proven capabilities.

Nama's features include LADSPA effects hosting, presets, aux sends, inserts, regions, time-shifting, send buses (for personalised instrument monitors) and sub buses (for creating specialised processing networks.)

Nama's mastering mode adds an equalizer, three-band compressor and limiter to the signal chain. The configuration is modelled after JAMin, a respected mastering application. The default mastering effects can be customised via .namarc, Nama's configuration file.

Nama has both a graphical user interface and a text interface.

The text interface gives console users an efficient environment for audio production. The Gnu ReadLine library is used to provide a shell-like command prompt that can execute Nama-specific commands, Ecasound interactive-mode commands, shell commands and Perl code. Tab-completion of commands, filenames and effect labels saves keystrokes. Online help allows looking up commands and effects by category, name, keyword and LADSPA unique ID.

The minimalistic GUI, written in Tk, provides buttons and sliders to manage projects, tracks, effects, marks, recording and mixdown. The command prompt remains available when running Nama in GUI mode.

"Nama" is Japanese for "live", describing live performances, raw fish and draft beer.

INSTALLATION

Installing Nama and its Perl Dependencies from CPAN

The following command will install Nama, automatically pulling in all Perl modules required to run Nama in text mode:

                PERL_MM_USE_DEFAULT=1 cpan Audio::Nama

To use the GUI, you will need to install Tk:

                cpan Tk

You may optionally install Audio::Ecasound to run Ecasound via libecasoundc:

                cpan Audio::Ecasound

If you simply want a tarball to inspect or prod, look for a file named Audio-Nama-????.tar.gz in this directory:

                http://search.cpan.org/CPAN/authors/id/G/GA/GANGLION/

Installing Nama Using the Debian Package System

You can use the following steps to install Nama on a Debian-based system.

1. Install Perl libraries

                apt-get install perl perl-modules libio-all-perl libgraph-perl libtext-format-perl libmodern-perl libfile-find-rule-perl libanyevent-perl libevent-perl libyaml-tiny-perl libparse-recdescent-perl libterm-readline-gnu-perl

2. Install Ecasound

                apt-get install ecasound

3. Install LADSPA utilities and and some LADSPA plugins

                apt-get install ladspa-sdk swh-plugins tap-plugins

4. Download Nama

                wget http://freeshell.de/~bolangi/nama/libaudio-nama-perl_0.9986-1_all.deb

5. Install Nama

                dpkg -i libaudio-nama-perl_0.9986-1_all.deb

Build from Source

You can pull the source code as follows:

                git clone git://github.com/bolangi/nama.git

Consult the BUILD file for build instructions.

Non-Perl Dependencies

The Ecasound audio processing libraries should be installed. Ecasound should be compiled with support for LADSPA, libsndfile, libsamplerate and JACK. Ecasound may be obtained from http://ecasound.seul.org/ecasound/ or as precompiled binary package for your Un*x distribution.

The LADSPA SDK is required to autosense LADSPA plugins and scaling hints. It is available at:

http://www.ladspa.org/ladspa_sdk/download.html

In particular the utility program 'analyseplugin' must be installed in a directory in your execution PATH.

Nama's mastering mode uses a number of LADSPA plugins. Defaults are specified in the configuration file .namarc.

LICENSE

This software is licensed for use under the terms of the GNU Public License version 2. The text of this license is provided in the file COPYING that is included in this distribution.

This software is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the GNU General Public License for more details.