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Introduction

Visecas is a graphical user interface for Ecasound <http://eca.cx/ecasound>, a software package written by Kai Vehmanen <k@eca.cx> which is designed for multitrack audio processing.
It starts Ecasound as a child process and communicates via a pipe using Ecasound's InterActive Mode (IAM) commands.

Visecas is designed with GNOME's Human Interface Guidelines in mind.

See http://visecas.sourceforge.net for details.

Features

All arguments are passed on to Ecasound. You can start Visecas from the command line as you would start Ecasound.
This implies that Visecas does not introduce another file format but can read and write ecs files (actually Ecasound reads and writes them itself).
Every chainsetup of an Ecasound session is displayed in one toplevel window.
Chains can be added, removed, renamed, muted and bypassed.
Audio objects can be added, removed and connected.
Chainoperators can be added, removed and controlled by dynamically created dialogs.
The engine status is displayed and can be controlled.
Ecasound's preferences can be edited.

Other Features (so-called Bugs)

See TODO.

Installation

Fulfill the following dependencies then see INSTALL.

Dependencies

Ruby 1.8.x (1.6 untested, may work) http://www.ruby-lang.org/en
GTK+ > 2.0 http://www.gtk.org
A recent version of libglade http://ftp.gnome.org/pub/GNOME/sources/libglade/2.0/

Make sure you have everything above installed before you move to:

Ruby-Gnome2 >= 0.8.0 http://ruby-gnome2.sourceforge.jp/ There are different packages: You will need the ruby-gnome2-all package which includes libglade2 bindings.

And of course last but certainly not least:

Ecasound >= 2.2.0 (the newer the better) http://eca.cx/ecasound

Author

Licensing

Visecas is licensed under the terms of the GNU General Public License (GPL). You should have received a copy of this license. See COPYING for details.

Mailing list

For now, please join Ecasound's mailing list to discuss this program.