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Beast - Music Synthesizer and Composer
https://github.com/tim-janik/beast

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Beast - Music Synthesizer and Composer

• Host: GitHub
• URL: https://github.com/tim-janik/beast
• Owner: tim-janik
• License: lgpl-2.1
• Created: 2015-10-08T16:34:12.000Z (about 9 years ago)
• Default Branch: master
• Last Pushed: 2022-07-30T00:38:45.000Z (over 2 years ago)
• Last Synced: 2024-05-18T22:12:53.609Z (7 months ago)
• Language: C++
• Size: 42.8 MB
• Stars: 83
• Watchers: 11
• Forks: 12
• Open Issues: 8
• Metadata Files:
  • Readme: README.md
  • License: COPYING

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BEAST & BSE

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# DISCONTINUED

Further Beast development has been halted, our development efforts now concentrate on [Anklang](github.com/tim-janik/anklang/) which is in many ways a modern and better reimplementation of the Beast feature set. Modules and functionality of Beast are incrementally integrated into Anklang.

# DESCRIPTION

Beast is a digital synthesizer and music creation system. It has support

for Linux Audio Plugins

([LADSPA](http://wikipedia.org/wiki/LADSPA)),

multi-track editing, unlimited undo, real-time synthesis, MIDI and various

free audio codecs.

Bse is the Beast Sound Engine, a library providing the synthesis and

audio functions used by Beast.

* For a full description, visit the project page:

	http://beast.testbit.eu

* To submit bug reports and feature requests, visit:

	https://github.com/tim-janik/beast/issues

# REQUIREMENTS

Beast is a soft realtime application which needs elevated CPU scheduling

priorities to avoid audio glitches and drop outs. For this purpose, it

installs a small uid wrapper which acquires nice level -20 for the

synthesis threads and then immediately drops privileges.

For Linux kernels of the 2.6.x series and later, this enables the

low-latency scheduling behavior needed to avoid audio artefacts.

In order to build release tarballs, `GnomeCanvas`, `Ogg/Vorbis`,

`libflac` and `npm` and `libfluidsynth` are required.

Support for MP3 files is optional and requires `libmad` (MPEG audio

decoder library) when compiling Beast.

Compilation requires at least `g++-8.3.0` or `clang++-9` and a recent

Linux distribution like Ubuntu-18.04.

# INSTALLATION

Beast needs GNU Make to build under Linux:

	make			# build all components

	make check		# run unit and audio tests

	make install		# install under $(prefix)

	make installcheck	# run installation tests

The build can be configured with:

	make default prefix=... CXX=... CC=... CXXFLAGS=...

	make help		# brief description about build targets

Note that some Beast versions provide a realtime scheduling wrapper in

the launchers/ directory which has to be installed with permissions of

the root user to work properly. Realtime scheduling priority helps to

avoid drop outs during audio playback.

# BINARY PACKAGES

New source code pushed to the Beast repository is automatically built

and tested via Travis-CI. Ever so often we create release candidate

packages and later release packages after a stabilization phase.

Some of the release candidates and the stable versions are provided

as binary packages. Refer to the website for download links:

	https://beast.testbit.org/#downloads