Ubuntu Manpage: bsescm - A Guile based scheme shell for Beast and Bse.

NAME

       bsescm - A Guile based scheme shell for Beast and Bse.

SYNOPSIS

       bsescm [options] [--] ...

       bsescm [options] <infile.bse> ...

DESCRIPTION

       bsescm is a Guile based scheme shell for Bse, the Better Sound Engine.

       bsescm  provides  a shell interface to all procedures exported by the Bse library, so scripts are able to
       access the full range of functionality provided by it, from simple  playback  of  a  .bse  file  to  full
       fledged automated creation or editing of synthesis networks.

       Alternatively  to  the  linked  in Bse library, the bsescm language interface can also talk to a remotely
       running Bse library host, for instance Beast.  By operating on a remotely running Bse core, bsescm can be
       used to script arbitrary Bse programs. The shell is also used directly by  the  Bse  library  to  execute
       procedures on its behalf, this allows Bse procedures to be written in scheme.

       When started, bsescm tests whether the first non-option argument is a .bse file and if the test succeeds,
       attempts to play the command line arguments as .bse files.

OPTIONS

bsescm follows the usual GNU command line syntax, with long options starting with two dashes ('--').

--bse-pipe infd outfd
Provide the input and output communication filedescriptors for remote operation.

--bse-eval string
Execute (eval-string string) instead of going into interactive mode.

--bse-enable-register
Allowes registration of procedures with the Bse core.

--bse-no-load
Prevent automated loading of plugins and scripts at startup time in interactive mode.

--bse-no-play
Prevent automated detection and playback of .bse file command line arguments.

--g-fatal-warnings
Make runtime warnings fatal (abort).

-h, --help
Describe command line options and exit.

-v, --version
Display version and exit.

-n=nicelevel
Execute with priority nicelevel, this option only takes effect for the root suid wrapper 'beast'.

-N Disables renicing to execute with existing priority.

--bse-latency=useconds
Set the allowed synthesis latency for Bse in milliseconds.

--bse-mixing-freq=frequency
Set the desired synthesis mixing frequency in Hz.

--bse-control-freq=frequency
Set the desired control frequency in Hz, this should be much smaller than the synthesis mixing
frequency to reduce CPU load. The default value of approximately 1000 Hz is usually a good choice.

--bse-pcm-driver driver-conf

-p driver-conf
This options results in an attempt to open the PCM driver driver-conf when playback is started.
Multiple options may be supplied to try a variety of drivers and unless driver-conf is specified
as "auto", only the drivers listed by options are used. Each driver-conf consists of a driver name
and an optional comma seperated list of arguments attached to the driver withan equal sign, e.g.:
-p oss=/dev/dsp2,rw -p auto

--bse-midi-driver driver-conf

-m driver-conf
This option is similar to the --bse-pcm-driver option, but applies to MIDI drivers and devices. It
also may be specified multiple times and features an "auto" driver.

--bse-driver-list
Produce a list of all available PCM and MIDI drivers and available devices.

Guile Options:
-l file
Load scheme source code from file.

-e function
After reading script, apply function to command-line arguments.

-ds Do -s script at this point (note that this argument must be used in conjuction with -s).

--debug
Start with debugging evaluator and backtraces enabled (useful for debugging scripts).

--emacs
Enable emacs protocol for use from within emacs (experimental).

The remaining Guile options stop argument processing, and pass all remaining arguments as the value of
(command-line):

-- Stop argument processing, start in interactive mode.

-c expr
Stop argument processing, evaluate expr as a scheme expression.

-s script
Load Scheme source from script and execute as a script.

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