Ubuntu Manpage: beast - Music composition and modular synthesis application.

NAME

       beast - Music composition and modular synthesis application.

SYNOPSIS

       beast [OPTIONS] [FILES...]

DESCRIPTION

       beast is the BEtter Audio SysTem. It is a music composition and modular synthesis application released as
       free software under the GNU LGPL.

       beast comes with various synthesis modules which can be arranged in networks for modular synthesis. It is
       capable of monophonic and polyphonic voice processing, provides MIDI sequencer functionality and supports
       external sequencer sources. A huge set of extra modules is  available  through  the  support  for  LADSPA
       (Linux Audio Developer's Simple Plugin API) plugins.

       beast's  underlying  sound  engine  Bse  also  comes  with  a scheme scripting extension which allows for
       advanced non-interactive processing via bsescm.1 and creation of additional GUI functionality for beast.

OPTIONS

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

--skinrc FILENAME
Read skin resources from FILENAME.

--print-dir RESOURCE
Print the directory for a specific resource (e.g. 'plugins' or 'images'). Giving just --print-dir
without an extra argument causes beast to print the list of available resources.

--merge
Causes the following files to be merged into the previous or first project.

--devel
Enrich the GUI with hints useful for (script) developers

-h, --help
Shows a brief help message.

-v, --version
Prints out beast and component versions and file paths.

-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.

--display DISPLAY
X server display for the GUI; see X(7).

--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.

-- Stop argument processing, interpret all remaining arguments as file names.

Development Options:
--debug KEYS
Enable certain verbosity stages.

--debug-list
List possible debug keys.

-:[flags]
This option enables or disables various debugging specific flags for beast core developers. Use of
-: is not recommended, because the supported flags may change between versions and cause possibly
harmful misbehaviour.

Gtk+ Options:
--gtk-debug FLAGS
Gtk+ debugging flags to enable.

--gtk-no-debug FLAGS
Gtk+ debugging flags to disable.

--gtk-module MODULE
Load additional Gtk+ modules.

--gdk-debug FLAGS
Gdk debugging flags to enable.

--gdk-no-debug FLAGS
Gdk debugging flags to disable.

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

--sync Do all X calls synchronously.

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