ecamegapedal(1)
NAME
ecamegapedal - real-time effect processor
SYNOPSIS
ecamegapedal [options] [<input> <output>]
DESCRIPTION
Ecamegapedal is a real-time effect processor software with a graphical
user interface for controlling the effect parameters. It is meant to be
used as a virtual guitar-fx or studio effect box. In addition to realtime operation, Ecamegapedal also supports reading from and writing to
audio files. All audio object and effect plugin types provided by the
Ecasound libraries are supported. This includes ALSA, JACK, OSS, aRts,
over 20 file formats, over 30 effect types, LADSPA plugins and multioperator effect presets. Ecamegapedal´s implementation is based on Ecasound and Qt libraries.
INPUT/OUTPUT SYNTAX
First argument, <input>, sets the device or file, from which
Ecamegapedal will read audio data. The syntax is identical to the one
used by Ecasound (see ecasound(1)). Some examples:
- foo.wav
- Read from RIFF WAVE audio file ´foo.wav´.
- alsa,default
- Record from ALSA soundcard ´default´.
- /dev/dsp
- Record from OSS soundcard ´/dev/dsp´.
- jack Connect to a JACK server and register a JACK input port for
- Ecamegapedal.
- foo.mp3
- Read from MP3 audio file ´foo.mp3´.
- ... And so on, see ecasound(1) and the online documentation at
- http://www.eca.cx/ecasound for more info about object types.
- The second argument, <output>, sets the output device or file to which Ecamegapedal should write audio data. Syntax is the same as for <input>.
- Note! These instructions also apply when modifying the input and output objects using from the user-interface.
OPTIONS
--help Show a small usage help screen.
- --version
- Print the version info.
USER INTERFACE
One design goal has been that Ecamegapedal can be used without a mouse.
In practise this means that shortcuts work everywhere, and all pushbuttons and other controls have a textual description.
Ecamegapedal makes use of both accelerator keys and shortcut keys.
These are defined as follows:
An accelerator key is an alphanumeric key that can be pressed together
with a Meta-key, usually Alt, to select an item which is visible on the
screen. If an item has an accelerator key, this is shown by underlining
that character.
A shortcut key is a combination of Ctrl and another key. When pressed
together they start an action from any of the menus. In the menu, the
shortcut is printed after each item so that the user can learn about
the shortcuts by using the application.
In Ecamegapedal, transport controls (start, stop) play can be accessed
using shortcuts (ie. ctrl-t, ctrl-s, .. instead of alt-t, alt-s).
FILES
~/.ecasound/ecasoundrc User-specific setting that control ecasound operation. These settings also affect ecamegapedal sessions. See ecasoundrc(5) for more information.
SEE ALSO
ecasound (1), ecasoundrc (5)
AUTHOR
- Kai Vehmanen, <kai.vehmanen |at| wakkanet.fi>