BEAST(1) Testbit Wiki Pages BEAST(1)NAMEbeast - Music composition and modular synthesis application.
SYNOPSISbeast [OPTIONS] [FILES...]
DESCRIPTIONbeast 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 poly‐
phonic voice processing, provides MIDI sequencer functionality and sup‐
ports external sequencer sources. A huge set of extra modules is avail‐
able 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.
OPTIONSbeast 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 avail‐
able 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 possi‐
bly 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.
SEE ALSO
bsescm.1 <http://testbit.eu/Bsescm.1>, bse.5 <http://testbit.eu/Bse.5>,
sfidl.1 <http://testbit.eu/Sfidl.1>, BEAST/BSE Website
<http://beast.gtk.org>
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