Visecas is a graphical user interface for Ecasound http://eca.cx/ecasound, a software package written by Kai Vehmanen k@eca.cx which is designed for multitrack audio processing. It starts Ecasound as a child process and communicates via a pipe using Ecasound's InterActive Mode (IAM) commands.

Visecas is designed with GNOME's Human Interface Guidelines in mind.

See http://visecas.sourceforge.net for details.

• All arguments are passed on to Ecasound. You can start Visecas from the command line as you would start Ecasound.
• This implies that Visecas does not introduce another file format but can read and write ecs files (actually Ecasound reads and writes them itself).
• Every chainsetup of an Ecasound session is displayed in one toplevel window.
• Chains can be added, removed, renamed, muted and bypassed.
• Audio objects can be added, removed and connected.
• Chainoperators can be added, removed and controlled by dynamically created dialogs.
• The engine status is displayed and can be controlled.
• Ecasound's preferences can be edited.

See TODO.

Fulfill the following dependencies then see INSTALL.

• Ruby 1.8.x (1.6 untested, may work) http://www.ruby-lang.org/en
• GTK+ > 2.0 http://www.gtk.org
• A recent version of libglade http://ftp.gnome.org/pub/GNOME/sources/libglade/2.0/

Make sure you have everything above installed before you move to:

• Ruby-Gnome2 >= 0.8.0 http://ruby-gnome2.sourceforge.jp/ There are different packages: You will need the ruby-gnome2-all package which includes libglade2 bindings.

And of course last but certainly not least:

• Ecasound >= 2.2.0 (the newer the better) http://eca.cx/ecasound

(C) Copyright 2003 - 2004 Jan Weil jan.weil@web.de

Visecas is licensed under the terms of the GNU General Public License (GPL). You should have received a copy of this license. See COPYING for details.

For now, please join Ecasound's mailing list to discuss this program.