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CALF(7) 						 Miscellaneous Information Manual						   CALF(7)

NAME

       calf - a audio plugin library

SYNOPSIS

       calfjackhost plugin !  [ plugin !  ] [...]

DESCRIPTION

	The  Calf  project aims at providing a set of high quality open source audio plugins for musicians, possibly in many different plugin for-
       mats, so that they can be used in as many hosts as possible and in standalone mode.  Currently available plugins:

	   * Flanger with linear interpolation. In case "zipper noise" of basic flanger effects was driving you mad, use this one!
	   * Simple reverb with basic controls and relatively neutral sound. No dreaded metal barrel sound, at expense of higher CPU use and  less
       time density.
	   *  Multimode  filter (selectable 12dB/24dB/36dB rolloff, lowpass or highpass) with inertia/smoothing for cutoff for more "analog" sound
       when tweaking.
	   * Vintage delay - in other words, a very simple simulation of tape echo, with a filter in a feedback loop.
	   * Simple monophonic synthesizer with 2 oscillators, multimode filter and an envelope.
	   * Optional: electric organ synthesizer and rotary speaker emulation, best  used  together  (use  "configure	--enable-experimental"	to
       enable them) The plugins are available in following formats:

	   * LADSPA (all effect plugins)
	   * DSSI (both synthesizers and effects), including DSSI GUI
	   * Standalone JACK client application with GTK+-based GUI (new: it is possible to run several plugins simultaneously in one JACK client,
       and connect them in chains using standard JACK facilities)
	   * LV2 (experimental, SVN only, some features may not work, host support for several features may vary)

OPTIONS

	How to use Calf plugins:

	* LADSPA plugins

	      Calf is installed as calf.so library in your LADSPA directory (typically /usr/lib/ladspa). It means that typical LADSPA host  should
	      be able to find Calf's plugins.

	* DSSI plugins

	      The  calf.so  module is also installed in your DSSI plugin directory, which means your DSSI host (like jack-dssi-host or rosegarden)
	      should find it and include its plugins in the plugin list.

	* JACK client application

	      You can also use Calf plugins as one or more separate applications, connecting to other applications using JACK Audio Connection Kit
	      (version 0.103 or newer is required). To run the client, type:

		      calfjackhost monosynth !

	      (! means "connect", last "!" means "connect to output")

	      Other examples:

		      calfjackhost monosynth ! vintagedelay ! flanger !

	      (runs monosynth into vintagedelay and vintagedelay into flanger, then to output)

		      calfjackhost ! reverb !

	      (takes signal from system:capture_1 and _2, puts it through reverb, and then sends to system:playback_1 and _2)

ENVIRONMENT

       LADSPA_PATH Path to LADSPA plugins.

BUGS

       LV2  support is in infant stage. Some knobs may still cause clicks/zipper noise. Plugin versions (especially LADSPA) have very poor usabil-
       ity comparing to standalone versions, because of platform limitations. In case of other	bugs,  please  send  bug  reports  to  <wdev@folt-
       man.com>, they will be fixed in order of importance.

SEE ALSO

       calfjackhost(1)

AUTHOR

       Krzysztof Foltman. Man page by Hermann Meyer, edited by Krzysztof Foltman.

       http://calf.sourceforge.net/

								    2008-02-09								   CALF(7)

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NAME

       jack-dssi-host - a simple JACK host for DSSI plugins

SYNOPSIS

       jack-dssi-host [-v] [-a] [-n] [-p <projdir>] [-c <cname>] [-<i>] <libname>[:<label>] [...]

DESCRIPTION

       jack-dssi-host  is a simple DSSI host that listens for MIDI events on an ALSA sequencer port, delivers them to DSSI synth plugins, and out-
       puts the resulting audio via JACK.
       jack-dssi-host can host up to 16 instances of DSSI synth plugins, each of which is sequentially assigned a  MIDI  channel  from	1  to  16.
       Plugin  outputs	(if  `-a'  is  not specified) are connected sequentially to the available JACK physical output ports, wrapping back to the
       first JACK port whenever the available ports are exhausted.  Plugin user interfaces (UIs) are started for each instance	(if  '-n'  is  not
       specified.)  jack-dssi-host will exit when the last plugin UI has exited.
       As  a  special  case,  if jack-dssi-host is started with a name other than `jack-dssi-host', and if that name (plus an `.so' suffix) can be
       found in the DSSI_PATH search path (see ENVIRONMENT below) as a valid plugin shared library, and if no further command line  arguments  are
       given,  then  the  first plugin in that library will be loaded automatically. This provides a convenient way to run a plugin by simply sym-
       linking the plugin's basename to jack-dssi-host.

OPTIONS

       -v     Verbose mode.

       -a     Disable automatic connection of outputs to JACK physical outputs.

       -n     Disable automatic starting of plugin user interfaces (UIs).

       -p <projdir>
	      The project directory to pass to both plugin and UI.

       -c <cname>
	      The client name to use for ALSA and JACK.

       -<i>   Number of instances of the following plugin to run (max 16 total, default 1).

       <libname>
	      Name of the DSSI plugin shared library (.so) to load. This may be an absolute path to the library file, or just the filename itself,
	      in which case the DSSI search path is searched (see ENVIRONMENT below).

       <label>
	      the label of the plugin to load from the library.  If this is omitted, the first plugin in the library is used.

       [...]  Optionally more instance counts, plugins and labels.

EXAMPLE

       jack-dssi-host -2 lib1.so -1 lib2.so:fuzzy
       Runs  two  instances of the first plugin found in lib1.so, assigned to MIDI channels 1 and 2 and connected to the first available JACK out-
       puts, and one instance of the "fuzzy" plugin in lib2.so on MIDI channel 3 and connected to the next available JACK output.

ENVIRONMENT

       jack-dssi-host will search for plugin shared libraries in the directories specified by the  environment	variable  DSSI_PATH,  which  is  a
       colon-separated	list  of  directories. If DSSI_PATH is not set, a default search path of /usr/lib/dssi, /usr/local/lib/dssi, and (assuming
       the environment variable HOME is set,) $HOME/.dssi is used.

AUTHOR

       This manual page was originally created by Mark Hymers from the help text of the application, for the Debian project  (but  may	be  freely
       used by others).

							       September 18th, 2010						 jack-dssi-host(1)

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