beast-0.6.21

Usage

Overview

BEAST is the BEdevilled Audio SysTem. It is a music composition and modular synthesis application released as free software under the GNU GPL and 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 bsesh(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 (`-').

--devel

Enrich the GUI with hints usefull for (script) developers

--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.

-h, --help

Shows a brief help message.

-v, --version

Prints out BEAST and component versions and file paths.

--display=DISPLAY

X server for the GUI; see X(1).

Development Options:

--debug=KEYS

Enable certain verbosity stages.

--debug-list

List possible debug keys.

-:[flags]

This option enables or disables various debugging specific flags. Use of -: is not recommended, as 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.