BEAST/BSE
Beast is a powerful music composition and modular synthesis application. It offers multiple input methods like multitrack, piano roll, and pattern editing and supports skins. On the technical side, it has a wide range of abilities like sequencing, unlimited undo/redo history, real-time synthesis with multiprocessor support, full duplex 32-bit audio rendering, precise timing down to sample granularity, on demand loading of partial wave files, on the fly decoding of various sample formats, aliasing free oscillators, and full Scheme scripting support.
| Tags | multimedia Sound/Audio Sound Synthesis Players Desktop Environment GNOME MIDI |
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| Licenses | LGPL |
| Implementation | Scheme C C++ |
Recent releases
- 11 Apr 2011 12:52
Release Notes: The project was renamed to Better Audio System / Better Sound Engine. Performance improvements and fixes were made for the test suite. Performance for playback was improved. XRUNs were fixed in the ALSA driver on 64-bit systems. Translation updates were made.
- 15 Sep 2010 15:11
Release Notes: A multisample creation/editing command line tool ("bsewave") and a sample based acoustic drumkit were added. A few new synthesis instruments have also been included. This release also includes various bug fixes, improvements, and better test coverage. Support was added for recent compilers (gcc-4.4), automake-1.10, and guile-1.8. Some plugins were relicensed under LGPL. The error bell can now be muted in the beast preferences dialog. Many translations have been updated. Support was added for loading 32bit and 24bit PCM-format WAV files.
- 27 Dec 2006 17:17
Release Notes: This release fixes an important SUID vulnerability, and introduces new features like different musical tunings. It also has new and extended modules (BseQuantizer) and a lot of stability and documentation fixes.
- 16 Jul 2006 12:59
Release Notes: Many new features went into this release, as well as many bugfixes. Several new loadable instruments and effects are supplied now, the code was optimized for MMX/SSE, and there are translation updates to Canadian English, German, Spanish, Czech, Italian, Catalan, Dutch, Swedish, and Nepali.
- 26 May 2005 03:10
Release Notes: Major bugs were fixed, including some in the BSE file saving mechanism. Updating to this version is recommended to prevent data loss. The dialog messages were improved significantly and updates were made to the Canadian English, Czech, Italian, Spanish, and Basque translations.
Heartbeat
- Popularity Score
- 198.55
- Vitality Score
- 15.39
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