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*** NOTICE: Ecamegapedal is no longer actively developed ***

Authors of Ecamegapedal have returned back to basics, and are now focusing on Ecasound development only. No new development of Ecamegapedal is expected to happen anymore (last release is from 2004). Fortunately the Linux audio scene nowadays offer many great apps that deliver similar features (and many many more) as Ecamegapedal. To name a few:

• JACK Rack
• Rakarrack
• Freqtweak
• Creox
• Ardour

*** NOTICE END ***

Ecamegapedal is a real-time effect processor software with a graphical user interface for controlling the effect parameters. It is meant to be used as a virtual guitar-fx or studio effect box. In addition to real-time operation, Ecamegapedal also supports reading from and writing to audio files. All audio object and effect plugin types provided by the Ecasound libraries are supported. This includes ALSA, JACK, OSS, aRts, over 20 file formats, over 30 effect types, LADSPA plugins and multi-operator effect presets. Ecamegapedal's implementation is based on Ecasound and Qt libraries.

If you are interested in Ecamegapedal, you should also check applications such as JACK Rack, and Creox. A good list of Linux/BSD effect processing apps is available at linux-sound.org.

Ecamegapedal is free software. It is distributed under terms of the GNU General Public License. See the file 'COPYING' for details. This file is included in all Ecamegapedal distribution packages.

For a brief overview of Ecamegapedal's functionality, see the ecamegapedal(1) manual page.

Ecamegapedal development is headed by Kai Vehmanen. He is responsible for most of the code and documentation. The Ecamegapedal pixmaps were designed by Arto Hamara. The VU-meter code originates from Ritscher Meinhard's KCorrMeter.

Ecamegapedal / Current release

• ecamegapedal-0.4.4.tar.gz
• status: stable
• dependencies: Ecasound 2.2.0 or newer, and Qt 2.2/3.0/3.1/3.2 or newer
  • avoid Ecasound-2.3.1 (preset.h missing from this release, problem fixed in 2.3.2)
• CVS: tag 'v0_4_4' (see below for instructions)

Platform specific source and binary packages

• PlanetCCRMA packages for RedHat/Fedora
  • Planet CCRMA at Home is a collection of rpms that you can add to a computer running recent RedHat/Fedora Linux to transform it into an audio workstation with a low-latency kernel, current ALSA audio drivers and a niceset of music, midi and audio applications.
  • Ecamegapedal at PlanetCCRMA
  • PlanetCCRMA Main
• Source-RPMs for Redhat, SuSE, Mandrake, PLD and others
  • download the ecamegapedal-x.y.z.tar.gz file
  • build the rpms by issuing "rpm -ta ecamegapedal-x.y.z.tar.gz"
• Debian
  • packages.debian.org search - all Ecamegapedal packages in Debian
• Gentoo
  • Ecamegapedal at Gentoo Ebuilds
• FreeBSD
  • Ecamegapedal at FreeBSD Freshports

Anonymous CVS-access (CVS 1.9+ is required)

• server: :pserver:anoncvs@cvs.seul.org:/home/cvspsrv/cvsroot (password guest)
• module: sound/ecamegapedal
• an example of getting the latest version (HEAD-branch) to local 'ecamegapedal-cvs' directory
  • cvs -d :pserver:anoncvs@cvs.seul.org:/home/cvspsrv/cvsroot login
  • cvs -z3 -d :pserver:anoncvs@cvs.seul.org:/home/cvspsrv/cvsroot co -d ecamegapedal-cvs sound/ecamegapedal
• web access: cvs.seul.org

Older versions

• http://ecasound.seul.org/download - primary download site

Ecasound

• www.eca.cx/ecasound/download.php - Ecasound download page

Qt packages

• http://www.troll.no/dl/qtfree-dl.html - Troll Tech, Qt free edition download page
• ftp://ftp.troll.no/qt/source/ - tarred and gzipped

To run Ecamegapedal, you need...:

• operating system that provides standard POSIX interfaces; has been tested with various combinations of GNU/Linux (Linux 2.2-2.6 and glibc 2.1-2.3), FreeBSD 4.x
• standard C++ runtime environment; tested with libstdc++ 2.9/2.10, 3.x and 4.x
• POSIX threads; has been tested with glibc linuxthreads (libpthread) and Native POSIX Thread Library (NPTL)
• qt 2.x/3.x runtime libraries

Optional packages:

See the full list at Ecasound Requirements page.

To compile Ecamegapedal, you also need...:

• standard C++ build environment; tested with gcc 2.91.66, 2.95.3, 3.0.x, 3.1.x and 3.2 (STL and exceptions need to be supported)
• GNU make, automake, autoconf and libtool packages
• binutils-2.9.1.0.15 or newer (exceptions won't work with older ones)
• qt 2.x/3.x development environment
• Ecasound development files

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