SoundArt - Toolkit to Compose Sound

      Rene K. Mueller <kiwi@the-labs.com> - May 11, 2001   

  $MyVersion: 0.004 - Wed May  9 16:45:08 CEST 2001 - kiwi$


=== INTRO

SoundArt (like PicArt) is meant for low-level usage to compose
and design quickly new sound based on simple oscillators which
are combined and mixed together.

As of ALPHA stage of this package only limited functionality is
implemented.


Supported platforms:
   - FreeBSD
   - Linux

It requires the libaudiofile-library (to write WAV-file):
   FreeBSD: cd /usr/ports/audio/libaudiofile && make install clean
     Linux: use google.com to search for the source-code
   
   It's expected to be in 
      /usr/local/include/audiofile.h and 
      /usr/local/lib/libaudiofile.a
   finally (or change Makefile accordingly)
   

=== COMPILE & USAGE

To compile:
   make

To start:
   ./soundart scripts/test.sa

For documentation visit
   http://the-labs.com/SoundArt/


=== CHANGE_LOG

$MyHistory$
	09 May 2001: 0.004: sinus -> sine, auto mix of multiple channels .
	08 May 2001: 0.003: soundcard init fix .
	08 May 2001: 0.002: added noise .
	07 May 2001: 0.001: first version.

=== KNOWN BUGS
   - there is a notable click every 1-2 seconds in several oscillators
   
=== TODO:   
   - decide if sound is stored as short or float
   - adding more oscillators
   - adding realtime filters & finishing delay
   - library and perl-interface
   - etc.
   

That's it!