ininit
ininit is a simple soft synthesizer written in C, scriptable in Lua. It was originally meant to be an instrument initializer for Renoise, but I had too much fun making other things with it. Plans are to have a VST(i) in the future for fast development of audio plugins by using ininit as a means of rapid prototyping.
Source is avaliable at github.
Quickstart:
git clone git://github.com/encryptio/ininit.git
cd ininit
scons
./ininit examples/...
cd ininit
scons
./ininit examples/...
The README file is included below:
DESCRIPTION
ininit is a program that allows the user to write Lua scripts that read
audio files, do processing, play back certain signals in real time, save
audio files, or any combination of those. It is meant to be simple and
powerful; baroque optimizations need not apply.
DOWNLOADING
The recommended way to get ininit is through git.
$ git clone git://github.com/encryptio/ininit.git
A tarball of the latest development version is avaliable at
<http://github.com/encryptio/ininit/tarball/master> (save as .tar.gz)
BUILDING
Both Lua 5.1 and libsndfile must be installed and the pkg-config files
associated with them accessible by pkg-config (this is usually automatic.)
The build system, SCons, must be installed and in the PATH. Perl is used
to build the documentation and to build the main binary's Lua functions.
Lua is avaliable at <http://www.lua.org/>
libsndfile is avaliable at <http://www.mega-nerd.com/libsndfile/>
SCons is avaliable at <http://www.scons.org/>
Most likely, your UNIX-like system already has a working Perl. If not,
Perl is avaliable at <http://www.perl.org/>
Once you have the prerequisites, building the program is extremely simple:
$ cd ininit
$ scons
And you're done!
INSTALLATION
Installation is less simple, as it must be done by hand. The binary "ininit"
should be in the same directory as the source code if you followed the
BUILDING instructions. This binary must be placed in your $PATH.
The recommended way for an unprivileged user to do this is to symlink ininit
into ~/bin, then add ~/bin to your $PATH if it's not already there.
$ ln -s /path/to/ininit/sourcedir/ininit ~/bin/ininit
This allows easy updating, assuming you're using git to follow the
development tree:
$ git pull
$ scons
Without copying any files. Since the symlink points to the named file in the
source directory, the new version will be used automatically.
If, however, you have administrator access, you may install it by copying it
into a system binary directory, such as /usr/local/bin.
# cp ./ininit /usr/local/bin/ininit
DOCUMENTATION
is minimal, unfortunately. A reference guide to the Lua function calls
specific to ininit are described in docs/lua.txt, avaliable only after the
program has been built. Examples of scripts that do work are in examples/ in
the source distribution.
USAGE
$ ininit script.lua
Extra arguments may be passed to the script by appending them after the script name.
LICENSING
This program is released under the three-clause BSD license.
ininit links with libsndfile, a program licensed under the LGPL. Libsndfile
is available at <http://www.mega-nerd.com/libsndfile/>, and is primarily the
work of Erik de Castro Lopo.
ininit also links with Lua, the scripting language used in this program to
procedurally describe signal flows. Lua is avaliable at <http://www.lua.org/>
ininit is a program that allows the user to write Lua scripts that read
audio files, do processing, play back certain signals in real time, save
audio files, or any combination of those. It is meant to be simple and
powerful; baroque optimizations need not apply.
DOWNLOADING
The recommended way to get ininit is through git.
$ git clone git://github.com/encryptio/ininit.git
A tarball of the latest development version is avaliable at
<http://github.com/encryptio/ininit/tarball/master> (save as .tar.gz)
BUILDING
Both Lua 5.1 and libsndfile must be installed and the pkg-config files
associated with them accessible by pkg-config (this is usually automatic.)
The build system, SCons, must be installed and in the PATH. Perl is used
to build the documentation and to build the main binary's Lua functions.
Lua is avaliable at <http://www.lua.org/>
libsndfile is avaliable at <http://www.mega-nerd.com/libsndfile/>
SCons is avaliable at <http://www.scons.org/>
Most likely, your UNIX-like system already has a working Perl. If not,
Perl is avaliable at <http://www.perl.org/>
Once you have the prerequisites, building the program is extremely simple:
$ cd ininit
$ scons
And you're done!
INSTALLATION
Installation is less simple, as it must be done by hand. The binary "ininit"
should be in the same directory as the source code if you followed the
BUILDING instructions. This binary must be placed in your $PATH.
The recommended way for an unprivileged user to do this is to symlink ininit
into ~/bin, then add ~/bin to your $PATH if it's not already there.
$ ln -s /path/to/ininit/sourcedir/ininit ~/bin/ininit
This allows easy updating, assuming you're using git to follow the
development tree:
$ git pull
$ scons
Without copying any files. Since the symlink points to the named file in the
source directory, the new version will be used automatically.
If, however, you have administrator access, you may install it by copying it
into a system binary directory, such as /usr/local/bin.
# cp ./ininit /usr/local/bin/ininit
DOCUMENTATION
is minimal, unfortunately. A reference guide to the Lua function calls
specific to ininit are described in docs/lua.txt, avaliable only after the
program has been built. Examples of scripts that do work are in examples/ in
the source distribution.
USAGE
$ ininit script.lua
Extra arguments may be passed to the script by appending them after the script name.
LICENSING
This program is released under the three-clause BSD license.
ininit links with libsndfile, a program licensed under the LGPL. Libsndfile
is available at <http://www.mega-nerd.com/libsndfile/>, and is primarily the
work of Erik de Castro Lopo.
ininit also links with Lua, the scripting language used in this program to
procedurally describe signal flows. Lua is avaliable at <http://www.lua.org/>
