| Ecasound | |
| Developer: | Kai Vehmanen |
| Released: | 1995[1] |
| Programming Language: | C++ |
| Operating System: | Cross-platform |
| Platform: | IA32, PowerPC, ARM, SPARC |
| Language: | ? |
| Genre: | hard-disk recording audio processing |
| License: | GPL-2.0-or-later |
| Website: | http://nosignal.fi/ecasound/index.php |
Ecasound is a hard-disk recording and audio processing tool for Unix-like computer operating systems including Linux, Mac OS X, and FreeBSD.
Ecasound allows flexible interconnection of audio inputs, files, outputs, and effects algorithms, realtime-controllable by builtin oscillators, MIDI, or interprocess communication via GUI front-end. Ecasound supports JACK and LADSPA effects plug-ins.
The team leader is Kai Vehmanen, with dozens of contributors. Kai joined the project in 1995, when it was called wavstat, a simple DSP utility running under OS/2. Available under the GNU General Public License, Ecasound is free software.
Ecasound is a command-line tool: it does not include a native graphical interface. Major tasks (recording, mixdown) can be easily performed directly from the command line interface, or by scripts. Several GUI front-ends have been written for it: