bsesh - A Guile based scheme shell for BEAST and BSE.

bsesh [OPTIONS] [CB--] ...

bsesh is a guile(1) based scheme shell for BSE, the Bedevilled Sound Engine.

bsesh provides a shell interface to all procedures exported by the BSE library, so scripts are able to access the full range of functionality provided by it, from simple playback of a .bse file to full fledged automated creation or editing of synthesis networks.

Alternatively to the linked in BSE library, the bsesh language interface can also talk to a remotely running BSE library host, for instance beast(1). By operating on a remotely running BSE core, bsesh can be used to script arbitrary BSE programs. The shell is also used directly by the BSE library to execute procedures on its behalf, this allows BSE procedures to be written in scheme.

When started, bsesh tests whether the first non-option argument is a .bse file and if the test succeeds, attempts to play the command line arguments as .bse files.

bsesh follows the usual GNU command line syntax, with long options starting with two dashes (`-').

CB--bse-pipe INFD OUTFD Provide the input and output communication filedescriptors for remote operation.

CB--bse-eval STRING Execute (eval-string STRING) instead of going into interactive mode.

CB--bse-enable-register Allowes registration of procedures with the BSE core.

CB--bse-no-load Prevent automated loading of plugins and scripts at startup time in interactive mode.

CB--bse-no-play Prevent automated detection and playback of .bse file command line arguments.

CB--g-fatal-warnings Make runtime warnings fatal (abort).

CB-h, --help Describe command line options and exit.

CB-v, --version Display version and exit.

CB-n=NICELEVEL Execute with priority NICELEVEL, this option only takes effect for the root suid wrapper "beast".

CB-N Disables renicing to execute with existing priority.

CB--bse-latency=USECONDS Set the allowed synthesis latency for BSE in milliseconds.

CB--bse-mixing-freq=FREQUENCY Set the desired synthesis mixing frequency in Hz.

CB--bse-control-freq=FREQUENCY Set the desired control frequency in Hz, this should be much smaller than the synthesis mixing frequency to reduce CPU load. The default value of approximately 1000 Hz is usually a good choice.

CB--bse-pcm-driver DRIVER-CONF

CB-p DRIVER-CONF This options results in an attempt to open the PCM driver DRIVER-CONF when playback is started. Multiple options may be supplied to try a variety of drivers and unless DRIVER-CONF is specified as `auto', only the drivers listed by options are used. Each DRIVER-CONF consists of a driver name and an optional comma seperated list of arguments attached to the driver withan equal sign, e.g.: CB-p oss=/dev/dsp2,rw -p auto

CB--bse-midi-driver DRIVER-CONF

CB-m DRIVER-CONF This option is similar to the CB--bse-pcm-driver option, but applies to MIDI drivers and devices. It also may be specified multiple times and features an `auto' driver.

CB--bse-driver-list Produce a list of all available PCM and MIDI drivers and available devices.

Guile Options:

CB-l FILE Load scheme source code from file.

CB-e FUNCTION After reading script, apply FUNCTION to command-line arguments.

CB-ds Do -s SCRIPT at this point (note that this argument must be used in conjuction with -s).

CB--debug Start with debugging evaluator and backtraces enabled (useful for debugging scripts).

CB--emacs Enable emacs protocol for use from within emacs (experimental).

The remaining Guile options stop argument processing, and pass all remaining arguments as the value of (command-line):

CB-- Stop argument processing, start in interactive mode.

CB-c EXPR Stop argument processing, evaluate EXPR as a scheme expression.

CB-s SCRIPT Load Scheme source from SCRIPT and execute as a script.

guile(1), beast(1), sfidl(1)

Document Revised: Wed May 25 23:38:26 2005