DBMix - Digital Audio Mixing System

dbcat [options]

dbfsd [options]

dbin [options]

dbmixer

dbplaylist

The DBMix system is able to combine sound from various sources into a single audio stream. Think of it as a virtual DJ mixing desk. Mixing uses a Fourier synthesis algorithm to maintain sound quality in the output stream.

The dbfsd daemon serves as DBMix's backend--that's where most of the real synthesis work is done. Several clients allow to connect different audio sources to the backend. First, there's a DBMix output plugin for XMMS. Several XMMS clients can be connected to dbfsd, provided Allow multiple instances is selected in XMMS's preferences. Second, dbin links line-in, or microphone input from the sound card to DBMix. And finally, there's dbcat, a pretty generic tool that redirects its standard input to a dbfsd channel.

Actual DJ work is done using the graphical frontend dbmixer. When mixing between multiple XMMS client, dbplaylist might come in handy. It provides a unified playlist for all the clients and partly serves as a remote control.

For an in-depth description of each application, see its respective man page.

dbcat(1), dbfsd(1), dbin(1), dbmixer(1), dbplaylist(1), xmms(1).

This manual page was written by Daniel Kobras <kobras@debian.org>, for the Debian GNU/Linux system (but may be used by others).