This is a development version of BEAST/BSE, the BEdevilled Audio SysTem
and the Bedevilled Sound Engine. BEAST is a powerful music composition
and modular synthesis application released as free software under the
GNU GPL and GNU LGPL, that runs under unix.
The project is hosted at:
This new development series of BEAST comes with a lot of
the internals redone, many new GUI features and a sound
generation back-end separated from all GUI activities.
Outstanding new features include support for skins, many sample
file formats, MIDI file import abilities, an improved piano roll
widget, the track editor which allows for easy selection of
synthesisers or samples as track sources, loop support in songs
and unlimited Undo/Redo capabilities.
Overview of Changes in BEAST/BSE 0.6.0:
Moved RC file from ~/.beastrc to ~/.beast/beastrc
Lots of major and minor GUI improvements
Major improvements and speedups to scrolling code
Added sniffer module and per-track scope display
Fixed sequencer occasionally swallowing notes
Added skin-support to event and piano roll widgets
Added support for structures/boxed types in plugins
Implemented a-law/u-law decoders
Improved configurability
Added AIFF file loader
Minor and major performance improvements [Tim Janik, Stefan Westerfeld]
Incorporated OpenBSD fixes [Nedko Arnaudov]
Updated Serbian translation [Danilo Segan]
Updated Czech translation [Miloslav Trmac]
Updated Portuguese translation [Duarte Loreto]
Updated Spanish translation [Yelitza Louze, Francisco Javier F. Serrador]
Updated Dutch translation [Tino Meinen, Kees van den Broek]
