General Information
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This is an ALPHA version of BEAST/BSE, the bedevilled audio system and
the bedevilled sound engine.
BEAST is in very early development stage, the GUI is still pretty rough
in some places and the BSE API has not really stabelized yet.
The rough goal of this project is to get an audio system that supports
multiple song and sample formats (besides the newly introduced .bse
format) as well as synthesis networks and allowes full fledged editing
and manipultation of them.
Sample manipulation includes generation of new sounds from module
networks, based on subtractive synthesis.
More information on the fundamental principles can be found in the
./docs subdirectory.
Some *.bse files used for testing are also included in the ./test
subdirectory.

To get a basic start, you'll also need the beast-data-*.tar.gz package,
which comes with a set of default samples, songs, etc...

The official ftp site is:
  ftp://beast.gtk.org/pub/beast

The official web site is:
  http://beast.gtk.org/

And finally there's a mailing list (pretty low volume) as well:
  beast@beast.gtk.org
send an email to timj@beast.gtk.org to get subscribed.

Installation
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See the file `INSTALL'.
