AUBE

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Introduction

AUBE (pronounced 'obey') is a system for sound generation and processing. It is Free Software, available under the GNU General Public Licence.

AUBE can process audio on the fly; the user set up arbitrary configuration of sound sequencers, generators and effects modules, through which sound is generated, filtered, recorded etc. There is also support for loaded samples which can be sequenced (like a tracker) and edited.

The following modules are included:

"klavier" on-screen keyboard (using the klav widget by Simon Kågedal)
a drum machine
an "atonal loop" sequencer
a rudimentary "tracker" (generates random sequences and 4/4 kicks :)
a module for sequencing samples with an arbitrary sequencing input
syre, a soft synthesiser based on additive synthesis, with control of harmonics and arbitrary envelopes for controlling amplitude and pitch over the duration of a note.
a whitenoise generator
a resonant low pass filter, with envelopes for modulating the amount of resonance and the cutoff frequency. This filter is triggered by a sequencer.
a delay module, for inserting an echo into an audio stream.
a panner module, for adjusting the panning on any stereo stream
a 4-way panner, which splits a stereo stream into forward and rear stereo streams for "quadraphonic" sound.
a sample recorder, for recording generated sounds so they can be sequenced, played back and saved.
Line In and Out modules, for reading from or writing to soundcards using the /dev/dsp interface (ie. Open Sound System compatability). Support for ALSA and ESounD is being worked on.

ChangeLog

Mailing List

There's a mailing list you can subscribe to to receive updates about new releases of aube. To join, send a message with 'subscribe' in the subject to conradp.aube-request@cse.unsw.edu.au.

Screenshots

View some screenshots of AUBE in action.

If you've got some nice screenshots of AUBE running send me URL's!

Example Sounds

Gnome sounds

I made some sounds for Gnome desktop events using aube. You can get them from here.

Snippets of music

A few short samples ... if you've got some nice ones you generated with AUBE then send them to me :)

The following are available at: ftp://ftp.cse.unsw.edu.au/pub/users/conradp/aube/example_sounds/ and via http at dl/example_sounds/.

Note: there seem to be some problems with ftp from here, so if you can't get these via ftp then please use the http links!! If that doesn't work, mail me and I'll send you some :)

Kobi-Fnum_20000131 [ftp] [http] (53k MP3) [0:03]
Kobi-Galvin_20000131 [ftp] [http] (96k MP3) [0:05]
Kobi-Headseth_20000131 [ftp] [http] (96k MP3) [0:05] -- a nice harsh synth sound that changes over time ...
Kobi-Norgen_20000131 [ftp] [http] (96k MP3) [0:05] (Screenshot)
Kobi-Stimmy_20000131 [ftp] [http] (96k MP3) [0:05]
Kobi-Frizz_20000201 [ftp] [http] (96k MP3) [0:05] -- open the filter up just a little ...
Kobi-Stapbz_20000201 [ftp] [http] (96k MP3) [0:05] -- uhuh ... and gimme some synth with that.
Kobi-Birri_20000202 [ftp] [http] (96k MP3) [0:05] -- some fiddling with the crossfader went on here ...
Kobi-Martcht_20000202 [ftp] [http] (96k MP3) [0:05] (Screenshot) -- Bury that rhythm, baby.
Kobi-Versh_20000203 [ftp] [http] (96k MP3) [0:05] (Screenshot)
Kobi-Dozamo_20000203 [ftp] [http] (9512k MP3) [9:54] (Screenshot) -- a little longer ;) Very raw ... don't blame me if this blows your expensive speakers up. All the variations etc. were produced live, it took a few minutes to set up the rhythms and ``melodies'' beforehand and then I just screwed around with it for ten minutes. The whole thing only took about half an hour to produce, from setup to creation to encoding to upload (and it shows! :)
Kobi-Rhazmos_20000209 [ftp] [http] (5626k MP3) [6:00] (Screenshot) Another longer example. Lots of filtering fun going on ...

Download

You'll need the Audio File Library to make use of sample loading and saving (also available with Gnome) -- make sure to get a recent version of audiofile (eg. >=0.1.11), as earlier versions had problems loading some kinds of files.

Now go get AUBE:

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libxml issues

For AUBE 0.21.0 and 0.21.1 you need libxml, which is now a standard part of Gnome. However, libxml has changed since AUBE 0.21.1 was released and the xml support no longer compiles. Versions 0.21.1a, 0.21.1b and 0.21.1c address this problem, but do not support the loading and saving of module setups.

Documentation

Here's a quick start guide to getting sounds out of aube.

Introduction

Mailing List

Screenshots

Example Sounds

Download

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Documentation

Links

Code

Samples and mods

Related stuff

See also: