# Audio::LADSPA perl modules for interfacing with LADSPA plugins # Copyright (C) 2003 Joost Diepenmaat. # # This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify # it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by # the Free Software Foundation; either version 2 of the License, or # (at your option) any later version. # # This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, # but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of # MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the # GNU General Public License for more details. # # You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License # along with this program; if not, write to the Free Software # Foundation, Inc., 59 Temple Place, Suite 330, Boston, MA 02111-1307 USA # # See the COPYING file for more information. package Audio::LADSPA; use strict; use Audio::LADSPA::LibraryLoader; use Audio::LADSPA::Buffer; use 5.006; use Carp; our $VERSION = "0.021"; our @LIBRARIES; # will store the list of found libraries as Perl class names our @PLUGINS; # will store the names of all loaded plugins as Perl class names our %PLUGINS; # will store the values in @PLUGINS indexed by id unless (@LIBRARIES) { for my $lib_path (Audio::LADSPA::LibraryLoader->find_libraries()) { Audio::LADSPA->load($lib_path); } } sub load { my ($class,$lib_path) = @_; if (my $lib = Audio::LADSPA::LibraryLoader->load($lib_path)) { push @LIBRARIES,$lib; for ($lib->plugins()) { push @PLUGINS,$_; $PLUGINS{ $_->id } = $_; } return $lib; } return; } sub libraries { @LIBRARIES,'Audio::LADSPA::Library::Perl'; } sub plugins { @PLUGINS,'Audio::LADSPA::Library::Perl'->plugins; } sub plugin { shift; (my (%args) = @_) or croak "usage: Audio::LADSPA::Plugin->( find_args )"; if ($args{id}) { return $PLUGINS{$args{id}}; } else { for (@PLUGINS) { if ($args{label}) { next unless $_->label eq $args{label}; } if ($args{name}) { next unless $_->name eq $args{name}; } return $_; } } } END { for (@LIBRARIES) { Audio::LADSPA::LibraryLoader->unload($_); } } 1; __END__ =head1 NAME Audio::LADSPA - Modular audio processing using LADSPA plugins. Implements a LADSPA 1.1 host. =head1 SYNOPSIS use Audio::LADSPA; for my $class (Audio::LADSPA->plugins) { print "\t",$class->name," (",$class->id,"/",$class->label,")"; } =head1 DESCRIPTION LADSPA plugins are objects in shared libraries that can generate or transform audio signals (like VST or Direct-X plugins on Mac and Win32 systems). Most of the existing LADSPA plugins are pretty low-level compared to VST plugins (you get seperate oscilator, ADSR and delay plugins instead of "complete" virtual synthesizers etc). See also http://www.ladspa.org/ With these modules you can create a LADSPA host, which can load the plugins, query their capabilities, connect them together in a network, and run audio streams through them. The LADSPA API was developed for linux but should be platform independent, so you might be able to compile these modules and the nessisary plugins on win32 systems (please let me know if it works or not). =head1 USER GUIDE This is the reference documentation. If you want a general overview/introduction on this set of modules, take a look at L (not finished). Reading L and L is recommended. =head1 STARTUP By default, C will attempt to load all libraries in the $ENV{LADSPA_PATH} (a colon seperated list of directories) or "/usr/lib/ladspa" and "/usr/local/lib/ladspa" if $ENV{LADSPA_PATH} is not set. You can then get the loaded libraries and their plugins using the C, C and C methods described below. =head1 METHODS All methods in the Audio::LADSPA package are class methods. =head2 plugins my @availabe_plugins = Audio::LADSPA->plugins(); Returns the list of @available_plugins. These are package names you can use to create a new instance of those plugins, can invoke class-methods on to query the plugins, and pass to Audio::LADSPA::Network to do most of the work for you. See also L and L. =head2 plugin my $plugin = Audio::LADSPA->plugin( %search_arguments ); Get the package name (class) for a specific Audio::LADSPA::Plugin subclass given the %search_arguments. Returns the I plugin class or C if none is found. You can use one or less of each of these: =head3 id my $sine_faaa_class = Audio::LADSPA->plugin( id => 1044 ); Match a plugin class by unique id. If one is loaded returns the class name. If an C argument is present, other %search_arguments will not be considered. =head3 label my $delay_5s = Audio::LADSPA->plugin( label => 'delay_5s' ); Match a plugin class by C