freqtweak (1)

NAME

       freqtweak - Realtime audio frequency spectral manipulation

SYNOPSIS

       freqtweak [-h] [ -c <num> ] [ -i <str> ] [ -o <str> ] [ -n <str> ] [ -D
       <str> ] [ -p <str> ] [ -r <str> ]

DESCRIPTION

       freqtweak is a graphical tool for realtime audio spectral  manipulation
       and  display.  It provides several algorithms for processing audio data
       in the frequency domain and a highly interactive GUI to manipulate each
       associated  filter.  It also provides high-resolution spectral displays
       in the form of scrolling-raster spectrograms and  energy  vs  frequency
       plots displaying both pre and post-processed spectra.

MOUSE CONTROL

       The  processing filters are controlled through mouse operations on each
       filter GUI window. The possible operations are:

       Left button click/drag to draw filters. If Control is down, the  y-axis
       is  fixed  at the last cursor location (to draw nice horizontal lines).
       If Control and Alt are down you can draw nice arbitrary straight lines.

       Right  button  drag  to move filters around in space.  The filters wrap
       around the left/right edges unless you  hold  down  Control.   Dragging
       with both left and right buttons down on the GUI for the Gate processor
       moves both the primary and the alternate filter together.

       Holding Shift modifies the alternate filter (on  double  filter  graphs
       like Gate) for the previous operations.

       Middle-button pops up frequency axis menu.

       Ctrl-Alt right-click resets a filter to default values.

       Shift-Ctrl-Alt  left-drag  zooms  in on the y axis.  Look at the status
       bar to see the values for the cursor itself and the values of the  fil-
       ter at the cursor's frequency.

       Shift-Ctrl-Alt right-click release resets the Y-zoom to full.

       The B and BA buttons mean Bypass and Bypass All respectively.

       The L and LA buttons mean Link and Link All respectively.

       The  G  and  GS  buttons  mean Toggle Grid and Toggle Grid Snap respec-
       tively.

OPTIONS

       This program follows the usual  GNU  command  line  syntax,  with  long
       options  starting  with  two  dashes  (`-').   A  summary of options is
       included below.

       -h, --help
              Show summary of options.
              Connect  outputs to these jack ports (separate each channel with
              commas).  Defaults to 'alsa_pcm:playback_1,...'

       -n <str>, --jack-name=<str>
              Jack name. Default is freqtweak_1.

       -D <str>, --tmpdir=<str>
              Jack server tmp directory (should match jackd --tmpdir).

       -p <str>, --preset=<str>
              Load the given preset initially.

       -r <str>, --rc-dir=<str>
              Specifies what directory to use for run-control  state.  Default
              is ~/.freqtweak.

EXAMPLES

       Here is an example of using freqtweak with an alsaplayer feeding it and
       output going to speakers (alsa_pcm:out_?) without using a  JACK  patch-
       bay:

       Start freqtweak first with this command line:

       freqtweak -n ft &

       Then start alsaplayer like so:

       alsaplayer -o jack -d ft:in_1,ft:in_2 &

SEE ALSO

       jackd(1), jack_connect(1), jack_lsp(1)

AUTHOR

       Freqtweak   was   written   and   is   maintained   by  Jesse  Chappell
       <jesse@essej.net>.

       This  manual   page   was   created   by   Enrique   Robledo   Arnuncio
       <era@debian.org>  for  the Debian GNU/Linux system, using text from the
       README file by Jesse Chappell.

                               February 11, 2003                  freqtweak(1)