soniK
Rob Walker <rob@tenfoot.org.uk>
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soniK is an open source digital audio editor for Linux, using the KDE platform.
soniK allows you to record, edit and process sounds on your computer.


### Features

soniK's main features include:
* Record audio using your computer's soundcard
* Visualise the audio as a waveform or a spectrogram
* Edit the audio and transform it with a wide variety of plugins
* Generate new sounds
* Develop your own plugins using the soniK SDK


### Technology

* soniK uses the aRts sound system from KDE which means a wide variety of
  soundcards are supported.  Future versions of soniK will also use the JACK
  sound system which provides real-time, low-latency sound input/output.
* soniK uses LADSPA plugins to apply effects to sound files.  Several packages
  of plugins are available, providing hundreds of effects and you should
  install some of these to get the most out of soniK.  Available packages
  include:
  * SWH plugins - http://plugin.org.uk
  * Computer Music Toolkit - http://www.ladspa.org/cmt/.
  * Tom's Audio Processing plugins - http://tap-plugins.sourceforge.net/
* soniK uses KDE's network transparency features to allow you to edit files on
  remote machines

### Licence

soniK is free software, distributed under the GNU General Public Licence.

### Requirements

* KDE 3.3 or greater http://www.kde.org
* GSL http://www.gnu.org/software/gsl/
* audiofile http://www.68k.org/~michael/audiofile/
* LADSPA plugins
  * SWH plugins
  * CMT plugins
  * TAP plugins

### Distribution Notes

#### Debian / Kubuntu

Binary packages are available for the following distributions:
* Debian r3.1 (sarge)
* Kubuntu 5.04
* Kubuntu 5.10

The following packages must be installed to run sonik:
* kde
* libgsl0
* liblrdf0
* ladspa plugins (optional):
  * swh-plugins
  * cmt
  * tap-plugins

The following packages must be installed to build sonik from source:
* kdelibs4-dev
* libgsl0-dev
* libaudiofile-dev
* liblrdf0-dev
* ladspa-sdk


#### Fedora Core

Binary packages are available for the Fedora Core 4 distribution.  The LADSPA
editor plugin requires additional RPMs from Planet CCRMA
http://ccrma.stanford.edu/planetccrma/software/.

The following packages must be installed to run sonik:
* kde
* gsl
* liblrdf & raptor (from Planet-CCRMA)
* ladspa plugins (optional):
  * ladspa
  * swh-plugins (from Planet-CCRMA)
  * cmt (from Planet-CCRMA)
  * tap-plugins (from Planet-CCRMA)

The following packages must be installed to build sonik from source:
* kdelibs-devel
* gsl-devel
* audiofile-devel
* liblrdf-devel & raptor-devel (from Planet-CCRMA)
* ladspa-devel


### Support

If you have a problem with or question about soniK then please email the
users mailing list sonik sonik-users@lists.sourceforge.net.  Also please
send any feature suggestions or other comments to the list, so I can
keep improving soniK.

If you find a bug in soniK, then please enter it in the
bug tracker at http://sonik.sourceforge.net.
