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      1 PaulStretch
      2 Copyright (C) 2006-2011 Nasca Octavian Paul, Tg. Mures, Romania
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      4 Released under GNU General Public License v.2 license
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      6 This is an experimental program for extreme stretching the audio.
      7 Requirements:
      8     - audiofile library
      9     - libvorbis
     10     - fltk library
     11     - portaudio library
     12     - libmad (for mp3 input)
     13     - mxml library (for saving/loading parameters)
     14     - not required, but you can use the FFTW library
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     17 This algorithm/program is suitable only for extreme stretching the audio. 
     18 
     19 Tips:
     20 	You can change the default output device with "PA_RECOMMENDED_OUTPUT_DEVICE" environment variable (used by PortAudio).
     21 	eg: set PA_RECOMMENDED_OUTPUT_DEVICE=1  #where 1 represents the index of the device; you can try other values for other devices
     22 
     23 History:
     24     20060527(0.0.1)
     25 	  - First release
     26 
     27     20060530(0.0.2)
     28 	  - Ogg Vorbis output support
     29 	  - Added a wxWidgets graphical user interface
     30 
     31     20060812(1.000)
     32 	  - Removed the wxWidgets GUI and added a FLTK GUI (because FLTK GUI is smaller)
     33 	  - Added real-time processing/player
     34 	  - Added input support for Ogg Vorbis files
     35 	  - Improved the stretch algorithm and now the amount of stretch is unlimited (and on big stretch amounts, you don't need additional memory)
     36 	  - Added "Freeze" button to the player
     37 	  - It is possible to render to file only a selected part of the sound
     38 	  - Other improvements    
     39 
     40     20060905(1.024)
     41 	  - Added MP3 support for input
     42 	  - Added bypass mode (if you click play with the right mouse button)
     43 	  - Improved the precision of the position slider (now it shows really what's currenly playing)
     44 	  - Added the possibility to set the stretch amount by entering the numeric value
     45 	  - Added pause mode and volume control
     46 	  - Added post-processing of the spectrum(pitch/frequency shift, octave mixer, compress,filter,harmonics)
     47 	  - Command line parameter for input filename 
     48 	  - The file can be dragged from the explorer to the file text to open it
     49 
     50     20090424(2.0)
     51 	  - Added free envelopes, which allows the user to freely edit some parameters
     52 	  - Added stretch multiplier (with free envelope) which make the stretching variable
     53 	  - Added arbitrary frequency filter
     54 	  - Added a frequency spreader effect, which increase the bandwith of each harmonic
     55 	  - Added a frequency shifter which produces binaural beats (the beats frequencies are variable)
     56 	  - Added 32 bit WAV rendering
     57 	  - Other improvements and bugfixes
     58 	
     59     20110210(2.1)
     60 	  - Added loading/saving parameters
     61 	  - Added Linux Jack support (thanks to Robin Gareus for the patch)
     62 	  - Added "Symmetric" mode of Binaural Beats
     63 	  - Support for longer stretches - for the really patient ones - up to one quintillion times  ( 10^18 x ) ;-)
     64 	  - Fixed a bug which produced infinite loop at the end of some mp3 files (at playing or render)
     65 	  - Fixed a bug in the mp3 reader
     66 	  - other minor additions
     67 
     68     20110211(2.1-0)
     69           - Increased the precision of a paremeter for extreme long stretches
     70     
     71     20110303(2.2)
     72           - Improved the stretching algorithm, adding the onset detection
     73           - Shorten algorithm improvements 
     74           - Added an option to preserve the tonal part or noise part
     75 	  - Ignored the commandline parameters starting with "-" (usefull for macosx)
     76 
     77     20110305(2.2-0)
     78           - gzip bugfix which prevents loading of the .psx files on Windows 
     79           - bugfix on freeze function on onsets
     80 
     81     20110305(2.2-1)
     82 	  - removed the noise on starting/seeking with the player
     83           - bugfix on freeze function 
     84 
     85     20110306(2.2-2)
     86 	  - buffer error on render
     87 
     88 Enjoy! :)
     89 Paul
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     91 zynaddsubfx_AT_yahoo com
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