Plugins
& utilities for CL-Amp 
Plugins
& utilities for CL-Amp What is a Front-end?
A Front-end is a stand alone program which some how can remote control
CL-Amp. CL-Amp has support for making such programs in the DevKit!
Other ways to find CL-Amp stuff
This page is divided in the following sections:
>>> Input
plugins, Visual plugins,
Output
plugins and Other stuff (Front ends and more)<<<
PLEASE: Write to the Authors below and thank them if you feel happy about their CL-Amp plugin(s)!! It will indeed make them happy...
Ogg Vorbis player plugin v0.9 created by
David Burnett
Ogg Vorbis is
a new highly compressed audio format (like mp3 and vqf). It's created by
the
Xiphophorus company, and the reason is to give the world a FREE audio
compressing algorithm. They express it like this: "Currently, Ogg Vorbis
is our primary effort: A patent-clear, fully open general purpose audio
encoding format standard that rivals or surpasses the 'upcoming' generation
of proprietary coders (AAC and TwinVQ, also known as VQF)."
David Burnett has put together
a whole package with both an Encoder and a CL-Amp input plugin! He calls
it Vorbis Tools... (there is also a Decoder included, but you don't need
that when you use the CL-Amp plugin...)
SID player plugin v4.0 created by David
Burnett
SID music is coming from the old Commodore 64 days. LOTS of good memories
is carried around by such tunes! :-)
This plugin is quite interesting since it's both a standalone music
player and a CL-Amp plugin at the same time! If you open up the Plugins
folder and double click the in_SIDPlayer file, you will see that it's actually
Christian Bauer's cool SIDPlayer acting as a plugin! :-)
The SIDPlayer is actually a stripped-down C64 emulator that only emulates
the CPU and the sound chip of the C64. It can not say when a song is finished
and lots of the old c64 tunes doesn't end anyway, so you have to select
the next song manually when you heard enough of the current one! :-)
Midi player plugin by Brendan Allen
Brendan Allen's plugin is
a special kind of CL-Amp plugin! This midi player plugin uses the MidiKit
and therefore handles the whole playing process itself! It works perfect,
but the Spectrum analyzer and VU Meter are not working... (since CL-Amp
never get any audio data to work with...)
Brendan is the creator of MidiWorld!,
a nice midi player which allow you to also change reverb and transposition!
Module player plugin by Thomas Neumann
Thomas Neumann has been working
with his APlayer since the good old
Amiga days! If you are interested in module songs, take a look at APlayer
since it has more features regarding module songs. However, this
nice plugin makes playing of the following module formats possible:
MikMod module plugin by John Robinson
John Robinson has given us the
MikMod plugin which make it possible to play the following formats:
BeOS Audio player plugin by Trent Trautman
and Claes Löfqvist
Trent Trautman was helping
me with the beta testing of CL-Amp 2.0, and suddenly sent me this plugin...
It makes it possible to listen to all formats that PlaySound can handle!
Cool...
Tone generator player plugin by Claes Löfqvist
This plugin makes it possible to play URL's like this:
Atari ST music player plugin created by
Johnny Barray
This plugin makes it possible to play YM files. Lots of good music
was created in the early days of computers! It isn't what we are used to
nowadays, but it should never the less be ignored... It's a nostalgic kick
to hear this music! :-)
Johnny Barry has asked
me to not include this plugin in the CL-Amp archive, since it's not fully
complete, yet. Or, at least it wasn't when I wrote this page! :-)
PLEASE: Write to the Authors below and thank them if you feel happy about their CL-Amp plugin(s)!! It will indeed make them happy...
VU Meter - an analog VU meter plugin created
Craig Schimmel
This cool visual plugin from Craig
Schimmel is showing you a very nice analog VU Meter (MUCH better
than my crappy one that is included in the CL-Amp archive). Here is a snapshot
of it:
To get it like the picture above you have to change the Prefs for
the plugin. In the Prefs you can select a background skin and a front skin...
The 2 skin files you need is included in the the VU Meter's archive!
PLEASE: Write to the Authors below and thank them if you feel happy about their CL-Amp plugin(s)!! It will indeed make them happy...
Several files
It will break up the sound in to different files with the same names
as the original files. It just append ".wav" to the end of the original
names. You can select to get the wave files saved into the same folder
as the source files or in a special "Wave Folder" which you set to whatever
you like.
Raw audio or processed audio
You can get it to save the raw audio data that comes directly from
Input Plugin (will preserve the same frequency, number of bits and stereo/mono
mode as the original file) or you can get it to save the data coming from
CL-Amp's mixer which gives you the possibility to save wave files with
cross fading included, resampled to 44100 Hz, 16 bits Stereo format. Perfect
for making Audio CD's... :-)
Make a playlist with 60-70 minutes of playing time in CL-Amp, switch
on Cross Fading, select the Wave Recorder Plugin and start playing on CL-Amp.
The resulting wave files can be burned on a CD with no time/pause between
the tracks... The result is a CD with smooth crossfading between all songs!!
(Before you burn a CD, make sure that all files are present and that
there length's makes sense... Your harddisk can be full or other things
can happen!)
Cross fading sections
You can select to have the cross fading section treated as a seperat
file, or to get it included in the previous or the upcoming file, or finally
you can select to get all songs which have cross fade in between to be
treated as one large file...
Well, the best way to understand it, is to play around with it. Please, give it a try...
BeInControl - control CL-Amp with an Ir.
remote controller... (stand alone)
This is a stand alone program I (Claes
Löfqvist) have written to make it possible to control all programs
for BeOS with an ordinary Ir. remote controller... I mention it here to
give a more total picture of available stuff for CL-Amp!
CLAmpControl - Useful for BeInControl users,
created by Mikael Jansson (Front-end)
This is a cool full window control center for CL-Amp. If you control
CL-Amp via a remote control it's very nice to push a button and get this
large nice looking window to help you see what CL-Amp is currently doing...
You can from here also select a new song to play since it's showing the
actual playlist as well!
clr - Command line remote control
by Mikael Jansson (Front-end)
Mikael Jansson has written a
command line remote control for CL-Amp. It makes it possible to write a
short command in the Terminal to control CL-Amp. Getting it to fade over
to the next song, change volume, pause, stop... and so on... Combined with
the HotKey program Spicy keys
it makes it possible to always make ALT-arrow_down to decrease CL-Amp's
volume or perhaps ALT-n to cause CL-Amp to cross fade over to the next
song and so on...
CLStat - Scrolling CL-Amp status in top
of the Terminal by Mikael Jansson (Front-end)
Mikael Jansson has created a
program which runs in the background (started from a Terminal) and will
then scroll the current status (the song currently playing and time left)
of CL-Amp in top of that Terminal window. Nice if you normally work in
Terminal mode...
CL-Amp Basic Screensaver - Screensaver
showing the current info from CL-Amp by Claes Löfqvist (screensaver)
This is a very simple screen saver which will show you the current
info from CL-Amp. I have made it to show how easy it is to create such
screen savers... The source code is free to use for creating own savers...
