A quick guide to getting Bex up and running

Assuming you know roughly what you are doing, you will want to download the programs and run Bex.

The Sun version is here
The SGI version is here

Get either the Sun or SGI version, and unpack it with something like the following command:

tar xzvf bex0.9-sgi.tar.gz
cd bex0.9
Bex

If your machine barfs, and says it doesn't understand the -z option to tar, then do:

gunzip bex0.9.tar.gz
tar xvf bex0.9.tar
cd bex0.9
Bex

You can remake the code by typing "make" if you like. If you do, and you need to change stuff to get it to work, please email me.

Bex looks for soundfiles in the soundfile directory. There you will find a file called lim.aiff (SGI) or lim.au (Sun). Enter "lim" as the input file name. Click on a random selection of output file types. Then click on the bar which says "ready". You will find the output in the soundfiles directory.

Output files you may find include (.au for Sun, .aiff for SGI):

lim.beats : a list of times and strengths of beats. (use the beats menu to switch to a times-only mode)
lim.env.au : an audio file containing a smoothed amplitude envelope. Look at this in your favourite soundfile editor. But don't try listening to it.
lim.benv.au : same, with beats added visually. Use this to check visually for sanity.
lim-ab.au : an audio file containing beeps at the beat times. Optionally overlaid on the original audio file.

Have fun.

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