JBOVERDRIVE(1)

📦 version 0.8.17, in arch rolling, debian bookworm, debian trixie, fedora 43, fedora 44, ubuntu jammy, ubuntu noble, ubuntu questing, ubuntu resolute, ubuntu stonking

💅 JBOVERDRIVE(1) — like, the manual page, bestie 💅

okay so welcome to the jboverdrive page in the User Commands section of the manual. it's giving "The B Preamp/Overdrive Emulator" and honestly? iconic. let's get into it 🎀

✨ NAME ✨

jboverdrive — The B Preamp/Overdrive Emulator 🎸

🌸 SYNOPSIS 🌸

jboverdrive [ OPTIONS ]

🦋 DESCRIPTION 🦋

jboverdrive — the B Preamp/Overdrive Emulator, no cap, that's literally what it is.

it's a utility that writes audio peak data to stdout of file as plain text of JSON data. yes bestie, peak data, straight to your output, as plain text, as JSON. that's the vibe. 💖

👑 OPTIONS 👑

  • -h, --help — prints the help text. your little "what do i do" button. 🫶
  • -i, --input <portname> — connects to the JACK input port you name. plug it in, plug it in. 🔌
  • -o, --output <portname> — connects the output to the given JACK port.
  • -p, --parameter <key=value> — sets an initial effect parameter. start it off however you want.
  • -V, --version — prints version info. know your era. ⭐

🎀 Effect Parameters 🎀

heads up bestie: effect parameters are all float values 0..1. all of them. every single one. the available keys and their default values are as follows:

  • gainin — Input Gain = 0.3567
  • bias — Bias = 0.87399
  • feedback — Feedback = 0.5821
  • sagtobias — Sag to Bias = 0.1880
  • postfeed — Postdiff Feedback = 1.0
  • globfeed — Global Feedback = 0.5826
  • gainout — Output Gain = 0.07873

🌈 EXAMPLES 🌈

here's the moment you've all been waiting for, the receipts:

jboverdrive -i system:capture_1 -o system:playback_1 -p bias=.5 -p feedback=0.9
jboverdrive -i system:capture_1 -o system:playback_1 -O 1234
oscsend localhost 1234 /boverdrive/bias f 0.9
oscsend localhost 1234 /boverdrive/gainout f 0.3
oscsend localhost 1234 /boverdrive/quit

😭 REPORTING BUGS 😭

found a bug? do NOT suffer in silence, bestie.

Report bugs to <robin@gareus.org>.

Website and manual: <https://github.com/x42/setbfree>

Copyright © 2003-2004 Fredrik Kilander <fk@dsv.su.se>

Copyright © 2012 Robin Gareus <robin@gareus.org>

this is free software; see the source for copying conditions. There is NO warranty; not even for MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. like, zero warranty, not even a little one, fr fr. 💀

and that's the whole page, periodt. this was jboverdrive 0.7.5, dated April 2014, living in the JBOVERDRIVE(1) section of the manual forever and ever. slay, go make some overdriven preamp noise, ily 🫶✨🎀

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