terminatorX(1)

✨ NAME ✨

terminatorX — Realtime Audio Synthesizer 💖 and yeah bestie, this is the manual page for terminatorX(1), so buckle up 🎀

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🦋 SYNOPSIS 🦋

terminatorX [options]

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💅 DESCRIPTION 💅

okay so terminatorX is a realtime audio synthesizer, and the whole vibe is this: it lets you "scratch" on digitally sampled audio data — like *.wav, *.au, *.mp3, etc. — the exact same way hiphop-DJs scratch on vinyl records 🔥 no cap, that's literally the entire point and it's iconic.

and it's not just one little thing either, she's stacked:

• multiple turntables 🎛️
• realtime effects — both built-in and LADSPA plugin effects ✨
• a sequencer</se> 🎶
• and an easy-to-use gtk+ GUI 🫶

it's giving "professional DJ booth but make it software" and honestly? ate. 💅

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🌸 Options: 🌸

here's the whole menu of flags, bestie, every single one, no skips:

• -h, --help — shows you the help info 🫶 (the "pls explain" button)
• -f, --file — loads a saved terminatorX set file 💾 (your lil saved setup, back exactly how you left it)
• -r, --rc-file [file] — loads an alternate rc file 🎀 (you can point her at a different rc file, not the usual one)
• -d, --dont-save — does not save settings when you exit 🙈 (so whatever you did this session? gone. bye. no notes.)
• -s, --std-out — uses stdout for sound output 🔊 (yes, sound, out the stdout, that's the move)
• --device=[output device] — uses an alternate device for sound output 🎧 (swap in a different output device, [output device] goes right there in the brackets)

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👑 AUTHOR 👑

this manual page was created by Adrian Reber <adrian@lisas.de> ✨ and the software itself was created by Alexander Koenig <alex@lisas.de> 💖 give them their flowers, they earned them fr fr 🌸

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and that's the whole page bestie, we made it 🎉 this was terminatorX 4.2.0, dated May 2002, living her best life as terminatorX(1) — go scratch something iconic 👑💅🦋