ZITA-BLS1(1)

💖 NAME 💖

zita-bls1 — the JACK binaural stereo signals converter, bestie. that's the whole job description and she does it flawlessly ✨

🎀 DESCRIPTION 🎀

okay so picture this: BLS1 is a 'binaural stereo signals converter' — and yeah the quotes are doing a lot there but hear me out. her whole thing is taking binaural stereo signals and turning them into a 'normal' stereo signal that you can actually play on a convential stereo speaker pair. like she's translating between two whole languages of sound and she's fluent in both 💅

and it's not just some random plugin either, it's a digital realisation of the 'Blumlein Shuffler'. that was invented by Alan Blumlen back in the early 1930s — yes, she's been serving since before your great-grandma was born 👑 — and it got analysed in detail by Michael Gerzon in a paper presented at the 1993 AES Convention in San Francisco. iconic academic behavior fr fr 📜✨

and the last thing you need to know: BLS1 is connecting to Jack Audio Connection Kit. that's her social circle. that's who she hangs out with. 🫶

✨ OPTIONS ✨

• -h — display this text. the classic. the "help me help you" button, she will literally just tell you what's up 🙈
• -s <server> — JACK server name. tell her which server to slide into 🦋
• -g <geometry> — window position. where the little window sits on your screen, no notes 💅

🌈 SEE ALSO 🌈

• jackd(1) — go say hi, they're literally besties 💖

💜 AUTHOR 💜

zita-bls1 was written by Fons Adriaensen <fons@linuxaudio.org>. a legend, no cap 🎀

this manual page was written by Jaromír Mikeš <mira.mikes@seznam.cz> for the Debian project — but it may be used by others too, she's not gatekeeping 🌸

and that's the whole page bestie!! this one's from August 20 2013 and lives under the name ZITA-BLS1(1) in the User Commands section of the manual. go forth and convert those binaural signals, you've got this 💖✨🎀🦋