CALF(7)

📦
version 0.90.9 · 2 versions
, in arch rolling, fedora 43, fedora 44, nixos 26.05, nixpkgs unstable, ubuntu questing, ubuntu resolute, ubuntu stonking

💖 CALF (7) — Calf_Studio_Gear, bestie 💖

okay so this is the calf page from the Miscellaneous Information Manual, and honestly? it's giving "audio plugin library that ate and left no crumbs" 💅 let's get into it ✨

🎀 NAME 🎀

Calf_Studio_Gear — an audio plugin library, periodt 🫶

✨ SYNOPSIS ✨

calfjackhost plugin !  [ plugin !  ] [...]

🌸 DESCRIPTION 🌸

so the Calf project is out here with one main character goal: giving musicians a whole set of high quality open source audio plugins 🔥 and you can use them as LV2 plug-ins or standalone. no cap.

here's everything that's available rn:

🦋 Instruments and Tone Generators

Organ, Monosynth, Fluidsynth, Wavetable

🦋 Modulation Effects

Multi Chorus, Phaser, Flanger, Rotary Speaker, Pulsator, Ring Modulator

🦋 Delay Effects

Reverb, Vintage Delay, Compensation Delay Line, Reverse Delay (experimental)

🦋 Dynamic Processors

Compressor, Sidechain Compressor, Multiband Compressor, Deesser, Gate, Sidechain Gate, Multiband Gate, Limiter, Multiband Limiter, Sidechain Limiter, Transient Designer

🦋 Filters and Equalizers

Filter, Filterclavier, Envelope Filter, Emphasis, Vocoder, Equalizer 5 Band, Equalizer 8 Band, Equalizer 12 Band, Equalizer 30 Band

🦋 Distortion and Enhancement

Saturator, Exciter, Bass Enhancer, Tape Simulator, Vinyl, Crusher

🦋 Tools

Mono Input, Stereo Tools, Bass Stereo Enhancer, Multi Spread, X-Over 2 Band, X-Over 3 Band, X-Over 4 Band

💅 OPTIONS 💅

so how do you actually use these bad boys? listen up bestie 👑

  • LV2 plugins — Calf gets installed as the calf.lv2 library in your LV2 directory (typically /usr/lib/lv2). translation: normal LV2 hosts should just be able to find Calf's plugins, easy peasy 🌈
  • JACK client application — you can also run Calf plugins as one or more separate applications, connecting to other applications using the JACK Audio Connection Kit (version 0.103 or newer is required, don't play yourself 🙈). to run the client, type:
calfjackhost monosynth !

(and just so you know: ! means "connect", and that last ! means "connect to output" — iconic little symbol fr)

other examples:

calfjackhost monosynth ! vintagedelay ! flanger !

(this one runs monosynth into vintagedelay and vintagedelay into flanger, then to output — chain gang 🔗)

calfjackhost ! reverb !

(this one takes signal from system:capture_1 and _2, puts it through reverb, and then sends to system:playback_1 and _2 — chef's kiss 😭)

👀 SEE ALSO 👀

calfjackhost(1)

👑 AUTHOR 👑

Krzysztof Foltman, Markus Schmidt, Christian Holschuh, Thor Harald Johansen, Damien Zammit, Tom Szilagyi, Hans Baier and others

Website: http://calf.sourceforge.net/

this page is from the Miscellaneous Information Manual, dated 2015-03-03, and it's page CALF(7) 💖 thanks for coming to my ted talk, go make some music bestie 🎧✨💜
📦 where this page comes from