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timbap 0.5.0-beta - 2008/07/12
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Software Requirements:
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Microsoft Windows (XP and probably Vista) and Mac OS X (Tiger and probably Leopard) 
is supported as an operating system. 

There is some required software that you will need to download and install:

Java Runtime Environment (Version 1.5 or higher)
is pre-installed on most contemporary computers
http://www.java.com/ (~50 MB)

Cycling '74 Pluggo Runtime 3.6.1.
Windows: http://www.cycling74.com/download/pluggoruntime361.zip (4.8 MB)
MacOS X: http://www.cycling74.com/download/pluggoruntime361.dmg (10.2 MB)

A VST host of your choice, for example Aodix (Win) or Tracktion (Win/OSX):
http://www.aodix.com/files/aodixsetupv4201.exe (2.0 MB)



Hardware Requirements
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timbap can be controlled by two types of timecode vinyl: 
MsPinky control vinyl (gen.4) or Torq control vinyl.

For hardware requirements there is not much experience yet.
But a good graphics card with installed 3D drivers, a GHz processor,
more than 512 MB RAM and of course a good soundcard with ASIO driver
(or ASIO4ALL) are the key factors for a decent performance of timbap.
If your soundcard has no phono inputs you will also need phono
preamps of course.


Installation
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Simply extract the contents of the ZIP file to any location you want.

- On Windows double-click the timbap-visualizer.exe file to start the visualizer
- On Mac OS X open a terminal, change to this directory and type ./run_macosx.sh

For further assistance consult the User Documentation and the VST Host Setup Guide.


Licence
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This software is licensed under the GNU Lesser General Public License (LGPL) Version 3.0.
A copy of it is provided in lgpl-3.0.txt

The source code of timbap is available at:
http://code.google.com/p/timbap/

It does not include the source code of the VST plugin however, 
as it is based on the proprietary MsPinky library.


Known Bugs
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see http://bugs.timbap.de


Support / Questions / Feedback
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see http://forums.timbap.de
