gdam-server is responsible for all of GDAM's audio processing. For any GDAM client program to work, it must have a gdam server available. Properly installed distributions will automatically start the gdam-server when a client is run. When the server is automatically started, it does not accept connections from other clients. For this reason, it is usually desireable to run the gdam-server as a seperate process. By default all clients attach to localhost:6060, but that can be changed by giving them the --gdam-server flag. The client and server need not be on the same computer, but the server needs to have access to the audio files and devices.
gdam-server [--port port_number] [--config config_file] [--realtime]