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Are there any Linux users on this list yet?
This is one of the softsynths that I mentioned which support
microtonality now, written by Paul Nasca.
I had also asked the author of Timidity for tuning support
some time ago, but got no reply alas.
As far as I know, this is the first release of a free
microtonal softsynth.

Manuel

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ZynAddSubFX is a open-source software synthesizer for
Linux.

It is available at :
http://zynaddsubfx.sourceforge.net
or
http://sourceforge.net/projects/zynaddsubfx

news:

1.0.4 - It is possible to load Scala (.scl and .kbm)
files
- Added mapping from note number to scale degree
is possible to load Scala kbm files
- Corrected small bugs related to Microtonal
- If you want to use ZynAddSubFX with OSS (or
you don't have ALSA) you can modify the Makefile.inc
file to compile with OSS only.
- It is shown the real detune (in cents)
- Made a new widget that replaces the Dial
widget
- Removed a bug that crashed ZynAddSubFX if you
change some effect parameters

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🔗Exile <thelivingexile@...>

--- manuel.op.de.coul@... wrote:
> Are there any Linux users on this list yet?
> This is one of the softsynths that I mentioned which support
> microtonality now, written by Paul Nasca.
> I had also asked the author of Timidity for tuning support
> some time ago, but got no reply alas.
> As far as I know, this is the first release of a free
> microtonal softsynth.

http://www.xs4all.nl/~huygensf/scala/index.html
http://www-math.cudenver.edu/~jstarret/microtonal_software.html
http://sound.condorow.net/
http://dmoz.org/Computers/Multimedia/Music_and_Audio/Software/Linux/
http://www.linuxlinks.com/Software/Multimedia/Synthesizers_and_Samplers/
http://www.linuxlinks.com/Software/Multimedia/MIDI/
http://sal.kachinatech.com/E/0/

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Exile <thelivingexile@y...> wrote:
>
> --- manuel.op.de.coul@e... wrote:
>> Are there any Linux users on this list yet?

Does this mean that you're a linux user? Manuel, I assume
you have at least one linux machine?

I have run linux at work, but never used it for music.

>> As far as I know, this is the first release of a free
>> microtonal softsynth.
>
> http://www.xs4all.nl/~huygensf/scala/index.html

It's the author of Scala to whom you were replying.

> http://www-math.cudenver.edu/~jstarret/microtonal_software.html

It's quite a compliment to John's list, in this era of good
search, that it's still this useful!

> http://sound.condorow.net/

http://sound.condorow.net/swss.html

Do you know which of these support microtonal tunings, and if
any of them are ready for prime time?

>dmoz.org/Computers/Multimedia/Music_and_Audio/Software/Linux/
>www.linuxlinks.com/Software/Multimedia/Synthesizers_and_Samplers/
>www.linuxlinks.com/Software/Multimedia/MIDI/

Ditto.

> http://sal.kachinatech.com/E/0/

Anything of interest here?

http://rosegarden.sourceforge.net/

Anybody ever try this, as a sequencer?

Jon, maybe your affordable sequencer + affordable microtonal
synth combo exists for Linux!

-Carl

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--- "Carl Lumma <clumma@...>" <clumma@...> wrote:
> Exile <thelivingexile@y...> wrote:
> > --- manuel.op.de.coul@e... wrote:

> >> Are there any Linux users on this list yet?
>
> Does this mean that you're a linux user? Manuel, I assume

Yeah

> you have at least one linux machine?
>
> I have run linux at work, but never used it for music.

I used to years ago. Up 'till a year ago or so I had at least one linux
machine running. Right now I'm setting up a new Linux system... for audio and
video.

The differences that a year have made are pretty unbelievable. It looks as
though they're taking multimedia pretty seriously. You can even do VST now.
{No, I don't know how well.}

> >> As far as I know, this is the first release of a free
> >> microtonal softsynth.
> >
> > http://www.xs4all.nl/~huygensf/scala/index.html
>
> It's the author of Scala to whom you were replying.

:} I guess he'd not call it a sofsynth then?

...Just pointing out a few more resources.

> > http://www-math.cudenver.edu/~jstarret/microtonal_software.html
>
> It's quite a compliment to John's list, in this era of good
> search, that it's still this useful!

I guess it's a good thing I didn't post the list homepage then?

> > http://sound.condorow.net/
>
> http://sound.condorow.net/swss.html
>
> Do you know which of these support microtonal tunings, and if
> any of them are ready for prime time?

Offhand, no... Not very many of them do. At least... not very many of them
advertise it. Do you?

> >dmoz.org/Computers/Multimedia/Music_and_Audio/Software/Linux/
> >www.linuxlinks.com/Software/Multimedia/Synthesizers_and_Samplers/
> >www.linuxlinks.com/Software/Multimedia/MIDI/
>
> Ditto.
>
> > http://sal.kachinatech.com/E/0/
>
> Anything of interest here?

Csound... there's some signal stuff, etc... the rest of the site is just chock
full of libraries and languages... stuff that might be useful to folk.

> http://rosegarden.sourceforge.net/

http://www.all-day-breakfast.com/rosegarden/index.html

> Anybody ever try this, as a sequencer?
>
> Jon, maybe your affordable sequencer + affordable microtonal
> synth combo exists for Linux!

It's a logical place to look for it. And a place where there's a real need.

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🔗manuel.op.de.coul@...

The number of microtonal softsynths keeps growing! Soon
another commercial one with Scala scalefile support will be
released. And now the free GPL'd ZynAddSubFx has been ported
to Windows. This is the only softsynth which supports both
scale files and keyboard mappings.
The homepage is http://zynaddsubfx.sourceforge.net/
and the download page
http://sourceforge.net/projects/zynaddsubfx
Unzip the file somewhere, and read the readme file.
The executable is in the zipfile.

Happy New Bach-year :)

Manuel

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News:
1.2.0 - ZynAddSubFX is ported to Windows ;-)
- added internal Virtual Keyboard
- added Configuration window
- added frequency tracking to filter
- improved the OscilGen (harmonic filter, RMS
normalisation, etc..)
- improved the recorder (uses the WAV file
format and it starts only when a key is pressed)
- added filter interpolation if the frequency is
changed very fast (it removes some annoying clicks)
- other improovements, bugfixes, speedups and
cleanups of the code

Paul.

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Does anyone know if there is a Mac OS X version? I looked at the site, but did not see a mention. I only ask as maybe someone is working on a port? Anyone know more?

Mike

Carl Lumma wrote:
>>And now the free GPL'd ZynAddSubFx has been ported >>to Windows. This is the only softsynth which supports both >>scale files and keyboard mappings.
> > > This is fantastic news! The only drag is that the MIDI
> port descriptors are not shown (only the "dev" numbers)
> and I can't figure out how to make this choice stick --
> it says a change only takes affect after a Zyn restart,
> but the setting isn't persistant after a restart!
> > -Carl
> > > > [MMM info]------------------------------------------------------
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