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Short instructions to get the soft
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synthesizer up and running
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1. Compile and install MusE
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3. Run MusE from an xterm
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look at the debug output in the xterm; you should see something
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found soft synth <iiwu> <iiwu soft synth>
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found soft synth <organ> <organ soft synth>
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found soft synth <S1> <organ soft synth>
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4. Configure Software Synthesizer
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Open Config->SoftSynthesizer.
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- the left list contains all available soft synthesizer
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- on the right you see the (empty) list of synthesizer
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To use a soft synth, you must instantiate one from the left list:
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- select organ: click on the "organ" synthesizer
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- press "Add Instance"
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This creates an new alsa device and a Synthi object.
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The new instance is listed on the right list with a unique name ("organ-1").
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If you look at /proc/asound/seq/clients:
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cat /proc/asound/seq/clients
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you find a Client "organ" with a midi port named "organ-1"
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You can use more than one instance of a synthesizer in a song
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5. Configure Midi Port
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To use the new available midi device in MusE you must
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assign it to a MusE midi port:
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- choose the port (line) you want to configure and click
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in column DeviceName to get a pulldown list of available
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- select organ-1 from this list
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This assigns the midi device organ-1 to the selected port.
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The instrument type (organ) is automatically set.
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Check you have configured a valid audio device
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6. Open the Audio Mixer
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You see a new mixer strip titled "Synthi" and in next line
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Route the audio output of this strip to "Master".
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7. Now you are ready to play with the "organ" synthesizer
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- click the "R" column in the tracklist to enable "Recording"
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8. Optional: open Configure->MidiPorts and click in column GUI
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to show a GUI for the sythesizer instance.
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There is no gui available for the S1 synth.
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The iiwu gui enables you to enter a different sound font.
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The organ gui has some "draw bars" to let you play with
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9. experiment with latency:
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- open Config->AudioSystem
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- change frame size and click OK or Apply
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HINT: If you save your setup with
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Config->saveConfiguration
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the current configuration is the default configuration if you
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load a midi file next time.
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These are the software synthesizers currently available:
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- S1 a simple sythesizer skeleton as a guide for all who
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want to code theire own one:
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- only one tone at a time
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- simple sinus wave form
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- organ, an adapted version of the LADSPA plugin
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"Organ - Additive Organ Synthesizer Voice" from
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"organ" implements a gui connected bidirectional
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to the synth via stdin/stdout
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- iiwu, is the adapted version of Peter Hanappe�s
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sample based iiwu synthesizer
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- loadable sound fonts
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