Package Details: whysynth 20170701-2

Git Clone URL: https://aur.archlinux.org/whysynth.git (read-only, click to copy)
Package Base: whysynth
Description: A versatile softsynth plugin for the DSSI Soft Synth Interface
Upstream URL: http://www.smbolton.com/whysynth.html
Keywords: synthesizer
Licenses: GPL
Conflicts: whysynth-git
Submitter: None
Maintainer: None
Last Packager: EDEADLINK
Votes: 26
Popularity: 0.000000
First Submitted: 2007-04-19 07:02 (UTC)
Last Updated: 2021-05-22 08:25 (UTC)

Latest Comments

daniel.appelt commented on 2017-03-19 19:27 (UTC)

Thank you!

Morn commented on 2017-03-19 19:00 (UTC)

OK, I've added a git package: https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/whysynth-git/ It does not look like stable releases are happening anymore.

daniel.appelt commented on 2017-03-19 13:52 (UTC)

Here, the plugin does neither work in Ardour 5 nor in Carla. Carla reports /usr/lib/dssi/whysynth.so: undefined symbol: dssp_voicelist_mutex_lock Until now, this only seems to have been addressed in the upstream github respository (https://github.com/smbolton/whysynth/commit/947fa82a04b284b43603b0c9cbb79a81201863ee).

<deleted-account> commented on 2012-03-24 20:32 (UTC)

Thanks, MajorTom and speps, but I supposed I should go on record as not being in favor of these shortcuts. The reason is that they obscure the fact that you're using a particular DSSI host to load the plugin. Imagine a novice user starting up jack-keyboard and your /usr/bin/whysynth below, and wondering why they won't talk to each other, and 'man whysynth' doesn't return anything -- frustrating. Plus, as you've show below, this sort of thing is incredibly easy for the user to create themselves. Personally, I'd just put the following in my .profile: alias whysynth='DSSI_PATH={$DSSI_PATH:-/usr/lib/dssi} ghostess whysynth.so'

wizetek commented on 2012-02-12 03:22 (UTC)

I second that request. Similar to hexter, create a file /usr/bin/whysynth #!/bin/bash export DSSI_PATH=/usr/lib/dssi exec jack-dssi-host whysynth.so

speps commented on 2010-09-22 23:04 (UTC)

@smbolton Hi, nice work. Can u also provide a whysynth starter like the xsynth-dssi one? I mean wget -O - "http://aur.archlinux.org/packages/xsynth-dssi/xsynth-dssi/xsynth-dssi" | sed "s_xsynth-dssi_whysynth_" > whysynth Thanks