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string-machine

This is a virtual-analog string ensemble synthesizer.

This implementation is based on a digital model designed by Peter Whiting. The improvement of the model adds various abilities, in particular a virtual-analog emulation of the bucket brigade delay circuit.

Contributors

Thanks to many persons who contribute to improve this project.

• S. M. "sm7x7" for providing presets
• Nicolas Faure "sub26nico", Erwan Lerale "r1" and Éric Forgeot "farvardin" for testing and feedback
• Olivier Humbert "trebmuh" for creating packages and redistributing

Download

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Change log

0.1.1 (dev)

This release breaks backwards compatibility.

• envelope generator fixed, rewritten as exponential AHDSR
• adjusted the value domain of controls to be more useful: detune, shape filters
• fixed computation errors regarding the filters
• implemented the bucket brigade delay
• provided two switchable chorus models, digital and BBD
• provided the Solina chorus as independent plugins, 1-in 2-out and 2-in 2-out
• supported dynamic changes of sample rate
• added support of MIDI controllers: volume, pan, expression

0.1.0

• initial release

Build instructions

1. Obtain prerequisites

Install needed packages:

• git
• build-essential
• pkg-config
• libx11-dev
• libgl-dev
• libcairo2-dev

2. Check out the repository and submodules

git clone https://github.com/jpcima/string-machine.git
cd string-machine
git submodule update --init

3. Compile

make

4. Install

To perform a system-wide installation:

sudo make install

Or, to install only for the current user:

make install-user