Package whysynth-20100922-2

WhySynth is a versatile softsynth which operates as a plugin for the DSSI Soft Synth Interface. A brief list of features: - 4 oscillators, 2 filters, 3 LFOs, and 5 envelope generators per voice. - 10 oscillator modes: minBLEP, wavecycle, asynchronous granular, three FM modes, waveshaper, noise, PADsynth, and phase distortion. - 6 filter modes. - flexible modulation and mixdown options, plus effects. DSSI is a plugin API for software instruments (soft synths) with user interfaces, permitting them to be hosted in-process by audio applications. More information on DSSI can be found at: http://dssi.sourceforge.net/ WhySynth is something of a mongrel, combining bits from Xsynth-DSSI, hexter, Csound, Mats Olsson's MSS, and various other programs, with inspiration from a number of my favorite long-hair-days synths (Matrix 6, ESQ-1, K4), and wavecycle data resynthesized from Claude Kaber's Virtual K4 samples and //christian's exegesis of the Ensoniq SQ-80 wavetable ROMs. See the enclosed file AUTHORS for more details. WhySynth is written by Sean Bolton, and copyright (c) 2010 under the GNU General Public License, version 2 or later. See here for details. While this software is 'free' within the requirements of this license, I (Sean) would appreciate any or all of the following should you find WhySynth useful: - an email stating where you're from and how you're using WhySynth, sent to <musound /at/ jps /dot/ net>, or better yet, a postcard sent to: Sean Bolton 1223 SE Ash St Portland Oregon 97214 USA - copies of or links to music you've created with WhySynth. - any patches you create for WhySynth. Yes! Please! - suggestions for improving WhySynth. The patches distributed with WhySynth, including the default 'factory' patches and those found in the 'extra' directory, have been placed in the public domain by their respective authors. See the enclosed file extra/COPYING-patches for details. The GUI is stiflingly dull. Anyone want to help make it look cool?