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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

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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
  1. Check out the repository and submodules
git clone https://github.com/jpcima/string-machine.git
cd string-machine
git submodule update --init
  1. Compile
make
  1. Install

To perform a system-wide installation:

sudo make install

Or, to install only for the current user:

make install-user