Patch Engine preview 1 (Steam Deck + macOS)

OpenPatch · Patch Engine preview 1

Pick a genre, a mood and a texture, and OpenPatch composes a new piece and builds it live in the rack in about 1–2 seconds. Every build is a different song; tick Keep seed to rebuild one you like.

• 8 genres × 8 moods × 8 textures, seeded variety in key, progression, voicing, drums, bass, chords, melody, layers and song form
• Clean subtractive voices (filtered saw/square/triangle/sine), in-key melodies, calibrated levels
• Reveal (~2 s), Showtime (~5 s) and Instant build modes; Play starts automatically
• Steam Deck friendly: touch-sized buttons, D-pad ▲▼ row · ◀▶ word · A build · X surprise · B close

Downloads

Platform	File
Steam Deck / Linux x86_64	OpenPatch-PatchEngine-linux-x86_64.tar.gz: extract and run install.sh (no root). See STEAM-DECK.md inside.
macOS (Apple silicon)	OpenPatch-PatchEngine-macos-arm64.zip: ad-hoc signed preview, separate from an installed OpenPatch (right-click → Open the first time)

Steam Deck quick install (Desktop Mode or SSH as deck):

curl -L -o ~/openpatch.tar.gz https://github.com/dexterlabs1/openpatch/releases/download/patch-engine-preview-1/OpenPatch-PatchEngine-linux-x86_64.tar.gz
tar -xzf ~/openpatch.tar.gz -C ~ && ~/OpenPatch-PatchEngine-linux-x86_64/install.sh

Then launch OpenPatch from the app menu, or add ~/.local/share/openpatch/openpatch-desktop to Steam as a non-Steam game.

The Linux build is cross-compiled from macOS (glibc ≥ 2.31, needs only ALSA + Mesa) and has not yet been run on a Deck. Please report anything that breaks.

Built from branch work/wordpatch (4318b2d).