Just a question. How does this soft synth manage to get around violating the original Standford patents that were licensed to Yamaha? Have they expired or something? (I still have a DX-7...) ;-) - Mark On Wed, 3 Nov 2004 12:07:45 -0800, Sean Bolton <musound@xxxxxxx> wrote: > Announcing the first public release of the hexter DSSI plugin. > > http://dssi.sourceforge.net/hexter.html > > hexter is a software synthesizer that models the sound generation of > a Yamaha DX7 synthesizer. Now you can have the sparkling, richly > evolving sounds of this classic FM synth on your Linux workstation! > > There are a few things still missing from hexter's emulation of the > DX7 (and it doesn't attempt more general FM synthesis like Native > Instrument's FM7), however, even at its current stage of > development, it is quite useable and recreates the sound of the DX7 > with greater accuracy than any previous open-source emulation (that > the author is aware of....) It can easily load most of the thousands > of DX7 patch bank files available on the Internet, and can accept > patch editing commands via MIDI sys-ex messages from your favorite > DX7 editor/librarian. > > hexter operates as a plugin for the DSSI Soft Synth Interface. DSSI > is a plugin API for software instruments (soft synths) with user > interfaces, permitting them to be hosted in-process by Linux audio > applications. More information on DSSI can be found at: > > http://dssi.sourceforge.net/ > > The latest hexter version (currently 0.5.7) can be obtained at: > > http://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php? > group_id=104230&package_id=134428 > > hexter requires a working DSSI host, liblo, GTK+ 1.2.x, plus the > ALSA headers and LADSPA SDK. > > hexter is written by Sean Bolton, and copyright (c)2004 under the > GNU General Public License, version 2 or later. hexter benefited > greatly from previous open-source efforts, most notably Juan > Linietsky's rx-saturno, and FluidSynth by Peter Hanappe, et al. > >
