UPDATE: As the current version won't compile, I've added "git checkout 402a1dbb9cbeef1ff8899b5f994a4e3883d7ef5f" to the list of commands. Please take a look at the video's description for the full set of commands!
The salad recipe sold me, and decided to hit Subscribe! Nice synth review as well. I will definitely use the Zyn in my music now, and check out your other videos.
instruments I love... "rushes" theres a few... " steeldrums" (think its in the Oliver-100 sound library) Daft punk lead is great ;) sweep 1 pad fat is amazing... I got to remember to use it
I feared a pun on wavetables and "Waldorf salad" would be dropped at any moment, so this was a very stressfull video for me. XD All jokes aside, great demo as always, Floyd!
I love it, BTW...I like all your videos, for me there is always value. Keep doing whatever you like, although I do understand you need good viewer numbers.
Thanks! It's a salad that will replace your lunch and you won't feel hungry after half an hour. The sugar will balance out the sourness of the lime juice nicely.
Hi Floyd 🙂I am trying to use Zyn-Fusion on an Rpi5 desktop (64 bit Bookworm) and Reaper, to see how well it fares, in wait for the Pi5 upgrade kit of that marvelous black box we both know and love. I do actually have a Zyn-Fusion purchased download access, but it appears that an aarch64 version is not provided so far by Fundamental/Mc Curry. Do you think that this old building procedure would also work for Rpi5/aarch64? Thanks, ad also see you around elsewhere!
Everytime I compile this, there's another set of problems, due to the ever-changing landscape of libraries that Linux is. :-) Usually, it's not too hard to fix the problem by googling the error message.
Hi! I asked you once about what would be an ideal additive synthesizer for the raspberry pi and you reccomended me the Zynthian. It didn't worked sadly, I'm not very experienced with this device. Now I want to know everything about the raspberry pi, what can I do, what can I build, as long as I don't have to do some assembly wizardry, I'm into it. What material would you reccomend me? BTW Your videos are awesome, thank you so much for your time and effort making these, I love them!
Hi! All you need to get started is a Raspberry PI or compatible device. The more RAM, the better. Second thing I'd recommend is an audio card. I use the one from raspiaudio.com/raspiaudio but there are plenty of other options.
Hi Mr Steinberg, it is wonderful to watch your video. I have a question: I do have raspberry pi 3 B+ with 32 bit linux. So your script fails at the cmake command after the tar. So what do I do? Should I get a 64-bit linux? Or is there a work around? Thanks and I appreciate your style and presentation.
Hi, thanks for watching. Given the fact you can just swap SD cards, I think installing a 64bit Linux is the easiest way to solve this problem. I haven't tried this recently and can't commit the time needed to solve this at the moment. Chances are the build will fail with the commands given - welcome to compiling stuff on Linux. ;-)
@@mr_floydst yes, it did not compile and I did waste few hours. But when I downloaded Zynthian OS, it worked like a magic and I was thrilled to find that Zynsubaddfx is included there. I am waiting for a midi keyboard to try this beauty. I liked your SFizz video and tried that in the mean time. But wget command gives an error message. So I am stuck there too. Things have changed!! Anyway thanks for the inspiration that comes out clearly in your videos.
If you have the VST 64bit version, I see no reason why this shouldn't work in MPC. Please check if you have all the resource files as well (icons, patches...)
Hi! Thank you for what you doing! i have request for you: can you explain in details how to tune raspberry to work with musical environments like orac ? sorry for my english - my native is russian and this is why its so hard to me to understand all this linux stuff
Hello! The easiest way to install a realtime kernel is to download patchbox os and boot it. I made a video on that topic some time ago, see ua-cam.com/video/Z7sGc1ii3Ws/v-deo.html Best regards!
Dear Floyd, I've installed Manjaro Linux and then, I've installed ZynAddSubFx, QJackCTL. But for the moment I don't need Reaper for playing my MIDI controller with the Synth. I don't know why my sound card don't appear in QJackCTL in the connection panel, only appear the MIDI KeyBoard and the Synthetizer. The last version of QJackCTL has many updates and a graphical interface for connect the MIDI Keyboard with ZynAddSubFX. Do you know a link or tutorial for setup Jack and start the server propertly? My PC is a Mini Beelink Ser5. All the best and regards. PD. When I've connected the MIDI controller to LMMS software and using Alsa, I don't need to use Jack and works fine, no latency problems and don't need to use Jack (As an example)
You don't really need to use jack, you also can load ZynAddSubFX into LMMS once it's compiled. There should be a LV2 plugin version installed somewhere. If you want to use the standalone app, qjackctl is relatively easy to set up, just press the configure button and select the correct sound card and midi interface. After that, you should be able to start jackd.
@@mr_floydst I think I need to install PipeWire in my Manajaro Distro and uninstall PulseAudio because is impossible to ear something from the Synth. I think is better. An try to using Carla for connect the MIDI controller with the Synth (I've saw another videos about that). Best wishes and regards.
Dear Floyd, I want to install this on Linux Mint on the current version. Is it neccesary to pay for use this syntetizer in Linux, or If I download the code and compilling, is possible to use free? IFollowYou. Regards!
Hello, I just thought I would add that I have tried to run QJackCTL, VPMK, and AMSYNTH on the Raspberry Pi4 (4Gb) and having all three apps running at the same time caused the system to hang every few seconds.... bummer!
Thanks for watching! That doesn't sound right, the PI should have more than enough resources to run that flawlessly. Did you use the standard Raspbian? were any other services running in the background?
Actually, after having given the system load a brief look to see how much space these three programs would require to run smoothly as well as the operating system itself it was (I think) about 200Mb or so shy of having the right amount of RAM to run. You should try it yourself! :))) I do think though that a newer version (which is said to be coming out soon!) that had a 2.0GHz CPU and 8Gb of RAM would for sure be able to cache everything I mentioned and still have room to run another app or two! :)))
@@noahbenzing2402 I did... two years ago I made a video doing exactly that, on a RasPi 3, standard Raspbian. The performance was questionable, but it was definitely better than what you're describing here. This puzzles me a bit as the PI4 has double the RAM and a greatly improved CPU.
Hello, I am trying to follow the steps to install the synth on a RPi4 with Raspbian GNU/Linux 11 (bullseye). I do not understand what to do with this: "change the line 'git submodule update --init' to 'git submodule update --init --recursive' in the build-linux script ". I tried to pass that step, I pasted "ruby build-linux.rb" and after a while it gave me an error. Please can you write again a step-by-step guide of what commands I need to paste on terminal or any changes I have to do to make it work? Thanks!
Hi, the lines I posted are all you need, and the line you're citing here means 1) Open build-linux.rb in a text editor 2) search for the line containing "git submodule update --init" 3) add " --recursive" to that line after " --init" (but do not enter the quotes, they're just here to precisely tell you what to enter) 4) save the file 5) execute the file Hope that helps. Open source projects often change and you're expected to have just the right versions of compilers, libraries and operating systems in place, otherwise things might fail. I can't "support" all of my old videos, I hope that eventually, my knowledgable viewers might step in ;-)
@@mr_floydst Thank you very much for your response, I got it working now. I am very glad it is working! I installed the qjackctl to run it after opening the synth, unfortunaately I have no sound in standalone version but I see all the UI. (I do not know if I have to make any setting on the synth or on qjackctl). As a vsti from Reaper host I hear sound, (I used a zoom H6 recorder for audio interface), but it's too big and I can not resize the UI, I have 7" screen and planning to make it portable. Of course on a bigger screen it will be fine. Again, many thanks for your help!
The amount of sugar seen in the video - it may be more like 2 measuring spoons or 4 flat spoons. And yes, without it, this particular salad doesn't work. ;-)
@@mr_floydst Unknown address '/alert:' zynaddsubfx runed only few times but very slow and not usable. I got raspberry pi 3b+. i keep trying but my hope is almost gone..
Hi, thanks for watching! This synth seems to be well-optimized, and I didn't encounter any xruns while using it. It's a good match for your PI3 or PI4.
Hi, no - it's a pure synth. You compiling it also creates lv2 and vst plugins that you can use lmms, ardour, reaper and such. I'll show this in the next vid next week!
Hi, thanks for watching! I didn't notice latency in the standalone version, but that does not mean there is none. :) You can install a realtime kernel to reduce latency. Also, running Jack/Alsa instead of Pulse Audio helps a lot.
Hi ! and Help ! I have issues with "libuv1 libuv1-dev". It can't locate them. Searched on the web, but there is no much help on this. Please, please, drop your salad and give me advice
Thanks for watching! I think you don't need to specifically install libuv1. This should work as well: sudo apt-get install libuv-dev Please tell me if it worked.
@@mr_floydst Hello, wo, you reply fast : I tried that and it seemed to work, but later in the install, I had issues. But you know what ? I found another way. just installed LMMS that I use a lot on windows and there is this synth with others :) . I have an cheap external audio card and just add to follow some advice on the web to get sound in my headphones. YESSSS ! Now, you could help me somehow ? my daughter has very poor eyesight and I try to install a magnifying lens (like VMG) but nothing works. I'm a newbie in linux :(
Thanks for watching. Well, to be honest, at the moment I'm testing some ideas to make people watch the videos longer than average. I'm open to criticism and / or ideas ...
UPDATE: As the current version won't compile, I've added "git checkout 402a1dbb9cbeef1ff8899b5f994a4e3883d7ef5f" to the list of commands. Please take a look at the video's description for the full set of commands!
Hi Floyd,
can you please share complete commands from top to bottom to run zynaddsubfx on reaper
@@ababishetty Hi - a bit late, but I updated the video's description with commands that will work.
Came for the synth, stayed for the salad. Great walk through, very structured. Thanks for putting this together!
Thanks for watching! :)
This is hands down the most powerful synth out there. You can do anything on this.
Yes, I was really impressed. :-) There are several unique and great ideas in this software that any developer should take a look at.
Blender of FOSS soft-synths. Shame it doesn't quite get the recognition it deserves.
@@pauljs75 I'm doing my part. There'll be some more videos on this synth in the coming weeks, starting next thursday. :)
The salad recipe sold me, and decided to hit Subscribe!
Nice synth review as well. I will definitely use the Zyn in my music now, and check out your
other videos.
Thank you very much! :-)
Zynaddsubfx is a truly gnarly little thing. Works with ALSA or JACK too!
Yes indeed. The "new" interface makes it much more accessible, though - it's a huge improvement on version 2.
I really love your sense of humour.
Thanks :-)
The idea to add a salad video is absolutely ingenious ! Such an enjoyable presentation !
Thanks for watching! It's a tasty salad for sure. :-)
instruments I love... "rushes" theres a few... " steeldrums" (think its in the Oliver-100 sound library) Daft punk lead is great ;) sweep 1 pad fat is amazing... I got to remember to use it
Thanks! There are many great preset patches here indeed.
9:20
lovely, going to dupe that one on my Roland keyboard
Compiled today using current version, worked
Thanks for your feedback! That's good to know. I tried it some days ago and the compiler threw fatal errors no matter what.
@@mr_floydst some addition, i did it on the latest RPI image 2021-10-30-raspios-bullseye-armhf
I feared a pun on wavetables and "Waldorf salad" would be dropped at any moment, so this was a very stressfull video for me. XD
All jokes aside, great demo as always, Floyd!
Oh noes, what a missed opportunity! :)
I love it, BTW...I like all your videos, for me there is always value.
Keep doing whatever you like, although I do understand you need good viewer numbers.
Thank your very much! :)
Well done, thank you this was really eye opening. I will try this on my old raspberry pi!
Thanks for watching! :)
Good review. I like the new and improved GUI, the old Zynaddsubfx interface was quite clunky I think
Thanks! You're right. The old UI was quite convoluted. The new one is much more focused.
Nice video, really nice!!! And too much sugar in the salad! ;^)
Thanks! It's a salad that will replace your lunch and you won't feel hungry after half an hour. The sugar will balance out the sourness of the lime juice nicely.
@@mr_floydst No problem. I'll rebuild the synth, not the salad ;^)
Hi Floyd 🙂I am trying to use Zyn-Fusion on an Rpi5 desktop (64 bit Bookworm) and Reaper, to see how well it fares, in wait for the Pi5 upgrade kit of that marvelous black box we both know and love. I do actually have a Zyn-Fusion purchased download access, but it appears that an aarch64 version is not provided so far by Fundamental/Mc Curry. Do you think that this old building procedure would also work for Rpi5/aarch64? Thanks, ad also see you around elsewhere!
Everytime I compile this, there's another set of problems, due to the ever-changing landscape of libraries that Linux is. :-) Usually, it's not too hard to fix the problem by googling the error message.
Hi! I asked you once about what would be an ideal additive synthesizer for the raspberry pi and you reccomended me the Zynthian. It didn't worked sadly, I'm not very experienced with this device.
Now I want to know everything about the raspberry pi, what can I do, what can I build, as long as I don't have to do some assembly wizardry, I'm into it. What material would you reccomend me?
BTW Your videos are awesome, thank you so much for your time and effort making these, I love them!
Hi! All you need to get started is a Raspberry PI or compatible device. The more RAM, the better. Second thing I'd recommend is an audio card. I use the one from raspiaudio.com/raspiaudio but there are plenty of other options.
Now that's a good salad!
Thanks! :)
Hi Mr Steinberg, it is wonderful to watch your video. I have a question: I do have raspberry pi 3 B+ with 32 bit linux. So your script fails at the cmake command after the tar. So what do I do? Should I get a 64-bit linux? Or is there a work around? Thanks and I appreciate your style and presentation.
Hi, thanks for watching. Given the fact you can just swap SD cards, I think installing a 64bit Linux is the easiest way to solve this problem. I haven't tried this recently and can't commit the time needed to solve this at the moment. Chances are the build will fail with the commands given - welcome to compiling stuff on Linux. ;-)
@@mr_floydst yes, it did not compile and I did waste few hours. But when I downloaded Zynthian OS, it worked like a magic and I was thrilled to find that Zynsubaddfx is included there. I am waiting for a midi keyboard to try this beauty. I liked your SFizz video and tried that in the mean time. But wget command gives an error message. So I am stuck there too. Things have changed!! Anyway thanks for the inspiration that comes out clearly in your videos.
is there a way to get this plugin into MPC beats? It doesnt show up when I scan the folder it's in
If you have the VST 64bit version, I see no reason why this shouldn't work in MPC. Please check if you have all the resource files as well (icons, patches...)
theres an error in the description. Should be "git submodule update --init --recursive" instead of "-init"
Thank you very much! Corrected.
Hi! Thank you for what you doing! i have request for you: can you explain in details how to tune raspberry to work with musical environments like orac ? sorry for my english - my native is russian and this is why its so hard to me to understand all this linux stuff
Hello! The easiest way to install a realtime kernel is to download patchbox os and boot it. I made a video on that topic some time ago, see ua-cam.com/video/Z7sGc1ii3Ws/v-deo.html Best regards!
Dear Floyd,
I've installed Manjaro Linux and then, I've installed ZynAddSubFx, QJackCTL. But for the moment I don't need Reaper for playing my MIDI controller with the Synth. I don't know why my sound card don't appear in QJackCTL in the connection panel, only appear the MIDI KeyBoard and the Synthetizer.
The last version of QJackCTL has many updates and a graphical interface for connect the MIDI Keyboard with ZynAddSubFX.
Do you know a link or tutorial for setup Jack and start the server propertly? My PC is a Mini Beelink Ser5. All the best and regards.
PD. When I've connected the MIDI controller to LMMS software and using Alsa, I don't need to use Jack and works fine, no latency problems and don't need to use Jack (As an example)
You don't really need to use jack, you also can load ZynAddSubFX into LMMS once it's compiled. There should be a LV2 plugin version installed somewhere.
If you want to use the standalone app, qjackctl is relatively easy to set up, just press the configure button and select the correct sound card and midi interface. After that, you should be able to start jackd.
@@mr_floydst I think I need to install PipeWire in my Manajaro Distro and uninstall PulseAudio because is impossible to ear something from the Synth. I think is better. An try to using Carla for connect the MIDI controller with the Synth (I've saw another videos about that).
Best wishes and regards.
Sorry to be 334, but here is your fortune:
🎉you are great, never stop making salads and weird cuts, real 1s eat salads🎊
Thanks! ;-) You should really try this salad, it's awesome
Dear Floyd,
I want to install this on Linux Mint on the current version. Is it neccesary to pay for use this syntetizer in Linux, or If I download the code and compilling, is possible to use free? IFollowYou. Regards!
Hi, thanks for watching! The developers allow you to use this for free if you compile it yourself.
@@mr_floydst Thank you! I think is possible by KX Studio. Very interesting syntetizer! All the best.
Hello, I just thought I would add that I have tried to run QJackCTL, VPMK, and AMSYNTH on the Raspberry Pi4 (4Gb) and having all three apps running at the same time caused the system to hang every few seconds.... bummer!
Thanks for watching! That doesn't sound right, the PI should have more than enough resources to run that flawlessly. Did you use the standard Raspbian? were any other services running in the background?
Actually, after having given the system load a brief look to see how much space these three programs would require to run smoothly as well as the operating system itself it was (I think) about 200Mb or so shy of having the right amount of RAM to run. You should try it yourself! :))) I do think though that a newer version (which is said to be coming out soon!) that had a 2.0GHz CPU and 8Gb of RAM would for sure be able to cache everything I mentioned and still have room to run another app or two! :)))
@@noahbenzing2402 I did... two years ago I made a video doing exactly that, on a RasPi 3, standard Raspbian. The performance was questionable, but it was definitely better than what you're describing here. This puzzles me a bit as the PI4 has double the RAM and a greatly improved CPU.
Hello, I am trying to follow the steps to install the synth on a RPi4 with Raspbian GNU/Linux 11 (bullseye). I do not understand what to do with this: "change the line 'git submodule update --init' to 'git submodule update --init --recursive' in the build-linux script ". I tried to pass that step, I pasted "ruby build-linux.rb" and after a while it gave me an error. Please can you write again a step-by-step guide of what commands I need to paste on terminal or any changes I have to do to make it work? Thanks!
Hi, the lines I posted are all you need, and the line you're citing here means
1) Open build-linux.rb in a text editor
2) search for the line containing "git submodule update --init"
3) add " --recursive" to that line after " --init" (but do not enter the quotes, they're just here to precisely tell you what to enter)
4) save the file
5) execute the file
Hope that helps.
Open source projects often change and you're expected to have just the right versions of compilers, libraries and operating systems in place, otherwise things might fail. I can't "support" all of my old videos, I hope that eventually, my knowledgable viewers might step in ;-)
@@mr_floydst Thank you very much for your response, I got it working now. I am very glad it is working! I installed the qjackctl to run it after opening the synth, unfortunaately I have no sound in standalone version but I see all the UI. (I do not know if I have to make any setting on the synth or on qjackctl). As a vsti from Reaper host I hear sound, (I used a zoom H6 recorder for audio interface), but it's too big and I can not resize the UI, I have 7" screen and planning to make it portable. Of course on a bigger screen it will be fine. Again, many thanks for your help!
Vegetarians can use grilled turtle as a substitute. :-)
Vegetarians can... WAIT, even the google bot understood "tofu". :-)
@@mr_floydst Sometimes I hear what I want to hear. ;-)
What are the latency/buffer settings of jack?
Hi! For this video, I just used the standard settings.
is this the same zynaddsubfx as on lmms?
I think LMMS ships with the old UI, but yes, it's the same otherwise. (This user interface is much better imo)
How well does this work on the Zynthian 5
This is the plugin that has gotten the most attention on Zynthian, it's fully integrated in their UI. It's the go-to plugin on that system.
Sounds great im thinking either the zynthian 5 or Op1
You add 4 spoons of sugar to your salad? The flying spaghetti monster may help you!
The amount of sugar seen in the video - it may be more like 2 measuring spoons or 4 flat spoons. And yes, without it, this particular salad doesn't work. ;-)
ZynAddSubFX are running, but with GUI error(( have you any idea how to fix it?
Can you give me more information? What kind of error?
@@mr_floydst Unknown address '/alert:' zynaddsubfx runed only few times but very slow and not usable. I got raspberry pi 3b+. i keep trying but my hope is almost gone..
@@mr_floydst is it real to run on 32bit OS or 64 will work better?
How does this run on pi. Is it heavy on the cpu?
Hi, thanks for watching! This synth seems to be well-optimized, and I didn't encounter any xruns while using it. It's a good match for your PI3 or PI4.
@@mr_floydst ok ima have to try it out.
Is there a sequencer ?
Hi, no - it's a pure synth. You compiling it also creates lv2 and vst plugins that you can use lmms, ardour, reaper and such. I'll show this in the next vid next week!
Is there any latency when playing?
Hi, thanks for watching! I didn't notice latency in the standalone version, but that does not mean there is none. :) You can install a realtime kernel to reduce latency. Also, running Jack/Alsa instead of Pulse Audio helps a lot.
I would a little chat masla to the recipe.
Good idea! :)
Hi ! and Help ! I have issues with "libuv1 libuv1-dev". It can't locate them. Searched on the web, but there is no much help on this. Please, please, drop your salad and give me advice
Thanks for watching! I think you don't need to specifically install libuv1. This should work as well: sudo apt-get install libuv-dev
Please tell me if it worked.
@@mr_floydst Hello, wo, you reply fast : I tried that and it seemed to work, but later in the install, I had issues. But you know what ? I found another way. just installed LMMS that I use a lot on windows and there is this synth with others :) . I have an cheap external audio card and just add to follow some advice on the web to get sound in my headphones. YESSSS ! Now, you could help me somehow ? my daughter has very poor eyesight and I try to install a magnifying lens (like VMG) but nothing works. I'm a newbie in linux :(
You’re hilarious
Thanks for watching. Well, to be honest, at the moment I'm testing some ideas to make people watch the videos longer than average. I'm open to criticism and / or ideas ...
I want to make that 🥗
Please do! It's delicous, refreshing and it will fill you up. :)