Project Description

amsynth is a software synth that provides a classic subtractive synthesizer topology, with

• Dual oscillators with classic waveforms - sine / saw / square / noise
• 24 dB/oct low-pass resonant filter
• Independent ADSR envelopes for filter & amplitude
• LFO which can module the oscillators, filter, and amplitude
• Distortion effect
• Reverb

Currently it runs as a stand-alone application on Linux, supporting OSS, ALSA and JACK for Audio / MIDI I/O.

Building from source

In order to successfully compile amSynth you will need to make sure you have the following development packages installed:

• GTK-- version 1.2.9 is required for the GUI.
• Open Sound System (optional) for midi & audio.
• ALSA 0.9x (optional) for midi & audio.
• JACK (optional) for audio output.
• libsndfile (optional) for the .WAV file output ability.

Then unzip the archive containing the source code and compile it like this:

$ tar -xzvf amSynth-1.3.0.tar.gz
$ cd amSynth-1.3.0
$ ./configure
$ make
$ sudo make install

Compiling latest sources from GIT:

$ git clone https://code.google.com/p/amsynth/
$ cd amsynth
$ ./autogen.sh
$ ./configure
$ make
$ sudo make install