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The open source Aeolus physically-modelled organ is at least as good as any other pipe organ synthesis engine, unless you insist on glossy UIs (it does have a g

The open source Aeolus physically-modelled organ is at least as good as any other pipe organ synthesis engine, unless you insist on glossy UIs (it does have a graphical UI though). https://kokkinizita.linuxaudio.org/linuxaudio/aeolus/ https://kokkinizita.linuxaudio.org/linuxaudio/aeolus/

chrismorgan 3y ago
Aww, seems to need a MIDI input, guess I’ll have to wait until I get home in March to try it. Impressive tininess. The Arch Linux package is 879.54 KiB. And yes, there’s dynamic linking with the contents of other packages like libx11, jack and alsa-lib, but I think the total most people will be adding will be 1.11 MiB. But then, I had to replace jack2 with pipewire-jack to get it to work, and that saved 1.18 MiB, so installing Aeolus literally saved me disk space! (Yeah, I know I could have done jack2 → pipewire-jack independently, and yeah, I know I’ve added a few files to /var/cache/pacman/pkg/ so that I didn’t actually save disk space, but hey, I like the narrative.)
mastazi 3y ago
Speaking of open source pipe organs, there is also Grandorgue, however this one unlike Aeolus is sample-based https://github.com/GrandOrgue/grandorgue https://github.com/GrandOrgue/grandorgue
- LegitShady 3y ago
  so many interesting instruments so little time. found some demos on youtube and this one sounds great.
LegitShady 3y ago
never heard of this VST before and it seems likely to have predated my interest in music production. I found a few videos online and aside from clunky UI seems pretty decent with some reverb. When I have some time I'll compare it against some sample based virtual instruments.