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zynthian-sys

System configuration scripts & files for Zynthian.

2Distinct people
2Mentions
0Explicit recommenders
99GitHub stars
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System configuration scripts & files for Zynthian.

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Nov 7–Nov 14 UTC · Direct repository links and separately labeled related project stories. Indexed through 11/14/2026, 5:04:57 PM UTC.

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Observed mentions: 2021-02-08 08:58:28 UTC to 2025-12-30 01:29:51 UTC.

012021-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2022-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 1 mentions; 0 submissions, 1 comments20212022-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2023-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2023-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2024-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments20232024-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2025-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2025-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2026-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 1 mentions; 0 submissions, 1 comments2025

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20212021-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2022-01-01 00:00:00 UTC101
20222022-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2023-01-01 00:00:00 UTC000
20232023-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2024-01-01 00:00:00 UTC000
20242024-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2025-01-01 00:00:00 UTC000
20252025-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2026-01-01 00:00:00 UTC101

What Hacker News says

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Zynthian (a RPi-based synth collection & groovebox) lists some of the most prominent ones on its website: https://zynthian.org/engines Its install recipes directory may yield a less fancy, but probably more comprehensive list: https://github.com/zynthian/zynthian-sys/tree/oram/scripts/r... With Zynthian OS up and running, the full list of plugins shows in its webconf page, it's so long that they have to hide basically most of the plugins from the main on-device UI. Roughly speaking, if it's open source, most likely it will work. If it's proprietary, assume that only Pianoteq and a small number of u-he plugins will work. Most commercial products with binary-only distribution don't feel like RPi devices are a large enough market for them to build binaries for it. Even if they otherwise offer ARM builds for Apple Silicon and Linux builds for
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In Linux DAW: Help Linux musicians to quickly and easily find the tools they need
Just, no. Not really at all. In fact, quite the opposite: https://github.com/zynthian/zynthian-sys/issues?q=is%3Aissue... So many wonderful audio devs gathering around the Zynthian (Linux-based audio DAW) waterpool. Synth developers, FX developers - everyone. EDIT: The Zynthian project even helped Apple M1 users get software on their platform that would not, otherwise, have been an easy task .. if it weren't for Linux Audio/synth hackers, this wouldn't have happened nearly as quickly, nor as smoothly, as it did: https://github.com/surge-synthesizer/surge/blob/main/README.... .. you don't often see things going the other way (i.e. MacOS -> Linux) ..
In Making Sense of the Audio Stack on Unix

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