Aeolus For Linux

Aeolus is a synthesized pipe organ emulator. It should be good enough to make an organist enjoy playing it.

It is a software synthesiser optimised for this job, with possibly hundreds of controls for each stop, that enable the user to "voice" his instrument.First presented at the 2nd LAD conference in Karlsruhe, end of April 2004.

Main features of the default instrument: three manuals and one pedal, five different temperaments, variable tuning, MIDI control of course, stereo, surround or Ambisonics output, flexible audio controls including a large church reverb.

Aeolus is not very CPU-hungry, and should run without problems on a e.g. a 1GHz, 256Mb machine.

Version 0.6.6 is a complete rewrite of the previous official release (0.3.1) offering better looks, a more flexible instrument structure, and lots of other improvements. Many thanks to all who contributed to the development of this version.

Here are some key features of "Aeolus":

� Running on top of a GNU Linux system (x86 and AMD64). � Sound output either via ALSA directly or via the low latency soundserver JACK (strongly recommended). � Very realistic synthesized sound, not based on samples � Exchangable instrument. � The current stop set mainly mirrors a german baroque instrument, but it could be switched to any other instrument. � Easy to use user interface.

Requirements:

� libclalsadrv.so.1.1.0 � libclthreads.so.2.2.0 � libclxclient.so.3.3.0

INSTALLATION:

The default Makefile will install the Aeolus binary in /usr/bin, and the user interface plugins in /usr/lib (or /usr/lib64 on 64-bit systems).

To modify this you can edit the PREFIX definition in the Makefile. It is not possible to just move the plugins to another location without recompilation as the path to them will be compiled into the aeolus binary.

To make:

� cd to the directory containing the source files � make � (as root) make install

After a successful install you may do a 'make clean'.