Good news! We just released a new stable version called Oram-2502.
For those of you unaware of the latest Oram releases, you should know that Oram is the name we choose for the current release series, tributing to Dafne Oram, the electronic music pioneer that produced some of the first electronic sound/music pieces for Radio TV serials and films.
I kindly invite you to know about this magic dreamer, this fabulous engineer that envisioned what have to come decades before the most.
Once we did the required introduction, it’s time to explain what is new in this release:
- Full integration of LV2 patch parameters, so now you can control all parameters in engines like Monique, Surge-XT, etc.
- Bi-directional updates when modifying LV2 parameters from Native GUI <=> Zynthian UI. Now you will see your zynthian UI is updated when modifying parameters in the VNC’s native GUI.
- Implement the File Selector widget in zynthian UI, integrating LV2’s “path parameters”. This allows full integration of plugins that requires loading files as parameters:
- Neural Network simulators like Aida-X, NAM & Ratatouille (new!)
- IR loaders
- samplers (i.e. samplv1)
- etc.
- New synth engine JC103, that emulates the sound and spirit of the legendary Roland TB303 Bassline Synthesizer unit. The sound of this little machine was a key part in music styles like Acid Techno, Psy-Trance and others. You probably remember the “rebirth” 😉
- New Neural Model player Ratatouille, that allows to run 2 models and 2 IRs simultaneously, blending the resulting sound
- New Chord options in the pattern editor.
- A bunch of improvements and fixes to SooperLooper
- Add support for hot-plug USB audio devices
- Lots of icons and descriptions added to the UI to make it more friendly and lower the learning curve.
- Lots of little improvements and fixes everywhere 😉
And finally the cake’s cherry … a little surprise:
- TAL-U-NO-LX-V2 demo: One of the best (commercial) Juno 60 emulators is coming to zynthian!
But this deserves an entire post entry by itself. Stay tuned!
And that’s all folks!
You can download the new SD-image from here or update your current zynthian Oram image. You should know how 😉
Enjoy!