AEOLUS(1)

✨ AEOLUS(1) — User Commands ✨

bestie, okay so this is the manual page for aeolus, a total main character of the synth world 🎹💖

🌸 NAME 🌸

aeolus — synthesised pipe organ emulator 🦋

💅 DESCRIPTION 💅

okay so Aeolus is a synthesised (aka NOT sampled 🙅‍♀️) pipe organ emulator that is literally good enough to make an organist fall in love with playing it 😭🎀 It's a software synthesiser that's been optimised specifically for this job, with possibly hundreds of controls for each stop, so you can "voice" your instrument however you want. the way that's so iconic 👑

main features of the default instrument, no cap: three manuals and one pedal 🎶, five different temperaments 🌈, variable tuning ✨, MIDI control of course 🎹, stereo, surround or Ambisonics output 🔊, and flexible audio controls including a large church reverb ⛪🫶 obsessed!!

🎀 OPTIONS 🎀

• -h — show this text again in case you forgot 🙈
• -t — text mode user interface, for the terminal girlies 💻
• -u — use the presets file in your user's home dir 🏠
• -N <name> — name to use as JACK and ALSA client, default is aeolus 🧚
• -S <stops> — name of the stops directory, default is stops 📂
• -I <instr> — name of the instrument directory, default is Aeolus 🎼
• -W <waves> — name of the waves directory, default is waves 🌊
• -J — use JACK (this is the default ✨), with options:
• -s — select the JACK server 🔌
• -B — Ambisonics B format output 🦋
• -A — use ALSA, with options:
• -d <device> — ALSA device, default is default 🔈
• -r <rate> — sample frequency, default is 48000 📈
• -p <period> — period size, default is 1024 🍓
• -n <nfrags> — number of fragments, default is 2 🧩

🫶 AUTHOR 🫶

aeolus was written by Fons Adriaensen <fons.adriaensen@skynet.be> 👑

This manual page was written by Alessio Treglia <alessio@debian.org>, for the Debian project (and may be used by others) 🌈

bestie that's the whole page!! 💖 it's a manual from aeolus (September 2010), made by Fons, documented by Alessio for Debian 🧚✨ go make some music, babe 🎹🦋💅