Mx44(1)

📦 version 1.0, in ubuntu jammy, ubuntu noble, ubuntu questing

💖 Mx44 💖

okay bestie, welcome to the Mx44(1) manual page, we're doing this, we're learning about a whole synthesizer today and honestly? iconic behavior.

✨ NAME ✨

mx44 — a polyphonic, multichannel midi realtime software synthesizer 💅

🌸 SYNOPSIS 🌸

mx44 [VOICES]

🦋 DESCRIPTION 🦋

so. The Mx44 is a polyphonic multichannel midi realtime software synthesizer. She's written in C, and hand optimized for the (Intel) MMX instruction set, which is giving very much "I was built by someone who cares" energy. She runs under Linux, using any kernel modified for realtime performance. The sourcecode is licensed under GPL. periodt.

The core algorithm is a 4 x 4 crossmodulating matrix (phase and amplitude) with individual envelopes for each oscillator. Not me describing a matrix like it's a friend group, but it literally is one. Oscillators have individual frequency intonation, can emphasize any of the eight first harmonics, and can even do some internal crossmodulation — yes she does it all, no cap. Envelopes can be switched between VCA and VCF modes (ehrm, actually it's wawe-shaping, but it will quack like a duck by any other name.) The sustainloop of the envelope can be brought into oscillation in the audible spectre as well as provide slow LFO sweeps. There is also a minor load of key and velocity related modifications for wowie zowie realtime ecstacy emulation. that's a direct quote and I refuse to change it.

She is very good for esoteric pads and ultra electric leads. The author uses it all the time together with the Rosegarden sequencer or some of his old Atari toys (like M!). He doesn't think you can make it sound like a realistic grand piano though, but then again: Somebody out there, please prove him wrong. ;-) 🎹

Performance tea, because numbers are hot: a 166 Mhz Pentium will provide you with 20 simultanious voices, whereas a 400 Mhz Pentium II can with ease provide you with 88 simultanious voices. His current 1.1Ghz Celery occasionally runs 200 voices (800 oscillators). That ought to be enough for most people. Write any number after the command to change the 48 voice default. 👑

🎀 OPTIONS 🎀

  • VOICES — sets the maximum number of voices. Default is 48. that's it, that's the whole option list, she's lowkey minimal and we love that for her ✨

🌈 FILES 🌈

Mx44's only data file is stored in /usr/share/mx44, and is copied to $HOME/.mx44/ when the user launches the wrapper script. This allows users to make changes to the patches. 🫶 go forth and customize, bestie.

💀 SUGGESTIONS AND BUG REPORTS 💀

Any bugs found should be reported to the upstream author and/or package maintainer. do NOT suffer in silence, that's not the vibe.

⭐ OTHER INFO ⭐

The project homepage is at http://hem.passagen.se/ja_linux/.

👑 AUTHOR 👑

Mx44 was written by Jens M Andreasen <dev.null@chello.se>.

This manual page was written by Dana Olson <mx44@ubuntustudio.com>, for the Ubuntu project (but may be used by others). she ate that fr fr.

and that's the whole page bestie — Version 1.0, dated February 9 2006, and that's the Mx44 manual moment, mwah 💖

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