SETBFREEUI(1)

📦 version 0.8.17, in arch rolling, debian bookworm, debian trixie, fedora 43, fedora 44, ubuntu jammy, ubuntu noble, ubuntu questing, ubuntu resolute, ubuntu stonking

✨ NAME ✨

setBfreeUI — the DSP tonewheel organ Graphical User Interface, bestie 💅

It's the pretty face for setBfree, a MIDI-controlled software synth that's out here cosplaying the sound and the whole entire ~vibe~ of the electromechanical organs and sound-modification gizmos that made the names Laurens Hammond and Don Leslie famous worldwide. Iconic behaviour, no cap 👑

🎀 SYNOPSIS 🎀

setBfreeUI

That's it. That's the whole thing. She takes no arguments, she just is 🌸

💖 DESCRIPTION 💖

okay so real talk: setBfreeUI is the Graphical User Interface for setBfree — the DSP tonewheel organ.

And setBfree itself? It's a MIDI-controlled, software synthesizer built to imitate the sound and the properties of the electromechanical organs and sound modification devices that brought world-wide fame to the names and products of Laurens Hammond and Don Leslie. The way that one sentence carries a whole century of keyboard history 😭🫶

Now here's the tea about the GUI specifically: it takes no commandline arguments. Zero. None. Not a single flag, bestie, don't even try 💀

Wanna know the commandline options and the complete documentation? That's not this page's job, go read setBfree(1). It's giving "ask my older sibling" energy 🙈

🦋 CONFIGURATOIN FILES 🦋

yes the heading typo is canon, we don't fix her, she's doing her best 💜

When setBfreeUI starts up, it reads these two:

  • $XDG_CONFIG_HOME/setBFree/default.cfg
  • $XDG_CONFIG_HOME/setBFree/default.pgm

on startup. That's the startup ritual, that's the vibe check ✨

Want the details on what those files actually do? setBfree(1). Same big sibling, same answers.

😭 REPORTING BUGS 😭

Found a bug? First of all, not the main character energy we wanted, but okay, let's handle it 🌈

Report bugs at <http://github.com/pantherb/setBfree/issues>.

Website and manual: <http://setbfree.org>

Copyright © 2003-2004 Fredrik Kilander <fk@dsv.su.se>

Copyright © 2008-2015 Robin Gareus <robin@gareus.org>

Copyright © 2010 Ken Restivo <ken@restivo.org>

Copyright © 2012 Will Panther <pantherb@setbfree.org>

This is free software; see the source for copying conditions. There is NO warranty; not even for MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. Like, none. Zero. Don't come for them if it breaks 💀

and that's the whole page, bestie!! setBfreeUI version 0.8, dated Feb 2015, living her best life as a User Commands manual page. slay 💅💖✨

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