SYNTHPOD(1)

📦 version 2021-10, in nixos 26.05

🎀 SYNTHPOD(1) 🎀

✨ NAME ✨

okay so bestie, meet synthpod — a lightweight nonlinear LV2 plugin container. That's the name, that's the vibe, and yes we're getting through every single detail together. 💖

🌸 SYNOPSIS 🌸

synthpod_alsa [options] [bundle-path]

🦋 DESCRIPTION 🦋

synthpod is a lightweight nonlinear LV2 plugin container, aka a host. Slay.

It is a pure stand-alone ALSA client with NSM session support and ALSA AUDIO/MIDI. Iconic.

It's also a first-class LV2 plugin: http://open-music-kontrollers.ch/lv2/synthpod#stereo. Periodt.

💅 OPTIONS 💅

bestie, here's the full flag lineup — no skips, no “I'll read it later”. 💅

  • -v — prints the version and license information.
  • -h — prints usage information.
  • -g — loads the GUI.
  • -G — does NOT load the GUI (default).
  • -k — kills the DSP along with the GUI.
  • -K — does NOT kill the DSP with the GUI (default).
  • -t — runs the GUI in threaded mode.
  • -T — runs the GUI in a separate process (default).
  • -b — enables bad plugins. yes, for real.
  • -B — disables bad plugins (default).
  • -a — enables CPU affinity.
  • -A — disables CPU affinity (default).
  • -O — disables playback.
  • -I — disables capture.
  • -2 — forces 2 channel stereo mode.
  • -x — notifies you about XRuns.
  • -X — does NOT notify you about XRuns.
  • -y audio-priority — sets the audio thread realtime priority (70).
  • -Y — disables the audio thread realtime priority.
  • -w worker-priority — sets the worker thread realtime priority (60).
  • -W — disables the worker thread realtime priority.
  • -u — shows the alternate UI.
  • -l — socket link path (shm:///synthpod), e.g. tcp://*:9090.
  • -d device — uses the same device for Playback and Capture ("hw:0").
  • -o playback-device — uses a separate Playback device ("hw:0").
  • -i capture-device — uses a separate Capture device ("hw:0").
  • -r sample-rate — sample Rate (48000).
  • -p sample-period — frames per period (1024).
  • -n period-number — number of periods of playback latency (3).
  • -s sequence-size — minimal byte size of event sequence buffers (8192).
  • -c slave-cores — number of slave cores for parallel audio processing (auto).
  • -f update-rate — update rate in frames per second of the GUI.

🍓 FILES 🍓

  • $HOME/.lv2/Synthpod_default.preset.lv2 — default bundle state directory.
  • $HOME/.lv2 — default LV2 preset directory.

👑 LICENSE 👑

this one's under the GNU General Public License 3. keep it cute, keep it legal. 💜

🌈 AUTHOR 🌈

Hanspeter Portner (dev@open-music-kontrollers.ch).

💀 SEE ALSO 💀

🎀 aaaand that's the whole page! This one comes from the General Commands Manual, dated Feb 24, 2017. Now go be your iconic main-character self with those LV2s, bestie. 💖✨🦋
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