SoyBoy SP - A GameBoy instrument
I want to do some chiptunes on GNU/Linux.
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Overview
SoyBoy SP is a VST3 instrument plugin to generate some GameBoy-like sounds. It has some basic features below:
- Three oscillator modes (square wave, noise, wavetable)
- A 32-samples 4bit wavetable oscillator
- A linear envelope generator
- A frequency sweeping to bend the pitch automatically
- A stutter, it's like a note delay
Additionally, SoyBoy SP has these features:
- Can be polyphonic; you can choose a number of voices (1 ~ 6)
- Pitch bending with MPE (MIDI Polyphonic Expression)
See the website (Japanese ver. here) to know how to use. o
Requirements
- GNU/Linux: install some libraries (see Install)
- Windows: none
- mac OS: currently not supported (because I don't have mac)
Tested on
o: worksx: tested but does not works-: not tested
| / | GNU/Linux | Winwods | mac OS |
|---|---|---|---|
| Bitwig 4.x | o | o | - |
| FL Studio 20.x | - | o | - |
| Zrythm | - | o | - |
| Reaper | - | o | - |
Install
GNU/Linux
Build
There is no binary distribution. You can build SoyBoy SP by the instructions below:
- Install Rust toolschain
- Install depentent libraries
apt install libxcb-render0-dev libxcb-shape0-dev libxcb-xfixes0-dev libspeechd-dev libxkbcommon-dev libssl-dev
- Clone this repository
- Run
./build_vst3_linux.sh --release
Install
After doing that instruction, the directory soyboy-sp.vst3 will be created in the path target/release in this repository. The directory is the VST3 plugin. On GNU/Linux, VST3 plugin is a directory.
Windows
For the official binary distribution, see [the BOOTH page]().
To build it, install Rust programming language and run build_vst3_windows_release.ps1. A directory soyboy-sp.vst3 is created in target/release and this is a VST3 plugin.
References
Author
- t-sin (shinichi.tanaka45@gmail.com)
License
This project is lisenced under the GPLv3 because of Steinberg's licensing poricy.