Geonkick

Geonkick - a free software percussion synthesizer.

Geonkick is a free software synthesizer capable of generating a wide range of percussive sounds, including kicks, snares, claps, hi-hats, shakers, and unique effect sounds.

License: GNU General Public License, Version 3

Author and maintainer: Iurie Nistor

Version: 3.3.0

If you have an idea about a feature or found an issue, please, submit it:

Download

Source code repository:

Features

Kit
- Supports up to 16 instruments.
- Save / Load kit in JSON format
- Export instrument kit to SFZ
Multitibral
- 16 midi key range
- user configurable key mapping
Multichannel
- 16 stereo audio output channels for plugin (1 stereo for standalone)
- user configurable mapping of kit instrument to output channels
3 layers
Layers Mixer
2 oscillators per layer
- sine, square, triangle, saw-tooth, sample (wav, ogg, flac)
- initial phase control
- amplitude, frequency and sample pitch shift envelope
- low, band and high pass filter, cutoff envelope
FM synthesis
- OSC1->OSC2
One noise generator per layer
- white & brownian
- random seed
- amplitude envelope
- low, band and high pass filter, cutoff envelope
General
- amplitude envelope & kick length
- low & high pass filter, cutoff envelope
- limiter
- compression
- distortion
- distortion drive envelope
- distortion volume envelope
- tune percussion option (relative to key A4)
Key velocity sensitive for instrument total output amplitude
Jack support
Export
- mono, stereo
- WAV: 16, 24, 32 bit
- FLAC: 16, 24 bit
- Ogg
Open & Save presets in JSON format
Preset browser
Standalone
Pitch to note
LV2 & VST3 Plugin
- "Single" version that supports one instrument and one stereo channel per instance.
- The default version that supports kits of 16 instruments and 16 output stereo channels per instance.
Operating System:
- GNU/Linux (LV2, VST3, Standalone)
- Windows (LV2, VST3)
Only on GNU/Linux : manually scale the UI by factor (useful for HiDPI cases)

Requirements

In order Geonkick to run and operate correctly there is a need:

for standalone:

GNU/Linux operating system
Jack server running

for plugin:

GNU/Linux or Windows operating system.
A host that supports LV2 or VST3 plugin format.

Build & Install

Install dependencies

In order to build Geonkick there is a need to install the following development packages:

libsndfile
OpenSSL
RapidJSON
JACK Audio Connection Kit
LV2 development library

On Debian, Ubuntu, Ubuntu Studio install:

apt-get install build-essential cmake libjack-dev libsndfile-dev rapidjson-dev lv2-dev libcairo2-dev

Build & install Geonkick

Clone the Geonkick code repository, compile and install.

    copy the source code of the latest release
    mkdir geonkick/build
    cd geonkick/build
    cmake ../
    make
    make install

Build Geonkick with VST3 Plugin

Get VST3 SDK than build Geonkick VST3 plugin:

    mkdir geonkick/build
    cd geonkick/build
    cmake -DVST3_SDK_PATH=<full system path to VST3 SDK folder> -DSMTG_ENABLE_VST3_PLUGIN_EXAMPLES=OFF -DSMTG_ENABLE_VST3_HOSTING_EXAMPLES=OFF -DSMTG_ENABLE_VSTGUI_SUPPORT=OFF ../
    make
    make install

Building on Windows

To build on Windows, you need to install MSYS2/UCRT64 and follow the same steps as mentioned above. Alternatively, you can refer to the 'Building' step in the file .github/workflows/windows.yml of Geonkick repository.

Packages & Binaries

Geonkick can be found in the repositories of Arch Linux, openSUSE, Fedora, Manjaro, FreeBSD, KXStudio, and Ubuntu Studio.

Additionally, binareis/installer are attached as artifacts to the repository release notes or pipelines that generate builds from the main branch. It is recommended to use release tag artifacts only.

Packaging

Please use only release versions (see repository releases).

Documentation

doc/Geonkick_User_Guide.md

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