Zyne_B

Zyne_B version 1.0.1 is a flexible modular synthesizer (written in Python3) using pyo as its audio engine.

Zyne_B is a git fork of the extremely outstanding work of Olivier Bélanger. The original Zyne code is hosted at https://github.com/belangeo/zyne and pyo code at https://github.com/belangeo/pyo.

Zyne_B comes with more than 10 builtin modules implementing different kind of synthesis engines and provides a simple API to create your own custom modules.

Tutorial on how to create a custom Zyne module: Tutorial

This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International License.

Installation

Zyne_B should run on each OS with Python >= 3.6 and wxPython >= 4.2 installed. It uses a fork of Olivier Bélanger's pyo audio engine which has to be installed as well. In addition the Python package psutil should be installed.

One possible installation scenario:

• install wxpython (version >= 4.2)

pip3 install wxpython

For Linux users (esp. Ubuntu), if pip3 install wxPython fails, please refer to the this site and pick a matching package URL, e.g. for Ubuntu 20.04

sudo apt-get install libgtk-3-dev python3 -m pip install -U -f https://extras.wxpython.org/wxPython4/extras/linux/gtk3/ubuntu-20.04 wxPython pip3 install -U -f https://extras.wxpython.org/wxPython4/extras/linux/gtk3/ubuntu-20.04 wxPython --user

• make a new folder
• go inside that folder clone the following packages:

git clone https://github.com/derbibiko/pyo.git

git clone https://github.com/derbibiko/zyne_b.git

• go inside the folder "pyo" and build it

For macos make sure portaudio, portmidi, liblo are installed and can be found (consider setting environment variables LIBRARY_PATH and CPATH), then run

python3 setup.py install --use-double

For Linux users (esp. Ubuntu) install libsndfile1-dev, portaudio19-dev, libportmidi-dev, liblo-dev, and python3-pyaudio first, then run

python3 setup.py install --use-double --user

If the compilation of pyo fails, you can try to install the original pyo package via

pip3 install pyo

• go inside the folder "zyne_b_" and execute the Python script "Zyne.py"

python3 Zyne.py

How to create a macos App

• install pyinstaller

pip3 install pyinstaller

• execute the following command from Zyne_B_'s root directory

./scripts/builder_pyinstaller_macos.sh

• you find the app in folder "dist" as "Zyne_B.app"

Contact

For questions and comments please mail to mail (at) bibiko.de or use the issue tracker.