NAME¶

yoshimi - a software music synthesiser

SYNOPSIS¶

yoshimi [-option] [cmd]

DESCRIPTION¶

Yoshimi is a polyphonic multi-part sound synthesiser utilising three distinct 'engines' that can be used separately or together. These can also be stacked into 'kits', typically for percussion. It fully supports both JACK and ALSA for MIDI input and audio output.

Yoshimi can be run in a graphical interface, a command line interface, or with control from both. A number of controls can also be accessed via MIDI. The CLI has its own Readline parser and built-in help system accessed by entering the commands '?' or 'help'.

The CLI help system is context sensitive, and apart from reminders of common essential commands, only shows the relevant commands. However, it is possible to specifically call for help from other contexts.

e.g. Within the 'part' context '? config' will show the commands for configuration settings.

Yoshimi has a very extensive MIDI learn capability, exposing the majority of controls. The same MIDI CC and Channel pair can be linked to multiple independent controls. There is also considerable post-learn editing capability.

Other recent extensions are the ability to import and export entire instrument banks in a safe and obvious manner. It is now also possible to swap any instrument or bank with any other, in any bank root without disrupting the rest of the structure.

One of the latest additions is the ability to load a list of MIDI-learned settings from the command line at startup.

The most recent improvements are key and channel aftertouch, fully resizeabe windows, MIDI sync for LFOs and Panning extensions.