.TH AEOLUS "1" "September 2010" "aeolus " "User Commands" .SH NAME aeolus \- synthesised pipe organ emulator .SH DESCRIPTION .B Aeolus is a synthesised (i.e. not sampled) pipe organ emulator that should be good enough to make an organist enjoy playing it. It is a software synthesiser optimised for this job, with possibly hundreds of controls for each stop, that enable the user to "voice" his instrument. .PP Main features of the default instrument: three manuals and one pedal, five different temperaments, variable tuning, MIDI control of course, stereo, surround or Ambisonics output, flexible audio controls including a large church reverb. .SH OPTIONS .TP \fB\-h\fR Display this text .TP \fB\-t\fR Text mode user interface .TP \fB\-u\fR Use presets file in user's home dir .TP \fB\-N\fR Name to use as JACK and ALSA client [aeolus] .TP \fB\-S\fR Name of stops directory [stops] .TP \fB\-I\fR Name of instrument directory [Aeolus] .TP \fB\-W\fR Name of waves directory [waves] .TP \fB\-J\fR Use JACK (default), with options: .TP \fB\-s\fR Select JACK server .TP \fB\-B\fR Ambisonics B format output .TP \fB\-A\fR Use ALSA, with options: .TP \fB\-d\fR Alsa device [default] .TP \fB\-r\fR Sample frequency [48000] .TP \fB\-p\fR Period size [1024] .TP \fB\-n\fR Number of fragments [2] .SH AUTHOR aeolus was written by Fons Adriaensen . .PP This manual page was written by Alessio Treglia , for the Debian project (and may be used by others).