General Commands Manual

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 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.

Another addition is the ability to load a list of MIDI-learned settings from the command line at startup.

Recent improvements are key and channel aftertouch, fully resizable windows, MIDI sync for LFOs and Panning extensions. Also,inclusion of MIDI-sync for all LFOs, and all relevant Effects.

Another recent development was a comprehensive revision of the PadSynth engine, with additional morphing of the wavetables. There is also support for Undo/Redo.

The latest developments are backward compatible high resoluting controls for significant areas and a comprehensive theme management system enabling user defined GUI colour choices. We also have improved handling of microtonal scales, and the ability to export .scl and 'kbd files. It is now possible to set defferent left/right Echo repeat rates.