7 Nov
2005
7 Nov
'05
1:58 p.m.
On 11/7/05, Artemiy Pavlov <artemio(a)kdemail.net> wrote:
Dear friends,
I have managed to contact the guy (Sebastian Gottschall,
brainslayer/at/braincontrol/dot/org) who is converting the UltraMaster Juno6
synth to windows VST format and I got the original sources from them.
According to his saying, the original authors allowed him to publish the
sources as GPL so there should be no worrying even though each and every file
in there contains the old restricting license notice.
The original ultramaster source needed a few small fixes to compile
with a newer g++, but nothing major. The brainslayer-modified VST
sources are hacked beyond repair,in my opinion.
I have my doubts about the original code actually being GPL. I wish
the ultramaster guys would have released it and their rs-101 as
open-source. The rs-101 v2 was a really cool program.
You will find the sources at my web site:
http://artemio.net/projects/juno6/download/source/juno-1.0.1.tar.bz2
I have made an attempt to build Juno6, but AFAIK it is based on glibc 1.x and
many C expressions they have are obsolete. But I believe that with some
little tweaks the code will compile, though I myself won't be able to help.
What I want to ask, is someone interested in resurrecting this nice synthie?
First step would be to make it compile with the current feature set. Then see
if it's possible to add ALSA MIDI and audio support, and so on (maybe add
DSSI too, etc.). I would assist in providing a dedicated web site and hosting
for it, no probs.
I modified my copy of the sources to work with the ALSA sequencer API.
It's pretty easy. It also runs fine with jacklaunch. I don't have
any interest in maintaining it, but I could send you the ALSA midi
patch.
Again, it's a very nice synth with fat and warm
sound, I think it really is
worth the work.
With best wishes,
Artemiy.