Announcing the first public release of the hexter DSSI plugin. http://dssi.sourceforge.net/hexter.html hexter is a software synthesizer that models the sound generation of a Yamaha DX7 synthesizer. Now you can have the sparkling, richly evolving sounds of this classic FM synth on your Linux workstation! There are a few things still missing from hexter's emulation of the DX7 (and it doesn't attempt more general FM synthesis like Native Instrument's FM7), however, even at its current stage of development, it is quite useable and recreates the sound of the DX7 with greater accuracy than any previous open-source emulation (that the author is aware of....) It can easily load most of the thousands of DX7 patch bank files available on the Internet, and can accept patch editing commands via MIDI sys-ex messages from your favorite DX7 editor/librarian. hexter operates as a plugin for the DSSI Soft Synth Interface. DSSI is a plugin API for software instruments (soft synths) with user interfaces, permitting them to be hosted in-process by Linux audio applications. More information on DSSI can be found at: http://dssi.sourceforge.net/ The latest hexter version (currently 0.5.7) can be obtained at: http://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php? group_id=104230&package_id=134428 hexter requires a working DSSI host, liblo, GTK+ 1.2.x, plus the ALSA headers and LADSPA SDK. hexter is written by Sean Bolton, and copyright (c)2004 under the GNU General Public License, version 2 or later. hexter benefited greatly from previous open-source efforts, most notably Juan Linietsky's rx-saturno, and FluidSynth by Peter Hanappe, et al.