09-06-2023, 07:05 AM
Synthedit stuff built around 2009 and earlier works great under Wine. Even the old one for Debian "Bullseye" and Ubuntu LTS "Focal Fossa". 
Some of the bigger synths require more messing around, especially in free programs like OpenMPT. Such as KX-SYNTH-X16, probably the greatest built with Synthedit IMHO. Must use v4 or earlier. OpenMPT does not support VST3 and its bit bridge sucks, refuses to show any GUI's, just forget about using 32-bit plugs in the 64-bit application. (I downloaded one just now called MOLOSS II. Just like the first one, the 64-bit edition has to be used, under Wine, even Wine v8 with Arch, Debian, Fedora, Slackware etc. The 32-bit edition causes an exception thrown trying to show the GUI. Cannot load presets as a result. But that doesn't play Soundfonts LOL.)
Another thing, cannot use anything built with Synthedit v1.4, doesn't matter the architecture, with certain free music software. It's because of the new style of putting everything in the same folder, ie. DLL, SEM's, picture elements and more. Saying that, I think I got the 32-bit TED Synth working but didn't show a GUI which I thought was strange for Synthedit. Sadly, Kushview Element can't be used with Wine at all at this time, even without plug-in hosting.
I used to build a bit but didn't have a lot of patience. Other people had already executed my ideas. The last synth I built was unstable, soon after my registered copy of Synthedit v1.1 and tried to use as many EVM modules as I could. :/
I was about to go into it again, picked up Polyphone program to create a Soundfont having only waveforms of 1024 samples each one but gave up. I don't have a lot of patience. (no-no)
Otherwise for Soundfonts I focused almost entirely on H.G.Fortune's synths. My first one was Protoplasm21 Free from MusicTech Magazine. I bought a bunch of stuff from him as well as the Big Wave Set, which were three Soundfonts of "The Best of the Best of the Soundbanks of HGF Synthesizer". LOL.
I had also used Phenom, I think it was called by "sonicfire" a.k.a. Prodyon. That might have been one of the best but it showed that Soundfont support outside E-Mu was never going to be complete. It supported layered programs but stuff like amplitude envelope and effects were left entirely at the mercy of synthesizer settings, not Soundfont settings.
Oh well but Fluidsynth is like that mostly. It's too bad Psycle is no longer being developed, there was never a Linux version and most of the native machines were buggy but the Fluidsynth one was a keeper.
Some of the bigger synths require more messing around, especially in free programs like OpenMPT. Such as KX-SYNTH-X16, probably the greatest built with Synthedit IMHO. Must use v4 or earlier. OpenMPT does not support VST3 and its bit bridge sucks, refuses to show any GUI's, just forget about using 32-bit plugs in the 64-bit application. (I downloaded one just now called MOLOSS II. Just like the first one, the 64-bit edition has to be used, under Wine, even Wine v8 with Arch, Debian, Fedora, Slackware etc. The 32-bit edition causes an exception thrown trying to show the GUI. Cannot load presets as a result. But that doesn't play Soundfonts LOL.)
Another thing, cannot use anything built with Synthedit v1.4, doesn't matter the architecture, with certain free music software. It's because of the new style of putting everything in the same folder, ie. DLL, SEM's, picture elements and more. Saying that, I think I got the 32-bit TED Synth working but didn't show a GUI which I thought was strange for Synthedit. Sadly, Kushview Element can't be used with Wine at all at this time, even without plug-in hosting.
I used to build a bit but didn't have a lot of patience. Other people had already executed my ideas. The last synth I built was unstable, soon after my registered copy of Synthedit v1.1 and tried to use as many EVM modules as I could. :/
I was about to go into it again, picked up Polyphone program to create a Soundfont having only waveforms of 1024 samples each one but gave up. I don't have a lot of patience. (no-no)
Otherwise for Soundfonts I focused almost entirely on H.G.Fortune's synths. My first one was Protoplasm21 Free from MusicTech Magazine. I bought a bunch of stuff from him as well as the Big Wave Set, which were three Soundfonts of "The Best of the Best of the Soundbanks of HGF Synthesizer". LOL.
I had also used Phenom, I think it was called by "sonicfire" a.k.a. Prodyon. That might have been one of the best but it showed that Soundfont support outside E-Mu was never going to be complete. It supported layered programs but stuff like amplitude envelope and effects were left entirely at the mercy of synthesizer settings, not Soundfont settings.
Oh well but Fluidsynth is like that mostly. It's too bad Psycle is no longer being developed, there was never a Linux version and most of the native machines were buggy but the Fluidsynth one was a keeper.