Zynthian Software

1 Official "Gorgona Omega" SD-Images

The easiest way of getting the software is to download the torrent file for the latest official SD card image from here:

Download Zynthian "Gorgona Omega" SD-image, configured for Kits v2
SHA1: 601ab5e58d3f08b7cda6f5821d396f6622e93106

Download Zynthian "Gorgona Omega" SD-image, configured for Kits v1
SHA1: 53ce2ba3c055698d27108750c2b80313f904c921

It's a 8GB compressed image file (plenty of soundfonts) compiled for Raspberry Pi 3. (Please, keep feeding the torrent after downloading!)

These SD card images include all the Zynthian software, properly configured for working with the official kits. Completely ready to use. Plug and play!

After downloading the SD-image, you have to write it to a SDcard. You need a SD card with a minimum size of 16GB, although you can use a bigger one if you want.

Use Etcher (free software works on Mac, Windows or Linux) to write the image onto the SDcard. Or do it manually! There is a really good manual for this at this link.

NOTE: RBPi2 is not currently supported by the latest official zynthian SD images, so if you want to use a RBPi2, you may need to build your own SD image.

2 Experimental ZynthianOS Aruk SD-Images (Stretch-based)

We are working on the next Zynthian SD-Image, Aruk, based in Raspbian Stretch and built using a the CustomPiOS system. Currently we are quite close to the final release and have a Release Candidate (RC1):

ZynthianOS "Aruk" RC-1 (MD5-sum)

and if you like to be in the cutting edge, try the nightly builds:

ZynthianOS nightly builds

Thanks @guysoft!!

3 Build your own image

If you like, you can build your own SD image following these instructions:

Building the SD Image using the Setup Script

Also, you would like to try the new experimental docker-builder:

Building Zynthian with Docker

Thanks @guysoft!!

4 Problems with Torrent?

In case you have troubles using Torrent, you can download the Gorgona Omega image from these links:

• Gorgona Omega, Kit v2

• Gorgona Omega, Legacy Kit V1

Please, try first with torrent and don't use these "direct download" links unless you really need it:

• Zynthian server have limits and if everybody is trying to download the SD images directly from there, it will get overloaded and forum, wiki and other Zynthian services will be slower.
• Torrent should download faster than direct download links because you are downloading from several sources at once.