Zynthian Emulator Setup for Development
1 Installation / Setup:
There are two Setup Scripts:
It can help you to setup your system, but probably you need to tweak a little. I recommend to run line by line from the terminal, trying to understand what you do ;-)
2 Execution:
Open 4 terminals. Of course, you can use less, but i prefer to use separate terminals:
Terminal 1: Jack Start & Midi Connections
qjackctl &
Terminal 2: Alsa => Jack MIDI bridge
a2jmidid -e
Perhaps you want to add the "a2jmidid -e" command to your qjackctl setup ;-)
Terminal 3: Autoconnector
cd zynthian
cd zynthian-ui
./zynthian_autoconnect_jack.py
Terminal 4: Emulator
cd zynthian
cd zynthian-emuface
./zynthian_emuface.py
If you set the environment variable "ZYNTHIANX" like this:
export ZYNTHIANX=$DISPLAY
Zynthian UI will open the native engine GUI when available.
Also, don't forget to read this blog entry about the Zynthian Emulator.
3 Recipe
Holger: I have created a repository at github with some of my recipes. They are organized as a kind of shell script but mostly used for writing down what I have done. Feel free to look inside and try them. Simple manuals are also inside the repository, but the documentation is the code itself :-)