Adding rdpiano to Zynthian

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Hello there,

I tried GitHub - giulioz/rdpiano: 🎹 Low-level emulator for SA-synthesis pianos plugin · GitHub from Giulio Zausa, it sounds really well, no integration problem in the UI, it’s resource hungry though and caus XRuns on my RPi4 (maybe with some optims it could work?).

I own a MKS-20 and its sounds really close to it as I remember (need to bring it back from reserve ^^)
It would be a great addition to the “official” engines, what do you think ?

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I sent a message to GiulioZ in January 2026 about it. He answered me:

Hi, it’s not available yet as the JUCE framework doesn’t support LV2 yet.
It is possible to make it compatible, but it would be a bit of work. We will probably do this in the future with the new team The Usual Suspects (https://dsp56300.wordpress.com/).
If so, I’ll let you know.
See you soon!

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It s already working : I generated the makefile with juce in my laptop, it has lv2 support. Then I copied it to Zynthian and compiled.

Put the .lv2 in the right directory, scanned from webconf and it was available :slight_smile:

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Could you share it?

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sure ! :slight_smile:

rdpiano_juce.lv2.zip (7.7 MB)

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for all newbies as me

  1. go to Webconf → Software → Engines
  2. select install plugin → choose rdpiano_juce.lv2.zip
  3. wow, enjoy
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