as a classical church organist, I’m interested in a pipe organ engine. The Zynthian website promotes Aeolus, but it’s neither installed on my standard Zynthian, nor can I select it in the WebUI. Also a manual installation by ssh as explained in Link does not work, since I receive the message “Unable to locate package Aeolus”…
So is Aeolus phased out? If not, how can I install it then? If yes, which other (free) pipe organ engines can you recommend?
Thank you for your answers and have a good start in 2024!
Doc “Marc” Analog
The current version of Zynthian has an odd limiation for Aeolus in that it must occupy the first 4 chains (MIDI channels). As soon as you add a chain that uses any of channels 1-4, Aeolus is hidden from the menu. Remove those chains and you should see it in the list. We will be fixing this in a future version.
To be fair to @jofemodo, this isn’t a bug but a pragmatic way to implement the standard Aeolus engine that has this limitation but as I say, we have plans…
OK, thank you for this comment. And @jofemodo , I absolutely appreciate your work on Aeolus. Just have been checking it for 15 min., but I’m already impressed by Aeolus: Good sound, good control (adding 16", 8", 4",…). Seems like an organist has coded something great and adapted it to a tiny box in the best way possible!
That’s really a very strange bug… And in fact, deleting all my standard instruments, I can select it… and it seems to work :-D.