Vember Audio Surge is now open-source

[noiseresearch]

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[EvilDragon]

Oh it's a number of SVGs that needed tweaking in a vector editor, and then tweaking some code in skin.xml then putting that in a separate folder.

AFAIK you cannot change the font used in Surge at the moment, other than by not installing Lato then it falls back to something else.

[noiseresearch]

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[EvilDragon]

Yeah it's a good request, definitely one for the future. I've added it to our GitHub issue list.

Here's the skin modification: https://www.mediafire.com/file/cch8k0z8 ... n.zip/file

[noiseresearch]

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[ENV1]

AFAIK you cannot change the font used in Surge at the moment, other than by not installing Lato then it falls back to something else.

You can do what i did and create a 'bogus' Lato by changing the font family name of a copy of Ubuntu-R to Lato. (Thats how i made Surge use Ubuntu-R in the GIF.)

There are probably tons of font editors out there, i used FontForge because its free and very powerful.

What you do is this:

- Load a copy of Ubuntu-R into FontForge
- Ignore the Warnings window, simply close it
- Click tab Element / Font Info
- Under Family Name, change Ubuntu to Lato and click OK at the bottom
- Click the File tab and select Generate Fonts
- Name the output file Lato-Regular.ttf and choose a suitable save location for it
- Click the Generate button and Yes when the errormessage about the Em-Size pops up
- Click Generate when the errormessage about Missing Points at Extrema pops up
- The file is now saved in the chosen location
(Note: The errors are inconsequential, so dont worry, the font will work fine.)

If you are not running Surge in a sandbox, delete the real Lato from Windows\Fonts, then put the bogus Lato in. Otherwise replace it in your sandboxes Windows\Fonts folder, where it should automatically take precedence over the one on the real system, if you have it there. (I.e. you need not touch it in this case.)

Run Surge and it should now use Ubuntu-R.

[EvilDragon]

With that level of hacking skills you should join us as developer

[ENV1]

Just my way of workarounding.

If you dont have a hammer, use a pipe.

[Baum]

Very good synth. Keep up the good work!

[stimresp]

Hello, and sorry in advance for the silly question.

I downloaded Surge 1.7.1 last night and ran the installer (64bit windows).
Installation proceeded without asking for my VST folder.

After installation I looked for the .dll in the Surge folder of ProgramData but I cannot find it. Also checked the default steinberg/VSTplugins folder, but nothing there either.

So, where does the installer place the .dll?

Thanks in advance

[Saukar30]

Hi. Thanks to the Surge team for keeping this great synth alive & ticking!

Quick question. On the new version, 1.71 for Windows, I'm trying to find the "snap" option on the Morph slider for the oscillator to move through the wavetables 1 at a time. Is that in a different place or has it been removed? It doesn't show up when I right click on the morph slider.

[EvilDragon]

So, where does the installer place the .dll?

Thanks in advance

There's no DLL with 1.7.0 onwards, VST2 is not going to be distributed anymore. VST3 is installed where VST3 plugins are supposed to be, C:\Program Files\Common Files\VST3.

[EvilDragon]

Hi. Thanks to the Surge team for keeping this great synth alive & ticking!

Quick question. On the new version, 1.71 for Windows, I'm trying to find the "snap" option on the Morph slider for the oscillator to move through the wavetables 1 at a time. Is that in a different place or has it been removed? It doesn't show up when I right click on the morph slider.

Yes, removed because holding Ctrl does that now on every parameter.

[Saukar30]

Thanks ED!

Hopefully, in the future someone on the team can update the manual. It still contains the snap info.

[stimresp]

So, where does the installer place the .dll?

Thanks in advance

There's no DLL with 1.7.0 onwards, VST2 is not going to be distributed anymore. VST3 is installed where VST3 plugins are supposed to be, C:\Program Files\Common Files\VST3.

Ahhh OK. Thanks!