Vember Audio Surge is now open-source

[zvenx]

Off to try it. Thanks once again baconpaul et al.
rsp

[Hez]

Wow, what a fantastic update, thanks and kudos to everybody involved in the project. Surge is rapidly becoming the synth of choice in a lot of techno circles, it's great to see an open source project flourishing like this!

[chk071]

VST3 plugins have a fixed path on every platform ...

And that's really good!

Arguable. I would really like to have all my audio stuff on my D: hard drive...

[Burillo]

VST3 plugins have a fixed path on every platform ...

And that's really good!

Arguable. I would really like to have all my audio stuff on my D: hard drive...

you can, that's what i do. just create a junction point from your VST3 directory to wherever you like. done, all of the stuff thinks it's installed and works from C: but is actually working from your other drive.

[chk071]

Thanks for the tip. I might actually do that, I already did that with my Waves plugins, which also installed by default to a folder on the C: drive.

With junction point you mean a symbolic link right?

[baconpaul]

With this release (on windows) we’ve made surge fully portable. So you’d an put your VST3 wherever and if you put the data and user folders next to it, surge will use those.

C:\program filescommon\vst3 and c:\programdata\surge are the defaults but they can all be changed just by moving files around post install.

All in the manual under the “installing” section. You need 1.7.0 (released 3 hours ago) for that feature to work.

If someone here knows innosetup well and would like to make it so you can install to a chosen location at install time, we’re totally open to help!

Thanks

[akira2]

Thanks a lot for the Surge update and for Linux support !!!
my favorite free synth along with Tyrell N6

[Burillo]

Thanks for the tip. I might actually do that, I already did that with my Waves plugins, which also installed by default to a folder on the C: drive.

With junction point you mean a symbolic link right?

yes, except they're called "directory junctions" in Windows speak

or rather, i should say, i believe softlinks (aka symbolic links) and hardlinks (aka, well, hardlinks) cannot cross filesystem boundaries (as in, refer to something on another drive), while a junction link can. or something to that effect. i don't remember why, but you're supposed to use the "mklink /J" command, not just "mklink".

[Burillo]

If someone here knows innosetup well and would like to make it so you can install to a chosen location at install time, we’re totally open to help!

Thanks

I don't know it "well" but i've used it before and it's pretty easy to use and the samples are OK for most things, so it shouldn't be much trouble to figure it out

[baconpaul]

If someone here knows innosetup well and would like to make it so you can install to a chosen location at install time, we’re totally open to help!

Thanks

I don't know it "well" but i've used it before and it's pretty easy to use and the samples are OK for most things, so it shouldn't be much trouble to figure it out

Cool. Well we welcome developer who want to help! Probably best to hop into slack if you want to push but it’s all open source for you to take a look and try and improve. (I’m a mac user so my understanding of what a modern windows user wants is ... limited. EvilDragon has improved thigns a lot with 170 but sure there’s more we can do)

[PTV]

With this release (on windows) we’ve made surge fully portable. So you’d an put your VST3 wherever and if you put the data and user folders next to it, surge will use those.

Great!

[glokraw]

I'd love to be able to select colors other than the orange/blue...
although I feel like it's nit-picking at your successful project

Synth1 has that alpha-numeric entry to modify
background, text, and a highlite...that would be
a great Surge capability!
Cheers

[Iu Gob]

Awesome Update!!!
Many thanks!!!

[baconpaul]

I'd love to be able to select colors other than the orange/blue...
although I feel like it's nit-picking at your successful project

Synth1 has that alpha-numeric entry to modify
background, text, and a highlite...that would be
a great Surge capability!
Cheers

Download surge 1.7.0
Do menu/skins/Surge Dark
Every color and graphic is now runtime pickable
Still a bit of work to make your own skin. but not impossible.

[aMUSEd]

So there's no VST2 now? That's a pity as I use this in Komplete Kontrol which doesn't support other formats. Is it possible to install this but keep the earlier version VST2 running as well?