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About Psycle OpenSource Notes/Licensing Developement User Resources and Links

-------------------------------------------------------------------------------1. About Psycle: ---------------Psycle is a free, Open-Source, music creation program that offers an easy way to create your own music, fast, and with high quality. Psycle uses a classical tracker interface (a text grid of notes which are sequenced one after the other), coupled with modularity (plugins) that allow to extend the sounds that you get from it. It supports three ways to get sound: its own native format, the VST Plugin standard, and recorded .wav samples using the sampler machine. Notes are entered in patterns, where you can also use commands (plugin specific, or global), as well as automating parameters via the mcm and twk commands. These patterns are then organized in a linear sequence, which becomes the song order. Here some features of Psycle: s A 64 Tracks Pattern Editor, with up to 1024 lines. 256 sequence positions. Multi-channel audio Routing (machine) view to interconnect the virtual machine in order to apply different effects. - Internal Stereo Sampler unit which supports .wav and .iff files of any sampling rate, 8/16 and 24bits, mono or stereo. - 70+ Native Plugins (generators & effects), most of them open-source and with an easy to use API to create new ones. - Multithreaded audio engine. - Support for VST1 and VST2 plugin standard, including support for JBridge. - Importing of .xm's/.s3m's/.it's/.mod's. - Exporting to wav, as well as recording realtime to .wav - Configurable Keyboard Layout - Midi-In Support ( control Psycle using a midi keyboard, or even a software sequencer) - Themes and skins support and much more. If you need help starting with Psycle, you should take a look at the "Docs" section at the Psycledelics site (official Psycle Users Site) (See the links at the bottom of this document)

Note: LADSPA is supported in a forthcoming linux version, and DSSI support is planned -------------------------------------------------------------------------------2. Open source Notes and License: --------------------------------Psycle is open source. What this means is that everyone is invited to participate in its development. You can download the code and help extending its feature set, as well as fixing the bugs you might find during its usage. Arguru Licensed Psycle 1.0 sources as "Public Domain". This means that those sources of Psycle can be used in whatever form you want. Effectively, this licensing applies ONLY to those sources. The current team prefers to enforce that psycle sources remain free to everyone, which means everyone can see and modify the source, but in doing so, he/she cannot distribute them in a closed way. Much in line with GPL ideas. You might, on the other hand, distrubute any modification you do as your own, keeping a notice in the sources and/or text files that they are "a derived work from Psycle". The team would appreciate that any modification done to Psycle sources, get incorporated back to the main sources, which would mean that Psycle and its community grows instead of being divided. Source code is stored via SVN at SourceForge site. Point your SVN client to this link to get the latest source code: https://psycle.svn.sourceforge.net/svnroot/psycle/trunk There are Forums and Bug trackers in SourceForge site and in Psycledelics site where you can contact us. We check the Psycledelics site often. If you need to contact specifically the developers, you can do it via the sourceforge member list: http://sourceforge.net/project/memberlist.php?group_id=10834 (ignore the "No Specific Role" ones. They are retired.) You are allowed to develop psycle Machines without any restriction, although if you decide to make it closed source, you will have to update whenever we make change s to the API. There is no SDK ready, so the best way to start a new one is getting the sources of an existing one. Arguru synth is an usual template.

Psycle 1.8.5 and above includes a freeware VST pack containing software from the following vendors: Digital Fish Phones DiscoDSP SimulAnalog Jeroen Breebaart George Yohng Christian Budde DDMF Loser E-phonic Argu Oatmeal by Fuzzpilz ( ( ( ( ( ( ( ( ( ( ( http://www.digitalfishphones.com/ ) http://www.discodsp.com/ ) http://www.simulanalog.org/ ) http://www.jeroenbreebaart.com/ ) http://www.yohng.com/ ) http://www.savioursofsoul.de/Christian/ ) http://www.ddmf.eu/ ) http://loser.asseca.com/ ) http://www.e-phonic.com/ ) http://www.aodix.com/ ) http://bicycle-for-slugs.org/ )

-------------------------------------------------------------------------------3. Development: --------------Psycle: Psycle 1.10: This release most probably will see bugfixes. Psycle 1.11/2.0: The evolution of Psycle implies necessarily to componen tize it. Also, new user interfaces are possible nowadays that weren't possible s ome years ago, as such, Psycle should try to use tablets and smartphones in some way. HTML5 and new media APIS being added to browsers open also another opportu nity for diversification. But all these need a real team of developers. QPsycle: QPsycle was made uncompilable during the integration of psycle-core into Psyclemfc during 2009. No real effort has been done to fix that. psycle-core: The psycle-core engine needs a rethinking on what should it be. There are two ways to go from here on, take psycle-mfc engine and convert i t into a library like psycle-core using part of psycle-core where possible, or t ake psycle-core, remove the parts that are more problematic, and base that on cu rrent psycle-mfc or new designs. For up to date information, don't forget to visit the Developement forums on Psycledelics site. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------4. User Resources and Links: ---------------------------* Psycledelics' Community: This is the site of Psycle users. It contains several forums, documents and how-to's, download links and also a song section where that you can share your compositions with others. It is a relatively small community, and quite helpful. http://psycle.pastnotecut.org/ * Psycle's wiki: There is an user contribute-able wiki site hosted in sourceforge which is worth

checking. There are several tutorials, news, and some how-to's. Take a visit any day for information. http://psycle.sourceforge.net/wiki http://psycle.wikia.com/ * Psycle's site at sourceforge: The developer page at sourceforge allows you to enter/track bug reports and download current and old versions of Psycle, as well as other psycle related files. You can also get the source code from the SVN repository: project page: http://sourceforge.net/projects/psycle development webpage : http://psycle.sourceforge.net/ SVN repository : https://psycle.svn.sourceforge.net/svnroot/psycle/trunk