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Helm – a free polyphonic synth with lots of modulation

by PleaseHelpMe on 12/2/17, 5:41 AM with 19 comments

• by rainbowmverse on 12/2/17, 12:03 PM

  I've been using this for a while (and occasionally post a preset on Patreon). This synth has some of the easiest to use built-in automation I've seen.

• by jolmg on 12/2/17, 4:02 PM

  This is the third project that I've known with this name. The other two are an emacs incremental completion plugin:

  https://emacs-helm.github.io/helm/

  and a haskell functionally reactive game engine:

  http://helm-engine.org/

• by pgt on 12/2/17, 6:34 PM

  Would be awesome I could easily send it patches and MIDI messages from the browser via websockets to offload some of the heavier synth generation that the Web Audio API can't handle.

• by thecrumb on 12/2/17, 3:14 PM

  +1 for supporting Linux

• by alifbae on 12/2/17, 3:44 PM

  open source synths are always welcome! Great job

• by stuaxo on 12/2/17, 8:37 PM

  This might be juvenile, but is it only in British English that this name is funny ?

• by erikb on 12/2/17, 9:48 AM

  Have you ever heard of Kubernetes, a tool that is so much in the upswing that it dominated the last Amazon announcements, that Docker decided to integrate with it despite being its competitor in some regards, that hundreds of thousands of engineers suffer to use for some time now because our bosses heard it would be a cool thing at some conference (and bosses don't really care if such a software is finished or not)?

  If so, you might want to reconsider the name of your tool/framework/whatever, because the name Helm is basically taken in many engineers' head.