Mollytime is a virtual synthesizer, with a visual patch editor designed for touch screen devices. Mollytime is intended to be useful for live performances, and dynamic sound tracks for interactive media such as video-games and installation art.
While Mollytime is already quite usable, it is still missing quite a bit of polish and several major features, and is not quite ready for prime time.
Mollytime is a Python-based project, so you'll naturally need Python 3. Other Python
package dependencies will be automatically acquired by the build system.
These will go in your current environment, so setting up a venv is supported and
recommended.
You'll also need a C++ toolchain to build the core extension module. Supported platforms, as in "we've tried these and it seems to work fine":
- Linux, via Clang or GCC, using LLVM's libc++
- Windows, via Clang or MSVC, using MSVC 2022
Whatever you're using needs its binaries available on PATH.
Other dependencies you'll currently need to acquire yourself:
- JACK, if building with the JACK audio backend.
- Windows 11 SDK (10.0.22621.5040) or newer, if building with the WASAPI backend. (Don't worry, the SDK also works with Windows 10.)
Once you have determined the correct versions of each of these dependencies, please let me know and I'll write them down here.
Run this:
python mollybuild.py build <mode> <toolchain>
You can see supported <mode>s and <toolchain>s by checking command help:
python mollybuild.py build -h
That's it! Now just run python -m mollytime to launch the project. When you do,
the C++ extension module will be automatically recompiled if you've changed any
source files since the last run.
Run this:
python mollybuild.py package <toolchain>
You can see supported <toolchain>s by checking command help:
python mollybuild.py package -h
This executes build on the project, with all
required settings pre-configured. A source distribution archive and wheel will be output
to a dist subfolder. Then, it'll also emit a standalone executable based on the wheel,
using Pyinstaller.
With sincere condolences, consult BUILD.md for more details.