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Instrument · 0.2 preview
Flapwave
A synthesizer with a step sequencer built into the chassis. One engine plays the same samples in the browser, as a desktop app and as a VST3 or CLAP plugin in your DAW. This is a preview: automation may change until 1.0.
- ✓Browserplays straight away, sound and sequencerreadyPlay
- ✓Linuxtarball · 0.2.0 · 9.0 MB · VST3, CLAP and the desktop app, with an installerreadyDownload
- ✓Linux appAppImage · 0.2.0 · 4.0 MB · the desktop app on its ownreadyDownload
- ✓Arch Linuxsudo pacman -S flapwave · Flaptown's signed repositoryreadyHow to add it
- ✓Windowszip · 0.2.0 · 12.9 MB · VST3, CLAP and the desktop app, unzip and follow INSTALL.txtreadyDownload
- ✓Sourceread it, take the tour, download it · GPL-3.0openRead the source
In REAPER, bounce the CLAP version at 1x speed, or use the VST3, for full-speed renders: a full-speed CLAP render can leave a few milliseconds of silence. A fix is coming in 0.3.
Installing, and checking what you got
Android: installing an APK
Open the downloaded file. Android asks once whether your browser may install apps; allow it, install, then switch the permission back off if you like. Updates install over the top and keep your progress. The app only needs the internet for its leaderboard.
Arch Linux: sudo pacman -S benchlight flapwave
Benchlight and Flapwave have their own signed pacman repository. Add it once, then pacman installs and updates it like anything else. It runs on Arch's own Electron (electron44), so it stays small and gets Electron's security updates with your system.
1. Trust Flaptown's package key (fingerprint 414C C92A 6F25 B70A F267 A317 ED4C 1D3F C6CA 6113; compare it before you sign):
curl -fsSLO https://flaptown.com/store/files/flaptown-packages.asc
sudo pacman-key --add flaptown-packages.asc
sudo pacman-key --lsign-key 414CC92A6F25B70AF267A317ED4C1D3FC6CA6113
2. Add the repository to the end of /etc/pacman.conf:
[flaptown]
Server = https://accounts.flaptown.com/benchlight/download
3. Install:
sudo pacman -Sy benchlight flapwave
Prefer the AUR? benchlight-bin builds the same package from the published release. Every package and the repository database are signed; pacman refuses anything that isn't.
Debian and Ubuntu: sudo apt install benchlight
Benchlight has its own signed APT repository. Add it once and apt installs and updates it with everything else. Check the key's fingerprint is 414C C92A 6F25 B70A F267 A317 ED4C 1D3F C6CA 6113.
sudo install -d /etc/apt/keyrings
curl -fsSL https://flaptown.com/store/files/flaptown-packages.asc | sudo gpg --dearmor -o /etc/apt/keyrings/flaptown.gpg
echo "deb [signed-by=/etc/apt/keyrings/flaptown.gpg] https://accounts.flaptown.com/benchlight/ download/" | sudo tee /etc/apt/sources.list.d/flaptown.list
sudo apt update && sudo apt install benchlight
Or download the package and install it once, without updates: benchlight_1.0.2_amd64.deb, then sudo apt install ./benchlight_1.0.2_amd64.deb.
Flatpak: any Linux distribution
Download the bundle, then install it for your user. Flatpak fetches the shared runtime from Flathub the first time.
flatpak install --user Benchlight-1.0.2.flatpak
flatpak run com.flaptown.Benchlight
Windows: "Windows protected your PC"
The Windows build isn't code-signed yet, so SmartScreen may stop it the first time. Choose "More info", then "Run anyway". The fingerprint below lets you confirm the zip is the one we published.
Linux: running an AppImage
Make it executable, then run it: chmod +x Benchlight-1.0.2-linux-x64.AppImage and ./Benchlight-1.0.2-linux-x64.AppImage. Nothing is installed system-wide; delete the file to remove it.
Fingerprints (SHA-256)
Compare with sha256sum on Linux, Get-FileHash in PowerShell, or any checksum app on Android.
58d7149ab3b28b78f770de09b832a0cb75a220a23fa8ed493670aabfaf520854 benchlight-1.0.2.apk
1144010a951cc190da3c2946b55cb781776a650d74d02e95965d5ef36ced7898 flapwave-0.2.0-linux-x86_64.tar.gz
7f717adc3bcb43b3f06235bf662fbc804b3d174c06c2f153543d4f7adf39c870 flapwave-0.2.0-x86_64.AppImage
8f2e9e2be5e55caaadeaa6ad73543d465d594c5ae02504dd62057bebe315bf78 flapwave-0.2.0-windows-x86_64.zip
f607030e18fe98b2324f9016fa639c1098c0a410fce33d72cf244ad1bf8d12d4 flaptown-relic-1.0.apk
bf8cf410e9359d953ac43c87892e44df5ca16a6e9ecb655d86b399cea374c7ce Benchlight-1.0.2-win-x64.zip
35c78eb0de51a80a3bcbdc3b0b9d2b5ac5f89aef3268e144aa2bf9a48350a120 Benchlight-1.0.2-linux-x64.AppImage
b5941db5239d9abe2f6e81ccd625991b8c87f5df0de3c3d71ba02626f10ad152 benchlight_1.0.2_amd64.deb
07eff44aa8a16ab5f3b806c734495ad8d9f5f6f01f913404bd7cc5b3f641f07e Benchlight-1.0.2.flatpak
Also at /store/files/SHA256SUMS.txt