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Installing or Building OB-Xf

It is as easy as downloading the installer from the product page and running it!

On Windows, the installer provides options for installing the VST3 and CLAP formats, as well as standalone application.

Installer is available for both x86 and ARM64/ARM64EC platforms, separately.

On macOS, the installer provides options for installing the AU (v2), VST3 and CLAP formats, as well as standalone application.

macOS 10.15 or later is required.

On Linux, the Debian package provides options for installing the VST3 and CLAP formats, as well as standalone application. Individual components are available packaged in a ZIP file

The distribution package is built on Ubuntu 22.04. A list of required packages is listed in the source code and in the .deb itself.

If you are running OB-Xf as a standalone application, we would like to divert your attention to the Options menu in the top-left corner, which provides:

  • Audio/MIDI Settings in order to specify audio device, sample rate, MIDI input(s) and audio output(s) to be used
  • Save and load state of the synthesizer (also known as “presets” or “patches”, although OB-Xf provides its own patch management, which is recommended to be used instead)
  • Reset OB-Xf to the default state (reinstantiates the whole synthesizer)

To build OB-Xf from source code, steps are outlined in the README of the GitHub repository.