LYNX-SHARE Files

LYNX 0.1.4 alpha: a per-user installer with a first-run setup wizard, background plugin scanning, a customizable toolbar, spectral waveforms, sample players on FL Studio's own interpolators, and a large batch of FL Studio plugins rebuilt from their own engines (REA rounds 55–73). Website: lynx-share.com.

[!IMPORTANT] Still an alpha. Bug reports are very welcome in Issues.

Install and first run

• Installer (LYNX-0.1.4-alpha-setup-x64.exe): per user, no admin rights. Installs to %LOCALAPPDATA%\Programs\LYNX, adds a Start-menu shortcut (desktop shortcut optional), opens .lynx files, offers Open with LYNX for .flp (FL Studio stays the default program) and uninstalls from Apps & features. The portable zip is still there.
• Setup wizard on the first start (later: Options → Setup wizard): language, audio device, plugin folders (the standard VST3/CLAP folders and FL Studio's), scan.
• Plugin scanning in the background: progress in the hint bar, incremental, cancellable, one child process per file so a crashing or hanging plugin is blacklisted instead of taking LYNX down; new plugins are picked up a few seconds after each start.
• FL Studio projects: plugins resolve from LYNX's list or FL Studio's own plugin database, and only the missing files get a targeted scan; samples are relocated from FL's folders, other PC/user paths and the project folder (read-only, see docs/FL_INTEGRATION.md (github.com)).

Interface

• Customizable toolbar: show, hide and reorder groups, small or large icons, UI scale; panels drop out by priority on narrow windows.
• Spectral waveforms: audio clips, the Sampler and the Browser draw band-coloured waveforms from a background cache.
• Browser rework (tree, preview strip, fold keys) and editor polish: Line/Events snap, drum brush, stretch handle, editable ghost notes, track heights, clip preview, Shift+V clone, scope modes.

FL Studio generators on their exact engines

SimSynth (bit-identical on all installation states) · Plucked! · BeepMap · Sawer · Fruity Granulizer · Drumaxx · DirectWave (bit-identical on all 57 demo programs) · FL Slayer (bit-identical on all 64 presets; its picks and tables are read from your own installation) · FL Keys. Wasp / Wasp XT load as FL Studio 2026 plays them (a silent placeholder; their state is kept), Fruity Dance as a silent channel (it is a visual plugin).

Sample players

Sampler channels and audio clips read samples through FL's own interpolators (24-point sinc while playing, 32-point when exporting, FL's defaults), with FL's volume envelope for sampler channels, FPC's layer choice and Slicex's volume law.

FL Studio effects on their exact engines

Fruity Love Philter · Fruity Vocoder (with an exact replica of the Delphi run-time math) · Hardcore, Distructor & Multiband Delay · Fruity Flangus, Flanger & Fast Dist · Fruity Delay Bank & Multiband Compressor · LuxeVerb & Fruity Convolver · EQUO & Pitch Shifter · Frequency Splitter · Fruity Fast LP, Free Filter & Fruity Filter. Newtone and Newtime are imported with their state (pass-through like FL; their source sample plays in slave mode).

Faster export

Bit-identical speedups in WaveShaper, Fruity Limiter, Reeverb 2 and MiniSynth (same output, less CPU).

Each engine is checked against FL's own DLLs; what works and what is approximated is in docs/STATUS.md (github.com), the analysis in docs/analise/.

Getting started

1. Download LYNX-0.1.4-alpha-setup-x64.exe and run it, or take the portable LYNX-0.1.4-alpha-windows-x64.zip (or just LYNX.exe) and extract it.
2. Run LYNX and open the included Demo.lynx (portable zip) or File → Open.
3. Requires Windows 10 or 11 (64-bit). LYNX is not code-signed yet, so SmartScreen may warn: click More info → Run anyway.

Checksums

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Every file here is built from the tagged source by the release workflow, which also runs LYNX's self-test and installs/uninstalls the installer on Windows.

License: AGPL-3.0. Third-party components are listed in THIRD_PARTY.md (github.com). VST and ASIO are trademarks of Steinberg Media Technologies GmbH. FL Studio is a registered trademark of Image-Line; LYNX is not affiliated with Image-Line.