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1 image::https://travis-ci.org/zynaddsubfx/zynaddsubfx.svg?branch=master[alt="Build status", link="https://travis-ci.org/zynaddsubfx/zynaddsubfx"] 2 3 ZynAddSubFX 4 ----------- 5 6 ZynAddSubFX is a fully featured musical software synthesizer for Linux, MacOS, BSD, and Windows. 7 ZynAddSubFX exposes a wide array of synthesis parameters to make it flexible tool for sound design and a fun experience for playing instruments. 8 9 image::doc/zyn-fusion-add.png[Zyn-Fusion Add Synth Editor] 10 11 Features 12 ~~~~~~~~ 13 14 * Polyphonic with support for legato and mono playing modes. 15 * Three synthesizer engines: 16 ** Additive Synthesis for classic synth sounds composed of a variety of voices with powerful modulation. This exposes modulators ranging from LFOs and envelopes to oscillator modulators for FM, PM, and AM. 17 ** Subtractive Synthesis for creating variable bandwidth harmonics from filtered white noise. 18 ** PAD synthesis for creating beautiful pads and other instruments. 19 * Powerful waveform generator with up to 128 sine/non-sine harmonics. 20 * A variety of filters including analogue modeled filters, formant filters, and state variable filters. 21 * Envelopes can have ADSR (or ASR, etc..) modes or can be free modes (with any shape). 22 * Effects for Reverb, Echo, Chorus/Flange, Phasing, Wave-shaping, Equalizing, Dynamic Filtering with flexible signal routing. 23 * Instruments can be organized in kits, which allows you to make drum kits or layered instruments; this makes possible to use more than one instrument for a single part. It is possible to choose what items from the kit should be processed by the Part's effects. 24 * Randomness settings to create subtle differences in each sound to help create that familiar analogue warmth. 25 * Microtonal capabilities with any scale, up to 128 notes per octave, and key mapping. 26 * Extensive MIDI/Audio driver support including JACK, ALSA, OSS, and PortAudio. The following MIDI protocol extensions are provided: 27 ** Floating point notes via MIDI SysEx. Allows the exact pitch of a note on event to be specified as a 28-bit value. 28 ** Per-note controller events via MIDI SysEx. Allows individual active notes to receive MIDI control events. 29 ** Per-note pitch bend events via MIDI SysEx. Allows individual active notes to change pitch. 30 * Session Management Support via LASH/NSM. 31 * Plugin Support via DSSI/LV2/VST. 32 * Over 1100 high quality instruments included. 33 34 35 For more information see: 36 37 - The project page: http://zynaddsubfx.sf.net 38 - The mailing list: https://sourceforge.net/projects/zynaddsubfx/lists/zynaddsubfx-user 39 - The public forum: https://www.kvraudio.com/forum/viewforum.php?f=47 40 - The IRC channel: #zynaddsubfx on irc.Libera.chat 41 42 Dependencies 43 ~~~~~~~~~~~~ 44 45 ZynAddSubFX depends on a number of dependencies for building. 46 For more information on building the core along with the FLTK based interface see doc/building.txt and for building the new interface see https://github.com/zynaddsubfx/zyn-fusion-build. 47 48 Required: 49 50 - FFTW 3.x.x - necessary for Fast Fourier computations 51 - MXML-2.5+ - from https://www.msweet.org/mxml/ 52 - zlib - from https://www.zlib.net/ 53 - Liblo - networked open sound control 54 55 Optional: 56 57 - FLTK (for the oldest user interface) 58 - NTK (for the old user interface) 59 - JACK 60 - OSS 61 - ALSA 62 - LASH 63 - DSSI 64 65 Sibling projects 66 ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ 67 68 - rtosc - realtime open sound control https://github.com/fundamental/rtosc 69 - mruby-zest - the framework for the zyn-fusion GUI https://github.com/mruby-zest/mruby-zest 70 71 72 License 73 ~~~~~~~ 74 75 ZynAddSubFX is available under the GPL-2.0-or-later license. 76 77 Have fun! :-) 78 79 --The ZynAddSubFX team