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A sample of synth engines and effects available in Zynthian, for a longer list see below...
1 Engine Guides
1.1 Zynthian Native Engines
- Audio Player: Audio file player, sampler, looper.
1.2 Supported Synth Engines
- Fluidsynth: Real-time software synthesizer based on the SoundFont 2 specifications.
- ZynAddSubFX (Polyphonic Aditive, Substractive, and Pad synthesis) https://github.com/fundamental/zynaddsubfx
- LinuxSampler (SFZ/GIG SoundFont Player) https://www.linuxsampler.org
- Sfizz (SFZ SoundFont Player) https://sfz.tools/sfizz/
- setBfree (Hammond B3 electromechanical organ Emulation) https://github.com/pantherb/setBfree
- Pianoteq (A proprietary Physical Modelling Synth Engine for acoustic and electric pianos, developed by Modartt)
- Helm (synth) [1]
- Aeolus (Pipe Organ Emulator) https://kokkinizita.linuxaudio.org/linuxaudio/aeolus/
- Jalv (Run LV2-plugins as standalone processors) http://blog.zynthian.org/index.php/2018/09/28/new-engine-jalv-lv2-plugins-as-standalone-layers/
- MOD-HOST & MOD-UI (Plugin Host + Web GUI, developed by ModDevices for the ModDuo device) [2] [3]
- Pure Data (Visual Programming Language) https://puredata.info
- MiMi-d MiMi-d synth https://discourse.zynthian.org/t/mimi-d-creating-a-new-software-synth-for-zynthian/8648
2 LV2 Plugins: Synths & Effects
2.1 Synths
- Dexed (Yamaha DX7 emulation)
- MDA plugins (LV2 port of MDA plugin collection, including ePiano, JX10, DX10 and others)
- TAL free plugins (Some plugins from Togu Audio Line, including Noize M4k3r and more)
- DISTRHO Plugins-Ports (A collection of plugins ported to Linux that includes OBXd and others)
- DISTRHO DPF-Plugins (A plugin collection which includes the Nekobi Bass Monosynth and more)
- Calf plugins (One of the best free software plugin collection)
- Helm (Advanced Polyphonic Synthesizer + Arpeggiator)
- AMSynth (Analog Modelling Synthesizer)
- Synthv1 (Old School Polyphonic Synthesizer)
- Padthv1 (Old School Polyphonic Additive Synthesizer)
- SooperLooper Live looping sampler capable of immediate loop recording, overdubbing,
- Surge Free & Open source hybrid synthesizer...
- DrumGizmo: Open source, multichannel, multilayered, drum plugin - User Guide
- GeonKick: is a free software for generating a wide range of percussive sounds - User Guide
- And much more ...
2.2 Effects
All kind of effects:
Category | Includes |
---|---|
Delay | Delay, Echo |
Distortion | Overdrive, Distortion, Fuzz, Wave-shaper |
Dynamics | Compressor, Limiter |
Filter | Filter, Equalizer, (Auto-)Wah, Envelope Filter |
Generator | Synthesizer, Piano, Organ, Drums, Noise, SoundFonts |
Modulator | Chorus, Phaser, Flanger, Vibrato, Tremolo, Ring modulator |
Reverb | Reverb, Shimmer, Plate, Room, Spring |
Simulator | Amplifier, Cabinet, Leslie, Tube |
Spatial | Panner, Auto-panner, Stereo field manipulator |
Spectral | Pitch-shifter, Auto-tune, Harmonizer, Vocoder |
Granular | Granulator |
MIDI utilities | MIDI filter & tools |
Other | Arppeggiator, SooperLooper |
This is not a complete list of all synths & effect plugins, see the MOD devices wiki page to see some amp and cabinet sim plugins available:
Details about each of the MOD plugins
3 Supported plugin types
Currently, Zynthian supports only LV2 plugins compiled for RBPi (ARM):
Here is an unmaintained repository of LV2-plugins for Zynthian: https://github.com/zynthian/zynthian-plugins/tree/master/lv2
Support for VST, DSSI and LADSPA has been removed for simplicity, but it could be re-enabled in the future if we have good reasons for doing so.