Engines

1 Engines:

• ZynAddSubFX (Polyphonic Aditive, Substractive, and Pad synthesis) https://github.com/fundamental/zynaddsubfx
• FluidSynth (SF2 SoundFont Engine) http://www.fluidsynth.org
• 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)
• Aeolus (Pipe Organ Emulator) https://kokkinizita.linuxaudio.org/linuxaudio/aeolus/
• Jalv (LV2-plugins as standalone layers) 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) [1] [2]
• Pure Data (Visual Programming Language) https://puredata.info

2 LV2 Plugins: Synths & Effects

• 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...

2.1 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, Autotune, Harmonizer, Vocoder
Granular	Granulator
Utility	MIDI processing/generating, Volume, Looper, Switcher

we have not a complete list of all synths & effect plugins, but you can take a look to this to get an idea of what is available:

Gallery showing details about each of the MOD plugins

3 Supported plugin types

Currently, Zynthian supports only LV2 plugins compiled for RBPi (ARM):

• LV2 plugins

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.