Creating a synth chain and adding a MIDI chorder + audio FXs

The goal of this little tutorial is to guide you through creating your first synth and adding a couple of effects.

1 Create a New Synth Chain

Once our Zynthian is started for the first time, the first screen that will appear will be the Chain Screen.

From here we select the first option “New Synth Chain” by short-push Knob#4.

2 Select Midi Synth

After selecting the chain, a list will appear with the different synthesizers available in Midi Synth Screen.

With Knob#4 we can move through the available list and with a short-push we will select the main processor of this chain.

In this tutorial we will select the ZynAddSubFX - Synthetizer

3 Select Bank

Not all engines/synths will have the Banks Screen, this is there to sort presets. For this tutorial we will select Collection Bank.

If you choose an engine/synth that does not have this screen, it will jump directly to the next screen Presets Screen.

4 Select Preset

5 Mixer Screen