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Show HN: The ZynAddSubFX open source musical synthesizer

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Re: Show HN: The ZynAddSubFX open source musical synthesizer

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Post by friendly_chap »

fundamental wrote: post #10
friendly_chap wrote: post #8

Long long time ago, in an other life I used this synth. I always remembered it being very good for pads and clean bell-like sounds. Can't hear much (or any) aliasing in the tracks on the page. How does Zyn manage to avoid that?

A number of sounds bell/pad/etc were made possible by the PADsynth algorithm developed by Nasca Octavian Paul for use in ZynAddSubFX ( http://zynaddsubfx.sourceforge.net/doc/PADsynth/PADsynth.htm ). For both the pad-synth algorithm and for the add-synth engine users create a definition for an oscillator in terms of the frequency components. Then to play the oscillator it is converted into a time domain wavetable. For…

Awesome breakdown, thanks! DSP is one area I never dared to venture due to my lacking math skills. Big respect.

Re: Show HN: The ZynAddSubFX open source musical synthesizer

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Post by fb03 »

This synth blows my mind every time I mess with it for a bit, there are soo many parameters and possibilities. You can basically make anything with it.

Thank you for this wonderful piece of software which has helped me take several tracks out of my head and into reality :-)

Re: Show HN: The ZynAddSubFX open source musical synthesizer

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Post by schrijver »

Awesome; I really like the idea of free and open instruments as you can move from platform to platform, i.e. compose in a computer based sequencer, than put on a Raspberry PI for live performance etc.

I wanted to try it on OS X but I have to install Jack—will you consider supporting Audio Unit in the future?

Re: Show HN: The ZynAddSubFX open source musical synthesizer

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Post by fundamental »

schrijver wrote: post #13

Awesome; I really like the idea of free and open instruments as you can move from platform to platform, i.e. compose in a computer based sequencer, than put on a Raspberry PI for live performance etc. I wanted to try it on OS X but I have to install Jack—will you consider supporting Audio Unit in the future?

It sounds like you're using one of the older builds. Right now Zyn has VST/LV2 builds for OSX though a jack style standlone isn't included in more recent builds.

As per AU support that largely depends upon it getting implemented in the plugin abstraction layer which is borrowed from the DISTRO Plugin infrastructure: https://github.com/DISTRHO/DPF

If you find the idea of using a Raspberry PI for live use interesting I'd recommend taking a look at the work that http://zynthian.org/ have been working on. They're a pretty cool open hardware/software project that does just that (for Zyn and other synths/effects).

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