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ZynAddSubFX

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ZynAddSubFX
Original author(s)Nasca Octavian Paul
Developer(s)Mark McCurry, Harald Hvaal
Initial releaseSeptember 25, 2002 (2002-09-25)
Stable release
3.0.6 / January 21, 2022; 2 years ago (2022-01-21)
Repositorysourceforge.net/projects/zynaddsubfx/
Written inC++
Operating systemBSD, Linux, Mac OS X, Windows
Size8.0MB
Available inEnglish
TypeSynthesizer
LicenseGPL-2.0-or-later[1]
Websitezynaddsubfx.sourceforge.net

ZynAddSubFX (also now called Zyn-Fusion) is a free and open-source software synthesizer for Linux, Mac OS X and Microsoft Windows. As of version 3, the completely new user interface is being released under proprietary terms with an open-source-eventually intention while the synthesis engine remains under the original GPL terms.[2]

For sound generation it has three hybrid synth engines that combine additive, subtractive, Fourier and other synthesis methods. No external samples are used to produce the sound; everything is done by synthesis. The synthesizer has effects like reverberation, echo, chorus, distortion, equalization and others, and supports microtonal tunings.[3][4]

The original author of ZynAddSubFX is Romanian programmer Nasca Octavian Paul.[5][6] The project was started in March 2002[3] and the first public version (1.0.0) was released on September 25, 2002.[7] Since 2009, the new maintainer is Mark McCurry.[8]

Sound generation

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ZynAddSubFX combines several different methods of audio synthesis in order to create sounds: additive synthesis by the ADSynth engine,[3] subtractive synthesis by the SUBSynth engine,[3] and an original algorithm used to generate wavetables in the PADSynth engine.[9]

Music made with ZynAddSubFX

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ZynAddSubFX was featured in the KVR One-Synth-Challenge contest.

In November 2013, Unfa released an album that was entirely made with ZynAddSubFX. Slavonic pagan ambient project Svitlo albums were created using ZynAddSubFX as synthesizer.

See also

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References

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  1. ^ ZynAddSubFX license
  2. ^ "ZynAddSubFX 3.0.0 Demo". zynaddsubfx.sourceforge.io. Retrieved May 17, 2020.
  3. ^ a b c d "About ZynAddSubFX". zynaddsubfx.sourceforge.io. Retrieved May 17, 2020.
  4. ^ "Microtuning Features Updated". Archived from the original on May 23, 2014. Retrieved February 10, 2013.
  5. ^ "ZynAddSubFX". zynaddsubfx.sourceforge.io. Retrieved May 17, 2020.
  6. ^ "Open Source projects - Paul Nasca". www.paulnasca.com. Retrieved May 17, 2020.
  7. ^ "ZynAddSubFX News". zynaddsubfx.sourceforge.io. Retrieved May 17, 2020.
  8. ^ "Contributing To ZynAddSubFX". zynaddsubfx.sourceforge.io. Retrieved May 17, 2020.
  9. ^ "PADsynth algorithm". zynaddsubfx.sourceforge.io. Retrieved May 17, 2020.
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