 ZynAddSubFX on Linux | |
| Original author(s) | Nasca Octavian Paul |
|---|---|
| Developer(s) | Mark McCurry, Harald Hvaal |
| Initial release | September 25, 2002 (2002-09-25) |
| Stable release | 3.0.6 / January 21, 2022; 3 years ago (2022-01-21) |
| Repository | sourceforge |
| Written in | C++ |
| Operating system | BSD,Linux,Mac OS X,Windows |
| Size | 8.0MB |
| Available in | English |
| Type | Synthesizer |
| License | GPL-2.0-or-later[1] |
| Website | zynaddsubfx |
ZynAddSubFX (also now called Zyn-Fusion) is afree and open-sourcesoftware synthesizer forLinux,Mac OS X andMicrosoft Windows. Version 3's new user interface was initially released under proprietary terms, but is now open source (though prebuilt binaries are still sold to fund development).[2]
For sound generation it has three hybrid synth engines that combineadditive,subtractive,Fourier and other synthesis methods. No external samples are used to produce the sound; everything is done by synthesis.The synthesizer has effects likereverberation,echo,chorus,distortion,equalization and others, and supportsmicrotonal tunings.[3][4]
The original author of ZynAddSubFX isRomanian 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]
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 generatewavetables in the PADSynth engine.[9]
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.
