| ZynAddSubFX | |
| Author: | Nasca Octavian Paul |
| Developer: | Mark McCurry, Harald Hvaal |
| Latest Release Version: | 3.0.6 |
| Programming Language: | C++ |
| Operating System: | BSD, Linux, Mac OS X, Windows |
| Size: | 8.0MB |
| Language: | English |
| Genre: | Synthesizer |
| License: | GPL-2.0-or-later[1] |
ZynAddSubFX (also now called Zyn-Fusion) is a free and open-source software synthesizer for Linux, Mac OS X and Microsoft 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 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 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, subtractive synthesis by the SUBSynth engine, and an original algorithm used to generate wavetables 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.
