Introducing: ZynAddSubFX 3.0: Zyn-Fusion
The melding of years of meticulous sound design heritage with a brand new interactive UI. A nuclear power plant of an audio engine made more stable than ever combines with a redesigned, reimagined interface to augment full command of sonic design. Cross-platform and multiple format, ZynAddSubFX 3.0 is ready to create the sounds you need.Haven't You Heard Zyn?
The ZynAddSubFX synthesizer project was first released nearly 15 years ago by Paul Nasca Octavia with such an incredible feature set (warm, analog sound, powerful modulation, and a complete set of built-in effects), it quickly became a benchmark for what software is capable of. Add in the fact it was open-source and free and you will understand why Zyn is still relevant a decade and a half later. With years of active maintenance and refactoring completed for the 3.0 release, Zyn-Fusion is an up-to-date, classic, audio-powerhouse.Pre-existing Features:
- 3 Powerful, Mixable, Hybrid, Anti-Aliased Synthesis Engines
- AddSynth
- 8 Oscillators/Voices with enormously flexible waveform control
- 8 Additional Modulation Oscillators (LFO, AM, PM, or FM)
- 8 Envelopes with free drawing mode
- SubSynth
- 22 Filter types including analog, formant, and state variable
- 4 Envelope generators with free drawing mode
- Novel noise filtering/shaping oscillators for sophisticated waveform design
- PadSynth
- Detailed sculpting of pad harmonic spread
- Excellent support for non-harmonic instruments
- Easy to create lush wide pads
- 16 Part Multitimbral with Kit and/or Layered Modes
- Tweakable Analog Warmth with Randomness settings
- 8 Built-In Routable, Reuseable Effects
- Fully Open-Source Sound Engine
- 1000+ quality presets
- Much, Much More
Modernizing a Synth Ahead of Its Time
Zyn was plagued with a difficult to use interface and unstable, unofficial plugin versions. Fusion blows those issues away with a complete redesign and rewrite. Powered by a new custom window toolkit: zest, Zyn is now ready for any platform. With total separation of the UI from the synthesis engine Zyn-Fusion is enabling powerful features such as the new, officially-supported VST plugin version, remote control of a headless CPU with the UI on touchscreen, even multiple UI windows controlling a single sound engine. By fusing 28 windows of fine grained control into one, Zyn is now controlled with a single window design of tabbed views for a consistent, navigable interface. You think you've heard the sounds before, but you've never had the precision control of Fusion.
New Features:
- Beautiful, responsive, single-window interface
- Touchscreen-ready consistent look and feel
- Enhanced navigation and layout in all subviews
- Cross-Platform - Windows, Linux (and soon OSX)
- Multiple Format - VST, LV2, Standalone, Headless/Remote
People have been Lauding Zyn for Years:
2012: WOW! What a tool. My musical journey just went vertical. -- sourceforge reviewer
2010: Amazingly powerful synth!... Endless features, and high quality renderings, it's a vintage analog synth and a crisp digital synth in the same awesome package. -- sourceforge reviewer
2009: ZynAddSubFX makes great sounds available to people who know nothing about analog synths, and offers seemingly endless possibilities to more advanced users. It's just a phenomenally useful piece of software, and one of the cornerstones of my studio. -- sourceforge reviewer
2008: "the freaking best..." -- freeware files reviewer
2004: This is an astoundingly good piece of work. I've been playing with it and discovering cool things at every turn. It has one of the most powerful oscillator design sections I've ever seen in a VST --kvr audio reviewer