Synthesizers
MiniFreak seems nice. Language for Making Languages for Making Synthesizers is great talk.
Love Nils Frahm's synthesizers setup.
Interesting
Links
- Modular Mayhem - From Zero To Techno
- Make Noise 0-COAST Semi-Modular Synth Demo
- Subharmonicon - Semi-modular polyrhythmic analog synthesizer that employs a 6-tone sound engine and multi-layered clock generator. (Introduction)
- Moog Synthesizers - Hand-crafted analog synthesizers.
- Matrixsynth - Everything synth.
- OTTO - Sampler, Sequencer, Multi-engine synth and effects - in a box. (Docs)
- Organelle - Makes it easy to explore new sounds and experiment with new ways of making music.
- Reverse engineering the OP-1 drum patch (2020) (HN)
- Love Hulten - Designs tiny synthesizers.
- PLANTYFLUTESIZER being explored by Pico and Verdi
- Dirtywave - Portable synthesizer and sequencer. (Demo) (Discord)
- Helm - Free polyphonic synth with lots of modulation. (Code)
- DIY SYNTH VCO: How to build an analog oscillator core from scratch (2020)
- Patchcab - Modular Eurorack style synthesizer made with Web Audio. (Web)
- Synth Kitchen - In-browser modular synthesis with Web Audio and Web MIDI. (Code)
- WASM Synth - Synthesizer built from scratch in C++ and made available on the web through WebAssembly.
- NTS-1 - Programmable Synthesizer Kit. (HN)
- Web Synth and Digial Audio Workstation (Code)
- How to synthesise electronic noise into musical sound
- SwiftSynth - Synthesizer written entirely in Swift with Apple's new AVAudioSourceNode. (Article)
- alles - Many-speaker distributed mesh synthesizer that responds to control signals over WiFi.
- Making A Synthesizer Using Python
- Synth Playground
- Synth Modes - Mobile-friendly cheat sheets for synthesizer modules. (Code)
- Fragment Audio Server - C Pixels-based graphical audio synthesizer implemented as a WebSocket server.
- WASM SYNTH, or, how music taught me the beauty of math (2020) (HN)
- Ask HN: Introduction to Analog Synthesizers
- Bespoke Synth - Open-source software modular synthesizer. (HN)
- Canvas - Visual additive synthesizer that is controlled by editing an image.
- MiniSynth Pi - Virtual analog synthesizer for Raspberry Pi.
- Mt32-pi - Bare metal Roland MT-32 emulator. (HN)
- Scout - 3D-printed, Arduino-compatible, 17-key mono synth. (Web)
- Oskitone - DIY Synthesizers. (GitHub)
- The Signal State - Game about making modular synths. (Tweet)
- I built an analog synthesizer from scratch. Here is how I did it. (2021)
- OctaSine - VST2 frequency modulation synthesizer written in Rust.
- Reverse-engineering the Yamaha DX7 synthesizer's sound chip from die photos (2021) (Tweet) (HN)
- The Yamaha DX7 synthesizer's clever exponential circuit, reverse-engineered (2021) (HN)
- What Makes It Sound ’80s? Yamaha DX7 Electric Piano Sound (Tweet)
- libfmsynth - C library which implements an FM synthesizer.
- TinySoundFont - SoundFont2 synthesizer library in a single C/C++ file.
- Kiro Synth - Modular sound synthesizer written in Rust.
- The Father of the Digital Synthesizer
- Yamaha DX7 chip reverse-engineering, part 4: how algorithms are implemented (2021) (HN)
- teoperator - Make OP-1 and OP-Z drum and synth patches from any sound. (Web)
- tune - Make xenharmonic music and create synthesizer tuning files for microtonal scales.
- OxiSynth - Pure rust soundfont synthesizer.
- FluidSynth - Cross-platform, real-time software synthesizer based on the Soundfont 2 specification.
- Shaden - Modular audio synthesizer.
- Implicit neural differentiable FM synthesizer
- Fragment - Real-time audiovisual live coding environment. (Code)
- List of open-source synths
- Digital Audio Synthesizer in Rust (2022)
- discoDSP OB-Xd - Virtual Analog Oberheim AAX / AU / VST / VST3 based synthesizer.
- Xephys - Microtonal digital waveguide synthesier.
- Vital - Spectral warping wavetable synthesizer.
- Pilot - UDP synthesizer designed to be controlled externally. Created as a companion application to the livecoding environment ORCA.
- Ensembles - Digital arranger workstation powered by FluidSynth.
- Roland 50 Studio (HN)
- Typebeat - Keyboard-controlled music sequencer, sampler, and synth. (Code)
- Sonicware Liven 8bit Warps
- Kiro Studio - Learning on how to build real-time audio software for music production using the Rust programming language.
- Stargate DAW - Innovation-first digital audio workstation (DAW), instrument and effect plugins, wave editor.
- Diffsynth - a Differentiable Musical Synthesizer in PyTorch
- MiniDexed - Dexed FM synthesizer similar to DX7 running on bare metal Raspberry Pi. (HN)
- DIY Modular Synth (2021)
- TX–6 - teenage engineering (Reddit)
- Syntakt - 12 Track Drum Computer and Synthesizer.
- Mini-Synth - Mini-synthesizer with modular philosophy built from scratch in Python.
- What's an "unpopular opinion" you have about a synth, synth manufacturer, or just the world of synths overall? (2022)
- Synthesizers Reddit Wiki
- OP-1 field
- Mika Micro - Small, expressive subtractive synthesizer.
- eurorack-blocks - Software to Hardware Prototyping for Eurorack using C++, Max/Gen~ or Faust.
- VoiceOfFaust - Turns any monophonic sound into a synthesizer, preserving the pitch and spectral dynamics of the input.
- Polyend - Enjoyable musical instruments. (Twitter) (Beta Testing)
- NESizer2 - Synthesizer based on the 2A03 (NES APU).
- Plugin Boutique - VST Plugins, Synth Presets, Effects, Virtual Instruments, Music.
- JSSynth - Synthesizer PWA written in JS. (Code)
- Cardinal - Virtual modular synthesizer plugin.
- OpenDeck MIDI Platform - Software and hardware platform for simpler building of MIDI controllers with support for DMX.
- HexoSynth - Hexagonal modular synthesizer.
- Supply chain issues are killing synth companies (2022) (HN)
- HexoDSP - Comprehensive DSP graph and synthesis library for developing a modular synthesizer in Rust, such as HexoSynth.
- Soviet Pif synth: a cute analog synthesizer for children (+ FREE Sample Library)
- DDSP-Piano: Differentiable Piano model for MIDI-to-Audio Performance Synthesis
- Live Coding Singing Synthesizer
- ZiggySynth - SoundFont MIDI synthesizer written in pure Zig.
- "The Social Network" synth sounds (2022) (HN)
- MiniFreak - Spontaneous algorithmic synthesizer.
- Polykit X1 Semi Modular Synthesizer
- A Language for Making Languages for Making Synthesizers - Stevie Hryciw (2022)
- Live Coding Video Synth (HN)
- Video Synthesis - MOD WIGGLER
- Logue SDK - Build custom oscillators and effects for the prologue synthesizer.
- FM synth reverse-engineering
- vitOTT - Multiband compressor from famous spectral warping synthesizer.
- Go-MeltySynth - SoundFont MIDI synthesizer written in Go.
- osci-render - Synthesizer for making music by drawing objects on an oscilloscope using audio.
- The Best Synth Player (2023)
- Most in depth synth YouTuber (2023)
- What are the most innovative and experimental synths on the market today? (2023)
- $500-$600 synth range (2023)
- What's your synth music comfort blanket?
- P3synth - MIDI synthesizer and player running on Processing 4. (HN)
- Analog Synthesizer - Low-cost analog synthesizer based on well-available components like LM324 or TL084 op-amps, which is easy to understand and learn.
- Waveform - Experimental wavetable synth written on TS and Web Audio.
- Deluge – sequencer, synthesizer and sampler – goes open source (HN)
- Synth DIY projects