Synthesizers

MiniFreak seems nice. Language for Making Languages for Making Synthesizers is great talk.

Love Nils Frahm's synthesizers setup.

Interesting

• Behringer RD-9 Rhythm Designer
• Waldorf Quantum Mk2

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)