surge VS vital

Good stuff!

I started getting in to this at the start of the year. Already had an old, dusty MicroKORG and MIDI interface to use it as a controller, but recently splashed out on a bigger controller as the Korg's tiny keys were hurting me - plus, I wanted something bigger to get better at piano!

A couple of free soft synths I'd recommend are Surge XT, and Vital.

https://surge-synthesizer.github.io/

https://vital.audio/

https://surge-synthesizer.github.io/ and https://asb2m10.github.io/dexed/ should work like a charm.

To get the equivalent of a symphonic orchestra in your computer, the solution is basically money; you buy the instruments you need. In the case of synthesizers, things are much cheaper - if you put in the effort yourself. https://surge-synthesizer.github.io/ is excellent and could even be used if you wanted to make a more retro-style soundtrack.

Instead of Synth1, try https://surge-synthesizer.github.io/ . It's pretty much better in every aspect except for the UI which is going to look a lot more daunting to you ;)

In general, this should only happen when a Program Change message is sent.

This was the first subtractive snth I got really into. It's so good!

Matt Tytel also made an open source wave table synth called vital that I'm also in love with that you can find here:

https://vital.audio/

git repo is here:

https://github.com/mtytel/vital

Orrrr, you take a look at this https://github.com/mtytel/vital - and see what you can figure out :)

Vital/Vitalium by Matt Tytell — a beast of a spectral wavetable synth. 3 oscillators, sampler, 2 filters, 3 env/LFOs, bunch of macro controls, great in-built effects (compressor, distortion, verb, delay, etc.), and so so much more. Hats off to Matt for this, this is an achievement! Vital is free with a "basic" setup of 75 presets/25 wavetables, there are also options for monthly subscription / "plus" / "pro" upgrades for more presets, skins, and other perks. Matt published Vital's source code but isn't accepting pull requests; Vitalium is a community fork of Vital.

Install https://github.com/mtytel/vital

It's apparently been open source for less than a month under GPLv3: https://github.com/mtytel/vital

As recently as the end of 02020 they were planning to not open-source it: https://forum.vital.audio/t/is-vital-actually-open-source/13...

Vital. Knew it was free, just found out it's OSS too!

Not sure about the pens you mentioned specifically but Vital is pretto good looking and open source https://github.com/mtytel/vital

Vital (with the easiest totally open source version available from KXStudio's version and a nice free, preset pack)

It absolutely looks to be open source to me? https://github.com/mtytel/vital