Top 6 Rust Synthesizer Projects

glicol

48 1,521 3.9 Rust

Graph-oriented live coding language and music/audio DSP library written in Rust

Project mention: Little Languages for Music (1990) [pdf] | news.ycombinator.com | 2023-05-21

Thanks for sharing this paper. As a music language designer and developer (https://glicol.org/), I have a strong empathy with this paper as the research gap mentioned in the abstract is exactly one of my goals: to bridge the note representation and sound synthesis. And there are other axises to consider: real-time audio performance, coding ergonomics, collaborations, etc. There is no doubt that these languages have now become musical interfaces and part of instruments (laptops).
typebeat

0 382 1.6 Rust

Keyboard-controlled music sequencer, sampler, and synth
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HexoSynth

2 166 10.0 Rust

A FLOSS (Open Source) hexagonal modular synthesizer plugin.

Project mention: OctaSine (free and open source FM synth) v0.8.1: Apple Silicon support, performance improvements, bug fixes | /r/synthesizers | 2022-10-29

HexoSynth is another working example, using nih-plug instead of the vst crate I use.
tune

11 109 5.9 Rust

Make xenharmonic music and create synthesizer tuning files for microtonal scales.

Project mention: My own microtonal synthesizer project microwave | /r/synthesizers | 2023-05-12

Hi, thanks for your comment! The GitHub repo including the source code, documentation and links to some demo videos can be found here: https://github.com/Woyten/tune/tree/master/microwave
rustysynth

1 47 10.0 Rust

A SoundFont MIDI synthesizer written in pure Rust

Project mention: I made a SoundFont MIDI synthesizer | /r/rust | 2023-01-12
tooro-editor

1 23 10.0 Rust

Cross-platform software editor for the Fred's Lab Töörö hardware synthesizer.

Project mention: What are your thoughts on Fred's Lab Töörö polysynth?. | /r/synthesizers | 2022-11-06

Here is the editor: https://github.com/sourcebox/tooro-editor

NOTE: The open source projects on this list are ordered by number of github stars. The number of mentions indicates repo mentiontions in the last 12 Months or since we started tracking (Dec 2020). The latest post mention was on 2023-05-21.