Ten Steps to Becoming a Synth Dynamo

• Sonic Pi

  111 10,531 8.8 C++

  Code. Music. Live.

  

You could do that, just like you could write a web app in assembly.

stuff like https://sonic-pi.net/#examples does exists, but what you start to realize is that, is even the "code first" approaches to making music, you are really just generating configuration on the fly that's being processed buy some other engine underneath, in this case it's Super collider.

• zynthian-sys

  37 73 7.4 Shell

  System configuration scripts & files for Zynthian.

  

IMHO, adding an FX pedal to a synth rig is one of the easiest, simplest ways to upgrade that synth and give it a new echelon of dynamics.

I also have to say that the Zynthian is probably one of the best modules for this you can find, but that would definitely be a degree of complexity higher than the article tries to maintain. Still, an amazing FX box that really pushes the value of the F/OSS FX/DSP community (http://zynthian.org/)

• InfluxDB

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  Power Real-Time Data Analytics at Scale. Get real-time insights from all types of time series data with InfluxDB. Ingest, query, and analyze billions of data points in real-time with unbounded cardinality.

  

• Rack

  156 3,975 8.6 C++

  The virtual Eurorack studio (by VCVRack)

  

All of this is great advice to this 30+ year veteran of synthesis. One thing I'd add: instead of buying new synths, buy effects (pedals or rack or whatever). You'd be surprised how amazing the difference can be between a synth and a synth+foot pedals .. its like upgrading the signal flow by taking on another module.

Also, if you're getting into synths and haven't encountered VCVRack yet, you are in for a huge treat: http://vcvrack.com/

Get it, install it, log in and tick all the boxes for every free module in the list. There is nothing quite like starting a new VCVRack project and having close to a thousand new modules to play with and experiment around with.

• CloudSeed

  5 405 0.0 C#

  Algorithmic Reverb VST Plugin

There is this open source CloudSeed reverb, which has a C++ and C# version, I prefer the C++ one. With some knob fiddling it gets closer to infinite reverbs, like in Valhalla and Strymon Big Sky clouds.

https://github.com/ValdemarOrn/CloudSeed

I guess it can be compiled for Linux with some kung fu build skills. I ported it over to Electrosmith Daisy STM32, which is very cool too: https://www.electro-smith.com/daisy

• DaisySP

  31 807 7.3 C++

  A Powerful DSP Library in C++

  

There is this open source CloudSeed reverb, which has a C++ and C# version, I prefer the C++ one. With some knob fiddling it gets closer to infinite reverbs, like in Valhalla and Strymon Big Sky clouds.

https://github.com/ValdemarOrn/CloudSeed

I guess it can be compiled for Linux with some kung fu build skills. I ported it over to Electrosmith Daisy STM32, which is very cool too: https://www.electro-smith.com/daisy

• curv

  7 1,121 0.0 C++

  Discontinued a language for making art using mathematics

  

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