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Top 23 Synthesizer Open-Source Projects
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InfluxDB
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.
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mt32-pi
🎹🎶 A baremetal kernel that turns your Raspberry Pi 3 or later into a Roland MT-32 emulator and SoundFont synthesizer based on Circle, Munt, and FluidSynth.
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WorkOS
The modern identity platform for B2B SaaS. The APIs are flexible and easy-to-use, supporting authentication, user identity, and complex enterprise features like SSO and SCIM provisioning.
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awesome-music-production
A curated list of software, services, and resources to create and distribute music
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webaudiofont
Use full GM set of musical instruments to play MIDI and single sounds or effects. Support for reverberation and equaliser. No plugins, no Flash. Pure HTML5 implementation compatible with desktop and mobile browser. See live examples.
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DawDreamer
Digital Audio Workstation with Python; VST instruments/effects, parameter automation, FAUST, JAX, Warp Markers, and JUCE processors
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stargate
Innovation-first digital audio workstation (DAW), instrument and effect plugins, wave editor (by stargatedaw)
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strudel
Web-based environment for live coding algorithmic patterns, incorporating a faithful port of TidalCycles to JavaScript
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web-synth
A web-based sound synthesis, music production, and audio experimentation platform (by Ameobea)
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I have wondered what grooves it could come with using https://sonic-pi.net/
Project mention: Bitfield Audio – Teenage Engineer OP-1 Inspired Synth | news.ycombinator.com | 2023-04-27
Project mention: Show HN: Render audio to HTML canvas using WebGPU | news.ycombinator.com | 2024-04-15Nice! Great project website styling and demo.
I had a WebGPU scope demo using vanila JS here, but it's not connected to AudioContext at all.
https://stackblitz.com/edit/vitejs-vite-cuc9vs
Still, I had to use the old WebGL solution for https://glicol.org since the WebGPU support seems to be pretty slow at the moment.
I'm trying to code a fix for it here: https://github.com/FluidSynth/fluidsynth/issues/1282
I have just seen https://github.com/dwhinham/mt32-pi but it doesn't seem as easy to play with and well-documented as the other software I've used.
Project mention: Ask HN: Manufacturing somewhat novel MIDI controller | news.ycombinator.com | 2023-11-10You are about to bite off a lot. Ignore all the other advice in this thread, I do this for a living.
You have some software experience, this is good. Assuming you have embedded software experience (which is essential for what you are doing and not at all like web programming) you have a foothold to finish this project without going completely insane.
Hardware is a completely different beast. With software everything happens in your head and when you get stuck you can usually think your way out of it. With hardware, you really do need to learn to do things meticulously and step by step. There are many things that can go wrong. You will learn a lot on this journey.
Don't be afraid to ask for help. Finding a hardware community will be essential to do this as you learn the skills you need. You're going to make a lot of mistakes, best to go in embracing it
A good place to start is to join an open source community for MIDI. Two off the top of my head is http://www.ucapps.de/ for MIDI specific hardware and https://www.electro-smith.com/daisy
A large amount of the work you will find yourself doing at the beginning is just figuring out where and who to ask questions about things like the keybed and other hardware issues. None of this is terribly 'hard' but none of it is easy. Most of it comes from experience.
It is almost always best to use someone else's product when you are designing your first. Roger Linn (https://www.rogerlinndesign.com/) gave me some fantastic advice a couple years ago when I was trying to design switch caps: "Do you want to be a company that designs switch caps or one that designs synthesizers?" and that stuck. I don't want to design switch caps, so I bought them off the shelf, contracted someone to design my own, and moved on.
So to that end... just buy a couple keybeds from Fatar or someone else, or just grab a synth you already have or buy one off ebay and harvest the keybed from that (often times much cheaper than buying direct!)
Don't be afraid to spend money on tools. If you find something difficult, like soldering, I have not once regretted spending money on better tools. They grow with you and save you hundreds if not thousands of hours of unnecessary frustration. When you know you need a tool, find a way to get it.
Maybe I should make a blog post about this... hmm
Hope that helps!
Project mention: [Stargate] Stargate has updated Stargate DAW for Win, Mac & Linux to v23.06.1, mostly adding some improvements and fixing multiple bugs. Expiry: None [FREE] | /r/newplugindeals | 2023-05-23
Project mention: Recent improvements to OctaSine (free and open source FM synth plugin): new waveforms, pitch bend, velocity sensitivity and more | /r/synthesizers | 2023-05-28Since I last posted here, I've implemented multiple features for OctaSine, a free and open source frequency modulation synth plugin (VST2, CLAP), some of which were heavily requested.
Project mention: Strudel: A live coding platform to write dynamic music pieces in the browser | news.ycombinator.com | 2024-04-03
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 2024-04-15.
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Index
What are some of the best open-source Synthesizer projects? This list will help you:
| Project | Stars | |
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| 1 | Sonic Pi | 10,493 |
| 2 | surge | 2,906 |
| 3 | OTTO | 2,619 |
| 4 | glicol | 1,982 |
| 5 | fluidsynth | 1,689 |
| 6 | soloud | 1,640 |
| 7 | mt32-pi | 1,163 |
| 8 | noisecraft | 1,014 |
| 9 | awesome-music-production | 917 |
| 10 | zynaddsubfx | 906 |
| 11 | webaudiofont | 859 |
| 12 | DawDreamer | 809 |
| 13 | DaisySP | 796 |
| 14 | calf | 648 |
| 15 | fundsp | 638 |
| 16 | stargate | 606 |
| 17 | OctaSine | 581 |
| 18 | TinySoundFont | 562 |
| 19 | strudel | 542 |
| 20 | klystrack | 476 |
| 21 | vult | 475 |
| 22 | amsynth | 425 |
| 23 | web-synth | 418 |
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