Looking for synthesizers

[aka]

Hi,

I wish to make electronic music ( techno / house / trance / .. ) and I don't know the open source synthesizer world. I only know a few Ardour (on Debian).

Can please someone give me an advice what synthesizer to choose, I see it exists many of them.

Thanks a lot,

aka

[Impostor]

OBXD, Dexed, Vitalium, ZynAddSubFx, Zebralette, Triple Cheese, Tyrell N6, Surge XT, Odin2, Access Virus, HY Poly Free, Apricot, Fluctus, Regency, Monique, Calf.

And those are just the ones I have installed, and are all free. And before I get frowned upon by the open source zealots: free as in costing no money.

[tavasti]

Can please someone give me an advice what synthesizer to choose, I see it exists many of them.

Surge XT is great, and has good set of presets. Vitalium has bit more cabability, but you need to hunt presets or be able to do your own sound design.

[porzione]

Start with Surge XT - very powerful, in active development, good community and documentation.

[sysrqer]

Vital (or Vitalium) and SurgeXT should cover a lot of ground, and possibly even just one of them. But there are lots with nice/niche features that make them worthwhile (all those that Imposter recommended). Zynaddsubfx is a beast if you get to know it.

I'd probably suggest SurgeXT if I had to pick one since you can do a few different forms of synthesis with it and it has the airwindows fx and some famous Eurorack oscillators, great modulation and routing possibilities, easy to use, and lots of presets available.

[tseaver]

Matt Tytel (author of Vital / Vitalium) earlier wrote Helm (https://tytel.org/helm/) which is F/LOSS.

[j_e_f_f_g]

I wonder if folderol has any suggestions?

[amc252]

Fluidsynth.

[tavasti]

Fluidsynth.

Regardles of the name, it is not actually synth at all, but rompler

[Linuxmusician01]

techno / house / trance / ..

Then you most definitely need a 303! Try this nice looking and nice sounding free one: http://antonsavov.net/cms/projects/venom-vb-303.html

And try to find some Roland Juno or Jupiter VST's. Here for example: https://plugins4free.com/instruments/

Good luck making House music and let us know which one you chose!

[Gps]

How a failed Bass synth led to a new music genre. Acid House. (TB 303)

[Audiojunkie]

techno / house / trance / ..

Then you most definitely need a 303! Try this nice looking and nice sounding free one: http://antonsavov.net/cms/projects/venom-vb-303.html

And try to find some Roland Juno or Jupiter VST's. Here for example: https://plugins4free.com/instruments/

Good luck making House music and let us know which one you chose!

Maybe I'm missing something, but none of the suggestions above are open source to my knowledge, which the OP requested. Also, none are natively for linux as far as I know. Maybe I'm not seeing these things and they are there. Apologies if that's the case.

[folderol]

I wonder if folderol has any suggestions?

That seems a good idea but I'd probably be accused of bias... for some obscure reason.

[sunrat]

Maybe I'm missing something, but none of the suggestions above are open source to my knowledge, which the OP requested. Also, none are natively for linux as far as I know. Maybe I'm not seeing these things and they are there. Apologies if that's the case.

OBXD, Dexed, Helm, ZynAddSubFx are open source I believe. And Yoshimi seeing as folderol is too shy to mention it. Probably many others.
Check out http://linuxmusic.rocks/category/synth

[j_e_f_f_g]

I'd probably be accused of bias

Is that the "B" in LGBQT? If so, does that mean Yoshima is actually ZynAddSubFx after a transgender operation?