ZynAddSubFX – 3.0: Zyn-Fusion 3.0.6

Haven’t You Heard Zyn?
The ZynAddSubFX synthesizer project was first released nearly 15 years ago by Paul Nasca Octavia with such an incredible feature set (warm, analog sound, powerful modulation, and a complete set of built-in effects), it quickly became a benchmark for what software is capable of. Add in the fact it was open-source and free and you will understand why Zyn is still relevant a decade and a half later. With years of active maintenance and refactoring completed for the 3.0 release, Zyn-Fusion is an up-to-date, classic, audio-powerhouse.
Pre-existing Features:
3 Powerful, Mixable, Hybrid, Anti-Aliased Synthesis Engines
AddSynth
8 Oscillators/Voices with enormously flexible waveform control
8 Additional Modulation Oscillators (LFO, AM, PM, or FM)
8 Envelopes with free drawing mode
SubSynth
22 Filter types including analog, formant, and state variable
4 Envelope generators with free drawing mode
Novel noise filtering/shaping oscillators for sophisticated waveform design
PadSynth
Detailed sculpting of pad harmonic spread
Excellent support for non-harmonic instruments
Easy to create lush wide pads
16 Part Multitimbral with Kit and/or Layered Modes
Tweakable Analog Warmth with Randomness settings
8 Built-In Routable, Reuseable Effects
Fully Open-Source Sound Engine
1000+ quality presets
Much, Much More
Modernizing a Synth Ahead of Its Time
Zyn was plagued with a difficult to use interface and unstable, unofficial plugin versions. Fusion blows those issues away with a complete redesign and rewrite. Powered by a new custom window toolkit: zest, Zyn is now ready for any platform. With total separation of the UI from the synthesis engine Zyn-Fusion is enabling powerful features such as the new, officially-supported VST plugin version, remote control of a headless CPU with the UI on touchscreen, even multiple UI windows controlling a single sound engine. By fusing 28 windows of fine grained control into one, Zyn is now controlled with a single window design of tabbed views for a consistent, navigable interface. You think you’ve heard the sounds before, but you’ve never had the precision control of Fusion.
New Features:
Beautiful, responsive, single-window interface
Touchscreen-ready consistent look and feel
Enhanced navigation and layout in all subviews
Cross-Platform – Windows, Linux (and soon OSX)
Multiple Format – VST, LV2, Standalone, Headless/Remote
Demo limits removed: After 10 minutes of GUI being active (libzest.dll), notes gets cut out. Closing/reopening GUI resets the timer which may cause confusion.

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