Open Source Linux Sound Synthesis Software
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View 18 business solutionsBrowse free open source Sound Synthesis software and projects for Linux below. Use the toggles on the left to filter open source Sound Synthesis software by OS, license, language, programming language, and project status.
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Hydrogen
An advanced drum machine with pattern-based programming
Hydrogen is an advanced drum machine for GNU/Linux, Windows and Mac OS X. It's main goal is to bring professional yet simple and intuitive pattern-based drum programming. -
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Text to Speech engine for English and many other languages. Compact size with clear but artificial pronunciation. Available as a command-line program with many options, a shared library for Linux, and a Windows SAPI5 version.
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FluidSynth
Software synthesizer based on the SoundFont 2 specifications
FluidSynth is a real-time software synthesizer based on the SoundFont 2 specifications and has reached widespread distribution. FluidSynth itself does not have a graphical user interface, but due to its powerful API several applications utilize it and it has even found its way onto embedded systems and is used in some mobile apps. -
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eGuideDog project develops free software for the blind. Currently, we focus on WebSpeech, Ekho TTS and WebAnywhere.
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Gnaural
Entrain your brain!
A programmable audio generator intended as an aural aid to meditation, implementing the binaural beat principle as described in Gerald Oster's Oct. 1973 Scientific American article "Auditory Beats in the Brain." -
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A multi-platform software synthesiser emulating (somewhat inaccurately) pre-GM MIDI devices such as the Roland MT-32, CM-32L, CM-64 and LAPC-I. In no way endorsed by or affiliated with Roland Corp. Source hosted at: http://www.github.com/munt/
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The Pure Data (short Pd) project on SourceForge unifies the extensions (or externals) written for the Pure Data Graphical Computer Music System written by Miller Puckette with contributions from many others.
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ZynAddSubFX is a powerful realtime, multi-timbral software synthesizer for Linux, OSX, and Windows. It is microtonal, and the instruments made by it sounds like those from professional keyboards. The program has effects like Reverb, Echo, Chorus, Phaser...
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Surge XT
Surge XT Releases Repo
Surge XT is a free, open-source hybrid synthesizer designed for music production, sound design, and electronic composition. It combines multiple synthesis methods, including subtractive, wavetable, FM, and physical modeling. The software features a dual-scene architecture for layering sounds or splitting them across keyboard ranges. Users can shape audio with extensive filtering, modulation, and built-in effects. Its modulation system includes LFOs, envelopes, step sequencers, and multisegment envelope generators. Surge XT supports MIDI expression, microtuning, and a large collection of presets. Available for Windows, macOS, and Linux, it operates as a standalone instrument or plugin in compatible digital audio workstations. The linked repository distributes its release packages. -
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Qsynth
A fluidsynth Qt GUI Interface
Qsynth is a fluidsynth GUI front-end application, written in C++ around the Qt framework, using Qt Designer. Eventually it may evolve into a softsynth management application allowing the user to control and manage a variety of command line softsynths. -
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FluidSynth
A real-time SoundFont software synthesizer
A real-time software synthesizer based on the SoundFont 2 specifications. It can be used for live audio synthesis of MIDI events or for rendering MIDI files to disk, using SoundFont instruments. It can also be embedded in other applications. This is not a application with a graphical user interface, however there are several GUI applications which utilize FluidSynth. -
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FamiStudio
FamiStudio NES Music Editor
FamiStudio is a free, open-source music editor designed for creating chiptune music for the Nintendo Entertainment System and Famicom. It combines a modern digital audio workstation interface with authentic 8-bit sound synthesis. Its piano roll editor allows musicians to compose melodies and arrangements without traditional tracker commands. Users can create custom instruments, modify sound envelopes, and incorporate DPCM samples into compositions. The software supports multiple NES audio expansion chips, enabling a wider variety of retro sound effects and musical textures. It includes MIDI input, compatibility with FamiTracker projects, and several audio and game-compatible export formats. Available for Windows, macOS, Linux, and Android, FamiStudio serves chiptune composers, retro game developers, and NES homebrew enthusiasts. -
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Psycle is a Music tracker (like FastTracker 2 or Impulse Tracker) combined with plugin modularity. It supports its own plugin API, the VST2 plugin standard, and a tracker style sampler playback.
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byzorgan
Specialized sound synthesizer with Byzantine Church music scales
This software integrates a small, specialized synthesizer and vocal processor. It can be used to learn Byzantine Church singing. You can play from the keyboard, mouse or touch screen. MIDI input is also available. Voice functions include: pitch highlighting, synthesizer control by voice, pitch correction and voice-to-ison conversion. On the screen there are labels with symbols of Byzantine notes. There is a metronome. The program is oriented on the Chrysanthos tuning of the diatonic scale: 9/8 - 12/11 - 88/81. The octave is divided into 17 (or 19) non-equal parts, it allows you to get all the Byzantine modes. -
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Omilo - a text to speech application
Omilo is a simple text to speech application
Omilo is a simple text to speech application for Windows and Linux using Festival, Flite, Marytts and Piper voices. -
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Tone.js
A Web Audio framework for making interactive music in the browser
Tone.js is an open source Web Audio framework for creating interactive music in the browser. It has advanced scheduling capabilities, synths, effects and more. Tone.js is built to be useful and familiar to both musicians and audio programmers. It has common DAW (digital audio workstation) features for those looking to schedule events and tinker with pre-built synths and effects. There’s also a great selection of high-performance building blocks for signal-processing programmers familiar with languages like Max/MSP. With Tone.js they can create their own synthesizers, effects, and complex control signals. -
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Nyquist
Nyquist is a language for sound synthesis and music composition.
Nyquist is a language for sound synthesis and music composition. It is implemented in C and C++ and runs on Win32, OSX, and Linux. Nyquist combines a powerful functional programming style with efficient signal-processing primitives. Nyquist is also embedded as a scripting language in Audacity. -
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drumkv1
An old-school drum-kit sampler
an old-school drum-kit sampler with stereo fx. -
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Rakarrack is a stereo digital effects processor for Linux with jack support. Standard line-up of nearly 40 effects modules include Equalizers, Reverbs, Echo, Flange, Chorus, Distortions, WahWah, Vocoder, and other filters and processing modules.
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Frinika
Free open source DAW, MIDI sequencer, software synthesizers
Frinika is a free, complete music workstation software for Linux, Windows, Mac OSX and other operating systems running Java. It features sequencer, soft-synths, realtime effects and audio recording. -
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samplv1
An old-school polyphonic sampler
samplv1 is an old-school all-digital polyphonic sampler synthesizer with stereo fx. -
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AlsaModularSynth is a MIDI controlled realtime modular synthesizer and effect processor with support for LADSPA and JACK.
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SPTK is a suite of speech signal processing tools for UNIX environments, e.g., LPC analysis, PARCOR analysis, LSP analysis, PARCOR synthesis filter, LSP synthesis filter, vector quantization techniques, and other extended versions of them.
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Bristol is synth emulation package for a diverse range of vintage synthesisers, electric pianos and organs. The application consists of a multithreaded audio synthesizer and a user interface called brighton.
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Yoshimi
A Software synthesizer for Linux
A software synthesizer for Linux, originally forked from ZynAddSubFX (Copyright 2002-2009 Nasca Octavian Paul) in 2009 by Alan Calvert. Initially, Yoshimi delivered the same synthesizer capabilities. After early improvement of Jack and Alsa midi/audio performance, now many new features have been added, and we are concentrating on accessibility. Yoshimi comes with a built-in User Guide, and there is also a highly detailed Advanced Reference Manual under continuous development: https://github.com/Yoshimi/yoshimi-doc/raw/master/pdf/yoshimi-advanced-reference-manual.pdf
