ZynAddSubFX
Surge XT
Vital
Dexed
Serum
Synth1
Zebralette
FluidSynth
Reaper
Audacity
FL Studio
LMMS
Ardour
GarageBand
Cubase
Studio One
Based on our record, Reaper seems to be a lot more popular than ZynAddSubFX. While we know about 79 links to Reaper, we've tracked only 4 mentions of ZynAddSubFX. We are tracking product recommendations and mentions on various public social media platforms and blogs. They can help you identify which product is more popular and what people think of it.
I've also used ZynAddSubFX, which is also a very powerful synth, though its interface (at least to me) is a bit of a clusterfuck. You could also try browsing this index of microtonally capable synths on the xenharmonic wiki. Source: about 1 year ago
The code for this can be found here on shadertoy! The audio was made with an Ibanez bass, Guitarix, Hydrogen Drums, ZynaddSubFX and Ardour! Source: over 2 years ago
Here is an additive synth - https://zynaddsubfx.sourceforge.io/. Source: over 2 years ago
There are VSTs for Linux. Surge, Vital, and ZynAddSubFx are three prominent examples, as well as OxeFM, Dexed, and plenty I'm forgetting. Surge and Zyn also come LV2 and DSSI, which are native Linux formats. For those who don't know, the VST3 SDK supports Linux, and is released under GPLv3 by Steinberg. Source: almost 3 years ago
Almost free. https://reaper.fm It's cheap enough for almost anyone to buy and you can play around with the free version. - Source: Hacker News / about 2 months ago
I'm a big fan of Reaper (reaper.fm). It's technically not free, but $60 is totally worth it, plus you can trial it full featured, indefinitely. Source: 6 months ago
If you use the Linux port, you may want to use Yabridge to load Windows VSTs in a transparent way. http://reaper.fm/ https://github.com/robbert-vdh/yabridge. - Source: Hacker News / 7 months ago
My recommendation would be Reaper from reaper.fm Reaper is used in the video game industry due to it's customization, routing, batch processing and scripting capabilities. It's very customizable and has small CPU footprint. Source: 10 months ago
Audio only? Don't torture yourself. Reaper's based on the early Vegas platform, easy to learn and use, and one of the most powerful audio editing tools out there: http://reaper.fm/. Source: 10 months ago
Surge XT - Open-source subtractive-hybrid synthesizer formerly sold commercially as Vember Audio Surge.
Audacity - Audacity is a free and open-source audio production software suite that includes a surprising array of editing tools and recording systems.
Vital - Vital is a spectral warping wavetable synthesizer with drag'n'drop modulation workflow and animated preview of the synth's inner workings where needed. Comes with many modulation sources (including audio-rate), MPE support and FX chain.
FL Studio - Image-Line's FL Studio, now on it's 12th version, is a well-known music production suite and the most popular beat processor on the market, due no doubt to its longevity. Read more about FL Studio.
Dexed - Dexed is a multi-platform, multi-format plugin synth that is closely modeled on the Yamaha DX7.
LMMS - Make music with a free, cross-platform tool
