Sound Synthesis Software for Linux

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Browse 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

    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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    Downloads: 1,960 This Week
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    eSpeak: speech synthesis
    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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    Downloads: 1,479 This Week
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    FluidSynth

    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.
    Downloads: 71 This Week
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    Gnaural

    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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    Downloads: 232 This Week
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    Psycle Modular Music Creation Studio
    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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    Downloads: 176 This Week
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    eGuideDog free software for the blind
    eGuideDog project develops free software for the blind. Currently, we focus on WebSpeech, Ekho TTS and WebAnywhere.
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    Downloads: 149 This Week
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    Munt
    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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    Downloads: 168 This Week
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    ZynAddSubFX
    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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    Downloads: 152 This Week
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    Qsynth

    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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    Downloads: 173 This Week
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    Pure Data Computer Music System
    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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    Downloads: 70 This Week
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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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    Downloads: 243 This Week
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    FluidSynth

    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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    Downloads: 98 This Week
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    Tone.js

    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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    libsidplayfp

    libsidplayfp

    A library to play Commodore 64 music derived from libsidplay2

    Libsidplayfp (and its console frontend sidplayfp) is a fork of sidplay2 born with the aim to improve the quality of emulating the 6581, 8580 chips and the surrounding C64 system in order to play SID music better.
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    Downloads: 82 This Week
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    MD Synth DAW

    MD Synth DAW

    Write music for the Sega Mega Drive

    Write music for the Sega Mega Drive Or just make music with the same limits the console had. The YM2612 and the SN76489 synthesizers are your instruments.
    Downloads: 260 This Week
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    Nyquist

    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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    Downloads: 63 This Week
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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.
    Downloads: 32 This Week
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    byzorgan

    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.
    Downloads: 35 This Week
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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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    Downloads: 27 This Week
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    Qsampler

    Qsampler

    A LinuxSampler Qt GUI Interface

    Qsampler is a linuxsampler GUI front-end application written in C++ around the Qt4 toolkit using Qt Designer. For the moment it just wraps the client interface of LinuxSampler Control Protocol (LSCP) (http://www.linuxsampler.org).
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    Downloads: 108 This Week
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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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    Downloads: 23 This Week
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    prodatum

    prodatum

    patch editor for the E-MU Proteus 2000 synthesizer family

    A cross-platform patch editor for the E-MU Proteus 2000 sample-based synthesizer family. prodatum is free software.
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    Downloads: 16 This Week
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    Snd

    Snd is a sound editor

    Snd is a sound editor.
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    Downloads: 24 This Week
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    The Analysis & Resynthesis Sound Spectrograph analyses a sound file into a spectrogram and is able to synthesise this spectrogram, or any other user-created image, back into a sound.
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    Downloads: 68 This Week
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    drumkv1

    drumkv1

    An old-school drum-kit sampler

    an old-school drum-kit sampler with stereo fx.
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    Downloads: 30 This Week
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