zynaddsubfx1

Usage

Overview

zynaddsubfx is a polyphonic multimbral synthesizer, which supports three synthesis engines and numerous effects to generate sound.

1) ADsynth generates sounds by adding a number of voices. Each voice has filters, envelopes, LFOs, morphing, modulation (Ring Modulation, Phase Modulation... the modulators can have any shape), resonance, etc... Each voice includes a waveform generator with up to 128 sine/non-sine harmonics. You can use Fourier synthesis or if you don’t like it you can wave-shaping/filtering of functions.

2) SUBsynth is a simple engine which makes sounds through harmonic filtering of white noise

3) PADsynth is an engine that makes very beautiful pads and other instruments, which can be exported for use with other programs.

Midi and audio support exists for OSS, ALSA, JACK, and others...

Options

-h, --help

Display command-line help and exit

-v, --version

Display version and exit

-l, --load=FILE

Loads a .xmz file

-L, --load-instrument=FILE

Loads a .xiz file

-r --sample-rate=SR

-b, --buffer-size=SR

Set the buffer size, which determines the granularity of how often parameter changes can be applied

-o, --oscil-size=OS

Set the ADsynth oscillator size

-S, --swap

Swap Left and Right output channels

-D, --dump

Dumps midi note ON/OFF commands

-U, --no-gui

Run ZynAddSubFX without user interface

-N, --named=Name

Postfix IO Name when possible

-a, --auto-connect

AutoConnect when using JACK

-O, --output=engine

Set Output Engine

-I, --input=engine

Set Input Engine

-e, --exec-after-init=command

Run post-initialization script. This script will be run after midi and audio drivers have been initialized.

-M, --midi-learn=FILE

Load a midi learn binding (.xlz) file.