I’ve been recently really busy with my bachelor thesis but I learned to use a software called VCV Rack. It’s an open source modular synthesizer emulator and endlessly expandable with external module plugins. I’ve only got started with it even though it is already kinda complicated. At least I managed to plug the synth with MIDI and play some notes. (Routing 1V/oct is the most important thing to get different notes sound instead of steady frequency. Although, I still have to tune the basic frequency correctly…)
At some point I downloaded many other new software synthesizers as well (including VSTs that I was able to get working on Linux using Carla). So far “Helm” is maybe the most promising of them, at least what comes to editing capabilities. Yoshimi/ZynAddSubFX is still one of my top choices when working on software synthesizers though. Hopefully I’ll finish my album next summer where I have been using it much. I have already published some of the WIP songs made during my China trip.
