zsynthjrachele/zsynth
MIT
Synthesizer plugin written in Zig
141400
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audio,bitwig,clap,dsp,plugin,synthesizer,vst,zig
build.zig.zonbuild.zig
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Nameregex
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7bc0fd7.tar.gzNameclap-bindings
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Namezopengl
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c9c293a9af388478bca0ad52007a72372ef71747.tar.gzNamemach-objc
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https://github.com/hexops/mach-objc/archive/79b6f80c32b14948554958afe72dace261b14afc.tar.gz.tar.gzCommit
79b6f80c32b14948554958afe72dace261b14afc.tar.gzNamezglfw
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https://github.com/zig-gamedev/zglfw/archive/5aaf806521bbda4385b1041d9448bd0c40192a1c.tar.gz.tar.gzCommit
5aaf806521bbda4385b1041d9448bd0c40192a1c.tar.gzNameztracy
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https://github.com/zig-gamedev/ztracy/archive/b14c70625294de7c98fc08f7b6bd327dca01c79c.tar.gz.tar.gzCommit
b14c70625294de7c98fc08f7b6bd327dca01c79c.tar.gzNamezgui
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https://github.com/jrachele/zgui/archive/ed5d18079a7adbdf6262e6a5c71a0148a6be0485.tar.gz.tar.gzCommit
ed5d18079a7adbdf6262e6a5c71a0148a6be0485.tar.gzREADME
ZSynth is a light-weight digital synthesizer audio plugin written in Zig. It uses Zig-friendly CLAP bindings, and leverages ImGui to render the plugin GUI.
Features
- Very lightweight CPU load
- 2 oscillators powered by anti-aliased wave tables: Sine, Saw, Triangle, Square
- Intuitive GUI with accurate visual of waveform
- Biquad filter with low pass, high pass, and band pass
- ADSR with flexibility within a time domain of 0ms to 20s
- Optional compile-time embedding of wave tables with
-Dgenerate_wavetables_comptime - No oversampling.
Planned Work
This is just a hobby project / proof of concept for now, but I have some grand designs regardless:
- Custom wave table integration
- On-board delay and reverb
Installation
Prerequisites
- ZSynth requires Zig nightly. It was last tested with version
0.14.0-dev.2546+0ff0bdb4a - Git
Steps
- Clone the repository with
git clone https://github.com/jrachele/zsynth.git - Run
zig build -Doptimize=ReleaseFastto generate the CLAP plugin. It will be in thezig-out/libfolder.- Optionally, if you want to embed the wave tables into the binary directly at compile time, run
zig build -Doptimize=ReleaseFast -Dgenerate_wavetables_comptime=trueinstead.
- Optionally, if you want to embed the wave tables into the binary directly at compile time, run
- The build process should move the resulting
ZSynth.clapplugin to your DAW's CLAP plugin folder.