Editing ZynAddSubFX (section)

{{Short description|Software synthesizer}}
{{Infobox software
| name = ZynAddSubFX
| logo = 
| screenshot = Zyn-Fusion.png
| caption = ZynAddSubFX on Linux
| author = Nasca Octavian Paul
| developer = Mark McCurry, Harald Hvaal
| released = {{Start date|2002|09|25}}
| latest release version = 3.0.6
| latest release date = {{Start date and age|2022|01|21}}
| repo = {{URL|https://sourceforge.net/projects/zynaddsubfx/}}
| programming language = C++
| operating system = [[BSD]], [[Linux]], [[Mac OS X]], [[Microsoft Windows|Windows]]
| platform = 
| size = 8.0MB
| language = English
| genre = [[Synthesizer]]
| license = [[GNU General Public License|GPL-2.0-or-later]]<ref>[https://sourceforge.net/p/zynaddsubfx/code/ci/master/tree/README.adoc ZynAddSubFX license]</ref>
| website = {{URL|http://zynaddsubfx.sourceforge.net/}}
}}

'''ZynAddSubFX''' (also now called Zyn-Fusion) is a [[free and open-source]] [[software synthesizer]] for [[Linux]], [[Mac OS X]] and [[Microsoft Windows]]. Version 3's new user interface was initially released under proprietary terms, but is now open source (though prebuilt binaries are still sold to fund development).<ref name="zynaddsubfx FAQ">{{Cite web|url=https://zynaddsubfx.sourceforge.io/demo.html|title=ZynAddSubFX 3.0.0 Demo|website=zynaddsubfx.sourceforge.io|access-date=May 17, 2020}}</ref>

For sound generation it has three hybrid synth engines that combine [[Additive synthesis |additive]], [[Subtractive synthesis|subtractive]], [[Fourier series|Fourier]] and other synthesis methods. No external samples are used to produce the sound; everything is done by synthesis.
The synthesizer has effects like [[reverberation]], [[echo (phenomenon)|echo]], [[chorus effect|chorus]], [[distortion]], [[Equalization (audio)|equalization]] and others, and supports [[microtonal]] tunings.<ref name="zynaddsubfx.sourceforge">{{Cite web|url=https://zynaddsubfx.sourceforge.io/|title=About ZynAddSubFX|website=zynaddsubfx.sourceforge.io|access-date=May 17, 2020}}</ref><ref name="ZynAddSubFX | Microtuning Features Updated">
{{cite web
 |url=http://www.xen-arts.com/2013/01/zynaddsubfx-windows-vsti-microtuning.html 
 |title=Microtuning Features Updated 
 |access-date=February 10, 2013 
 |url-status=dead 
 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140523230619/http://www.xen-arts.com/2013/01/zynaddsubfx-windows-vsti-microtuning.html 
 |archive-date=May 23, 2014 
}}</ref>

The original author of ZynAddSubFX is [[Romanians|Romanian]] programmer Nasca Octavian Paul.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://zynaddsubfx.sourceforge.io/credits.html|title=ZynAddSubFX|website=zynaddsubfx.sourceforge.io|access-date=May 17, 2020}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.paulnasca.com/open-source-projects|title=Open Source projects - Paul Nasca|website=www.paulnasca.com|access-date=May 17, 2020}}</ref> The project was started in March 2002<ref name="zynaddsubfx.sourceforge" /> and the first public version (1.0.0) was released on September 25, 2002.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://zynaddsubfx.sourceforge.io/news.html|title=ZynAddSubFX News|website=zynaddsubfx.sourceforge.io|access-date=May 17, 2020}}</ref> Since 2009, the new maintainer is Mark McCurry.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://zynaddsubfx.sourceforge.io/contribute.html|title=Contributing To ZynAddSubFX|website=zynaddsubfx.sourceforge.io|access-date=May 17, 2020}}</ref>