https://github.com/jrachele/zsynth

Synthesizer plugin written in Zig
https://github.com/jrachele/zsynth

audio bitwig clap dsp plugin synthesizer vst zig

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Synthesizer plugin written in Zig

• Host: GitHub
• URL: https://github.com/jrachele/zsynth
• Owner: jrachele
• License: mit
• Created: 2024-12-07T00:09:20.000Z (about 1 month ago)
• Default Branch: main
• Last Pushed: 2024-12-31T20:05:27.000Z (10 days ago)
• Last Synced: 2024-12-31T21:17:19.567Z (10 days ago)
• Topics: audio, bitwig, clap, dsp, plugin, synthesizer, vst, zig
• Language: Zig
• Homepage:
• Size: 279 KB
• Stars: 1
• Watchers: 1
• Forks: 0
• Open Issues: 0
• Metadata Files:
  • Readme: README.md
  • License: LICENSE

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# ZSynth

ZSynth is a light-weight digital synthesizer audio plugin written in Zig.

It uses

Zig-friendly [CLAP](https://github.com/free-audio/clap) [bindings](https://git.sr.ht/~interpunct/clap-zig-bindings), and

relies on no other libraries apart from `zigplotlib` for diagnostic graphs.

## Features

- Very lightweight CPU load

- 4 (Mostly) Anti-aliased oscillators: Sine, Saw, Triangle, Square

- ADSR with flexibility within a time domain of 0ms to 20s

- Optional compile-time embedding of wave tables, virtually no CPU overhead incurred.

- No oversampling or trigonometric functions during runtime.

## Planned Work

This is just a hobby project / proof of concept for now, but I have some grand designs regardless:

- Perfectly anti-aliased oscillators

- GUI

- Multiple oscillator support

- Custom wave table integration

- On-board filtering and EQ

- 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

1. Clone the repository and any submodules with `git clone --recurse-submodules https://github.com/jrachele/zsynth.git`

2. Run `zig build -Doptimize=ReleaseFast` to generate the CLAP plugin. It will be in the `zig-out/lib` folder.

    - Optionally, if you want to embed the wave tables into the binary directly at compile time, run

      `zig build -Doptimize=ReleaseFast -Dgenerate_wavetables_comptime=true` instead.

3. Move the resulting `ZSynth.clap` plugin to your DAW's CLAP plugin folder. You may need to rename the file extension

   from `.dll` or `.so` to `.clap`