Battle of the open source synths on Linux: #Vitalium, #SurgeXT, #Synthv1, #Dexed, #ZynAddSubFX. There's also #Helm, but it's just a precursor of Vitalium (by the same developer). There are a couple more, but these are the most common or capable ones.
I wish there was some more development of Vitalium. The creator of #Vital dropped the v1 as GPL, and then he closed sourced it. The community didn't really do much with it.
@Mirk0dex Hey! Matt has spent years building #Vital, and AFAIK now is mainly working on serving his paying customers and improving the synth. IIRC He's released the source code under a dual license a few months after the initial release - this is why we have Vitalium, which is free software created by @falktx . So far we haven't seen a source code updated from Matt, so I don't suspect we'll be getting the new features in #Vitalium any time soon. Still - it's a indispensable free instrument.
Among the most amazing pieces of free/libre software I tested in the last few months (but not limited to...) are:
-#Ardour 7.0 (wow! remember launching versions 1.0 then 2.0!! so featurefull, flexible, robust now!)
-#SurgeXT, one of many new free/libre synths, part of the https://surge-synthesizer.github.io/ suite
- #Bespoke, incredible DAW reminding of AudioMulch (!)
- #Hydrogen, one of the first mature audio software that gave me hope 15y ago, as a drum machine.
yet didnt touch #VCVRack...
Reference, Analyze, Synthesize! (synthesizing brass shell casing impact with Vitalium)
https://share.tube/videos/watch/dcbc3b9c-18c7-4666-9464-d62d3ec4ce34
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