free synth for microtonal music

Dear community,
I'm searching for a synthesizer capable of microtonality. It's for an
workshop with high-school-students. I know off course that there are PD and
Csound but these tools are maybee a bit too complicated for my aim.

--- In tuning@yahoogroups.com, Stefan Thomas <kontrapunktstefan@...> wrote:
>
> Dear community,
> I'm searching for a synthesizer capable of microtonality. It's for an
> workshop with high-school-students. I know off course that there are PD and
> Csound but these tools are maybee a bit too complicated for my aim.

What platform? I recommend amSynth http://code.google.com/p/amsynth/ as well as ZynAddSubFX http://zynaddsubfx.sourceforge.net/ , but they may not be available for your operating system. Also we recently found Bristol supports microtuning http://bristol.sourceforge.net/emulations.html .

Keenan

--- In tuning@yahoogroups.com, Stefan Thomas <kontrapunktstefan@...> wrote:
>
> Dear community,
> I'm searching for a synthesizer capable of microtonality. It's for an
> workshop with high-school-students. I know off course that there are PD and
> Csound but these tools are maybee a bit too complicated for my aim.
>

A number of VST software synthesizers have microtuning capabilities via .tun files. Scala will export .tun files.

The "hottest" software synths these days are the U-He synths. Zebra, ACE and DIVA support .tun files. These come with many excellent presets and have great popular appeal.

Kontakt by Native Instruments, which dominates the sampler market, supports microtuning via scripts. These scripts can be generated from Scala files.

These are not freeware synthesizers, though. I have read that the "Richman 2" synthesizer here:
http://www.krakli.com/krakli-free-synths/
supports microtuning, but have not tried it yet.

Dear community,
the platform should be windows, because most people use it.
Is it possible to get good but free vst-plugins?

What platform? I recommend amSynth http://code.google.com/p/amsynth/ as
> well as
> ZynAddSubFX http://zynaddsubfx.sourceforge.net/ , but they may not be
> available
> for your operating system. Also we recently found Bristol supports
> microtuning
> http://bristol.sourceforge.net/emulations.html .
>
> Keenan
>

Yes.

Someone should point you to Jacky Lingon's vsti
I think it is xenarts.con ot xen-arts.com
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From: Stefan Thomas <kontrapunktstefan@...>
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Date: Fri, 16 Mar 2012 12:12:44
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Subject: [tuning] re: free synth for microtonal music

Dear community,
the platform should be windows, because most people use it.
Is it possible to get good but free vst-plugins?

What platform? I recommend amSynth http://code.google.com/p/amsynth/ as
> well as
> ZynAddSubFX http://zynaddsubfx.sourceforge.net/ , but they may not be
> available
> for your operating system. Also we recently found Bristol supports
> microtuning
> http://bristol.sourceforge.net/emulations.html .
>
> Keenan
>