Dexed version 0.8.0 is now available and it has just received a GUI overhaul. Dexed is a plugin synth that is closely modeled on the Yamaha DX7. The goal of this synth is to be a tool/companion for the original DX7.
Ingen is a modular synth that runs under JACK. It uses LADSPA and LV2 plugins for its processing. It can be used to create modular synths by using synth plugin modules.
AMSynth is an open source realtime software synthesizer for Linux. Its operation is similar to analog Moog Minimoog and Roland Juno-60, which are considered classic synthesizers from the 1970s. It is available in various formats, including LV2 and DSSI plugins as well as JACK/ALSA standalone clients.
The MOD DUO, a hardware guitar effects unit running open source software, has just reached it's $65,000 funding goal on Kickstarter. With one week left, there is still time to reach it's stretch goals, the next of which is set at $100,000. These stretch goals will allow the MOD team to produce the MOD Duo with even better features, such as a 24 bit USB 2.0 audio interface, a die-cast aluminum casing and a 50% faster processor.
Damien Zammit of ZamAudio has recently released version 3.4 of his zam-plugins suite. These plugins come in LADSPA, LV2, LinuxVST and JACK versions. The suite contains the following plugins -
ZamAutoSat ZamComp (mono and stereo) ZamEQ (mono and stereo) ZamGEQ31 ZamTube ZamMultiComp (mono and stereo)
Ahh, sidechaining! The effect us fans of electronic music fear our partners will discover just how much we actually like, and the effect that makes anti-modern electronic musicians shake from hatred. Sidechaining has many different names (ducking is an additional one), but when I speak of sidechaining, I refer to what’s popularly known as “the cool effect that makes everything pump to the beat in electronic music”. Sidechaining itself though has a pretty wide range of uses outside of just “moar pumpz plx”.