Vital is a spectral warping wavetable synthesizer with drag'n'drop modulation workflow and animated preview of the synth's inner workings where needed. Comes with many modulation sources (including audio-rate), MPE support and FX chain.
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Free Serum Alternatives
The best free alternative to Serum is Vital, which is also Open Source. If that doesn't suit you, our users have ranked more than 10 alternatives to Serum and 11 is free so hopefully you can find a suitable replacement. Other interesting free alternatives to Serum are Helm, ZynAddSubFX, Odin 2 and Surge Synthesizer.
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8 Vital alternatives
Helm is a free, cross-platform, polyphonic synthesizer with a powerful modulation system. Helm runs on GNU/Linux, Mac, and Windows as a standalone program or LV2/VST/VST3/AU plugin.
ZynAddSubFX is a fully featured open source software synthesizer capable of making a countless number of instruments, from some common heard from expensive hardware to interesting sounds that you'll boost to an amazing universe of sounds.
Cost / License
- Freemium
- Open Source
Alerts
- Discontinued
Platforms
- Mac
- Windows
- Linux
- BSD
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24 Odin 2 alternativesOdin 2 is a versatile 24-voice polyphonic synthesizer that covers about every type of synthesis out there. Odin 2 is released as open-source software.
Cost / License
- Free
- Open Source
Platforms
- Mac
- Windows
- Linux
- Flathub
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Surge is an open source digital synthesizer originally written and sold as a commercial product by @kurasu (Claes Johanson) at Vember Audio. The synth uses subtractive hybrid synthesis and each patch contains two 'scenes' which are separate instances of the entire...
Cost / License
- Free
- Open Source
Platforms
- Mac
- Windows
- Linux
- BSD
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17 Dexed alternativesDexed is an FM-type softsynth developed by Pascal Gauthier of Digital Suburban. It is an ideal application for importing, playing and editing/managing sysex patches from both the classic Yamaha DX7 synthesizer and the TX7.
Movement in nature has inspired us for centuries. And now, the sounds of movement in nature have inspired a new instrument that will put you into a creative state of flow.
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15 Tunefish 4 alternativesA virtual analog synthesizer, Tunefish v4 was developed as a smaller replacement of Tunefish v3 with roughly the same power - some might argue it's even more powerful. It was also ported over to Linux and MacOS and was given a new polished UI.
Cost / License
- Free
- Open Source
Platforms
- Mac
- Windows
- Linux
Synth1 is a software synthesizer modeled on the Clavia Nord Lead 2 Red Synth. It combines the common sound synthesis method of Subtractive & FM synthesis.
Cost / License
- Free
- Proprietary
Platforms
- Mac
- Windows
Cost / License
- Free
- Open Source
Platforms
- Linux
- BSD
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