[LAU] Samples + Synthesis synth?

[Gabriel M. Beddingfield]

On Mon, 17 May 2010, Andrew C wrote:

> Anyone know of any linux synths out there that combine samples with
> synthesis? I was thinking sort of like Sequential Circuit's Prophet VS?

The Prophet boils down to what you'd call a "Virtual Analog" 
synth.  The innards are digital, but the ideas are modeled 
after the way that analog synths were done.

Linux synths in the class of 'virtual analog' include 
ZynAddSubFX (and Yoshimi), Alsa Modular Synth (ams). 
There's probably others I haven't thought of.  For ams, I 
don't think there's any pre-fab'd way to load a misc. sample 
file as a base waveform... but I don't think it would be 
rocket science for that to be added.

In addition, the "live audio coding" paradigm has a lot of 
flexibility in this realm, and some of PureData's (pd) 
examples are doing this sort of things.

Hope this helps,
Gabriel