I found this list from 1998: https://community.fortunecity.ws/tinpan/elton … 231/softsyn.htm

https://kbswiki.miraheze.org/wiki/List_of_sof … are_MIDI_synths

I collect some here in a rather terrible review format. Be it drivers, VSTs, or standalone players.

pachuco wrote on 2024-12-09, 23:29:

https://kbswiki.miraheze.org/wiki/List_of_sof … are_MIDI_synths

I collect some here in a rather terrible review format. Be it drivers, VSTs, or standalone players.

i did your whole list of softsynths. except for the phone related ones, i was familiar with most of them. i didn't know about the edirol hyper canvas gm2 synth and i revisited the inivision cybersynth which i had tried before, but gave up on. this time i found a v3 iso which installed with a midi-in option setting that allows cybersynth to be used with external programs. i'm using midiplayer6 via midiyoke, but i'm unable to get anything that approaches smooth playback from cybersynth. conversely, when i load the same midi file in the cybersynth interface it plays as expected. i don't think the issue is midiyoke as this is the only instance where playback is stuttering. i'm wondering if an internal cybersynth setting will address this?

another softsynth i gave up on is novastation. i've since discovered a 'yamaha S-YXG50' edition of the software. the question in my mind is whether this is a special licensed edition or if yamaha has always been the softsynth bundled with novastation?

stanwebber, did you ever find the Korg softsynth mentioned at MIDI (GS/XG/GM/GM2)

Stretch wrote on 2025-01-17, 00:38:

stanwebber, did you ever find the Korg softsynth mentioned at MIDI (GS/XG/GM/GM2)

no, that is the only softsynth on that page i've never been able to source.

I created a project on Github that uses disassembled / statically recompiled version of the WebSynth D-77 synthesizer to build a Linux ALSA driver and a tool to convert a midi file to PCM.