Yoshimi

A Software Synthesizer for Linux

Not tested on a device yet. What that means

Yoshimi in Breadstick

Breadstick runs Debian's own yoshimi package for ARM64, the build a Debian 13 computer with an ARM processor installs, so Yoshimi should look and behave as it does on a Linux PC. On Samsung DeX, Floating mode opens it as its own window beside your Android apps, and Desktop mode runs it on a full Linux desktop.

Sound plays through the device's own audio output, and video is decoded in software, so large or high frame rate files can struggle on slower devices. More about audio and video apps in Breadstick.

About Yoshimi

From the project's description

Yoshimi is a MIDI software synthesizer for Linux. It synthesizes in real time, can run polyphonic and/or monophonic in multiple simultaneous patches in one or more MIDI channels and has broad microtonal capability. It includes extensive additive, subtractive, and PAD synth capabilities which can be run simultaneously within the same patch. It also has comprehensive effects capabilities.
Originally based on the 2.4.0 version of ZynAddSubFX (Copyright 2002-2009 Nasca Octavian Paul), development of Yoshimi has continued for quite a while now in its own direction. Originally these included major optimizations for audio and MIDI performance. More recently there has been progressive development of user-level access to all controls, including command line access. Since V1.5.0 there is full Midi Learn capability.
In the V1.7.x series ALSA MIDI can search for and connect to all viable sources, almost all controls have been made realtime, both key and channel aftertouch have been implemented and there is now the ability to change the panning law. Refinement continues, both visually and within the code.
Version 2.0 brings fully resizable windows, MIDI sync for LFOs, and extensions to panning control.
Version 2.1.0 extends MIDI sync for Effects where relevant, and adds extensions to NRPNs. There is also a new HTML User Guide.
Version 2.2.0 sees a major revision of the PadSynth engine allowing significant morphing of the wavetables in real-time.
Version 2.3.0 has backward compatible high resolution controls where relevant and comprehensive GUI theme management enabling user defined colours.
Version 2.3.1 has improved microtonal scales and the ability to export .scl and .kbm files.
Version 2.3.2 adds the ability to set different left/right repeat rates in the Echo effect.
Version 2.3.3 has improved memory management, extension to keyboard shortcuts, better configurastion control, and expands theme colour control, and adds realtime theme editing.

Keywords: Softsynth, Synthesizer
Menu categories: MIDI, Music, Audio

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Sources and licenses

Name, summary and description: the project's AppStream metadata in Debian's yoshimi package, under CC-BY-4.0. Copyright 2016-2024 Yoshimi project.
Icon: the project's own, from Debian's AppStream icon cache for the yoshimi package; the project's license is GPL-2.0+.
Versions and sizes: Debian's archive for ARM64, as on packages.debian.org.
Popularity: Debian Popularity Contest counts.