I slowly find my may through zynthian. What a great project, so much to discover!
But the very first thing I came across, was the first synth in the list and opening the first bank of presets there: ZynAddSubFx, Arpeggio. When I hit a chord, I expected an arpeggiator playing anything at some bpm. But there was just this nice synth sound. But no arpeggio. None of the presets actually does “arpeggiating”. Of course, I found out about the midi arpeggiator plugin, but there were posts from 2017 about Arpeggios in ZynAddSubFx which seem to have worked natively.
I guess I must have missed something obious and I’m willing to learn!
Hi @ey77 !! ZynAddSubFX doesn’t have an arppeggiator. There is a bank called “arppeggios”, that could sound similar to arppeggiated sounds, but that’s all.
Anyway, you can setup an arppeggiator on any layer by adding MIDI-FX from layer options . It’s really easy.
I tried with jack clock and no arpeggio. Arp not mentioned on the ZynAddSubFx homepage either. I think it was an inappropriately named set of patches. They echo but don’t arpeggiate.
How @jofemodo wrote, Zynaddsubfx has no arpeggiator, even the echo is not syncronized to the MIDI clock. I believe the name Arpeggio is therefore because the sounds should be suitable for this type of play.
I just tried the demo on windows. It’s exactly the same behaviour there. So yes, it’s only the name that proposes cool sounds for using in an external arpeggiator.
