Surge XT
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Digital Beauty
Surge XT is a digital synth and makes no bones about it.
If you have used it in the past, it will be like welcoming an old friend back into your life. If you are new to Surge XT, welcome to the party. Come on in, the water is fine.
Surge is back, XTended and open source!
Thanks to the generosity of @Kurasu (owner of Vember Audio), Surge has been open sourced and lives on GitHub. This page you’re reading right now. Yup! This one right here. It’s a part of the surge-synthesizer GitHub project.
Synthesis method: Subtractive hybrid
Each patch contains two scenes which are separate instances of the entire synthesis engine (except effects) that can be used to create layered or split patches.
Quick category-based patch browser with textual search and favorites.
Runs on a variety of operating systems, plugin formats, and architectures.
Factory Sounds
Over 2800 patches
Over 700 wavetables
System Requirements
Windows
- Minimum: Windows 7 and Intel or AMD processor featuring SSE2 instructions
- Recommended: 64-bit Windows 7 or newer, 3 GHz quad-core processor featuring SSE2 instructions or better
- Minimum of 4 GB of RAM
- VST3 or CLAP compatible host application
- x64-compatible CPU, OS and host is required to use the 64-bit version
macOS
- Surge XT is an Intel/Apple Silicon universal binary. Intel Mac requires macOS 10.11 or later, Apple Silicon Mac will run Surge XT with any Apple Silicon version of macOS
- Minimum of 4 GB of RAM
- VST3, AU or CLAP compatible host application
Linux
- PC or ARM system running a Linux distribution
- x64-compatible CPU, OS and host is required to use the 64-bit version; for ARM processors you can build Surge XT for ARM on Raspberry Pi and similar (tested with RPi4/arm64)
- Minimum of 4 GB of RAM
- VST3, CLAP or LV2 compatible host application
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