diff --git a/.gitmodules b/.gitmodules
index c45eeb480..e69de29bb 100644
--- a/.gitmodules
+++ b/.gitmodules
@@ -1,3 +0,0 @@
-[submodule "plugins/zynaddsubfx/zynaddsubfx"]
-	path = plugins/zynaddsubfx/zynaddsubfx
-	url = git://github.com/LMMS/zynaddsubfx.git
diff --git a/plugins/zynaddsubfx/zynaddsubfx b/plugins/zynaddsubfx/zynaddsubfx
deleted file mode 160000
index 3908e82a4..000000000
--- a/plugins/zynaddsubfx/zynaddsubfx
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1 +0,0 @@
-Subproject commit 3908e82a45761e3c6043cacf3c98c29872117c7a