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Great blog post about synth programming- you'll be happy you read it.
This article really changed my approach to synths after I read it and has saved me a lot of money as a result.
http://www.syntorial.com/dynamo.php?awt_l=54ODE&awt_m=3aFl3j_AKP8BS8D
It looks like his product, syntorial, is coming to ios soon and looks to be well worth it.
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A good read, thanks.
Sufficiently sensible it's almost annoying, like some older brother who you know is right, but still
But still; good stuff.
Curses. Waaaaaaay too late
Ha! Well, I am the oldest sibling in my family and my sister most definitely thinks I'm annoying...ha!
Great idea! As a small nod to my large, unused synth collection, I think I will apply his advice to two synths (versus a single on): Sunrizer and Thor. Both have great presets, sequencers and I love the GUIs. Maybe it will help the learning process to see how two different manufacturers implement the same thing.
Someone mentioned recently "The thing with the oldest child is that they mistake selfishness for assertiveness..." As a second child (older sister), I agreed with this sufficiently that my wife (oldest child) gave me a good (and assertive) telling off
I especially liked this part:
"So, to put it in simpler terms, you should have a good reason for buying your next synth. One particularly bad reason that is worth mentioning, is purchasing synths for the sake of acquiring more presets. Now, if you're content to strictly use presets, and never really want to learn how to program, then by all means, be my guest. But be warned that buying synths for their presets is a path that will lead you down the slippery slope of Gear Acquisition Syndrome. Before long you're going to have a boat-load of synths, none of which you know how to program. You'll be the skier on the bunny slopes with the most expensive equipment. A tourist posing as a local. And you'll spend most of your creative process browsing through endless menus of presets. Which is BORING.
So buy to expand your palette, or for the love of the synth."
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The exercises are great ideas too!
Not off topic... more of an aside... the page mentions U-he Diva being one of the better synths to learn on. Well I have and love Diva, however ever since Logic Pro X, it doesn't work. I just wonder if anyone here has found a fix.
Perfect timing. I recently decided to focus on the depths of Magellan. Making much more headway than running in circles now.
Yep. Good article.
I have committed myself to wringing the most humanly possible out of all the Gadget synths and have made a firm and solum promise to not by any more synths.
Good luck with that.
Right after I read this whenever it had come out, I decided to try it with Thor and I read the discovering Thor series on Propellerheads website. I learned many things I didn't know about it. Thor isn't my go to synth usually for some reason when playing live, I haven't seemed to be able to make it work. But, I use iSEM on iPad for synth bass or sunrizer on iPod touch (I'd use iSEM if it would run on the touch!!). Anytime I've tried other things than iSEM I go back to it. I have the patches on there I need.
Anyway, I'm glad the article is helpful, I wish I had written it! And to the developers that the article made lose money, I apologize. ;-)
Super cool schooling right there
I am such a nerd: Is it just me or is additive synthesis omitted
Interesting read. However, I'm not sure I fully agree with his perspective. One doesn't need to fully understand every in and out of a synth to be a synth player. To further his own analogy about the skier on the bunny hill... it's like saying you can't truly be a good skier unless you learn how to make your own skis from scratch. Every synth I've used comes with plenty of good presets from basic to bizarre. There's more than enough without players having to reinvent the wheel. I'm happy using the KISS principle... "Keep it simple, stupid". But I'm primarily a guitarist so what do I know.
How dare you disagree!!! ;-)
I'm a bassist , so for the fretted analogy, how many times have we bought another instrument, with that one being the "key" that unlocks everything we haven't been able to do up to that point? If we had taken lessons or practiced more would that do the same? And then as we get better we get new instruments that parallel our increased knowledge.
I think his point is not to never buy another synth but to do so when you know that you need it to achieve a sound that is not possible with what you have. And you'd know this because you know your current synth inside and out.
You thought you could find happiness
Just over that green hill
You thought you would be satisfied
But you never will-
I started a thread recently about Synthorial but i emailed the dev and unfortunately it's not a seperate app, you still need the full version, it'll be an addon that runs on ioS.
Ah, I didn't know it would be an add on. Syntorial looks like a great way to learn synthesis though, very thorough. It's just not something I can buy right now, too many other needs (most not related to music).
I have a little tip that is kinda related and kinda fun too. Sometimes when learning by recreating an existing patch there is an obvious difference in the sound and it can by a 'forest/trees' scenario when trying to visually find that elusive knob that is not set quite how it should be.
What I often do to highlight the discrepancy is take a screenshot of both patches, mine and the original. I open up the photo app Leonardo, and put each photo on a separate layer. I then reduce and increase the opacity back and forth of the front layer, until an obvious knob movement is visible.
This might sound like it takes a lot of time, but after a few goes, it's really quick. And it's saved me 'staring' time in the long run.
If using this method with Sunrizer, I put the effects section in Dock mode so all parameters are viewable on one page.
And always check Sunrizer's LFO 2. Sound designers love hiding stuff in there and leaving LFO 1 unused.
Crafty buggers!
save some money, buy 10 ios synths instead and learn slowly, no quick way,
each synth has its own taste and quirks.
If this guy offers a top 10 ios synth tutorials and each contains 1 hours details, I will pay him the tuitions.
Good read!!!
Yeah i got excited when i saw the announcement so i emailed him to ask about beta testing and that's when i found out.
Same here, it's a fair investment and the first few free tuts are dead basic so i've been working through it again as you can't skip, it does train your ears for subtle changes though.
@Kaikoo the fundamentals apply to most synths though, it's good to keep it simple at first; i started with subtractive and once i got well versed in that i moved on to stuff like FM and additive.
I've collected some general synth tutorials here:
http://www.pearltrees.com/johnfromberkeley/general-synth-tutorials/id13861081
Also, if you navigate "up" with the back arrow on the page (NOT your browser back button). I have some tuts and demos for specific synths:
http://www.pearltrees.com/johnfromberkeley/synthesizers/id12872648
I think my biggest problem learning sound design was in hearing the waves' complexity and identifying the traits. Like what was the source of that LFO or even what type of wave.