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Syntorial looks like it will teach you how to use existing synthesis software, but won't be that useful if you want to write your own?
by FreeFull 11y ago
Syntorial looks like it will teach you how to use existing synthesis software, but won't be that useful if you want to write your own?
- adamnemecek 11y agoHow do you want to write your own without understanding how synthesis works?
- EC1 11y agoI hope he tries his hand at building an AM analogue synth.
- kbob 11y agoI started on that journey about 18 months ago. It took me five months to have a useful software instrument, and I've spent the remaining time learning how to fab a suitable hardware controller. Within the software, the hardest parts were understanding and controlling aliasing and getting a virtual ladder filter to perform well. I already knew how to play piano, had a little music theory, and had spent a few hours playing with other people's analog synths.
- saidajigumi 11y agotl;dr: these form two parallel tracks in an imaginary self-study course: Practice and Performance of Synths, and Implementation of Synthesized Sound. Even if you're trying hard to be avant garde and break new sonic ground or whatever, it's hard to imagine that you won't have some significant overlap with the problems addressed by synth builders to date. That background will also be useful when trying to understand everything from published papers to existing synths built in pretty much any existing way, from analogue modular, to "rack-style" digital like Logic and Reason, to programmatic work in Max, Pure Data, SuperCollider, or even direct-coded in a traditional programming language, etc.