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More of an explanation than a tutorial, and dunno how it is for total beginners, but — Intro to Synthesis: The Building Blocks of Sound & Synthesis, by Dean Fri

by aasasd 7y ago

More of an explanation than a tutorial, and dunno how it is for total beginners, but — Intro to Synthesis: The Building Blocks of Sound & Synthesis, by Dean Friedman: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=atvtBE6t48M https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=atvtBE6t48M It explains the things that you'll constantly fiddle with on a synthesizer (and sometimes even in a DAW with samples: envelopes are likely to appear there). The series benefit greatly from being three hours long in total instead of ten or even thirty minutes. The first vid is followed by: - Intro to Synthesis Part 2 - Types of Synthesis & Programming Examples https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gJkxGvhOS-M https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gJkxGvhOS-M - Intro to Synthesis Part 3 - Additional Synth Features, Performance Controls & Wrap Up https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zK3m8sMkTE4 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zK3m8sMkTE4 Also, since the vids are from sometime in early 80s, you'll have fun trying to figure out exactly how high the guy is.

aasasd 7y ago
To clarify why I like it: wave forms, filters, envelope and LFO are things with which you'll need to do Lotsa Fiddling, all at once, to get some decent sound. To a beginner, it's rather overwhelming and difficult to see if they want to do all of that and why. So, instead of frantically getting through the definitions in ten minutes and twenty seconds, Dean keeps turning knobs and explaining what he does, letting you hear the change. He actually takes almost ten minutes to make one string sound at the end of the first part. And the, uh, pace of the vid lets you think about what you hear. If there were a “Tweaking Synth Knobs” series by this dude in 26 episodes, I might've watched it.
gregsadetsky 7y ago
Great one! A wonderful intro/tutorial to synths that was recently posted -- https://learningsynths.ableton.com/ https://learningsynths.ableton.com/
- aasasd 7y ago
  Yeah, that's also good for the same reason: it lets you hear the effect of each control instead of just dumping them at you at once.

by aasasd 7y ago

aasasd 7y ago

To clarify why I like it: wave forms, filters, envelope and LFO are things with which you'll need to do Lotsa Fiddling, all at once, to get some decent sound. To a beginner, it's rather overwhelming and difficult to see if they want to do all of that and why. So, instead of frantically getting through the definitions in ten minutes and twenty seconds, Dean keeps turning knobs and explaining what he does, letting you hear the change. He actually takes almost ten minutes to make one string sound at the end of the first part. And the, uh, pace of the vid lets you think about what you hear. If there were a “Tweaking Synth Knobs” series by this dude in 26 episodes, I might've watched it.

gregsadetsky 7y ago

Great one! A wonderful intro/tutorial to synths that was recently posted -- https://learningsynths.ableton.com/ https://learningsynths.ableton.com/

aasasd 7y ago
Yeah, that's also good for the same reason: it lets you hear the effect of each control instead of just dumping them at you at once.