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It depends on whether you're more interested in the theory of how things work or how to make nice sounds (two things that are correlated, but not 100% correlate
by dimatura 5y ago
It depends on whether you're more interested in the theory of how things work or how to make nice sounds (two things that are correlated, but not 100% correlated).
It sounds more like the former; in that case Puckette's book is a classic (and free)
http://msp.ucsd.edu/techniques/latest/book.pdf http://msp.ucsd.edu/techniques/latest/book.pdf
- Cybotron5000 5y ago+1 for Miller Puckette’s book (and Pd) - might be a bit hardcore as an intro. for some, but if you’re technically inclined it’d be a great overview… If the second option is more important, there’s no substitute for messing about starting to get familiar with how different primitive oscillators/filters sound in subtractive synthesis maybe first, then moving on to explore other types from there… (FM for example is less intuitive) …recreating/ researching your favourite sounds from records, synth internals, or just trying to make whatever you’ve dreamt of/heard in your head/twiddling ‘til you find something you like and then trying to work out what makes it sound cool… (‘The Computer Music Tutorial’ is a beast of a book, if you wanted an all-in-one reference: https://mitpress.mit.edu/books/computer-music-tutorial https://mitpress.mit.edu/books/computer-music-tutorial )