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Personally I'd recommend starting small with an Artruria Microbrute. It has one oscillator and no presets. Print some preset examples out from Brutal Patches an
by pwenzel 5y ago
Personally I'd recommend starting small with an Artruria Microbrute. It has one oscillator and no presets. Print some preset examples out from Brutal Patches and enter them on your own to learn. The manual that comes with has great synthesis explanations that aren't too complicated.
It has MIDI and a tiny patch bay. You can expand from there if you want. If you need a drum track, get yourself a Pocket Operator Rhythm and clock it from the Microbrute.
(Be careful, this is a gateway drug. I learned how to use a Microbrute and now I own 168hp of Eurorack modules, a 0-Coast, and an Arturia Matrixbrute.)
- kennywinker 5y agoMicrobrute is totally a good starter hardware synth, but I’d suggest people strongly consider the Korg Monologue. It has no patch bay, so if you’re headed towards modular it’s maybe the wrong purchase - but it’s built-in oscilloscope REALLY helps visualize what you’re doing in a way that I think a lot of people would find helpful.
- weatherlight 5y agoMonologue and Minilogue XD are solid synths :). Those would be fantastic "first" synths. Tatsuya Takahashi, and by extension, Korg, did a really good job with those.