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I'm trying to get into producing some of my own stuff, but the biggest issue I'm having is truly understanding all the features and whatnot of synths like Operator in Ableton, and the popular Massive by Native Instruments. There's a lot of tutorials for how to get certain sounds with Massive, but few on how and why it works. For example, I have a vague idea of how to get a typical dubstep kick drum, but my lack of understanding in these programs is making it difficult. I know it has the pitch drop that creates the attack, and shorter decay so it doesn't boom like an 808, as well as frequencies higher in the bass range so it doesn't mush with the sub-bass lines, but I'm not certain on how to make it.

If anyone can direct me to a video series or articles or anything else on these type of things, it would be really appreciated. Understanding how to achieve certain sounds that I have in my head is almost half the work in my preferred styles of music, I feel.