Reply to Learning Process for Synths

As a beginner trying to learn my way around a synthesizer, I've been watching a large amount of videos on youtube regarding specific types of sounds and how to make them. My problem with these videos, however, is that they often just tell you what parameters to use and at the end of the video I've essentially learned nothing. I'm having trouble finding explanations for 'this parameter affects this' or 'use this to make it sound like this' kind of things.

I read that alot of the learning process comes from just fiddling around with a synth and seeing what does what, but that has provided little luck for me so far. I'll spend an hour or two trying to achieve a sound I have in mind but ultimately won't achieve it and along the way picking up very little knowledge.

So with that little bit of backgroud I ask for whatever tips you guys may have. I don't want to settle for "well this is close to what I wanted", I want to actually be able to achieve the sounds I want. The time I've been putting in has not been progressing me towards this point at the rate I want, so any advice would be greatly appreciated. Thanks in advance guys, hope you can help !

(i'm using Massive, if that helps at all)