synth theory
synth theory Posted on: 08.05.2011 by Boyd Sankaran anyone know of any good resources for learning more about what is actually going on in a synth and how each component influences the sound? i'm starting to get into production, but have been getting hung up on the fact that i don't know much about sound design, so i'm just spending too much time fiddling with the synth and still not getting the results i want. | |
| Boyd Sankaran 08.05.2011 | anyone know of any good resources for learning more about what is actually going on in a synth and how each component influences the sound? i'm starting to get into production, but have been getting hung up on the fact that i don't know much about sound design, so i'm just spending too much time fiddling with the synth and still not getting the results i want. |
| Breana Singerman 09.05.2011 | Also, I would stick with subtractive synthesis to start with as it's the most common kind out there. |
| Nedra Fresneda 09.05.2011 | Not meant in a RTFM way: google "sound design tutorials" or "sound design theory". |
| Alyse Plantenga 08.05.2011 | There is alot out there look up Sound on Sound, Audiotutes, futuremusic, computermusic, and mostly Youtube. Try and learn from what they do in videos and guides in the magazines but dont take their advice too seriously. alot of synthesis is experimental to begin with. Find a song that you really like a particular synth in whether it be bass or pad or lead or whatever, from reading and watching videos try and make that sound. if you dont get it after an hour or so, start again but believe of why you may not have gotten that sound. The more you practice trying to achieve specific sounds the more you will learn along the way with the mistakes that you make. Learning most things in the audio industry actually comes from trial and error in troubleshooting problems. you have to know what not to do before you can just get things right. biggest tip though is once you get a sound you like from whatever synth you have used save it as a patch that you can load up later. building up a library of patches that are dated helps you see how your progressing and it will also show you how you are starting to shape your own sound. learn 3 or 4 synths really really well, along with only a handfull of processors and get the most of them as possible. Once you know something inside out you will get your ideas down much faster and not come to writers block. if you want i can try and find some pdfs on my external and send them to you, they cover the core principles in how sound works and how it is applied to synths, they just dont tell you how to use a specific synth. |
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