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| anth_on_e |
| i was just wondering where everyone learned to program synths. It seems that people can just mimick sounds they hear by creating them themselves yet it would be a miracle if i could get a half decent sound. Any comments on where/how you learned would be great. |
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| rb2k1 |
hey,
Look for a copy of the roland jp-8080 or 8000 manual.
Its a pretty standard virtual-analog synth and i found it to be a great manual that will let you adapt what you can learn to many other synthesizers not just the roland line. They do a great job explaining all the parts of the synthesizer and what they actually do in great detail.
Then take what you have learned and start applying it to your own synth patch programming. Once you know what everything does and start patching youll only get better.
all the best,
Ross B |
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| Nyquist_Theorem |
are you working with a real synth or software?
best way is to spend a couple hours with a 'real' knob-laden simple analog synth... a roland juno 6/60/106 or jupiter 4/6/8, korg poly-6 or mono/poly, yamaha CS1/5/10/20/40/50/80, etc etc. the simpler the better. once you get a feel for what a basic ADSR envelope does, what a filter does, what resonance is, and how you can use ADSR envelopes to control them, you're 90% of the way there.
if you dont have any of the gear, just find one in a music shop and borrow a set of headphones. once you 'get it', you'll find it much easier to work with the more difficult pieces of gear.
worst in the world to learn on would be a knobless wonder (poly 61/61m, alpha juno 1/2, jx3p/8p/10, etc) as if you dont know what the parameters mean, you'll never get it. |
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| Derivative |
| i learned how to program synths the dirty way. in vanguard i turned everything off and set everything on 0. then i kept pressing notes whilst increasingly all the values of every rotary from fully closed to fully open. did that a shat load of times before starting to tweak multiple rotaries to create basic timbres. took me a good 6 to 8 months before my patches started to sound half way decent. |
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| UphoricNitemare |
| quote: | Originally posted by Derivative
i learned how to program synths the dirty way. in vanguard i turned everything off and set everything on 0. then i kept pressing notes whilst increasingly all the values of every rotary from fully closed to fully open. did that a shat load of times before starting to tweak multiple rotaries to create basic timbres. took me a good 6 to 8 months before my patches started to sound half way decent. |
Ditto |
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| ErikC |
| I really got the hang of analog programming when I got my JP-8080. That synth is probably the best synth of them all if you want to learn how to program. Everything is right infront of you and you never need to enter some irritating menu (exept for when you need to change some effects) |
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