Picked up ACE Sunday and hoping this finally, finally cures the round of GAS I've had for a while now. I still consider myself an almost-newbie at synths at best, and never really sunk my teeth into a modular one (the 2600 still baffles me). So I'm hoping to sit down and really, really learn how to get the most out of ACE and have some great fun in the process (along with staunching the money flow). And maaaaaybe I'll actually make a song or two out of all this!
Current task list:
- RTFM, and I mean actually read it
- See if there's any good old threads here to trawl through
- u-he's Youtube tutorials, play along
- Watch Dan Worrall's tutorials for the nth effing time and play along
- Go through Synth Secrets again and apply some of Gordon's knowledge to ACE
- I have Fred Welch's Synth Cookbook coming this week, I want to see how many of those patches I can recreate
- And speaking of recreating patches, I'd like to see if I can recreate factory patches from some other Synths. I like the way the Prophet 5 manual has detailed charts with expression notes and variations, so I'll work a few of those to start and see where to go from there.
- And after all that, maybe go back to that 2600 and see if I can learn it well enough to port some of its patches to ACE, and vice versa.
Please berate me if I don't keep this thread updated with progress! It's about time I sit down and actually learn a synth for once instead of just buying new ones :p
Winter is here, and I have something to do at night while I can't take the dog to the park. I'm excited.
