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[fmr]

For Electronic Music History, you can't go wrong with Electric Sound from Joel Chadabe. For synthesis, the best (although "scientific") is "the computer music tutorial" from Curtis Roads. But there are loads of them, with very different approaches. There are some free on the Internet.

One is the old ARP 2600 manual, which was written by Jim Michmerhuizen. Try here: http://guitarfool.com/ARP2600/Arp%20260 ... Manual.pdf - this coupled with one of the ARP 2600 emulations, and we have a great start method.

Another one is the one written by Howard Scarr for the Virus: Programming Analogue Synths: http://www.infekted.org/virus/files/How ... Synths.pdf - of course, having a Virus would be good to try the examples, but you have several soft synths that come close, like Spire, Sylenth, Hive, etc.

Finally, you have the How To Make a Noise series: http://noisesculpture.com/how-to-make-a-noise
There is even a freely downloadable version of an older edition.

And you have some great series available on-line in the Sound-On-Sound site, like Synth School and Synth Secrets: http://www.soundonsound.com/search?sect ... nth+school
https://www.soundonsound.com/sos/may99/ ... nthsec.htm (this is just the first article, you have to google for "synth secrets" to find all of them)

These are just a few examples. There are actually tons of resources available.

[whyterabbyt]

Tons. Use KVR's search for 'books synthesis' you'll find multiple previous threads.

[sig-ex]

For patches, there's Fred Welsh's Synth Cookbook.