The most instructive way of learning synth programming is to find presets that you really like and deconstruct them. Fiddle with every knob and control to find out what it's doing in the patch. Try to understand what makes the sound tick, and possibly use it as a template to create something different.
What you end up creating won't necessarily have anything to do with the sound you started from . . . in fact I once created a very nice synth hi-hat sound by fooling around with a bass preset. Not what I expected to do but if it works, why argue?
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- KVRAF
- 6496 posts since 26 Nov, 2004 from Frederick, MD
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- KVRian
- Topic Starter
- 508 posts since 6 Jun, 2004
Thanks for the responses and the links people. I am reading up more on how different instruments work and I have realised that being able to catagorize things is so very important.
I have started breaking down presets I like, sometimes writing the whole thing to paper and writing it out again. I can see now at last that I am getting better. I have also tried to write presets for songs rather than just trying to build up sets of premades (which is of course valid enough).
Thanks for all the responses, I'll check out that link. And yeah I will complete that book, I have read certain books 10+ times until I understand them.
I have started breaking down presets I like, sometimes writing the whole thing to paper and writing it out again. I can see now at last that I am getting better. I have also tried to write presets for songs rather than just trying to build up sets of premades (which is of course valid enough).
Thanks for all the responses, I'll check out that link. And yeah I will complete that book, I have read certain books 10+ times until I understand them.