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DJ Warmonger · Post by **DJ Warmonger** » Tue Jun 14, 2016 4:30 pm

Simple practice:

- Take synth A
- Take synth B
- Copy presets from A to B

PALU · Post by **PALU** » Tue Jun 14, 2016 5:01 pm

Have you thought about Syntorial?

http://www.syntorial.com/

musicalmemoriesuk · Post by **musicalmemoriesuk** » Tue Jun 14, 2016 6:08 pm

I've just seen clear synth this looks quite good for a beginner

fluffy_little_something · Tue Jun 14, 2016 6:27 pm

Subtractive synthesis is still the most intuitive for most people. And it is what most famous sounds have been made with.

There are a few key controls that are most important to the sound. For instance filter cutoff and resonance, or the filter envelope amount, Envelope attack of filter vs amp. Etc.
The filter resonance control is also used for certain tricks, but be careful, it can damage your hearing

It also helps to get a feeling for the fundamental sound characters of basic waveforms.

Maybe download the demo version of emulations of classic synths such as TAL's U-NO-LX, there is an original factory preset bank for it I think. The number of controls is also limited so you can easily understand what each control does by slightly changing its value.

Lejurai · Post by **Lejurai** » Tue Jun 14, 2016 7:13 pm

It comes with time. When you learn what affects to the sound and how it affects, it's pretty easy.

Would you like to give an example of the sound you'd like learn?

musicalmemoriesuk · Post by **musicalmemoriesuk** » Wed Jun 15, 2016 1:15 pm

Ok I've decided to give Charlaton a go, why on the first Oscilator does it only have 2 waveforms and the second have 4 ?

cake builder · Post by **cake builder** » Wed Jun 15, 2016 5:21 pm

musicalmemoriesuk wrote:Ok I've decided to give Charlaton a go, why on the first Oscilator does it only have 2 waveforms and the second have 4 ?

Looking at an image of the GUI, I assume it's something to do with the shape knob. Without actually trying the synth out, I assume the shape knob shifts the oscillator from a ramp wave, to a triangle, to a saw. I can only guess that the second waveform is a pulse wave and that the shape knob acts as a PWM control.

I could also be completely wrong.

musicalmemoriesuk · Post by **musicalmemoriesuk** » Wed Jun 15, 2016 5:43 pm

So I opened two instances of Charlaton loaded a string preset in and and blank preset in the second and replicated it in the second. I tried changing the settings to see what happens if I change this.

Lejurai · Post by **Lejurai** » Wed Jun 15, 2016 6:05 pm

Do you find charlatan to be good for you/your needs?

musicalmemoriesuk · Post by **musicalmemoriesuk** » Wed Jun 15, 2016 7:45 pm

At the moment I'm testing the water and seems quite user friendly

nickamandote · Post by **nickamandote** » Wed Jun 15, 2016 7:51 pm

musicalmemoriesuk wrote:So I opened two instances of Charlaton loaded a string preset in and and blank preset in the second and replicated it in the second. I tried changing the settings to see what happens if I change this.

move presets between different synths if you want to learn better

fluffy_little_something · Wed Jun 15, 2016 9:28 pm

Charlatan sounds good, but it has the appeal of, um, Hillary Clinton

musicalmemoriesuk · Post by **musicalmemoriesuk** » Wed Jun 15, 2016 9:44 pm

So what would you say is a good learner synth?

zenophilix · Post by **zenophilix** » Wed Jun 15, 2016 10:12 pm

musicalmemoriesuk wrote:So what would you say is a good learner synth?

Sylenth is awesome for learning sound design, everything is laid out and easily accessible.

chk071 · Post by **chk071** » Wed Jun 15, 2016 10:20 pm

zenophilix wrote:
musicalmemoriesuk wrote:So what would you say is a good learner synth?
Sylenth is awesome for learning sound design, everything is laid out and easily accessible.

It's surely a good synth to learn, but there's something which is very special, and that's the global cutoff and resonance control. No other synth i ever tried had that, and i really tried a lot. Actually, even after using Sylenth, i did not really fully get it. When you turn up the filter's resonance control, you get half the resonance possible, and when you additionally turn up the global filter resonance, you get the full resonance. It's a bit weird, to say the least, and not something you will find on any other synth, so that might be a bit of a thing to keep in mind when learning synthesis with Sylenth. Apart from that, it's pretty straight forward, sounds great, and has some nice unison control.

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