Reverse-engineering programs help

[darren cummins]

hello could someone explain Reverse-engineering as i was told it was the best way to learn how to use synths thank you

[larm]

Find a preset/synth patch that you like, fire up the edit mode in your synth and then step through all editable parameters one by one, changing the value (while playing the sound on your keyboard) of that parameter to the extreme minimum and then to the extreme maximum to hear what kind of effect it has.

It's a method that takes a bit of time and some parameters depend on the values of others to have an effect so they might not make any audible difference at all. (If say the pitch envelope parameter depth is set to OFF/zero then modifying the parameters of a pitch envelope won't make much of a sound)

Make sure you try it on different patches, since synth patches can have quite different routing setup schemes (like FM synths).

I would say it's all about turning the knobs, but in a more structured way. Preferably you have the manual ready to help.

Good synths to start with are those with just a few knobs (like a Juno 106) Or a juno replicate VST like FreeAlpha that has very few parameters and is set up like most subtractive synths are.

[darren cummins]

thank you larm for a very good anwser

[afreshcupofjoe]

Synth1 is great for trying to reverse engineer sounds. It has just enough control to approximate most sounds you will encounter, but it's dead simple to learn to program well. It the first thing I grab when ever I'm trying to figure out how a sound is made.

[james0tucson]

Synth1 is great for trying to reverse engineer sounds. It has just enough control to approximate most sounds you will encounter, but it's dead simple to learn to program well. It the first thing I grab when ever I'm trying to figure out how a sound is made.

I looked at Synth1 once, and the Japanese manual gave me a headache. Is there an English, French, German or Spanish language manual?

[afreshcupofjoe]

Synth1 is great for trying to reverse engineer sounds. It has just enough control to approximate most sounds you will encounter, but it's dead simple to learn to program well. It the first thing I grab when ever I'm trying to figure out how a sound is made.

I looked at Synth1 once, and the Japanese manual gave me a headache. Is there an English, French, German or Spanish language manual?

http://www.geocities.jp/daichi1969/synm ... meeng.html

[darren cummins]

thank you joe il give it a try,i used synth 1 before but it was to hard,dont laugh lol i can only use sylenth 1 and zebracm

[james0tucson]

I looked at Synth1 once, and the Japanese manual gave me a headache. Is there an English, French, German or Spanish language manual?

http://www.geocities.jp/daichi1969/synm ... meeng.html[/quote]

Thanks!