recommend a book

[Spring Goose]

I want to buy a book. Which do you recommend?

[Spring Goose]

How come nobody has published a book using "modern" synths Serum, Sylenth1, Zebra 2, for examples?

[excuse me please]

I assume you want a book about synths. Except for the manuals there's little out there.

Books about synths in general:

https://noisesculpture.com//#books

[whyterabbyt]

How come nobody has published a book using "modern" synths Serum, Sylenth1, Zebra 2, for examples?

Because writing good books is hard, publishing books is expensive, and reducing the target audience for a book by focussing on specific synths would reduce potential sales.

[chk071]

How come nobody has published a book using "modern" synths Serum, Sylenth1, Zebra 2, for examples?

There is this, from Howards Scarr, for the Virus: http://www.infekted.org/virus/files/How ... Synths.pdf

[whyterabbyt]

How come nobody has published a book using "modern" synths Serum, Sylenth1, Zebra 2, for examples?

There is this, from Howards Scarr, for the Virus: http://www.infekted.org/virus/files/How ... Synths.pdf

He may not consider 2002 'modern'.

[chk071]

Well, Sylenth1 and Zebra 2 are from 2007. I guess "modern" leaves room for speculation then.

That book, and probably most others can be applied to about any synth with a feature set similar anyway.

[Michael L]

I want to buy a book. Which do you recommend?

Designing Sound by Andy Farnell

[AnX]

Not a book, but you can print out the SOS sound design series. Great stuff and relevant to most synths....

[chk071]

Not a book, but you can print out the SOS sound design series. Great stuff and relevant to most synths....

I recently installed the OneNote Chrome addon for that purpose. It can grab the articles on websites (and leave out the rest of the site), and automatically create a note from it. Super useful. Thanks to the person who recommended it here.

P.S.: The addon is called "OneNote Clipper" from Microsoft.

[Spring Goose]

How come nobody has published a book using "modern" synths Serum, Sylenth1, Zebra 2, for examples?

Because writing good books is hard, publishing books is expensive, and reducing the target audience for a book by focussing on specific synths would reduce potential sales.

Thanks whyterabbyt.

[Spring Goose]

How come nobody has published a book using "modern" synths Serum, Sylenth1, Zebra 2, for examples?

There is this, from Howards Scarr, for the Virus: http://www.infekted.org/virus/files/How ... Synths.pdf

Thanks for this, i'll give this a read. I wanted a book i can hold in my hand and read at night before i go to bed, but it looks like there's nothing "modern". I bought good books about mixing (Sound on Sound), general dance music (Rick Snoman), and now i wanted one about synthesis / sound design but it looks like nothing "modern" available.

[whyterabbyt]

I know its not what you were asking for, but generally, when it comes to the specifics of software, the most 'nimble' (and also cost-effective, for the creator) medium is video tutorials. Youtube can take effort to separate the wheat from the chaff, so and Im not very up to speed on the commercial tutorial sites, but ADSR, as an example, have videos on Sylenth, Serum and Zebra.

[Spring Goose]

Thanks everybody!

I want to buy a book. Which do you recommend?

Designing Sound by Andy Farnell

This book requires learning a programming language?

[Spring Goose]

I know its not what you were asking for, but generally, when it comes to the specifics of software, the most 'nimble' (and also cost-effective, for the creator) medium is video tutorials. Youtube can take effort to separate the wheat from the chaff, so and Im not very up to speed on the commercial tutorial sites, but ADSR, as an example, have videos on Sylenth, Serum and Zebra.

Ok thanks i'll have a look at ADSR.

I do have Syntorial, but i found that very quickly into it it became quite difficult. I wanted some supplementary reading (but maybe supplementary videos will do it).