http://www.synthgnosis.com
There is a sample sine wave and a square wave to go along with this lesson available on the site. It comes directly from my synthesizer and it’s for loading into your audio editor of choice. Once downloaded and inserted into your audio editor of choice, stretch the track view and look at the drawn waveform. Does it look familiar? It should!
Synthesizer programming is something that’s often strayed away from due to all of those big, fancy words. Sometimes, something like a Low Frequency Oscillator seems so incredibly frightening that we don’t even attempt to try and learn synthesizer programming. I want to tell you that it’s MUCH more easy than you’ve ever imagined, and I’m here to show you how and why.
Synth programming is very simple. It basically starts with a wave, or a shape. We call them waveforms. The most common types of these shapes, waves, or ‘waveforms’ are below:
(in no particular order)
Sine
Triangle
Square
Pulse
Sawtooth (Saw)
Noise
There are many more shapes, but we’ll save that for another time. We have what we call an oscillator, and this oscillator generates one of the aforementioned waveforms. It then goes into what’s called a filter, which is where the basic subtractive synthesis takes place. Subtractive synthesis is the most common type of synthesis. Basically, you ‘take out’ (subtract) what you don’t want from the original waveform and it produces the desired timbre. It is then run into the amplifier which is simply volume.
Oscillator – Filter – Amplifier
This is the order in which synthesis takes place. Congrats. You now know more than most about synth programming just from these little tidbits of information.
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March 11th, 2010 at 12:21 pm
Yep.
Yep.
March 11th, 2010 at 12:21 pm
can you edit every …
can you edit every sound on a synth like this … can you use oscillators on every synth ,,including the korg tr 61
March 11th, 2010 at 12:21 pm
What is the next …
What is the next part called?
March 11th, 2010 at 12:21 pm
Thanks!
Thanks!
March 11th, 2010 at 12:21 pm
Hell yeah, just the …
yeah, just the kind of video and channel I was looking for!
March 11th, 2010 at 12:21 pm
it’s not software …
it’s not software programming
just synthesizer programming
March 11th, 2010 at 12:21 pm
Thanks mate !!!! …
Thanks mate !!!! finally got th grasp of Synths,, Good instructional Video ,,
Cheers,
Chet
March 11th, 2010 at 12:21 pm
lmao big blog of …
lmao big blog of crap lmfao hahahahah this tutorial was amazing i would pay for u to teach me lol
March 11th, 2010 at 12:21 pm
Good tutorial, but …
Good tutorial, but you drew the triangle wave wrong
March 11th, 2010 at 12:21 pm
THANK YOU!!!!
THANK YOU!!!!
March 11th, 2010 at 12:21 pm
might be easy just …
might be easy just rip off some csound stuff and wrap it up using the vst API. I would imagine that csound has influenced many software plugins and many hardware digital effects units and synthesizers. Sythesizer programming is an art, oscillators, filters, fx and other goodies are you pallette, connections (physical with wires, logical with chips or virtual with softwar) and the speakers are your canvas
March 11th, 2010 at 12:21 pm
thanks,very nice …
thanks,very nice lesson!
keep em coming!
March 11th, 2010 at 12:21 pm
thanks man this is …
thanks man this is exactly the sort of thing i’ve been looking for but havent been finding keep em coming
cheers
March 11th, 2010 at 12:21 pm
nice korg x50… i …
nice korg x50… i bought that kind too… this video helped me a lot thx
March 11th, 2010 at 12:21 pm
lawl!
lawl!
March 11th, 2010 at 12:21 pm
I doubt that …
I doubt that programming a vst is simple! n ur not talking about programmation at all btw vsts r made in c++, c
March 11th, 2010 at 12:21 pm
Great stuff, man! …
Great stuff, man! Thanks:)
March 11th, 2010 at 12:21 pm
That was excellent, …
That was excellent, thanks!
March 11th, 2010 at 12:21 pm
Really nice stuff! …
Really nice stuff! Keep em coming!
Regards
Fred