Intro to Synthesis Part 1 - The Building Blocks of Sound & Synthesis

Why HN readers recommended it

Repeatedly called the best beginner course on audio synthesis, since the concepts have not changed since it was made.

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Video & recommendation details

Creator / channel

matrixsynth

Topic

sound synthesis

Format

tutorial

Level

intro

HN recommenders in dataset

3

HN mentions in dataset

7

Recommendation years in dataset

2018–2022

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From the original HN conversations

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• I highly encourage you to watch this and P2 on synthesis. The concepts haven't changed since then. You will find the same things on all synths. [VIDEO] Also, go ahead and try Propellerhead Reason (free to play with, you can save, but can't open saved …

• This has been my favourite course to learn about Audio Synthesis; it's old school but has all you need to know, in a digestible format: [VIDEO]

• That's exactly why this three-hour ‘Intro to synthesis’ series is one of my favorite explanations on musicmaking: [VIDEO] Instead of running through all the parameters in ten minutes and one second, the dude keeps twiddling the knobs and lets you hear what they do. He …