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synthesis, where to start?
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katam
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Posted : Nov 6, 2003 15:01
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i have a virus indigo 2 and ive been creating and saving many patches that are really good but i want to be able to create sounds that i hear in my head because (correct me if im wrong) every sound is a mathematical formula.
Does anybody know where i can learn synthesis in a professional way?
even a book would help
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billy ambulance
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Posted : Nov 6, 2003 18:13
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I dont believe in pro learning..
play with your synth for hours and in time you`ll learn what knob do what and what happen if you take sin wave + square wave,add LFO on PW, add FM and so on..
 check out! www.soundclick.com/spasm |
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Posted : Nov 7, 2003 02:49
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I'm fairly new to synthesis too but maybe I can offer some advice from what I've learned so far, if I have any info wrong I apologize... for one, you are right... sound is a mathematical formula.. but I'm no good at math so I like to think of sound as the speaker moving back and forth very fast pushing air towards our ears. If we were to draw a picture of the speaker by graphing it where the x axis is time and the y axis represents the position of the speaker (usually noted as having the range of 1 to -1), then we get drawings which represent complicated formulas... the way these representations are rendered in our brain depend on a lot of things, but mostly they are physical because tiny hairs in our ear canal resonate with particuliar frequencies and the brain constructs a "sound" from these vibrations... since we are mostly listening for speech these hairs are most sensitive to sounds we can make with our voice. Literally, that means our brain is mostly concentrating on the hairs that oscillate, or wiggle back and forth, about 20 to 20000 times per second). Now, there was this guy, Fourier, who proved that every wave in the universe can be described as a combination of sine waves (the picture looks curvy, the formula is y=sin(x)) So this is where additive and subtractive synthesis come into play... know that there are cool, unexpected (to me at least, having little background in wave functions) things that happen when you add two waves... parts can cancel eachother out, augment eachother, etc... so, for understanding a sound, maybe thinking about it as a picture will help 
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katam
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Posted : Nov 7, 2003 08:36
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thanx i never thought about it that way |
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