![]() Reason doesn't even allow for building your own wavetables but here it is in a free synth. Of course, I need to check it out more, but the main reason I am still rewiring Reason on occasion is for Thor and Malstrom, and I could see this possibly replacing it. It is modular, has a user editable wavetable oscillator (and other osc types), a nice patch browser, the width and height of the gui is user changeable, and it sounds very decent so far for a free synth. You design the signal flow for voices and use a VoiceMixer to convert that into a single stereo signal that can then be processed by a single static effect section. It seamlessly combines polyphonic voice and static effect processing. Thanks everyone for your input, lots of stuff to chew on in this thread, keep 'em coming :Dīut there is also the option of going with a fully modular synth like Sonigen ( ), because you get experience with assembling the basic components of sound synthesis.ĭo you use this synth much? How do you disconnect a patch cable? Also, I'm not sure what is meant on the site and in the manual by 'static effect'. This is a good start for learning synthesis: ġ5 minutes into it and it's turning out much better than it had any right to be. I just want to figure out what exactly am I oscillating when I mess with the LFO. At this point I'm not even touching the presets. I'm less concerned with the quality of the sounds at this point than being able to understand what exactly am I doing to the sound when I move a knob. It is no wonder that syntorial seems like such a good idea. There is even a whole market built around selling presets. It is assumed that the user will already know how synthesis works and how to design sounds, or will just resort to using presets. Even in a daw, understanding routing seems to be a major beginner hurdle.Īnother thing is that none of the soft synths that I have seen (outside of Reason and modular environments) have manuals (or a video series) that explains what the parts are, how they work, how they work together, what the parameters are, and how to create even basic sounds, i.e., fundamental synthesis stuff. Knowing how a synth is routed is helpful in understanding how the parts work together. ![]() ![]() Limitations can be a good thing.ītw, something that I don't see on any of the synths mentioned in this thread is some indication in the gui of how the parts are routed, which is something that experienced synth users take for granted. Having multiple synths on hand isn't conducive to focusing on learning basic synthesis, much less learning the sound of a particular synth, imo. A beginner reading this thread will probably download one, jog through a bunch of presets (maybe finding some sounds (s)he likes, maybe not), maybe make some music with it, download another looking for different. Look in this thread alone, and there must already be over a dozen synths mentioned as being the best beginner synth. To avoid synth hopping and preset hopping. You can focus on one synth at a time, yes, but why stay there? ![]() My opinion is that you don't have to use just one synth to learn synthesis on. And it's all clearly separated so you can take one step at a time. There's the oscillator section, filters, envelopes, modulation, you name it. The U.I might look a tad over whelming like massive but the reason I like it so much is because everything is perfectly layed out. If you want to pay for a synth I would recommend zeta2. It's a synth with all the basics and sounds beautiful to me with some good patching. So if your going the free route use Charlatan. But if you start with one synth, learn it, you can use basically any other synth out there with a lot less confusion. Yep!! It all indeed looks very complicated. I kind of understand the very basics (start with a wave and modulate its parameters with other waves) but I'm looking for a synth that would allow me to try out the different approaches, tools and types of modulation in a logic manner. A screenshot of a Massive patch gives me a migraine :P I've been getting curious about synths lately and I'm a bit tired of being dumbfounded everytime I look at those interfaces with all the ADSHR and LFO and filters and shit. I'm mostly a rock/metal guy who's been perfectly happy so far recording with amp sims and basic mixing tools (EQ, comp, reverb).
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