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~David Vesel
October 13th, 2002, 10:57 AM
Hello,

I've found quite a few helpful books about sound programming that are general in nature. I even found an old Steve DeFuria video (very helpful for basics, plus it's fun to see him demo all that classic gear :)). I'm wondering if there have been many books that simply concentrate on one unit and give examples of what different settings do for different sounds.

Here's what I have in my studio right now. If you know of any books published specifically for them, please drop me a line.

Alesis QS-6
Ensoniq ESQ-1/ESQ-M
Oberheim Matrix 6/6R
E-mu EMAX II Sampler
alphaSyntauri (yeah right, I can always dream, can't I?)
~intro
October 13th, 2002, 02:52 PM
I've never seen a book targeted at one synth specifically (except for Reaktor, a soft synth, but that thing is a beast and a half). Keyboard Magazine did run a long series of articles called SoundForum which was touted as a synthesis (subtractive, FM and others) boot camp. And I learned a LOT from it. But the series stopped abruptly and they haven't said a word about when it will resume. You might want to check out some back issues on that one. I think it started in April of 2001.

-Mark
www.djintrovert.com
~mannikin
November 26th, 2002, 09:28 PM
Hi;

Access recently began distributing an awesome free programming tutorial on their Virus series. Some of the concepts can apply to other synths as well. You can download it here:
http://www.access-music.de/pdffolder/Programming_Analogue_Synths_Tutorial.zip

J.

Originally posted by DAVIDVESEL
Hello,

I've found quite a few helpful books about sound programming that are general in nature. I even found an old Steve DeFuria video (very helpful for basics, plus it's fun to see him demo all that classic gear :)). I'm wondering if there have been many books that simply concentrate on one unit and give examples of what different settings do for different sounds.

Here's what I have in my studio right now. If you know of any books published specifically for them, please drop me a line.

Alesis QS-6
Ensoniq ESQ-1/ESQ-M
Oberheim Matrix 6/6R
E-mu EMAX II Sampler
alphaSyntauri (yeah right, I can always dream, can't I?)