Keyboard Magazine's Soundforum by Peter Gorges
01 Hear, See, Do, & Marvel - A boot camp for sound programmers 02 Shaping Your Sound - From a warning signal to a pad 03 Synthesis Tricks For Experts - Now that you've graduated from sound-sculpting boot camp... 04 Stalking The Wily Wurlitzer - An analog synth patch takes shape one parameter at a time 05 FM Synthesis - It's not just for electric pianos and marimbas...
Native Instruments's Soundforum Synth
01 The NI Soundforum Synthesizer 02 See Sounds - Hear Waves 03 Help Getting Started
Miscellaneous Links
Access Virus Programming Tutorial - very useful for any synths Advanced Programming Techniques for Modular Synthesizers - for Clavia Nord Modular The Art Of Analog Modular Synthesis By Voltage Control - examples and practical patching ideas Computer Music Magazine - covers generic and application sepcific synth/fx techniques Devdsp - a wide range of tutorials Electronic Musician Magazine - many useful tutorials FM Synthesis - a great intro to Frequency Modulation synthesis Theory And Techniques Of Electronic Music - by Miller Puckette Vintage Synth Explorer - MIDI Set-Up Guides
Sound On Sound Magazine's Synth Secrets by Gordon Reid 01 - What's In A Sound? 02 - The Physics Of Percussion 03 - Signals, Modifiers & Controllers 04 - Of Filters & Phase Relationships 05 - Further With Filters 06 - Of Responses And Resonance 07 - Envelopes, Gates & Triggers 08 - More About Envelopes 09 - An Intorduction To VCAs 10 - Modulation 11 - Amplitude Modulation 12 - An Introduction To Frequency Modulation 13 - More On Frequency Modulation 14 - An Intorduction To Additive Synthesis 15 - An Intorduction To ESPS And Vocoders 16 - From Sample And Hold To Sample-Rate Converters (part 1) 17 - From Sample And Hold To Sample-Rate Converters (part 2) 18 - Priorities & Triggers 19 - Duophony 20 - Introducing Polyphony 21 - From Polyphony To Digital Synths 22 - From Springs, Plates & Buckets To Physical Modelling 23 - Formant Synthesis 24 - Synthesizing Wind Instruments 25 - Synthesizing Brass Instruments 26 - Brass Synthesis On A Minimoog 27 - Roland SH101/ARP Axxe Brass Synthesis 28 - Synthesizing Plucked Strings 29 - The Theoretical Acoustic Guitar Patch 30 - A Final Attempt To Synthesize Guitars 31 - Synthesizing Percussion 32 - Practical Percussion Synthesis 33 - Synthesizing Drums: The Bass Drum 34 - Practical Bass Drum Synthesis 35 - Synthesizing Drums: The Snare Drum 36 - Practical Snare Drum Synthesis 37 - Analysing Metallic Percussion 38 - Synthesizing Realistic Cymbals 39 - Practical Cymbal Synthesis 40 - Synthesizing Bells 41 - Synthesizing Cowbells & Claves 42 - Synthesizing Pianos 43 - Synthesizing Acoustic Pianos On The Roland JX10 (part 1) 44 - Synthesizing Acoustic Pianos On The Roland JX10 (part 2) 45 - Synthesizing Acoustic Pianos On The Roland JX10 (part 3) 46 - Synthesizing Strings: String Machines 47 - Synthesizing Strings - PWM & String Sounds 48 - Synthesizing Bowed Strings: The Violin Family 49 - Practical Bowed-String Synthesis (part 1) 50 - Practical Bowed-String Synthesis (part 2) 51 - Articulation & Bowed-String Synthesis 52 - Synthesizing Pan Pipes 53 - Synthesizing Simple Flutes 54 - Practical Flute Synthesis 55 - Synthesizing Tonewheel Organs 56 - Synthesizing Tonewheel Organs: Part2 57 - Synthesizing Hammond Organ Effects: Part1 58 - Synthesizing The Rest Of The Hammond Organ: Part 2 59 - Synthesizing The Rest Of The Hammond Organ: Part 3 60 - From Analogue To Digital Effects 61 - Creative Synthesis With Delays 62 - More Creative Synthesis With Delays 63 - The Secret Of The Big Red Button