If you don’t have a thorough understanding of what FM synthesis is or how it works, start here. FM synthesis has always had a reputation as...
Gerry Bassermann’s “Composer’s Forum” series features his unique insights on composition. Forums were part of my musical training, and those experiences have stayed with me and...
Learning about synthesizers doesn’t have to be a struggle… Those of us who have worked with them for years can breeze past the basics without stopping....
This month, we investigate how synth modules can make your music sound more human by harnessing random acts of chance. The use of random elements in...
If you’re tackling Voltage Modular, this video can point you in the right direction. Looking to harness the power of audio with Voltage Modular, the soft...
Any DAW can record MIDI polyphonic expressive instruments if you know how to set up your tracks. As a relatively new toolbox for electronic musicians, support...
Como hacer funcionar Reason Combinator en el modo que esperarías. Muchos músicos usan Reason satisfactoriamente como simple DAW, para grabar audio y pistas de sintetizador, añadiendo...
让Reason的组合器就如你期望的那样好用 Synth and Software contributors are industry insiders, authors, sound designers, studio pros, inventors, film and TV composers, music directors, video producers, and college educators—all with...
Make Reason’s Combinator work the way you’d expect it to. Many musicians are content to use Reason as a straight-up DAW, recording audio and synthesizer tracks,...
The Interface User’s Guide to Making Music is yours to download. U.K.-based Focusrite, a leading manufacturer of audio interfaces, microphone preamps, recording consoles, and other studio...
This month we go beyond the basics and dive into logic operations, variable step sequencing, and modular polyphony. Learning the basics of any technology is important,...
How to shape your sounds with envelope generators. Every synthesizer, even the most primitive, has at least one envelope generator. Most have two or more. If...
Modulation changes everything when you route control signals from sources to destinations. Turning knobs by hand while a synthesizer is producing a tone is a great...
Modular Synthesis for Beginners… Modular Synthesis for Beginners with Jim Aikin When synthesizers first started to take off, back in the ’60s and ’70s, oscillators were...
Make your synth talk with subtractive synthesis and ring modulation. Recently I discovered it’s easy to make surprisingly realistic vocal sounds, called phonemes, using any subtractive...