Manufacturer: macprovideo.com
Year of release: 2009
Language: English
- 2.23 GB
Description:
A brief introduction to some electronic sound design technologies. It examines primarily subtractive synthesis in detail, first using a real hardware analog synthesizer, and then using the virtual Arturia Moog Modular V. Additionally, a couple of lessons demonstrate the capabilities of Apple Logic’s built-in es1 and es2 synthesizers (the latter also covers FM synthesis). Professionals won’t find any revelations here; almost all the theoretical knowledge presented here is described in detail in relevant articles on subtractive synthesis. However, beginners will find it interesting to look at real hardware and wavetables and imagine how our grandfathers and fathers composed sounds for electronic music.
Description on the website
Learn how analog synths fit into your modern music production workflow in this amazing tutorial for ALL audio producers. In a world before computers and virtual instruments and long before MIDI, electronic music was made with analog modular synthesizers, with real 3-dimensional knobs, faders, and switches. Sounds were constructed by routing electricity from module to module with patch cords and turning potentiometers to sculpt sound and music real time. This was an awesomely creative period in the history of music. Composers/performers, like Morton Subotnick and The Electronic Art Ensemble, stood before their vast arrays of analog synths and towering sound systems performing otherworldly atmospheres of sound that to this this day are unmatched in their expression and primal audio pyrotechnics. These amazing synths were not controlled with your typical B&W keyboards that permeate today’s bleak controller landscape. Rather, they were triggered by “Touch Activated Voltage Sources” and “Multiple Arbitrary Function Generators”. It was an exciting time. But all things must pass…
The next wave in electronic music history was the era of presets and MIDI and suddenly everyone stopped turning knobs! Instead of making connections we started making selections and the fundamentals of synthesis and signal flow became a lost art.
Now analog synths are back and these new instruments are excellent tools to teach the art and science of synthesis. We at MPV are proud to bring back synthesizer wizard and performer, Richard Lainhart, to show us just how these modular synths work. In his tutorial, Analog Synthesis in a Digital World, Richard demonstrates his Buchla Series 200e and takes us on a educational excursion to through the world of basic synthesis explaining the fundamentals of waveforms, signal flow, additive and subtractive techniques and how they apply to today’s software synthesizers. So get out your virtual patch chords and plug in to “Analog Synthesis in a Digital World.”
Part 13 is missing from the distribution
Content :
Chapter 1: Using an Analog Modular Hardware Synthesizer
Section 1: An Introduction to Analog Synthesis
Section 2: Analog Synthesizer Modules
Section 3: Controlling and Analog Modular Synthesizer
Chapter 2: Waves, Envelopes, and Filters in Moog Modular V
Section 4: Moog Modular V Waveforms
Section 5: Envelops and VCAs
Section 6: Using Voltage Control Filters
Chapter 3: More About Filters and FM Synthesis in Logic ES1 and ES2
Section 7: Filters in ES1
Section 8: FM Synthesis in ES2
Video codec: QuickTime, H.264
Video: 1280 x 720, 1769 kbps, 16:9, 189 minutes
Audio: mp4a: MPEG-4 AAC LC 44100Hz 96 kb/s tot, stereo (2/0)
