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Hey fellow keyboardist since I've started out to re-invent my musical skills on synthesizers I wondered where to start, It isn't easy to be a beginner in understanding sound wave's and soundscape building.

 

So I always venture out to seek video's tutorials to help me out and all though those are fine starting points there always that little more basic you need to really understand stuff that go's on under the hood and how you can do it on you're own or rebuild the same sound you hear. 

 

The following weeks I'll review these books and what I learned so far if it really helped to become more quaint with the synth as a beginner. 

 

So here are my book tips of the month that might help some of you out a little. 

 

First book is 200 drum patterns for drum machine and because the XW synth has 

an formidable drum machine with an input style the like of the classic drum machine

I though it to be a good starting point to expand and diversify  on style and rhymes

instead of re-inventing and work around to get an particular pattern. 

 

http://www.scribd.com/doc/33852257/200-Drum-Patterns-for-Drum-Machines

http://www.amazon.co.uk/Two-Hundred-Drum-Machine-Patterns/dp/0881886327

 

Second book I crossed on several synth forum got my interest also because of the title,

"Keyboard present steal that sound" now I know that most of us want to copy a sound we 

hear from some song we heard or know and that not always easy if you don't recognize 

the elements the sound is build up according to the reviews i've read its a series of articles 

from a magazine and soft synth are used to build the sounds the principle the same and can

be used to all kind of synth thus the XW. This one I'm certainly going to review in the comming

weeks here on the forum if some of you have these book in any kind of form please fill in you're 

experience.

 

http://www.amazon.com/Keyboard-Presents-Steal-This-Sound/dp/1423492811

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I'm interested so do let us know. I'm trying (among other things) to learn sythesis myself so I can make full use of the px5s. 

One program I came across was called syntorial:  

http://www.syntorial.com/

 

What you get is a soft synth and a series of video/audio tutorials going over all the most common functions of a synth. The creator starts you off at the very beginning and explains one function.

Then he plays a sequence of notes using whatever function he was talking about and you have to set the synthesizer to replicate the sound. You start off with a synthesizer with just a couple of knobs to choose wave type and pulse width, and gradually he adds more and more controls, each time demonstrating them and then playing different sequences which you have to replicate. You don't have to replicate the sequence of notes, just adjust the controls so it sounds like the patch he used. The program then tells you which controls you adjusted correctly and which you didn't and you can try again.

 

I've only tried the demo but it was very good. It had 5 lessons. The full version is over $100 so it is a bit expensive but I would like to get it. I think it would be worth it. Hopefully I'll see a coupon for it. I can understand its cost as it is a niche thing and the guy put a lot of work into it.

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I'd like to add to this list with Refining Sound: A Practical Guide To Synthesis and Synthesizers

 

http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0199922969/ref=oh_details_o02_s00_i00?ie=UTF8&psc=1

 

I managed to skim thru it last night and it seems to be a very comprehensive and well written and well illustrated textbook approach to explaining the all the various methods of sound synthesis in use today and how various elements of synthesizers interact with each other.

 

Whether you are a newbie trying to understand what all the jargon is about or an old pro looking to refresh your memory on some obscure bit of lore this book makes an excellent companion to anyone's studio. 

 

264 large format Paperback Pages with senior friendly typeface and font size from Oxford Press.

 

Gary

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