Course Highlights
  • Design amazing sounds using any synthesizer
  • Work in Reason to understand synthesis
  • Work in Ableton Live to understand synthesis
  • Create any sound you can imagine using whatever software is at your disposal
  • The 4 Elements to Synthesis
  • The Oscillator
  • The Filter
  • The Envelope
  • The Amplifier
  • The LFO
  • Glide
  • Trigger Modes
  • Velocity Control
  • FM Synthesis
Skills you will learn!
Curriculum

5 Topics
Introduction & Overview
Asking Questions
About the Software we will use: Reason and Ableton Live
The types of Synthesis we will cover in this class
The 4 Elements to all Synthesizers

7 Topics
The Subtractor in Reason: The Interface
The Oscillator
The Filter
Envelopes
The Amplifier
Putting it all Together in Reason
Using Ableton's Analog for Subtractive Synthesis

4 Topics
The LFO
Portamento (or Glide)
Trigger Modes
Velocity Control

2 Topics
Subtractive Synthesizer Patch Deconstruction No. 1 (Reason)
Subtractive Synthesizer Patch Deconstruction No. 2 (Ableton Live)

4 Topics
What is FM Synthesis?
Using Ableton's Operator: The Interface
Making Sounds Using FM Synthesis
Adding the Additional Elements (From Section 3)

2 Topics
FM Synthesizer Patch Deconstruction No. 3 (Ableton's Operator)
FM Synthesizer Patch Deconstruction No. 4 (Ableton's Operator)

2 Topics
Coming Up in Sound Design Fundamentals: Sampling
Parting Thoughts!

6 Topics
Analog Overview
Analog Basic Outline
Programming Analog
Noise and LFO in Analog
Bonus Lecture: Live's Impulse Synth
Bonus Lecture: Discount Offers & Mailing List

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Sound Design 102: Using Synthesis for Music Production

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