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Analog Synthesis Primer

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Elantric:

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The use of electronics for audio started with the invention of the telephone in the last part of the nineteenth century. Before this, microphones were very insensitive and produced lots of distortion, and loudspeakers were very quiet! Since then electronics has developed enormously  . . .

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Log in and Download the attached PDF for a good primer course on Analog Synthesis by Martin Russ
This is a MUST Read for most folks here.

arkieboy:
... just a note that while modular synthesisers had a box called an 'envelope generator' and you could plug it into absolutely anything with a control voltage input, Roland usually hardwire their filters and amplifiers each to a dedicated envelope generator, and then call them different things.  Roland usually uses 'Time Variant Amplifier' (TVA) for the amplifier instead of VCA and 'Time Variant Filter' (TVF) for the filter amplifier. 


If you have any questions about how to translate this document - or Gordon Reid's 'Synth Secrets' series on the Sound on Sound website - into GR55 speak, or indeed any of the other many synthesisers you might plug into - post a question to this topic and well try to keep a glossary going.


Steve

Elantric:
Excellent !


--- Quote --- Roland usually uses 'Time Variant Amplifier' (TVA) for the amplifier instead of VCA and 'Time Variant Filter' (TVF) for the filter amplifier.

If you have any questions about how to translate this document - or Gordon Reid's 'Synth Secrets' series on the Sound on Sound website - into GR55 speak, or indeed any of the other many synthesisers you might plug into - post
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http://www.soundonsound.com/sos/allsynthsecrets.htm

arkieboy:
Just noticed this.  Probably of more interest to GR owners than VG owners ... pricy but might prove useful to those who find a multimedia approach easier to digest than traditional prose/diagrams


http://www.timespace.com/product/SOSS-100/3/9999916/rob_papen_the_secrets_of_subtractive_synthesis_(book_&_dvds).html


Steve

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