MacProVideo - Advanced Synthesis

Delve deeply into the complex world of Advanced Synthesis and learn how to create your own evocative and evolving soundscapes, from scratch! Our resident synthesist and electronic music performance artist, Richard Lainhart, is back with his extraordinary exploration into advanced sound synthesis. We asked Richard to put his amazing Buchla away for little while so he’d have time to create what we think is the “must have” video tome for anyone looking delve deeper into how synthesizers convert electricity into sound waves.

Richard carefully explains all the different kinds of additive synthesis from “ring modulation” to powerful “FM” and “cross modulation” techniques that can turn simple sine waves into powerful noise generators popular in the performance art and electronic music scene.

So if your looking to gain a deeper understanding of concepts that form the complex world of analog synthesis lend an eye and ear or two to this fantastic new tutorial by Richard Lainhart: Advanced Sound Synthesis.

1: Introducing Sample & Hold
01. Introduction to Advanced Sound Synthesis

02. What is Sample and Hold?
2: How Sample & Hold Works
03. Sample and Hold Explained
04. Staircase Waveforms
05. Sample and Hold with Varying Clock Rates
06. Sample and Hold Glide

3: Musical Applications for S&H
07. Randomizing Pitch with Sample and Hold
08. Using Sample and Hold for Bass Lines

4: Ring Mod Basics
09. Introduction to Ring Modulation
10. How Ring Modulation Works

5: Ring Modding External Sources
12. Ring Modulating the Human Voice
13. Ring Modulating an Electric Piano
14. The Electric Guitar with Rhythmic Ring Modulation

6: Frequency Shifting
15. The Frequency Shifter

7: Technical Aspects of Oscillator Sync
16. An introduction to Oscillator Sync
17. Oscillator Sync Described
18. Syncing a Square Wave
19. Sawtooth Oscillator Sync and Soft Oscillator Sync

8: Musical Aspects of Oscillator Sync
20. Sweeping Oscillator Sync
21. Sweeping Oscillator Sync with Sample and Hold and E…

9: Pulse Width Modulation Explained
22. An Introduction to Pulse Width Modulation

10: Pulse Width Modulation Applied
23. LFO Pulse Width Modulation
24. Envelope Generator and FM Pulse Width Modulation Pa…
25. Envelope Generator and FM Pulse Width Modulation Pa…

11: Cross Modulation
26. What is Cross Modulation
27. Variations on Cross Modulation