Paul P
About the Cakewalk synthesizers book...
Does the book go into much depth as far as what goes on 'underneath', especially with respect to how progams and samples are organized and processed ?
Or is like a lot of tutorial videos that only go through the various controls one by one, with comments, but don't provide much in the way of methodology, philosophy, architecture, etc. ?
Seems to me that the number of instruments the book covers must limit the depth that the author can go into for each one.
Well, having bought the book I found it very detailed and informative if a bit over my head!
The first chapter just introduces all the various Cakewalk Synthesizers; Triangle II, Square I, TTS-I etc.
Chapter 2 discusses, in detail, the various waves (sine, sawtooth, square, Noise), filters, modulation sources; envelopes (amplitude, filter, pitch), LFO's (amplitude, filter, pitch, pulse width), combining oscillators etc.
Chapter 3 then concentrates on Intermediate & Advanced Synthesis techniques which covers more waveforms, combining oscillators, wave shaping, ring modulation, FM synthesis, various filters (notch, formant, Peak etc) and goes into other effects, distortion, compression, limiting, eq etc.
The remaining chapters focus on each synthesizer in turn asking; What is it? Why Use it? How to use it? There are plenty of illustrations and examples within the text.
TBH, most of it I didn't understand, but I am hoping over time to understand it better and when I do, there is a great deal of information about programming the various synths and a whole chapter on the SFZ format.