Some good basics there.  Thanks.  
 
Do you remember Dean's single from 1977?
 
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xGFW9jCFml4
 
 

Old55
Some good basics there.  Thanks.  
 
Do you remember Dean's single from 1977?
 
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xGFW9jCFml4
 

 
Hated it for the first 5 seconds...but then it grew on me.....
 
Just been looking at some of Dean's videos on his YouTube channel. He's basically exactly the same as he was in that synth video, but with longer grey hair. 
 

Moshkiae
I really wanted to learn how to use the Sequencer, and some other tricks ... but no one knows, and Craig is not interested in getting paid for a couple of hours!

 
Not sure where you keep coming up with this one.  Craig knows about as much as you do on synthsizers.  Craig plays guitar (or would if he had time).

I almost bought it yesterday but had a chance to read the first chapter online.
 
It seems awfully dry and uninspiring.
 
I think I'll wait for Bill Nuy the Science guy to explain it. Mangling sound seems like too much fun. I find it difficult to encounter the practice after it has been reduced and abstracted into tiny little charts and graphs.
 
I'm less interested in the quest to copy a "brass section"and more interested in an entertaining refresher on the basic forms of synthesis. A presentation like that could take place in 20 minutes and leave you with a lifetime of inspiration. I think I saw Mr. Moog, or some one like him, do that once when I was a child and it stuck with me for a long time.
 
I hope you enjoy the book.
 
best regards,
mike

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Moshkiae
Hi,
 
If this is a beginner's guide to synthsizers, I would like to find one that is more helpful than the guides that show up in Computer Music (for example) that is missing steps and pictures, and the sequence of instructions doesn't make sense!
 
I do not think that most people actually KNOW how to play synthesizers ... they only use the "sounds" and then add some effects over it, and that is a waste of the overall design of a synthesizer and its possibilities.

I very much agree. I've decided a hundred times that now I'll sit down to really learn how to use a (soft) synth, but I always end up with a slightly modified preset.
 
As you say, the guides in CM-magazine far too often skip steps or are inaccurate in some way.

mike_mccue
I almost bought it yesterday but had a chance to read the first chapter online.
 
It seems awfully dry and uninspiring.
 
I think I'll wait for Bill Nuy the Science guy to explain it. Mangling sound seems like too much fun. I find it difficult to encounter the practice after it has been reduced and abstracted into tiny little charts and graphs.
 
I'm less interested in the quest to copy a "brass section"and more interested in an entertaining refresher on the basic forms of synthesis. A presentation like that could take place in 20 minutes and leave you with a lifetime of inspiration. I think I saw Mr. Moog, or some one like him, do that once when I was a child and it stuck with me for a long time.
 
I hope you enjoy the book.
 
best regards,
mike

I quite like dry and uninspiring texts!

Something for everybody!!!!!
 
:-)

I remember trying to learn Java from one of those "Head First" books with all the wacky pictures, jokes and fun puzzles. I hated it. Couldn't wait to get stuck into a less fun text.