Just thought I should post this as a blog, as it's a pretty nice resource.
So here are all the links to the wonderful Synth Secret series:
1999-05 Part 1: What's In A Sound?
1999-06 Part 2: The Physics Of Percussion
1999-07 Part 3: Modifiers & Controllers
1999-08 Part 4: Of Filters & Phase Relationships
1999-09 Part 5: Further With Filters
1999-10 Part 6: Of Responses And Resonance
1999-11 Part 7: Envelopes, Gates & Triggers
1999-12 Part 8: More About Envelopes
2000-01 Part 9: An Introduction To VCAs
2000-02 Part 10: Modulation
2000-03 Part 11: Amplitude Modulation
2000-04 Part 12: An Introduction To Frequency Modulation
2000-05 Part 13: More On Frequency Modulation
2000-06 Part 14: An Introduction To Additive Synthesis
2000-07 Part 15: An Introduction To ESPS And Vocoders
2000-08 Part 16: From Sample And Hold To Sample-rate Converters (1)
2000-09 Part 17: From Sample And Hold To Sample-rate Converters (2)
2000-10 Part 18: Priorities And Triggers
2000-11 Part 19: Duophony
2000-12 Part 20: Introducing Polyphony
2001-01 Part 21: From Polyphony To Digital Synths
2001-02 Part 22: From Springs, Plates & Buckets to Physical Modelling
2001-03 Part 23: Formant Synthesis
2001-04 Part 24: Synthesizing Wind Instruments
2001-05 Part 25: Synthesizing Brass Instruments
2001-06 Part 26: Brass Synthesis On A Minimoog
2001-07 Part 27: Roland SH101/ARP Axxe Brass Synthesis *
2001-08 Part 28: Synthesizing Plucked Strings
2001-09 Part 29: The Theoretical Acoustic Guitar Patch
2001-10 Part 30: A Final Attempt To Synthesize Guitars
2001-11 Synthesizing Percussion
2001-12 Practical Percussion Synthesis
2002-01 Synthesizing Drums: The Bass Drum
2002-02 Practical Bass Drum Synthesis
2002-03 Synthesizing Drums: The Snare Drum
2002-04 Practical Snare Drum Synthesis
2002-05 Synth Secrets: Analysing Metallic Percussion
2002-06 Synthesizing Realistic Cymbals
2002-07 Practical Cymbal Synthesis
2002-08 Synthesizing Bells
2002-09 Synthesizing Cowbells & Claves
2002-10 Synthesizing Pianos
2002-11 Synthesizing Acoustic Pianos On The Roland JX10
2002-12 Synthesizing Acoustic Pianos On The Roland JX10
2003-01 Synthesizing Acoustic Pianos On The Roland JX10
2003-02 Synthesizing Strings: String Machines
2003-03 Synthesizing Strings • PWM & String Sounds
2003-04 Synthesizing Bowed Strings: the Violin family
2003-05 Synth Secrets: Practical Bowed-string Synthesis
2003-06 Practical Bowed-string Synthesis (continued)
2003-07 Articulation & Bowed-string Synthesis
2003-08 Synthesizing Pan Pipes
2003-09 Synthesizing Simple Flutes
2003-10 Practical Flute Synthesis
2003-11 Synthesizing Tonewheel Organs
2003-12 Synthesizing Tonewheel Organs: Part2
2004-01 Synthesizing Hammond Organ Effects: Part1
2004-02 Synthesizing The Rest Of The Hammond Organ: Part 2
2004-03 Synthesizing The Rest Of The Hammond Organ: Part 3
2004-04 From Analogue To Digital Effects
2004-05 Creative Synthesis With Delays
2004-06 More Creative Synthesis with Delays
2004-07 The Secret Of The Big Red Button
Enjoy!
EDIT: fixed linkage
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Written August 26 2008 , Tags: reading, SoS, synth, lots
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Very cool, thanks for sharing.
yay! cheers big ears.
Wait a minute, there is such a thing as the big red button?
i just realized none of your links work.
Just copy the link and remove link "
I should have seen that coming.
here's another way of looking at them. link
the advantage is you don't have to copy/paste the url disadvantage is they're not all listed together and they're in reverse order. the series is great. read it. fakeBlooper said: "i just realized none of your links work." whadda you mean? they all work fine here?!
Recent blogs: STFU Antwerp, Sound on Sound Synth Secrets archive
oh, they were working in safari, just fixed them, sorry about that!
Recent blogs: STFU Antwerp, Sound on Sound Synth Secrets archive
Hey thanks! It's great seeing these again. Appreciate the work it took to list & link.
if anybody has any favorite secrets, either gleaned from the above or otherwise, plz share.
flies said: "if anybody has any favorite secrets, either gleaned from the above or otherwise, plz share." here's some more info on the Ondes Maternot and it's clone, the French Connection: link and the (tuned) percussion synthesis article is a nice read too: link
Recent blogs: STFU Antwerp, Sound on Sound Synth Secrets archive
nice link! i've gone back to their cymbal synthesis articles, good stuff.
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